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
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