2024-03-29 02:07:11
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Cuba. The growing use worldwide and the advantages of artificial intelligence in uro-oncology began the scientific program of the XXII National Congress of Urology, which began this Thursday at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba with the presence of specialists from nine nationalities.
The event will run until March 30 with a varied program of workshops and conferences regarding oncology, reconstructive surgery, lithiasis and endourology, as well as new developments in the specialty, related to the use of new technologies and their impact. in medical care and quality of life of patients.
The development of this science in Cuba today has more than 400 health professionals, distributed throughout the national territory, who to their credit develop associated programs and are inserted in the research protocols for the updating and implementation of the main achievements in this field, highlighted Dr. Reinol Delfín García Moreno, vice minister of Health on the island, when opening the event.
Preventive medicine distinguishes Cuban urologists, linked to diagnosis and follow-up protocols for related pathologies from pregnancy, pediatric ages and adolescence to the elderly. Dr. Emilio Cordies Jackson, president of the Cuban Society of Urology, states that advances in minimally invasive surgery have allowed us to scale to higher levels of medical care in recent years.
Among the novelties of the meeting, advances in the surgical treatment of prostatic hyperplasia, simple laparoscopic extraperitoneal prostatectomy and radical laparoscopic prostatectomy, robotic cystectomy, the evolution of techniques in the treatment of urinary fistulas and the lumboscopic approach in tract pathologies stand out. upper urinary, among others.
A solid professional exchange predicts the three days of the Congress, where the past, present and future of a science in rapid development mix with each other, promoting new concepts and integrative protocols in the area, both in assistance and in training and research, he stated in his message was Dr. Hugo Arriaga Morales, Rodríguez, president of the Association of Urologists of Central America and the Caribbean.
The opening day was also a space to recognize distinguished national and foreign professionals, always supporting Urology, others were named Honorary Members, or joined the guild, while 15 outstanding ones were awarded for their life’s work.
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