• 1. Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Gansu Clinical Medical Research Center for Thoracic Diseases, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China;
GOU Yunjiu, Email: gouyunjiu@163.com
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Objective To systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RAS) and conventional laparoscopic surgery (CLS) in hiatal hernia repair. Methods PubMed, Cochrane Library, CNKI, Web of Science, VIP, and Wanfang databases were searched to collect literature comparing the efficacy and safety of RAS and CLS for hiatal hernia repair published from their inception to November 7, 2023. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) was used to evaluate the quality of the included studies, and RevMan 5.4.1 software was used for meta-analysis. Results A total of 15 retrospective cohort studies with 18239 patients were finally included. The NOS scores of the included literature were all ≥7 points. Meta-analysis results showed that RAS was superior to CLS in terms of postoperative complications as the primary outcome [OR=0.56, 95%CI (0.42, 0.77), P<0.01]. There was no statistical difference between the two methods in terms of average operation time [MD=?0.74, 95%CI (?12.99, 11.51), P=0.91], average intraoperative blood loss [MD=?24.47, 95%CI (?54.80, 5.87), P=0.11], intraoperative complications [OR=0.76, 95%CI (0.29, 2.01), P=0.58], average postoperative hospital stay [MD=?0.24, 95%CI (?0.75, 0.27), P=0.36], postoperative GERD score [MD=?0.04, 95%CI (?0.41, 0.33), P=0.81], and 30-day readmission rate [OR=0.60, 95%CI (0.30, 1.20), P=0.15]. The cost of CLS surgery was less than that of RAS [SMD=1.59, 95%CI (1.16, 2.01), P<0.01]. Conclusion RAS has comparable efficacy and safety to CLS in hiatus hernia repair.

Citation: WANG Yaping, QUE Changhao, LI Keyong, YE Zhibo, JIN Dacheng, GOU Yunjiu. Efficacy and safety of robot-assisted versus conventional laparoscopy in hiatal hernia repair: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2026, 33(6): 957-963. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202404014 Copy

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