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Date:<\/strong> Thursday, March 28, 2024 Title:<\/strong> Abstract:<\/strong> Bio:<\/strong> VISE seminar to be led by Nicholas Kavoussi, MD Assistant Professor of Urology 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024 Time:\u00a011:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:\u00a0Stevenson 5326 Title: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Improving Endoscopic Kidney Surgery Abstract: Ureteroscopy for treatment of urinary calculi has been utilized since the development of the pulsed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[272,32,853,148,280,839,64,31,90,30],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-2OH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0Stevenson 5326<\/p>\n
\nLeaving No Stone Unturned: Improving Endoscopic Kidney Surgery<\/p>\n
\nUreteroscopy for treatment of urinary calculi has been utilized since the development of the pulsed lasers in the 1980s.<\/span>\u00a0In addition to the advances in energy delivery for lithotripsy, improvements in observation and the transition to flexible ureteroscopes have promoted the wide adoption of retrograde intrarenal surgery. However, the depth perception and field of view of ureteroscopes are still limited.\u00a0<\/span>In addition, intraoperative blood and debris may hamper observation and tracking of stone fragments, leading to increased operating time and residual stone fragments.<\/span>\u00a0Although image quality has improved with digital computer chip detectors, further improving stone localization and tracking could improve operative efficiency and stone-free rates.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNick Kavoussi is an assistant professor of Urology at VUMC. He graduated from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a degree in Applied Mathematics, ultimately matriculating at State University of New York Downstate Medical College in Brooklyn. He did his urologic residency at the University of Texas Southwestern and came to VUMC in 2018 as a fellow in minimally invasive surgery. His interests involve the application of novel technologies to minimally invasive stone and kidney cancer surgery to improve outcomes for patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"