IKSI: 1st Annual International Urolithiasis Research Symposium

描述(由申请人提供)： 一代人之前，随着冲击波碎石术、输尿管镜检查和经皮取石等微创治疗的引入，对有症状结石患者的管理永远发生了戏剧性的变化。经过多年的渐进改进，尿石症领域又一次在肾结石疾病的管理和预防方面取得了革命性的发现。此外，很少有大型国际会议关注这一领域的临床和基础科学新发现。因此，国际肾结石研究所(IKSI)认为，现在是时候举办一次研讨会，讨论肾脏发病机制和治疗的临床和基础科学方面的问题。因此，国际肾结石学会组织并将主办一场名为“首届国际尿石症研究研讨会”的研讨会，来自全球的40位临床和基础科学专家将齐聚一堂：1)阐述肾结石的最新发现；2)研究一组精选的最新技术，这些技术似乎有可能迅速提高我们对结石形成和生长的理解；3)提供科学的 激励和挑战学生和初级教职员工考虑职业生涯的氛围 肾结石。这次研讨会的另一个特点是，一些从未一起参加过研讨会的国际科学家将从他们的专业领域讨论肾结石疾病。最后，因为与肾结石疾病相关的临床和基础科学课题 跨多个学科，没有一个学会在他们的年度会议上完全涵盖这一领域。因此，我们认为，在肾结石领域，似乎迫切需要定期举行一次全面的国际会议，以便能够方便和迅速地分享新的数据和想法，以期改善对所有肾结石患者的护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A generation ago, the management of patients with symptomatic stones was forever dramatically altered with the introduction of minimally invasive treatment such as shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy and precutaneous stone removal. After many years of incremental improvements, the field of urolithiasis is on the cusp of, again, revolutionary discoveries in the management and prevention of kidney stone disease. In addition, there has been very few major international meeting that have focused on the new clinical and basic science discoveries in this field. Thus, the International Kidney Stone Institute (IKSI) believes the time is right to hold a symposium to address the clinical and basic science aspects of both kidney pathogenesis and treatment. Therefore, IKSI has organized and will host a symposium entitled "the Ist Annual International Urolithiasis Research symposium" that will bring together forty clinical and basic science experts from around the globe to: 1) address the latest findings in nephrolithiasis, 2) examine a select group of state-of-the-art techniques that appear to have the potential to rapidly advance our understanding of how stone form and grow and 3) provide an scientific atmosphere to stimulate and challenge students and junior faculty members to consider a career in kidney stone disease. Another feature of this symposium is that a number of international scientists that have never participated in a symposium together will discuss kidney stone disease from their area of expertise. Finally, because the clinical and basic science topics relevant to kidney stone disease cross a number of disciplines, no one society has covered this field completely at their annual meeting. Therefore, in our view, there appears to be a critical need in the field of nephrolithiasis for a comprehensive international meeting that is conducted on a regular basis so that new data and ideas can be easily and rapidly shared with the goal of improving care for all kidney stone patients.