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    Guram Karazanashvili

    Head of Urology
    Karazanashvili Robotic Center, Georgia

    2024 – He has Founded the Robotic Surgery for the first time in history of Georgia and the Caucasus region
    2023 – the first in the world to develop the prostate cancer early detection and screening strategy using microscopic ultrasound 29MHz (European Congress of Uro-Oncology, Gothenburg, Sweden UROONCO2023; Congress of the International Society of Urology, Istanbul, Turkey, SIU/WUOF2023)
    2022 – for the first time in Georgia and in the Caucasus, Black and Caspian Sea region, he established a network of micro-ultrasound based 29MHz prostate cancer screening centers
    2021 – for the first time in Georgia and in the Caucasus robotic focal therapy of prostate cancer using high-frequency focused ultrasound (HIFU) was introduced and developed
    2021 – for the first time in Georgia and in the Caucasus, Black and Caspian Sea region, micro-ultrasound 29MHz trans-perineal, targeted/”fusion” biopsies of the prostate were introduced
    2020 – for the first time in Georgia, in the region of the Caucasus, Black and Caspian Sea, microscopic ultrasound 29 MHz was introduced
    2018 – he developed the original surgical technique of extraperitoneal cystectomy and creating an artificial neobladder https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1016/j.juro.2018.02.1395
    2012, one of the firsts in the world used radical prostate surgery to defeat metastatic prostate cancer (P116 Radical prostatectomy in clinically metastatic prostate cancer patients January 2012 European Urology Supplements 11 (2012):191–235; Eur Urol.2014 Aug;66(2):191-9 . doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2013.05.033. Epub 2013 May 22
    In 2002, minimally invasive, endoscopic urological operations (TUR, URS) were introduced for the first time at the Tbilisi State Medical University Urology Department, at Republican Central Clinical Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia
    In 2001, he developed a method to improve prostate cancer screening based on prostate-specific antigen (Eur Urol. 2001 May; 39(5):538-43. doi: 10.1159/000052500)
    In 1996, PSA based prostate cancer screening method was introduced in Georgia – quantitative determination of prostate-specific antigen in the blood Tbilisi, Georgia

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