1890, Kyiv: Sapezhko takes lining from inside a patient’s cheek and uses it to reconstruct a damaged urethra.
It works. Then the idea vanishes for decades.
Why?
The “adjacent possible” wasn’t ready.
Today buccal mucosa grafts + robotic allows complex ureteral reconstruction with no bowel harvest, no lifelong stents, excellent results.
I was lucky to help pioneer the robotic version @nyulangone w @mdstifelman. & link with @md_eun@ZLeeGU to validate the technique.
This is how real surgical innovation works: not leaps of faith, but just walking through doors as they slowly open.
The full story 👇
https://t.co/W6kviL3ilD
One year ago, I completed training at #IRCAD France, one of the best and most prestigious schools of laparoscopic surgery in the world.
During my training, I attended dozens of hours of lectures and participated in dozens of hours of surgery (wet lab) under the guidance of leading European professors.
It was a significant step in my professional development. I am grateful to #IRCAD for such a high level of medical education!
Day 3-4 in Ukraine filled with several posterior urethroplasties, PU and diversions for recto vaginal/vesicovaginal fistulas ..our amazing patients continue to surprise us with their gratitude and incredible resilience 🇺🇦 our ❤️ are with them @CleClinicUro@CaseUrology@OSU_Urology
AUA2024 Conference in San-Antonio, TX, USA
Together with my colleague @dr_bond_uro made report on Reconstructive Urology and War Zone Trauma in Ukraine. Thanks to the organizers for the invitation, special thanks to prof. @urorecon for mentorship #AUA2024#SanAntonio#GURS
Thanks for everyone who is supporting Reconstructive Uro center in Kyiv. Thanks to your donations at https://t.co/BNSEH3wd1S the first delivery of needed equipment is here. Goals: more SCDs, Yellow Fins, instruments. @kobirni4enko@podalola@societyGURS
@UroRecon@podalola@SocietyGURS Finally the long awaited SCD device has arrived after numerous adventures bouncing around the world (Syracuse-Mexico City-London-Warsaw-Kyiv)
Thanks to donations and work of countless volunteers who made it possible 🇺🇦🇺🇲🤛
Very impressed with Fernando's @fgomsan#HoLEP for #BPH courses, in @ClinicaCEMTRO Madrid, Spain. Intense and incredibly informative. Thank you sincerely! Happy to meet new people.
Esta semana hemos tenido el honor de compartir quirófano con compañeros procedentes de Ucrania y Líbano. Una jornada formativa llevada a cabo por @fgomsan explicando su técnica de HoLEP en @ClinicaCEMTRO. ¡Gracias a este maravilloso equipo! @EnfermeriaIcua
Join us for a 1st Ukrainian webinar "Contemporary management of urethral strictures and injuries by reconstructive surgery". This event is a collaboration between USA🇺🇲, Chile🇨🇱 and Ukrainian🇺🇦 reconstructive urologists
@urorecon@drreynaldogomez
14pm (Kyiv) Friday 29 Sept, 2023
A rare observation: renal colic caused by migration of a shrapnel through left ureter in a military man who was earlier injured at the battlefield. Treated by endoscopy.
https://t.co/o0zItjvVUW
#endourology#ureteraltrauma#WarinUkraine
Completed a two-week internship in Poland - EMC Szpitale Piaseczno. Without a doubt, Marek Zawadzki @mzawadzk1 and his team are among the leaders of endourology in Europe. I am excited about #HoLEP , #RIRS, #ECIRS. Thanks for the knowledge! Special thanks to @marchenvrochek