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| EAU16 - Friday 11 March 2016: Highlights from Day 1 |
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Violin music from the four female performing artists of the Munich All-Stars greeted the Opening Ceremony audience of the 31st Annual EAU Congress in Munich with EAU Secretary General Chris Chapple welcoming participants to Europe’s largest annual urology event.
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Fifteen experts from five continents took part in the day-long scientific programme that explored the worldwide origins of urology. Over 200 delegates arrived in Munich earlier than usual to attend the Congress, which was organised by the EAU History Office and its international partners in conjunction with the 31st Annual EAU Congress. Former EAU Secretary General Prof. Debruyne was its Honorary Congress President, with Prof. Dirk Schultheiss sharing ceremonial duties as Chairman of the EAU History Office.
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The Pan African Urological Surgeons Association (PAUSA) represents urology in the whole African continent, which means addressing patient care in a vast range of settings and significantly different cultures. "In general the African medical environment is less cash-rich than in Europe or North America," said Prof. Olapade-Olaopa, who works in Nigeria’s third largest city, Ibadan, as he described some of the practical issues his department faces.
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The Joint EAU-Confederacion Americana de Urologia (CAU) meeting tackled a range of so-called ‘hot’ urology issues with topics ranging from female stress urinary incontinence, imaging in prostate cancer, surgical techniques in bladder and kidney tumours to challenges in conducting randomized trials.
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 Two exceptional researchers describe their posters – H. Borgmann speaks about “Feasibility and efficacy of a urologic profession campaign on cryptorchidism using internet and social media”, while U. Joensen's study is called “Varicocele is negatively associated with semen quality and hormone levels: A study of 7067 men from six European countries”.
See the interviews >>
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All webcasts, videos, posters and full-text abstracts are accessible via the EAU16 Resource Centre. Delegates have full access. If you are not attending EAU16, you can purchase access to the EAU16 content separately. |
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