3-day Minimal Invasive Surgery conference at SIUT inaugurate

KARACHI- The three-day Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS) conference and workshop was inaugurated at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation -SIUT.

SIUT Director, Professor Adibul Hasan Rizvi in his inaugural address gave an insight to the participants about the MIS evolution at SIUT, thanking as well the visiting international faculty of Consultant Urologists for their contribution towards setting up MIS surgical facility in the institute. He deemed MIS as a revolutionary surgical treatment and urged the surgical community in Pakistan to embrace and adopt this cutting edge technology.

Prof Matin Sheriff from UK, while delivering his lecture on ‘Setting up Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) Service’, informed that the present scope of MIS procedures includes general, surgical, urological, gynecological and cardiothoracic segments. He highlighted that the MIS advantages include reduced pain, less scarring, reduced blood loss, faster recovery, short hospital stay, earlier return to work, fewer complications and long-term savings.

Dr Faiz Mumtaz also from UK, in his lecture titled ‘MIS: Nephron Sparing Options’ discussed the increasing need to preserve renal function by performing partial nephrectomy even in the presence of normal other kidney.

Sharing the ‘laparoscopic nephrectomy: an SIUT experience’, Dr Asad Shehzad, SIUT Consultant Urologist said that MIS was introduced a decade ago in SIUT which was monitored by these external visiting faculty members.  He said that laparoscopic nephrectomy has replaced traditional surgery as the new standard for treating early stage renal tumor, some benign diseases of the kidney and donor nephrectomy. Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy remains technically challenging with a steep learning curve and is associated with greater donor satisfaction, less morbidity and equivalent graft outcome.

A dry lab skills workshop incorporating hands on laparoscopic simulation techniques was also carried out for the trainees. This conference and workshop continued for another two days.