Every year on the second Thursday of March we celebrate WORLD KIDNEY DAY to raise awareness about the increasing incidence of kidney-related problems in our society. Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hardships for patients and their care partners. Empowering patients and their care partners, including family members and friends involved in […]
Endourology Training – Residents perspective
Urology training programs have come a long way in India from the time the first independent department of urology in India was created at George’s Hospital, Bombay, in 1961-62. Urology is considered to be one the youngest and fastest growing specialities in the field of surgery and Endourology is one such sub-speciality which has grown […]
Endoscopic Management of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (UTUC)
Anup Patel, BSc(1st Class), MBBS, MS, FRCS, FRCS(Urol)Consultant Urological Surgeon, London, UK Introduction Radical nephro-ureterectomy (RNU) has been held as the gold standard treatment of all UTUC for over a century. During the initial development of Endourology as a specialist area of Urology at the end of the last millennium, the primary focus was to […]
Endourology at district place
by Dr Prashant Mulawkar, Akola How it went? I was born and brought up in a very small nondescript village in Vidarbha. It was in 1992, when I was doing my MS general surgery at GMC Nagpur that one of my colleague Dr. Ajay Oswal, presented a seminar on recent advances on management of kidney […]
Perspectives on Fellowship in Urology
Consultants Perspective: Dr. Joy N Chakraborty The speciality of Urology in India has started as a ‘Urology section’ of ASI in the year 1961 by Dr G M Phadke. In the same year, the first Urology Department was created in George’s Hospital (Bombay) with Dr B N Colabawalla as the chair. Since then, there has […]
Endourological Management of Stone Disease: Current Controversies Webinar
Endourological Management of Stone Disease : “Current Controversies” USI -ISU Webinar : July 21st, 2020 Introduction : Stone disease comprises the most common and the bulk of a Urologists practice volume. Endourology is the so called bread and butter for the genitourinary surgeon. The recent advancements in the development of endoscopes (especially flexible ureteroscope ), […]