The protagonist of this story is called Rufina Gilo. This 66-year-old woman, mother of three children, had a kidney tumor and had no hesitation when her doctor told her that she wanted to operate with a new technique. “The doctor told me that everything would be better, so the sooner we do it, the better,” he thought. Say and do. On top of all the success.

The new technique takes advantage of the patient’s natural holes or voids (mouth, vagina, anus, etc. ), to reduce the incisions to be made. This allows the postoperative period to be less painful and also to be shorter. In this case, the operation – transvaginal nephrectomy – was coordinated by Dr. Alcaraz of the Urology Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the patient was discharged after three days.

If the operation had been carried out with traditional techniques, precisely by laparoscopy, the patient would first have had to make an incision of six centimeters to insert the instrument and surgical instrument from there. And this would not only leave a relatively large scar around the navel, but it would also increase the recovery time and cause more discomfort.

After this first operation in Europe, which was the first in Brazil a few months ago, it is conceivable that the new technique will be used more and more. For the time being, an operation is planned for about 25 patients each year in this hospital. For women who need to remove all or part of their kidney, transvaginal removal is considered a good technique, as long as the grain to be removed does not exceed 14-15 centimeters and its diameter does not exceed ten centimeters. In women who have had children before, the operation would be easier because their birth canal is wider.