Ramkiran Cherukuru
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About
Dr. Ramkiran Cherukuru is a pioneering hepatobiliary and transplant surgeon whose work centers on advancing minimally invasive techniques in living donor liver transplantation, particularly for pediatric patients. His major contributions lie in establishing and refining robotic donor hepatectomy programs, demonstrating that these procedures can be performed safely while offering donors—often parents of young children—faster recovery times. Notably, Dr. Cherukuru authored the first-ever report on robotic monosegment donor hepatectomy for pediatric liver transplantation (2021, 12 citations), a groundbreaking achievement for infants weighing less than 5 kg. His most cited paper (2023, 21 citations) details the experience of building a robotic donor program for pediatric liver transplantation, highlighting the unique benefits for parent donors. Dr. Cherukuru has also investigated critical technical factors, such as the effect of donor warm ischemia time on recipient outcomes (2024, 10 citations), using propensity score matching to ensure robust analysis. With a growing body of work that includes global perspectives on robotics in liver transplantation, his research is shaping the future of safer, less invasive surgical options for living donors and their recipients.
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