Assuta Hospital

Advanced Surgery at Assuta Clinic

Doctors of Assuta Clinic in Tel Aviv perform 500 surgical interventions in 16 operating rooms. Among them are various "small" diagnostic procedures and "large" complex interdisciplinary operations. Most surgical interventions, including those in the early stages of cancer, are minimally invasive with a short rehabilitation period.

Operations using the Da Vinci robotic surgeon on the kidneys, prostate gland, liver, and uterus are available. In almost all areas of surgery, doctors use innovative technologies:

• In urological, oncological, and neurosurgical operations, surgeons use the O-Arm intraoperative imaging system and the StealthStation navigation system. Thanks to this, surgeons perform less invasive interventions and immediately check the result of the operation.
• When the ligaments of the shoulder joint are torn, orthopedists use the Israeli InSpace™ Balloon technology. They perform the implantation of a medical balloon using arthroscopy or through mini-incisions. This procedure avoids joint prosthetics.
• Neurosurgeons use the Spine Assist robotic surgical system during spinal surgery. This ensures minimal invasiveness of the procedure and maximum precision of manipulations.
• Spinal surgeons operate with the Bonescalpel ultrasonic scalpel, which effectively and quickly cuts bone structures without damaging the spinal cord, nerves, or blood vessels.
• Oncosurgeons perform intraoperative regional and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) using the latest generation of cytostatics.

Assuta employs unique specialists who perform operations that are not yet available in other clinics in Israel and other countries. For example, orthopedists perform simultaneous knee replacements with 3D planning in advance.

Surgical treatment of rectal cancer in the early stages is carried out by the method of transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) using a special rectoscope. An effective system of early postoperative rehabilitation matches the high level of surgery in Assuta.

 

Innovative diagnostic and treatment technologies in Assuta

Assuta Hospital has many advanced technologies. Among them:

• The only PET-MRI facility in Israel. Today, it is the most accurate and safe research method in oncology, cardiology, and neurology.
• Implantation of a leadless pacemaker – Micra capsules 2.5 cm long. Interventional cardiologists install a pacemaker without surgery, using cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery (this procedure is available only in 4 clinics in Israel).
• Radiosurgery with the help of the CyberKnife robotic unit – non-surgical treatment of tumours of many localizations.
• VenaSeal technology. Vascular surgeons use it to treat varicose veins in the legs. The procedure does not require general anaesthesia and the postoperative wearing of special stockings. According to the clinic, this procedure's success rate is 95%.

Assuta constantly replenishes its medical arsenal with innovative methods in all areas of medicine. All of them are available to foreign patients.

 

IVF in Assuta

In IVF clinics, reproductologists perform 17,000 IVF procedures annually. The method has been improved through the use of EmbryoScope technology. An embryoscope is an incubator with a microscope and a camera that creates a three-dimensional image of each embryo every 20 minutes. A specialist on a computer monitor, without opening the incubator, observes the development of all fertilized eggs and selects the most viable of them for transfer to the uterus. In addition, in pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the embryologist uses an innovative technique of DNA microarrays. Therefore, the IVF success rate in Assuta is among the highest in Israel, at 42-45% (clinic data).

 

The Main Advantages of Treatment in Assuta

Foreign patients enjoy the following advantages of this private clinic:

• receive treatment in a well-known medical centre with international JCI accreditation;
• choose an attending physician, including a surgeon and an anesthesiologist;
• select a ward and a coordinator-translator;
• before and after treatment, you can stay in the Relax Wellness Center in conditions of maximum comfort.
• Have the opportunity to arrive for treatment quickly.

This can be done using the Assuta treatment application with the help of the Experts Medical's coordinators.