On 13, 14 and 15 October, the Hotel Cordial Mogán Playa de Mogán hosted the 18th Regional Congress of the Canarian Urology Society, organised by the Urology and Andrology Department of Gran Canaria directed by Dr Juárez del Dago, which was attended by eminent world, national and Canarian specialists, such as Dr Carlos Hernández Fernández, head of Urology at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, Dr Eduardo Ruiz Castañé, head of Andrology at the Puigvert Foundation in Barcelona, Dr Manuel Más García, professor of Physiology at the University of La Laguna and Dr Fernando Gómez Sancha, founder of the Institute of Urology and Andrology at the University of La Laguna, and Dr Fernando Gómez Sancha, founder of the Institute of Urology at the University of La Laguna; Eduardo Ruiz Castañé, head of Andrology at the Puigvert Foundation in Barcelona; Manuel Más García, Professor of Physiology at the University of La Laguna and Fernando Gómez Sancha, founder of the Institute of Advanced Urological Surgery and pioneer in Spain of Prostatic Photovaporisation with Green Laser. The guest of honour was the French doctor Richard Gaston, inventor of the laparoscopic prostatectomy technique, which he has adapted with great success to robotic surgery, while training surgeons.
For all the attendees, the organisers first and foremost, the XVIII Congress of the Canarian Urology Society, held in the incomparable setting of the Hotel Cordial Mogán Playa, was a real success, in terms of attendance, participation and interest in the topics covered during the three days.
Already on the first day, with the topic of benign hypertrophy, moderated by Dr. Villalgordo, from the Hospital de Fuerteventura, with interventions by Dr. Rapariz, Dr. Romero, Dr. Galbis and Dr. Gómez Sancha, the interest of the meeting was evident, especially when, during the question and answer session, controversies arose regarding bipolar reception or the use of the green laser, or when Dr. Hernandez Fernandez let slip that there was an increasingly pronounced tendency among professionals to forget about drugs and think more about the different types of laser, controversy arose regarding bipolar reception or the use of the green laser, or when Dr. Hernández Fernández pointed out that there was an increasingly pronounced tendency among professionals to forget about drugs and think more about the various emerging therapies.
Before lunch on the first day, the panel on prostate cancer included Dr Víctor Ramos, who spoke about the diagnostic process; Dr Richard Gaston, who spoke about the evolution of prostate cancer surgery from laparoscopy to robotics, a field in which he is a true world authority; Dr Álvarez Llamas, on ionising radiation; and Dr Hernández Fernández, who spoke about the various emerging therapies.
The latest developments in urology were discussed in the afternoon by Dr González Chávez, on laporoscopy; Castro Díaz, who spoke about what was new in functional and female urology and Dr Vivancos, to conclude the first day with a round table on sexual health and urologists, with the participation of Dr Artiles, Dr Juárez, Dr Gutiérrez, Dr Ruiz Ruiz Castañé and Dr Mas García.
Saturday was for free communications and videos and topics such as bladder melanic pathology, clinical and urodynamic impact and quality of life in patients with refractory overactive bladder, severe stenosis, pintiform in transsexuals after vaginoplasia, renal carcinoma and its ablation by radiofrequency, ultrasound of testitular tumour, casuistry of nephrectomy, percutaneous nephrolithotony in renal lithiasis, haematuria secondary to ureteroiliac fistula, an epidemiological study on cancer in the Canary Islands, by Dr. Plata Bello, Dr. Concepción Masip, Dr. Ramos Gutiérrez, Dr. Ramos Gutiérrez, Dr. Ramos Gutiérrez and Dr. Ramos Gutiérrez, haematuria secondary to ureteroiliac fistula, an epidemiological study on cancer in the Canary Islands, carried out by doctors Plata Bello, Concepción Masip, Ramos Gutiérrez, Pérez Rodríguez, Bermúdez Tesouro, Hernández Hernández and Rodríguez Hernández, from the University Hospital of the Canary Islands, in Tenerife, three theses on urethral stenosis and a conference on how we age, given by doctor Jorge del Rosario, who closed the day and the congress. TO THE LAYMAN'S EYE. At a medical congress, at any medical congress, a layman feels like an octopus in a garage. In some of the speeches one can only manage to understand good morning, patient, pharmacopoeia and operating theatre. The rest is all Chinese to the undersigned. However, sometimes, when there are people at the congress who know their stuff and want to tell others about it, even if you are not a specialist, you can even have a good time. In Mogán, this happened with interventions such as those of Dr. Hernández, who took a break from the pharmacopoeia to talk about the greater use of emerging therapies, those of Dr. Ponce himself, who questioned the value of laser against traditional techniques before the guru of that technique, Dr. Gómez Sancha, or the fine sense of humour of Dr. Mas García, when talking about orgasm and referring to the great Hedy Lamarr as the first woman to use a mobile phone and record an orgasm for the cinema, to end with Dr. Ruiz Castañé's anecdote about the case of the Chinese woman who, on seeing what had been put in her husband's penis transplant, said that she wanted nothing to do with the new thing her partner was showing off.
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