background: pancreatic islet transplantation has emerged as a promising treatment for type i diabetes. however, its efficacy is severely hampered due to poor islet engraftment and revascularization, which have been resulted to partially loss of transplanted islets. it has been shown that local delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) could accelerate transplanted islet revasculariz...

Hybrid myocardial revascularization combines coronary surgery with percutaneous intervention as an alternative therapy for ischemic heart disease. The order and sequence of the hybrid approach is not yet clearly defined. We report on the benefits of an enhanced surgical suite equipped with a carbon fiber operating table and digital C-arm for robotic-assisted hybrid revascularization in a single...