Fedra Meetings & Events

Modern surgical practice has been evolved by the introduction of innovative technologies during the last decades. With the technological renovation minimally invasive urologic surgery was born and nowadays this is a reality, especially in tertiary care centres.
Such an evolution started with conventional laparoscopy that represented the paradigm shift in urologic surgery over the last twenty years.
More recently, the introduction of robotics and other novel technologies has driven another revolution, moving us into the next level of evolution of minimally invasive surgery: the “technological surgery”.
The question is if the technological evolution will last forever or not.
In parallel with the technological revolution, novel research fields are being walked through, with the purpose of increasing the knowledge of the disease to cure, and give the possibility to the surgeon to tailor the best therapy that fits the patient.
Techno-Urology Meeting is evolved together with the novel technologies along the past years. More and more surgeons, speakers and attendants have been involved from all over the world.
With the present fifth edition of the Meeting we would like to underline the importance of tailoring the therapy on the basis of the disease.
The scientific program will include a stimulating combination of live surgery sessions, lectures and thought-provoking debates featuring the world’s experts in the field. Key topics will be covered during this 3-days event, with a focus on recent updates in the field of prostate cancer in the first day, while going on with rich live surgery sessions about laparoscopic and robotassisted surgery, image-guided surgery, Mini-laparoscopy and its evolutions.
We are confident that the fifth edition of the meeting will be original once more and will give the attendees the opportunity of experience the current status of available innovative techniques and technologies applied to medical and surgical urologists.
This is why we are confident that the novel edition of the meeting we have organized will be important either for urologists who participate to the first editions and new comers.
We look forward to seeing you in Turin!
Kindest regards,

Francesco Porpiglia

Evangelos Liatsikos

Peter Wiklund

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is a great pleasure to welcome you again for the 14th “Challenges in Laparoscopy and Robotics” meeting, this time being held in beautiful, enchanting Bordeaux. Now in its 14th consecutive year, the concept that initiated this adventure is not only alive, but vibrant and growing, showing great potential for the future of Urology. The comprehensive scientific program will include live laparoscopic and robotic surgeries performed by the world’s most prominent urologic surgeons. In the past meetings, we have witnessed many challenging procedures. It is now time to expand our indications and to look forward to new challenges like robotic autotransplantation, augmented reality guided surgery, robotic inguinal lymphadenectomy for penile cancer, laparoscopic and robotic prostatic adenomectomy, Level II-III Inferior Vena Cava Thrombus in RCC, laparoscopic pudendal nerve release, retroperitoneal robotic lymphadenectomy for testis and/or prostate cancer, retroperitoneal robotic partial nephrectomy, single port nephrectomy, complex laparoscopic advanced radical nephrectomy and fistulas and strictures. The technological advances like the automated instruments of Dexteritè will be implemented. The third day we will have six challenging radical prostatectomies including the Retzius sparing RARP and the extrafascial radical prostatectomy for high risk cases and after irradiation. As always, we will invite the best international speakers touching various topics to give you an up-to-date on the hottest topics in Urology. We are enthusiastically anticipating an extremely stimulating meeting. Live surgery, State-of-the-art lectures, discussions and thought-provoking debates will take place with the participation of the best urologists in the International arena. Three monitors will transmit three different live-moderated surgeries simultaneously. Each delegate will be provided with headphones with the possibility to connect with his/her preferred moderation. We are very proud to host this 14th International Meeting in Bordeaux ten years after our first visit there. Bordeaux, the European cradle of urological laparoscopy, is the perfect city for old antiquities and innovative techniques to convene. We are confident that the challenging procedures that you will see will strongly enhance your own individual learning irrespective of your current level of expertise (basic or advanced) and lead the way towards defining the future of Urologic Surgery.

See you in Bordeaux!!

Richard Gaston

Inderbir Gill

Vito Pansadoro

Thierry Piéchaud