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Experts to demonstrate surgical procedures

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12 major operations will be performed at Childs Trust Hospital

CHENNAI: The Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital will hold a workshop on `Advances in Paediatric Surgery - 2005.'

This will be followed by a series of demonstrations of new surgical procedures by international experts to update and renew current practices in medicine and surgery.

K. Mathangi Ramakrishnan, chairperson, Childs Trust Medical Research Foundation (CTMRF), and S. Sridharan, honorary medical director, told a press conference here on Thursday that 12 major operations would be performed between December 9 and 11 in the hospital by experts from Ireland, Sweden, Belfast, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Austria and Japan.

The surgeries would be telecast live to Hotel Taj Coromandel, where more than 150 delegates would view the techniques.

"We have an interactive session with the audience, besides specialised faculty members," Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan said.

Guest oration

Klass N. Bax, Professor, Paediatric Surgery, and Head, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital and University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands, will deliver the sixth millennium guest oration.

V. Narayanan, hospital chairman, will preside over the oration lecture on December 11.

Michael Hollwarth Graz from Austria will demonstrate a procedure on gender assignment in a baby, reconstructing the child externally to match the gender and the internal organs.

Urinary reflux

Prem Puri from Dublin, Ireland, will demonstrate procedures dealing with urinary reflux in children.

Goran Lackgren from Sweden will perform a complicated reconstruction of male urethra in two children.

Paolo Caione from Italy will perform a complex urological reconstruction of urinary bladder in a child.

Takao Fujimoto will perform a complex reconstructive procedure to prevent a child from needing a liver transplantation.

Klass N. Bax will perform a video assisted surgery on the chest using minute incisions, Dr. Sridharan said.

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