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16 September 2009 → Minsk to host international conference on spinal diseases

A scientific and practical conference dedicated to the development of present-day vertebrology will be held in Minsk on 1-2 October, BelTA learnt from deputy director of the National Scientific and Practical Centre for Traumatology and Orthopedics Leonid Lomat.

Taking part in the conference will be traumatologists, orthopedists and neurosurgeons from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The forum is organized by the Healthcare Ministry of Belarus, the National Scientific and Practical Centre for Traumatology and Orthopedics, and the Scientific Medical Society of Traumatologists and Orthopaedists of Belarus.

The participants of the forum will deliver reports on the problems of present day vertebrology and treatment of patients suffering from spinal diseases and diseases of the spinal cord. The specialists will also discuss diagnostics and treatment of malformations, tumors, and tumor-like spinal diseases. Apart from that, the participants of the conference will discuss the use of cutting-edge and low-invasive technologies in vertebrology.

According to Leonid Lomat, such conferences will help raise the level of diagnostics and treatment of patients suffering from severe spinal diseases.

The National Scientific and Practical Centre for Traumatology and Orthopedics can perform almost all kinds of invasive treatments of spinal diseases due to new technologies and methods. The new methods include vertebroplasty. Vertebroplasty is mainly used to treat thoracic and lumbar vertebra fractures in patients suffering from osteoporosis. Bone cement is injected into a fractured vertebra in order to stabilize it. Vertebroplasty is a low-invasive method. It helps reduce hospital stay and rehabilitation period.

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