Prof. Prokar Dasgupta OBE
@prokarurol
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King’s Health Partners Professor of Surgery. Prostate diseases. Robotic radical prostatectomy. AI. 10th Editor in Chief BJUI. Padma Shri awardee. RT #endorsement
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An incredible evening celebrating translational research
@KingsCollegeLon
@kingshealth
&
@UCLIoN
on the science underpinning
#overactivebladders
and
#botox
injections
In the iconic theatre
@Ri_Science
King James IV lecture
@RCSEd
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Thank you 🙏🏽 for this honour. This is a cherished moment that recognises 30 years of teamwork.
President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Prof Prokar Dasgupta for Medicine. A professor at King's College London, he is a renowned surgeon-scientist, educator and has pioneered robotic surgery in urology.
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Thank you
@BAUSurology
@BJUIjournal
and my dear family
@GuysUrology
for this impressive medal.
To have my name engraved beside Peter Freyer, John Thompson-Walker and Hurry Fenwick is beyond imagination.
I am so happy!
#BAUS20
The BAUS St Peter’s Medal. The medal die was presented to BAUS in 1948 by the first Vice President, Mr Bernard Ward, urologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. The Medal was designed and made by William Bloye, of the Birmingham School of Art.
@BAUSurology
@prokarurol
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Thought of the day!
The cover of the current edition of
@TheLancet
struck a chord with me…
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The most respected urologist in the UK and our hero
@GuysUrology
@GSTTnhs
@kingshealth
Shamim Khan OBE, Ti received his Lifetime Achievement award at
#ZGHA2023
from
@Glowingfuture
Thank you for your global legacy to surgery, education & charity!
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It is a great honour to be the recipient of the Wickham medal named after the legend John Wickham who performed the first
#roboticsurgery
with the PROBOT
@GSTTnhs
>30 yrs ago with Brian Davies
@imperialcollege
He is my hero
Thanks
@ERUSrobotics
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Huge congratulations to our entire team
@GSTTnhs
on this landmark of 10,000 robotic operations!
And to our patients for putting their faith in us 🙏🏽
London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using robot | Evening Standard
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Then and now
Both photos taken by
@oussama_elhage
nearly a decade apart
I wish everyone
@BJUIjournal
@BJUICompass
@bjuiknowledge
- editorial teams, boards, trustees, reviewers, authors and readers my sincere THANKS!
It was a pleasure to serve.
Goodbye!
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This is what we achieved as a team
1. IF 4.806 - highest in 90 years of
@BJUIjournal
2. Only surgical journal in
#Altmetric
top 50
3. Pioneers in web based publishing
4. Quality without geographical boundaries
5. Lasting international friendships
Adios!
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Holy Moly!!
@declangmurphy
concerned and surprised that I STILL run my life with a
@RCSEd
paper diary at
#ERUS23
20 years and counting..
I do not remember ever being double booked.
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Wishing our readers, authors, reviewers and editorial team
@BJUIjournal
Joy and Happiness!
Thank you for supporting every innovation we bring.
More in 2019
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Thank you so much
@DjokerNole
and
@KpPopert
for sending this lovely message.
Big Congratulations on winning the inaugural
@rydercup
All-Star match!!
I am happy to be the second best
#urologist
in the world after my friend
@RickPopert
😃
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@PheVeronique
, a super surgeon, delivers a fantastic lecture on the increasing and important role of females in urology at
#EAU24
Some of the data is shocking!
Pregnancy is not a disease!!
Mentorship is the solution!!!
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We have merged Surgical and Interventional Engineering
@KingsImaging
with
@kingshealth
Academic Surgery in a futuristic department with robotics, next gen imaging and explainable
#AI
Surgical Data Science within a hospital building to make a difference to patients
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The newly arrived Da Vinci X should help reduce our waiting lists due to
#COVID19
One of five multidisciplinary surgical robots
@GSTTnhs
@kingshealth
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Thank you
@KingsCollegeLon
for bestowing your highest honour, since 1847
The Fellowship of King’s College - FKC
Inspired, dedicated and humbled
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@benchallacombe
@GuysUrology
@GSTTnhs
@kingshealth
May I express my heartfelt gratitude for the many congratulatory messages from so many friends from all over the world!!! 🙏🏽
I also received this from the renowned cartoonist Neil Kerber
@Kerber_Cartoons
with
@PrivateEyeNews
and other newspapers
It is sure to bring a smile 😃
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A long and distinguished innings!
