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Spanish hospital deploys four-armed robot in lung transplant

Surgeons at Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona used a four-arm robot dubbed "Da Vinci" to cut a small section of the patient's skin, fat and muscle to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one through an eight-centimetre incision in the lower part of the sternum, just above the diaphragm.

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Xavier said he benefited from the new technique. "The result is that I can talk to you and tell a bit of my story," he said. Spain is a global leader in organ transplants, with an average of 7 donors and 15 transplants per day in 2002, according to Spanish health ministry data.