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| Dr. Quintos with our colleagues from Vietnam |
Quezon City -
Continuous medical education to improve and upgrade the knowledge of vascular
surgeons is one of the advocacies of the Society. In collaboration with our industry partner, Medtronic Philippines and the National
Kidney and Transplant Institute, a peripheral workshop with live case
observership took place at the said hospital last May 23, 2018.
Participants of the activity came from doctors from Vietnam and Peripheral Vascular surgeons from the Philippines. The day started with a lecture in the role of drug coated balloons in the management of failing vascular access. It was delivered by Dr. Joy M. Gali. She discussed the physiology of the endothelium and how endothelium dysfunction plays a role in atherosclerosis progression. She later discussed how using the drug coated balloons improve the outcomes of venoplasty of stenosed vascular access.
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| Management of Central Venous Stenosis |
The lecture was
followed by observership of the participants in two live cases. With Dr.
Ricardo Jose DT Quintos II who served as the preceptor, he walked through
all the participants as a group of NKTI Endovascular Surgery Team perfomed
three (3) cases in patients with failing vascular access. The first two (2) cases presented with pre -
anastomotic to anastomotic stenotic lesions and outflow tract stenosis. The last case was on a patient who presented
with venous hypertension of upper extremity and face secondary to central
venous stenosis.
The activity
became a venue for exchange of management of failing fistulas. Differences and commonalities in the
management of cases from two (2) different countries with different health care
delivery systems were discussed. The
activity had forged strong ties between the Filipino surgeons and their
Vietnamese counter parts, with the common goal of improving outcomes in the
management of hemodialysis vascular access.
The activity was
powered by Medtronic Philippines.
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