Congratulations Giles Rottenberg, our ever present Consultant Radiologist, for 25 years of service
@GSTTnhs
Always available, affable and approachable.
Thank you Giles for being there with your wise words, accurate diagnosis & friendship
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The legendary surgical textbook Bailey & Love’s has just arrived!
Plus ebook & digital
@CRCPress
Remains highly popular in the subcontinent
Thanks friends from 🇮🇳 🇬🇧
@nitinkekre
@oussama_elhage
@sachinmalde
Tet Yap
@glassmagazine
@sanjaybkulkarni
@RajeevUrologist
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Thank you
@ERUSrobotics
and our fantastic team in London.
To receive this in my favourite city Florence, means a lot to me!
Grazie Mille 🙏🏽
We couldn’t be more proud of the amazing
@prokarurol
receiving the John Wickham ERUS lifetime achievement award. Huge congratulations
@ERUSrobotics
@Uroweb
#ERUS23
@GSTTnhs
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Congratulations
@MattBultitude
for 10 glorious years as a consultant
@GuysUrology
The journey goes back 20 years....
From house officer, to stones research, to clinical lead
And transforming the
@BJUIjournal
in between as web editor 👏
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Our final hurray!
Congratulations
@BJUIjournal
and our entire team
@LoebStacy
@declangmurphy
@qdtrinh
@benchallacombe
@MattBultitude
@alan_partin
@EndoLuminalEndo
@
@Freddie_Hamdy
@MiekeVHR
@michael_gorin
@jdhdavis
We are delighted to announce our new Impact Factor:
5.588
With thanks and congratulations to
@prokarurol
and team.
A fantastic platform from which
@Freddie_Hamdy
's team can continue the great work.
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The best decade of my life. We had so much fun
@BJUIjournal
with
@MattBultitude
@benchallacombe
@declangmurphy
@LoebStacy
@AjhungMD
@jdhdavis
@MiekeVHR
@glassmagazine
@EBMUrology
@FicarraVincenzo
and so many close friends, a few of whom are no longer with us
Thank you 🙏🏽
Huge congratulations to our former Editor-in-Chief Prokar Dasgupta (
@prokarurol
) on being awarded an OBE in the King's birthday honours! An inspiration to us all.
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#BAUS19
Proud moment for
@GuysUrology
Three Golden Telescopes for significant and lasting contribution to
@BAUSurology
-Ben Challacombe 2019
@benchallacombe
-Tim O’Brien 2009
@tsoburol
-Prokar Dasgupta 2006
@prokarurol
Congrats Ben
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This weekend my medical school
#Medical
College Kolkata celebrated its foundation day.
Proud to have been educated at the oldest medical college in the east (1835) which had stalwarts like Dr BC Roy as faculty.
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Happy Diwali to all
@BJUIjournal
readers, authors, reviewers and friends.
May the light of hope bring you love, joy and energy!!!
Source - Sarbani Chatterjee
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This is the first international multicentre trial of surgical simulation from UK
@kingshealth
@TUF_tweets
@EUplatinum
EU, China, Japan, Canada, USA.
-Better proficiency for complex procedures
-Complications reduced to >50% and major complications to 30%
Enhances patient safety!
And it's finally here:
SIMULATE (largest 🌏 RCT on
#SurgicalSimulation
) is published on
@EUplatinum
:
Surgical Simulation enhances operative performance, significantly reduces complications, and produces more proficient trainees in advanced procedures
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Beautiful anatomical demonstration of a psoas hitch and left ureteric reimplant at
#ERUS23
with the
@medtroniceu
HUGO RAS from
#Aalst
to
#Florence
Avoid the genitofemoral nerve on the psoas muscle!
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Are we heading towards pinch biopsies of bladder tumours and cystectomy if MRI suggests muscle invasion?
