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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
More than 1000 participants |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
All Asian countries besides some European ,Australia and USA |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
My article was about upper gastrointestinal perforation in neonates which was evaluated the outcome and etiology of 5 cases with gastric or esophageal perforation in a 3 years period. It was interesting that all our 4 cases of esophageal perforation managed non surgically with good results. (Although it is potentially fatal event) They found-the collection of the patients interesting. The conservative management for esophageal perforation in neonates raises the question about their outcomes, which were successful.
As the number patients in our center were small they recommended multicenteric studies to evaluate more. They believe that the immediate diagnosis according to the symptoms was great. However as our positive results in our preterm neonates survival was great it made a positive image for our country surgico-medical improvement. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Pofessor Devendra Kumar Gupta,Kosaku Maeda,Atsuyuki Yamataka |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
There are three persons who were brighting in this congress. Professor Devendra kumar Gupta from All India Institute of Medical Sciences ,New Delhi, India. He has trained about 70 pediatric surgeons, published 12 books, 266 peer reviewed articles and 203 book chapters during the past 35 years. And according to his area of interests: teaching, Neonatal surgery, pediatric urology and stem cell research he can be a good case for inviting. He has come Iran 4 years ago and visited a few of our pediatric surgical centers. The other pediatric surgeon professor Atsuyuki Yamataka is the head of Department of pediatric surgery of Juntendo University school of Medicine in Japan. As the biliary atresia is very common in Japan, Japanese colleagues have great experiences on kasai operation. Although introduction of liver transplantation has revolutionized treatment protocols in biliary atresia, the Kasai procedure is still the first line of surgical treatment. They also have very good results with this operation: the jaundice clearance rate was 90% and the 10-year native liver and overall survival rates are 75% and 98%, respectively. The incidence rate of cholangitis has been reduced also. Professor Yamataka also has good experiences in laparocopic Kasai portoenterostomy for biliary atresia.
The 3rd one is Professor Tahmina Banu. Prof Tahmina Banu is one of the pioneer Pediatric Surgeons of Bangladesh. She started working in Chittagong Medical College & Hospital in 1993 & Established & Developed a very busy Pediatric surgery department in Southern Bangladesh. Her special area of interest are Anorectal malformations, Neonatal surgery, Pediatric urology, Mobile Pediatric Surgery, Global Child Surgery. She treats more than 150 patients of ARM including very rare malformations every year. She developed some cost-effective alternatives e.g major neonatal surgery under local anaesthesia, Stoma care with betel leaves, Bananagram to see distal colonic status before colostomy closure etc. She is now working as Chairman, of Department of Pediatric Surgery, Chittagong Medical College & Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh. According to her knowledge and experiences in neonatal surgery and also their similar health facilities in their country inviting her can be a good idea. She is also very cooperative and interested in education. |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
As we took part in a group from Iran ,there was almost no problem in providing tickets or transport and accomodation. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
AAPS2016 will be held as an international session of JSPS2016, and some globally well-known pediatric surgeons, who are active members of WOFAPS and have written textbooks in the field, will attend. The other three days hold in two sessions: morning(began at 8:30 am) and afternoon(began at 2 pm). In each session there was one or two guest speakers who is well known in especial parts of pediatric surgery concentrated on one of the problematic issues in those difficult issues and shared his knowledge. After the guest speakers’ speech it was time for accepted papers to be present which were almost related to the guest speaker speech. There was also a poster presentation area. Posters presented at that area between 12md t0 2 pm. There was a chairmen group (about 4 persons) for every 10 posters. Poster presenter must explain his/her poster in 5 minutes and answer the questions in another 5 minutes.(maximally) During the poster session lunch served and then afternoon session began. We were about eleven from Iran with almost 15 presentations as oral or poster from different parts: Tehran, Isfahan, Qazvin, Ahvaz and Mashhad. There were also some workshops between the programs: Guideline on management of congenital hydronephrosis and VUR.
The organization of the congress was perfect and each session hold at the main time meanwhile the question-answer of each part was enough and useful. The first speech was done by Arnold G Coran from University of Michigan Medical Center/CS Mott Children’s Hospital, United States about The Future of Pediatric Surgery. He had gathered a very precious series of slides from the first steps done in pediatric surgery till now reach to this position.
Here I name some the attractive and interesting topics:
Opportunities for Research and Publication for Pediatric Surgeons (from Ireland, there professor Puri explained their facilities and their program which was very interesting)
Using telemedicine to teach paediatric surgery in limited resourced countries (this one can think in our country that we have very few pediatric surgeons)
Impact of miRNA-21 on liver fibrogenesis in biliary atresia patients (This can be a topic for our research; too as the billiary atresia is almost common here, either.)
On Hepatobiliary part, use of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Laparoscopic portoenterostomy for type III biliary atresia explained. It is important for us to improve our surgical techniques according to the world improvement.
There were also good papers about pediatric liver transplantation.
In Neonatal session chairperson was George W HolcombⅢ (Children’s Mercy Hospital, USA) and the role of fetal surgery for congenital malformations, current profile and therapeutic strategy for congenital diaphragmatic hernia discussed.
In summary the conference was informative and worthwhile |