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Surgeons have performed the world's first remote brain operations - one transatlantic - on stroke victims using cutting-edge robots. ‌

Professor Iris Grunwald, Director of the Image Guided Therapy Research Facility (IGTRF) at the University of Dundee , performed the first-ever remote thrombectomy on a human cadaver. ‌

She carried out the operation from Ninewells Hospital using a specialist machine - while the donated cadaver remained at the university. ‌

Just hours later, neurosurgeon Ricardo Hanel performed the same surgery on a live human patient in Dundee - from 4,000 miles away in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

The surgery, which removes blood clots from a patient's brain following a stroke, can greatly improve a patient's quality of life - but specialists a

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