@gilesrott
joins
@DrAmitGhose
and colleagues at 5am GMT at
#usicon23
to discuss and debate if TURBT is unnecessary in this situation
Talk about dedication!!!
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The countdown has begun
My last week as Editor-in-Chief
@BJUIjournal
1. Favourite blog
@declangmurphy
We weren't scared of immediacy, controversy and sensible debate
Blog first, publish later
The Melbourne Consensus Statement on Prostate Cancer Testing
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Grazie Mille!
You have made my day
@ERUSrobotics
I am truly honoured.
Still can’t believe it!!
Prof.
@prokarurol
is this year's winner of the John Wickham Award! Congratulations on behalf of ERUS and the entire EAU.
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Not for the faint hearted!
@tsoburol
receives our most prestigious Richard Tiptaft Professorship from
@finmacAskill
@GuysUrology
Clear messages-
1. INR 2 is high risk for intracardiac renal tumours
@BJUIjournal
2. Centralise to high vol centres
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#AUA17
RAZOR trial RARC vs ORC
@dipenjparekh
-
1. Similar 2year survival
2. RARC <blood loss+LOS
3. ORC <time
4. RARC >soft tissue margin 🤔
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A new open access launch with pomp and splendour 😀
We need your support
@BJUIjournal
@jdhdavis
BJUI Compass and open access
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Shock horror 😀
What are these two famous open surgeons
@NDowJames
and
@EardleyIan
doing?!
Field testing the Versius robot
@CMRSurgical
in our Surgical and Interventional Engineering and
@kingshealth
academic surgery lab
@KingsCollegeLon
@kingsmedicine
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Image guided
#robotic
prostatectomy using
@innersightlabs
a startup from
@KingsImaging
Supported by
@TUF_tweets
The exquisite 3D detail can “fly in” to the surgeon console
@JafferUrol
@benchallacombe
Better cancer & functional results!
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Another parting gift
@BJUIjournal
This is the world’s first multicentre randomised controlled trial of simulation to see if it makes better surgeons and improves patient outcomes
N=1140
Thanks to all our international and UK collaborators and
@TUF_tweets
for grant funding
Thank you
@BJUIjournal
for 🏅
#ArticleOfTheMonth
selection
#VisualAbstract
Protocol & Curriculum Development of 1st🌍 RCT on Surgical
#Simulation
assessing effect on OR Proficiency and Patient Outcomes
#MedEd
#RCT
Shaping the Future of Surgical Training
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#AUA18
I have decided to try Finasteride for 7 years.
At least it will prevent the need for a robotic hair transplant.
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It is great to see
@Uroweb
taking a lead on reducing our carbon footprint
#EAU24
Compelling arguments from
@LoebStacy
@KariTikkinen
on telemedicine, green meetings and not necessarily using sterile gloves or gowns.
This is our most pressing challenge!!!
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There is nothing “artificially intelligent” about my favourite city during my Visiting Professorship to the University of Florence
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#EAU18
Inderbill Gill’s TOP TIPS for avoiding complications in minimal access surgery
1. Avoid surgery in the very unfit
2. The rescue stitch CT1, 2-0 vicryl with Weck is a must
3. Patient satisfaction and surgeon honesty
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@ChandruSundara2
#AUA19
On how to make every day count and avoid burnout
1. Slow down
2. Teamwork
3. Stay healthy
4. Enjoy every day
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#ERUS23
@benchallacombe
@GuysUrology
performs a robotic adrenalectomy with the
@medtroniceu
Hugo RAS robot
Best avoided in tumours >6cm
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A new Editorial Team for the BJU International…
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#BAUS17
If you want to stay shorter in hospital and have less conversion, go to the more experienced kidney surgeon
@BAUSurology
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On the eve of
#AUA18
@BJUIjournal
seeks its new Editor in Chief for 2020.
An exciting opportunity.
Are you the one?
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#Swiss
Precision!!
I am struck by the incredible SIMPLICITY of the Dexter robot
@Distalmotion
Agnostic camera holder attaches to any 3D scope
Two arms easy to dock
The open “console” is remarkably simple yet agile.
High quality wristed tools
Lake Geneva & Alps are free!!
