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AFTER TRANSVAGINAL PLACEMENT OF THE RUMI AND CREATION OF A PNEUMOPERITONEUM WITH A TRANSUMBILICALLY INSERTED VERESS NEEDLE, 5 PORTS WERE INSERTED INTO THE ABDOMEN (FOUR UNDER DIRECT VISUALIZATION) AND THE ROBOT WAS DOCKED. ON INITIAL INSPECTION, ADHESIONS OF THE OMENTUM TO THE ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL WERE FOUND, WHICH WERE TAKEN DOWN WITH SHARP DISSECTION, AS WELL AS ELECTROCAUTERY. THE INSPECTION REVEALED GOOD URETERS. BILATERAL LATERAL LIGAMENTS FROM THE UTERUS TO THE PELVIS WERE BURNED WITH THE PK AND CUT; THE BLADDER FLAP COMPLETED AND DISSECTED OF THE UTERUS, THE UTERINE VESSELS CLAMPED AND BURNED AND THEN AN ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR COLPOTOMY PERFORMED. BOTH COLPOTOMIES WERE COMPLETED BILATERALLY WITH SCISSORS. THE UTERUS WAS REMOVED THROUGH THE VAGINAL CUFF. A V-LOC SUTURE PLACED IN THE RIGHT ANGLE OF THE CUFF, SECURED, AND THEN RUN FROM THE RIGHT TO THE LEFT DOING ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR CUFF TOGETHER, AND THEN AFTER LEFT ANGLE, SECURED, BROUGHT TO MIDLINE, AND CUT. FLOSEAL WAS PLACED. FINAL CYSTOSCOPY REVEALED A NORMAL DOME OF THE BLADDER AND FILL AND SPILL OF INDIGO FROM BOTH URETER SITES. ON (B)(6) 2012 THE PATIENT PRESENTS WITH SOME FEVER, NAUSEA, AND ABDOMINO-PELVIC PAIN. A CT OF HER ABDOMEN AND PELVIS REVEALED A 9.1 X 7.7 CM COLLECTION AND THE INDICATION FOR A TRANSVAGINAL REVISION AND DRAINAGE OF THE COLLECTION WAS MADE. ON (B)(6) 2012 200 ML OF OLD BLOOD COMING FROM HER VAGINAL CUFF WAS DRAINED. NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED AFTER THE DATE OF THIS OPERATIVE REVISION." } ], "number_patients_in_event": "", "distributor_name": "", "manufacturer_g1_address_1": "", "distributor_zip_code": "", "manufacturer_contact_postal_code": "", "manufacturer_contact_exchange": "", "manufacturer_contact_pcountry": "", "suppl_dates_fda_received": "05/20/2014" } ] }