Some keys to ureter recon: don’t transect the ureter at 2 locations, use endoscopy to evaluate lumen. Here, I rule out a UPJO before performing bilat ureteroenteric stricture repair, left appendix interposition youtu.be/GKAJwUqlhL4?si… via YouTube

Robotics is most useful in deep narrow spaces. Here, a post-prostatectomy vesicourethral anastomotic stricture is treated using a simple Y to V bladder advancement flap. youtu.be/obnMrfSmwpE?si… via YouTube

Besides BNC and VUAS, YV plasty can be performed on neobladder to urethra anastomotic strictures. youtu.be/8sdAfd56IRM?si… via YouTube

What to do if the bladder cannot reach the urethra during bladder neck reconstruction? Close the bladder neck, rotate the bladder downward and create a new bladder neck. youtu.be/4WF5-YAY3HA?si… via YouTube

Loved getting the band back together again @CILR2024! SP robot allows for fast entry to an reoperative field, room for concurrent endoscopy, and multiquadrant access dissect ureter and neobladder

There remains debate about robotic cystectomy. IMO, better pelvis exposure, less bleeding, less hernia; incorporeal diversion allows less ureter mobilization & excellent visualization neobladder urethral anastomosis. youtu.be/yCOThpvMYIs?si… via YouTube

One frequent question at #CILR24 @CILR2024 is what is the benefit of SP? Supine retroperitoneal access to the upper tract is one--faster positioning, easier ureterostomy. SP robotic retroperitoneal ureterocalycostomy 75 min youtu.be/SinUAFqEKSk?si… via YouTube

Pediatric urethral injury may be challenging to repair due small space and less mobility of the pre-pubertal bulbar urethra. Robotics helps w suturing in tight spaces. Abdominoperineal posterior urethroplasty after pediatric PFUI youtu.be/xI411dJauM4?si… via YouTube

Perhaps controversial, but ureteroureterostomy CAN be performed in the distal ureter. Credit Daniel D Eun MD for this innovation--preserves antireflux mechanism of UVJ. ICG shows good perfusion distally. youtu.be/7Pr60qNWQ1c?si… via YouTube

In pts with compromised renal fcn, bowel interposition is problematic due to urine reabsorption. Creativity is needed. Here bilat recon with BMG on left, appendix on right for radiation stx youtu.be/7qyLDnlEpuc?si… via YouTube

I'm matched! Thanks to my family and my wife for their support, and also to Ramathibodi's urology department. Special thanks to my boss, Lee Zhao, and my colleagues Jeffery Lin, MD 🏳️‍🌈 and Amr Elbakry at NYU. Can't wait to learn from legends Pankaj M Joshi and Dr Sanjay Kulkarni.

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Congratulations to Dr. Elbakry Amr Elbakry for completing your residency training at WVU! We are excited for you to flex 💪 your Single-Port robotic surgery skills in your GURS Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at NYU with Lee Zhao 🔥 🔥 🔥

Another successful Robotics Reconstruction Course is in the books! Thank you to Jill C. Buckley, Lee Zhao, and Daniel D Eun MD for helping Ziho Lee put together an amazing day filled with cutting-edge research, technical tips and tricks, and management of reconstructive pathologies.

Continent catheterizable pouches are underutilized due to complexity of construction. Here is the Intracorporeal Indiana Pouch with additional ileal loop to reach the ureteral anastomoses. #UroSoMe youtu.be/lG1llQ_6kNQ?si… via YouTube

It’s such a great honor that my video abstract is considered to be one of the “Top 5 videos” at the Northeastern Section 76th Annual Meeting in Montréal. So, I was invited to be on stage for the discussion. YUO Society of Urologic Oncology @NSAUA_official Amer. Urol. Assn. #UrologicOncology Western Urology

Honored to receive the “Most Valuable Fellow Award” from Western Urology. Thank you to all the consultants, staff, residents and fellows Schulich WesternU Western University who have supported me during my fellowship. Very surprised with the award! YUO Society of Urologic Oncology Amer. Urol. Assn.

As you are planning your #AUA2025 schedule, plan to attend our annual robotic upper tract recon course. Sunday 7:30am. New videos & latest techniques. Will keep you awake after Sat night! #aua2025 Daniel D Eun MD Michael Stifelman Alberto Breda Raju Thomas, MD Amer. Urol. Assn.

Excited to moderate an esteemed panel of robotic experts on the management of Uretero-Enteric Anastomotic Strictures@SocietyGURS Amer. Urol. Assn. 2025 • SATURDAY, APRIL 26 • LAS VEGAS, amazing videos!! Boyd Viers Lee Zhao Yang Kunlin IFRUE-Integrating Functional Recon Urol & Endourol CU Urology

great upper tract recon course this year, w addition of robotic autotransplant Alberto Breda. 2 hrs is too short. More videos at youtube.com/@lee_c_zhao.