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How to write a superb literature review
A must read from
@nature
for every researcher, young surgeon and aspiring author
Feel free to add your own valuable tips...
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#clapforNHS
@GSTTnhs
#COVID19
I am overwhelmed by my neighbours in Alma Square in London cheering for us.
Thank you 🙏🏽
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Malcolm Coptcoat 2018 1st prize winner
@BAUSurology
@RSMUrology
@GuysUrology
@KingsCollegeLon
@twharkin
@oussama_elhage
@mfrydenberg
Key message-
>50% ductal
#ProstateCancer
more than doubles the risk of PSA recurrence compared to Gleason 8 and above/Grade Group 4-5
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Time flies
From
@BJUIjournal
in 2012
To
@BJUIjournal
+
@BJUICompass
in 2020
Both photos courtesy of
@jdhdavis
on Flickr
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The
@BJUIjournal
team wish all our readers, authors and reviewers a bright and shining start to 2018
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Really worrying continence outcomes based on ethnicity presented by
@finmacAskill
@GuysUrology
at our
@kingshealth
surgical grand rounds.
Is this because of differences in anatomy or more advanced disease causing sphincteric and nerve damage in African and Caribbean ethnicity?
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Exploring the limits of
#robotic
surgery with
@DrFairleighR
@benchallacombe
@GuysUrology
@kingshealth
#BAUS22
A 20yr legacy of clinical excellence, randomised trials, science, simulation and fellowships. The procedures evolve. So does the training
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Time to be photographed with three giants of 🇮🇳 and international urology at
#usicon23
Mahendra Bhandari
@Mahendr94444116
Sanjay Kulkarni
@sanjaybkulkarni
Makarand Khochikar (can’t find him on
@Twitter
)
amazing surgeon + grows beautiful 🌸 🌺
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Do not rush into a radical orchidectomy without assessing fertility status
#BAUS22
Clear message from
#testicularcancer
MDT
Here is the paper from
@GuysUrology
@MajShabbir
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Our
@kingshealth
Bulkey-Barry-Cooper Visiting Professors
@NDowJames
@Uroweb
and Ian Eardley
@BJUIjournal
are here with Seb Ourselin
@KingsCollegeLon
#Surgical
& Interventional Engineering for our Grand Rounds
@GuysUrology
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Inspired by a text from
@urologytrainee
@USANZUrology
decided to walk home from
@GuysUrology
for
#BSoTfunrunforTUF21
In a summer suit carrying a brolly 🌧☔️
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Last few days as Editor of
@BJUIjournal
Favourite covers inspired by Tet Yap
@glassmagazine
The prospective study of Ketamine uropathy from Hong Kong was cited 31 times
Guess the locations of the articles of the month on the covers?
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Magic happens here!!!
At the Presidential visit of
@mortensen_neil
@RCSnews
to Surgical and Interventional Engineering
@KingsCollegeLon
@kingshealth
Inside our mock OR at St. Thomas’ Hospital with next gen hyper-spectral imaging, robotics and
#AI
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As 2019 comes to a close, we offer you an amazing blog
@BJUIjournal
Surgery was about learning from each other in clinics and operating rooms in 1929
Not much different today..and beyond..
Happy holiday reading!
90 years of BJU International - BJUI
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Here is an enhanced recovery program
@BJUIjournal
than can help cystectomy patients recover better
#bladdercancer
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This limerick just arrived 😀
Note to my urologist-
My prostate and bladder were in a conspiracy deep,
To deny me the joys of a good night’s sleep.
I can’t tell you what a pickle I was in,
But now, thanks to my new friend Alfuzosin,
I no longer spend my nights counting sheep!
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Thank you Wikipedia for featuring the “Dasgupta technique” of injecting Botox for overactive bladders
@clarejfowler
on the main page today under
“Did you know...”
According to
@TUF_tweets
it has helped many patients with urinary incontinence worldwide
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My favourite innovation
@AjhungMD
@BJUIjournal
Watch this
#AI
space.....
Current status of artificial intelligence applications in urology and their potential to influence clinical practice - Chen - 2019 - BJU International
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Are you looking for the BEST GUIDELINES available?
Did you know that
@BJUIjournal
publishes NICE Guidance. Clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness, avoiding conflicts of interest.
