Head prof. Mindaugas Jievaltas, MD, PhD
Address: Eivenių Str. 2, LT-50161, Kaunas
Phone: +37037326090
E-mail: urologijos.klinika@kaunoklinikos.lt
Department of Urology is the part of the Hospital of LUHS Kauno klinikos. Experienced doctors urologists work here. Urology Department has 35 beds. Annually about 1,700 patients are treated; about 1,800 operations and about 30-40 kidney transplantations are performed.
The most important clinical activity fields: oncourology, transplantology, plastic and reconstructive urology, kidney stone treatment and prevention, andrology, minimally invasive surgical techniques in urology. Laparoscopic renal surgeries are performed since 2005.
All transurethral surgeries are performed: resection of the prostate due to benign prostate hyperplasia, bladder tumors resection, uretrotomies and others. Minimally invasive procedures are performed: renal artery embolization, percutaneous nephrostomy, retrograde and anterogradeinner gonadal vein sclerotherapy, laparoscopic v. testicularis ligation, v.v. epigastral-testicular junction. Kidney stones are treated with modern techniques: endoscopic surgery is performed (ureteroscopy and percutaneous nephrolithotripsy with flexible or rigid instruments); extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The Departments members are actively involved in „Prostate cancer early detection program“.