Health professionals in Holguín committed to increasing knowledge
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
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Exchanging and updating knowledge in favor of patients care is one of the main objectives of the scientific events taking place this week at the University of Medical Sciences (UCMHo) of the city of Holguín, with the participation of professionals from different medical disciplines.
The event included the III Territorial Workshop on Rare Diseases (RD) in mixed mode from February 22 to 29 with the presentation of six conferences, such as the one related to advanced therapies for hereditary retinal dystrophies, by Dr.C José María Millán Salvador, from Spain.
For her part, Dr.C Elayne Esther Santana Hernández presented the results of the molecular clinical study in 11 families with Usher Syndrome in the province of Holguín and ethical dilemmas in the diagnosis and confrontation with RD.
The event’s program also includes the conferences on the clinical and intrafamilial variability of fucosidoses, by Dr. Víctor Jesús Tamayo Chang, and Personalized genomic medicine in the current context and contributions to nutrigenomics, by Dr. C Roberto Larduert.
Likewise, the Holguín Chapter of the Cuban Society of Human and Medical Genetics convened the I Ultrasonographic Prenatal Diagnosis Workshop, between the 22nd and 29th, to facilitate the exchange between professionals responsible for making diagnoses in prenatal stages of congenital defects, based on the value of the results of those exams.
It addresses the genetic counseling offered to couples with the aim to achieve quality of life for future babies, mainly to pregnant women whose fetuses have congenital defects.
The conference on the ultrasonographic finding of predominance in the right chambers of the fetal heart was given by of Dr. Lourdes María del Cerro Jomarrón at the provincial genetics center of this eastern city.
During this meeting, specialists presented several technological and scientific update presentations, aimed at incorporating the study and analysis of the Data and Reporting System (RADS) in the hospital, a tool that will enable the radiologist to classify and manage ovarian-adnexal injuries and stratify their risk of malignancy, according to the center's publication on its Facebook profile.