A free issue of all the
@NICEcomms
Guidelines are here
Many more to come
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#WRSE24
3D print guided robotic prostatectomy
Can you see the outline of the tumour on the right?
Not imagining it
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#EAU19
@abdullatif_aydn
on curriculum development for the world’s largest international randomised trial of surgical simulation for patient benefit.
Results expected in 2019-20
? Game Changer
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1 in 5 patients with regret is a worrying figure!
An important Mind and Body message in this paper
@BrunckhorstO
Decision Regret in Patients with Localised Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - ScienceDirect
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Prostate cancer screening: where are we now? - Light - 2019 - BJU International - Wiley Online Library
The NICE Guidelines 2019
@BJUIjournal
@NICEComms
on
#prostatecancer
do not mention screening
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Calling all cystectomists-
A clinically simple and important method of avoiding ureteric strictures after urinary diversion from the team
@KeckMedUSC
@BJUIjournal
Use of indocyanine green to minimise uretero‐enteric strictures after robotic radical cystectomy
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The first King’s Health Partners Surgical Academy Workshop
@kingshealth
promises to be an exciting event
29/10/20
5:30 pm GMT
To join, please use this link -
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On the eve of
#EAU18
we celebrate two important papers from Copenhagen on our front cover
#AOTW
@BJUIjournal
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Answers to the
#ED
question many patients ask
@oussama_elhage
@EUplatinum
Erectile Function Following Surgery for Benign Prostatic Obstruction: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials - ScienceDirect
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Best of
#CMR
Versius Robot
IDEAL Stage 2b outcomes
@JafferUrol
#EAU23
11% complications
All
#prostatectomy
patients continent
1:8 positive margins
@benchallacombe
@DrFairleighR
@SonpreetRai
@KingsImaging
ARane MHussain AMcNeil NBarber
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#SRS2018
Peter Kim demonstrates the intelligent STAR robot which can suture better than a human being. Easily the best robotics paper I have read
@sciencemagazine
TM in the last two years
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This is a proud moment!
Many congratulations and
Happy New Year
@pchandak1
@GSTTnhs
@KingsCollegeLon
@kingshealth
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UK scientists create world’s smallest surgical robot to start a hospital revolution | Society | The Guardian
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NICE Guidance – Prostate cancer 2019: diagnosis and management - 2019 - BJU International - Wiley Online Library
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Infographic summarising the outcomes of salvage Robotic prostatectomy
#erus19
@benchallacombe
, Paul Cathcart
@EUplatinum
@SNathanUK
ED inevitable
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#TUM21
Showing the use of
@ProximieAR
with my friends Raj Nair
@GuysUrology
@kingshealth
and
Vito Pansadoro
#democratise
surgery
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We performed the first robotic colposuspensions in the world in 2004 and published
@BJUIjournal
and
@JEndourology
This incontinence procedure disappeared for nearly 15 years only to return after the
@JuliaCumberlege
review which included pelvic mesh.
Long term followup essential
Robotic Functional Urology
@GuysUrology
@sachmalde
in full swing again. Grateful for mentorship from
@ProfShamimKhan1
@nairajesh
@prokarurol
@haroldthemann
Colposuspension, ureteric reconstruction and ileal conduit diversion with more procedures planned in the future.
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At the inaugural meeting of
@KCLSurgicalSoc
in the
@OldOpTheatre
- an amazing piece of history enough to inspire any surgeon
With Chu-Yiu Yiu
Alice Smith
Valerie Mok
Priyanka Iyer
@pchandak1
@kingshealth
So relieved it is real and not virtual
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The
@MayoClinic
SoMe “cartoon-graphic” as a timely reminder to the many thousands on FB, Instagram and Twitter at
#EAU18
@JimCatto
@declangmurphy
@BJUIjournal
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Calling all
#UroSoMe
buffs to join
@MRvanBalken
@declangmurphy
and I
@BJUIjournal
at Barcelona
#EAU19
17 March
14:00-15:30
Poster session 45
Green Area, Room 5
Social media, ICT and urology:
Fake news?
Surely not....
You just CAN’T miss this
No excuses
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