Gaetano La Manna
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About
Gaetano La Manna is a leading urologic surgeon and researcher whose work centers on the surgical management of kidney and prostate cancers, with a particular focus on minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques. His major contributions include demonstrating that standardized nephrometry scores—such as PADUA and R.E.N.A.L.—can reliably predict perioperative outcomes in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy. This finding, published in a landmark 2016 study with 94 citations, has helped surgeons better stratify patient risk and optimize surgical planning. La Manna has also advanced the field of ureteral reconstruction, reporting on a large multi-institutional series of laparoscopic and robotic repairs with long-term follow-up (39 citations), and has shown that retroperitoneal robot-assisted partial nephrectomy offers perioperative outcomes comparable to open surgery for cT1 renal tumors. His work on node-positive prostate cancer, using competing risk analysis of a multi-institutional database, has clarified predictors of cancer-specific versus other-cause mortality. Through these contributions, La Manna has helped shape evidence-based, patient-centered surgical practice in urologic oncology.
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