The department of Urology at Nijmegen (St. Radboud) is well known all over the urologic world, due to their excelent basic and clinical research. They invited me to participate in a scientific meeting on advances in urology. I woke up at 04.00 am to fly to Brussels, and from there I drove to Nijmegen. When I arrived at the hospital, there were two patients waiting for me...
One of them had a 70 gram prostate and I used the 80 watt GreenLight PV system. The second patient had a 50 gra prostate that I did with the Greenlight HPS 120 watt system. Both surgeries were uneventful. I could feel a certain skepticism in the air initially, but when they saw how little aggressive this operation is, the bloodless surgical field and the final endoscopic view, I think they were impressed. Holland is the slowlier adopter of this technology in Europe, I believe they will embrace it faster after this...
The we went to the meeting room where I lectured on Photoselective vaporization of the prostate and then we celebrated a round table on minimally invasive treatments. It was a pleasure to share this session with Dr. Frank d'ancona, Dr. Steffens, Dr. Schout, Dr. Karthaus and Dr. Peter Mulders... all of them truly amazing urologists...
We had a great time and then I drove back to Brussels, where I would take a flight to New Delhi the next morning.
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