Robotic-assisted donor and recipient hepatectomy in liver transplantation: An umbrella review of clinical outcomes, surgical performance, and cost-effectiveness

Robotic donor hepatectomy confers perioperative advantages at the cost of longer operative time. Recipient and economic findings are indirect and considered hypothesis-generating. Transplant-specific, prospective comparisons using a minimum standardized dataset and uniform outcome definitions are needed to resolve remaining uncertainties and to clarify the cost-utility correlation.