General info
Master complex reconstructive procedures with confidence.
This 2-day advanced course at Orsi Academy is tailored for urologists with prior da Vinci experience and a solid background in lower urinary tract reconstruction. Under the guidance of internationally renowned experts, you’ll refine your skills through high-level hands-on practice on both cadaveric and live animal tissue.
What to expect
- Train with world-class faculty
- Hands-on mastery: intensive training on human cadaver tissue and live animal tissue at Orsi Academy
- Advanced focus: designed exclusively for experienced robotic surgeons seeking to broaden their reconstructive expertise
🏷️ Exclusive benefit for EAU members
Members of the European Association of Urology (EAU) receive a 25% discount on the course fee with the code EAUMEMBER2025. A valid EAU membership ID is required.
What you will learn
- Comprehensively cover robotic anatomy
- Techniques in urological pelvic reconstruction
Faculty
Program
Arrival at Orsi Academy
Theoretical session: Overview of the day
Theoretical session: objectives in robotic urological pelvic reconstruction
- Patient selection
- Port placement and docking
- Different techniques:
- Sling removal (TOT, TVT with vs without urinary tract extrusion)
- Colposuspension
- POP repair (mesh sacrocolpopexy, autologous sacrocolpopexy, uterosacral ligaments plication,…)
Coffee and change into scrubs
Hands-on training on anesthetized porcine model
- Anatomical dissection to create space (simulation vesicovaginal space and retrovaginal space) for mesh implant (separation rectum, bladder)
- Mesh selection and tailored extracorporeally
- Mesh fixation on the anterior vaginal wall
- Mesh fixation on the posterior vaginal wall
- Sacrospinous mesh fixation
- Closing the peritoneum
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Theoretical session on robotic augmentation ileocystoplasty
- Indications and patient selection
- Port placement and docking
- Ileal patch preparation
- Cystostomy and augmentation cystoplasty
Hands-on training on anesthetized porcine model
- Ileal patch preparation
- Ileum segment selection
- Ileo-ileal anastomosis
- Neobladder creation by U-shape or other technique
- Augmentation ileocystoplasty
- Ileal patch sutured to urinary bladder
- Posterior reconstruction
- Anterior reconstruction
- Complication management – vascular injury and control
- Ileum segment selection
End of day 1
Faculty dinner in Ghent city center
Theoretical session: Female and anecdoctal bladder neck artificial urethral sphincter implantation
- Patient selection
- Port placement and docking
- Challenges and learning curve
Coffee break and change into scrubs
Hands-on training on human female cadaver model
- Step by step robotic artificial sphincter implant (port placement, patient positioning, docking, bladder neck exposure)
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Hands-on training on human cadaver model
- Step by step robotic artificial sphincter implant (advancement of the AMS800, implantation)
End of the course
Prices
Standard fee
Members of the European Association of Urology (EAU) benefit a 25% discount on the course fee using the code EAUMEMBER2026. EAU member ID is required!
Resources
Robotic Lower Urinary Tract 2025.pdf
HOLIDAY CLOSURE NOTICE
Please note that no course applications will be reviewed or processed between December 16 and January 4 due to our holiday closure.
You may still submit your application during this period, but approval or rejection will only resume once our team returns on January 5.
Thank you for your understanding!
