Faculty Objectives

 

MEETING OBJECTIVES

ITRUST (International Translational Research in Uro-Sciences Team) is a small group of young urologists interested in translational and clinical research in different field of urology.
 After the great success of the first meeting focused on the prostate, this second meeting will be dedicated to the kidney. Delegates will be updated with informations on the new strategies for kidney cancer treatment and renal transplantation. An international expert panel will address many questions:
1) Diagnosis and management of small renal masses: what is the treatment of choice? active surveillance Vs minimally invasive surgery Vs ablative techniques.
2) To clamp or not to clamp? The dilemma of renal ischemia time.
3) What to do for an intrarenal lesion: the difficult
management of a small mass in a young patient.
4) What’s new in the pharmaceutical for the metastatic
renal cancer treatment?
5) Where do we stand with renal transplant: has something changed in the last years?
6) The role of the living donor nephrectomy: numbers and results in Europe and United States.
7) What is the best technique for donor nephrectomy?
A no way out face to face where different techniques will be discussed (Open Vs Laparoscopic Vs Hand Assisted Vs Robotic)

THE LIVE-SURGERY SESSION WILL SHOW DELEGATES A VARIETY OF SURGICAL PROCEDURES FOR THE TREATMENT OF SMALL RENAL MASSES AND LIVE DONOR NEPHRECTOMY INCLUDING ROBOTIC AND 3D LAPAROSCOPIC PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY AND A WIDE RANGE OF ABLATIVE TECHNIQUE.