Bulgarian Medicine Professor Demonstrates Unique Surgery

Society » HEALTH | September 24, 2010, Friday // 16:33
Bulgarian Medicine Professor Demonstrates Unique Robotic Surgery: Bulgarian Medicine Professor Demonstrates Unique Surgery Prominent Bulgarian surgeon and President of the Pleven Medical Academy, Prof. Grigor Gorchev. Photo by "Trud" Daily

The very first for Eastern Europe robotized surgery of cervix cancer has been conducted in Bulgaria, the TV channel bTV informs.

The surgery was done by Prof. Grigor Gorchev, President of the Medical Academy in the northern city of Pleven and it is just the second one of the type in Europe. What makes the procedure unique is that after it the patient can still become pregnant and give birth.

Bulgaria's prominent surgeon is also behind the first in the country bloodless surgery of cervix cancer, carried out in 2004. In 2008, it was Gorchev again, who introduced the innovative practice of doing gynecological surgeries with the medical robot "Da Vinci" and founded the only tele-medical center on the Balkans.

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Tags: robotized surgery, bloodless, Prof. Grigor Gorchev, cervix cancer, "Da Vinci" robot, Medical Academy, Pleven

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