The work presented by Kris Maes , the coordinator of the Centre of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery from Hospital da Luz Lisboa, and his team, received the second award for the best scientific studies presented in video at the international congress of the Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS), which took place in Melbourne, Australia, between the 24 th and 26 th July. Entitled “Posterior Reconstruction in Retzius Sparing Zero Clip Rarp, The Lisbon Stitch”, the video has as co-authors the urologists Luísa Alves , also from Hospital da Luz and Gianluca Spena, from the Hospital da Luz fellowship ERUS program and presently practising at the Naples Hospital. The video demonstrates an alteration and optimization of the specific technique of radical prostatectomy, which was developed by Kris Maes for certain cases of prostate cancer , having the main advantage of a more effective recovery at the level of incontinency. This was the first time this technique was presented at a congress, having previously been published in the “British Journal of Urology International” as a scientific paper. Kris Maes was the surgeon representing Europe in the organizing committee of this congress, which gathered over a thousand specialists from all around the world, who discussed the techniques and innovations in robotic surgery in different areas (besides urology, orthopaedics, cardiac surgery, gynaecology, bariatric surgery, and head and neck surgery, for instance). The Hospital da Luz Lisboa team was the only Portuguese representation in the gathering. Besides the video which conquered the second award, it submitted to the 2023 SRS another three works, also in urologic oncology and robotic surgery. In the photo above , Marcio Covas Moschovas, of the SRS scientific committee, delivering the award to Kris Maes.
