Leading Figures in Nephrology and Urology Meet at Symposium

At the "Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Symposium" held at Liv Hospital Vadistanbul, nephrologists and urologists specializing in the field from Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Uzbekistan, Africa, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, England, and Gulf and Middle Eastern countries met with local and global medical tourism companies. Liv Hospital brought together specialist nephrologists and urologists from various countries around the world. The opening address of the symposium, in which 6 different topics were discussed ranging from surgical approaches in the kidney transplantation process to ethics committee procedures and immunological tests, was delivered by Liv Hospital Group Coordinator Meri İstiroti.

"Our aim is to provide healthy living"

In her speech, Meri İstiroti stated: "Our aim is to provide individuals suffering from chronic kidney failure and the negative effects of dialysis treatment with a healthy, independent new life. At Liv Hospital, we entrust our recipient and donor candidates to physicians with years of experience and authority in the field. Following the operation performed effectively, our guests are monitored in an intensive care unit that complies with international standards and in a high-comfort isolated organ transplantation service. We carry out our children's transplantation preparations, transplantations, and post-transplantation processes with our pediatric nephrology professors and pediatric subspecialty experts. On transplantation, through both our social responsibility projects to raise community awareness and our scientific meetings and new technological investments, we adopt a maximum service approach to citizens of the world, not only in our country, without discrimination based on language, religion, or race." she said.

"Nephrologic Indications and Marginal Donors"

Prof. Dr. Nail Suat Ünver, Nephrology Specialist at Liv Hospital, delivered the first presentation of the symposium on "Nephrologic Indications and Marginal Donors." Subsequently, Prof. Dr. Ozan Özkaya, Pediatric Nephrology and Rheumatology Specialist at Liv Hospital, took the podium

Kidney transplantation process and preparation in children

Prof. Dr. Hasan Taşçı, General Surgery Specialist and Director of the Organ Transplantation Clinic at Liv Hospital, explained the kidney transplantation process and surgical methods, while Prof. Dr. Volkan Tuğcu, Urology Specialist at Liv Hospital with extensive experience in robotic kidney transplantation, discussed the robotic kidney transplantation method and its advantages. Prof. Dr. Nezih Mahmut Çarin, Immunology Specialist at İstinye University, explained the immunological tests before transplantation, while Burak Çelik, Organ Transplantation Clinic Coordinator at Liv Hospital, explained the "Ethics Committee Process" in transplantation. Finally, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Buturak, Cardiology Specialist at Liv Hospital, delivered the presentation "New-generation treatment in uncontrolled hypertension: Renal Denervation." In the question-and-answer session of the program, participants who received answers from the professors to their questions and concerns were presented with certificates of participation as the symposium concluded.