TNMU Hosted All-Ukrainian Scientific-Applied Conference “Modern Aspects of Diagnosis and Treatment of Internal Diseases”
On September 12-13, 2022, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University hosted the all-Ukrainian scientific and applied conference “Modern aspects of diagnosis and treatment of internal diseases”.
The event has already become traditional, as it has been regularly organized by the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine and Phthisiology for more than 10 years for a wide range of medical specialists. This medical event covers a wide range of issues related to internal organs pathology, which is relevant in the professional activities of family doctors, therapists, and narrow specialists of various profiles.
This year, the conference was held with the participation of foreign speakers. Taking into account the martial law regimen introduced in Ukraine, and in order to ensure the maximum safety of the participants, the event was held online in TNMU conference hall with simultaneous broadcast on the YouTube channel. A video recording of the conference is available for viewing on the YouTube channel.
In total, more than 380 participants officially took part in the conference.
During the two-day sessions, 47 scientific reports were presented and discussed. The first plenary meeting was held in the conference hall of the university. 14 reports were presented at the meeting.
The emphasis in the reports and discussions was on the most acute problems of today, namely medical assistance to the population and internally displaced persons regarding the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of internal organs in the conditions of martial law and the COVID-19 epidemic, as well as attention was paid to the latest domestic and international recommendations and protocols for diagnosis and treatment diseases of internal organs.
On behalf of the chairman of the organizing committee, Rector of TNMU, Professor Mykhaylo Korda, the Vice-Rector for Research, Professor Ivan Klishch, wished success and effective cooperation to the participants of the scientific event. In his speech, Professor Ivan Klishch emphasized the urgency of holding this scientific event in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine. At the end, the Vice-Rector wished all the participants of the conference fruitful work.
Co-chairs of the conference: Professor Serhii Andreichyn – Doctor of Medicine, Head of TNMU Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine and Phthisiology; Professor Leonid Hryshchuk, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of TNMU Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine and Phthisiology.
Larysa Matiuk, the Deputy Head of the Administration, the Head of the Department of providing medical assistance to the population, development of health care and legal support of the department of health care of the Ternopil regional state administration, made a welcome speech.
The plenary session was opened by Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of TNMU Department of Therapy and Family Medicine Marian Hrebenyk with the report “News of the 23rd National Congress of Cardiologists of Ukraine”, where he presented current information on the latest standards of treatment of cardiac patients, in particular he focused on the issues of using anticoagulants and antiaggregants in cardiovascular patients in preparation for non-cardiac surgical treatment and focused attention on the issues of cardio-oncological pathology, in particular on the prevention of cardiotoxicity in oncology.
The plenary session was continued by Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of the Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice – Family Medicine of TNMU Liliia Babinets, with a report on the possibilities of treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in women in general practice. Later, the speaker also presented to the audience information about comorbidity in the practice of a family doctor.
Doctor of Medicine, Professor Liliia Babinets.
The conference was attended by an invited guest, Professor of Visceral and Vascular Surgery at the University Clinic of Vascular Surgery in Vienna, Austria, Harald Teufelsbauer, who, in addition to his main mission with which he came to Ternopil – the transfer of humanitarian aid to the city’s hospitals, presented the report “Stenosis of the carotid arteries” at the conference : symptomatology, diagnosis and treatment”. Professor Teufelsbauer is a long-time friend and Honorary Professor of TNMU, and it is not the first time he has arrived in Ternopil on a humanitarian mission. This time, in addition to humanitarian aid, he shared his rich experience in the diagnosis and operative treatment of carotid artery stenosis. The medical and diagnostic approaches presented by him, in particular, the technique of open surgery of the carotid arteries in case of thrombosis, are a daily practice for doctors in Austria, but are of significant practical interest for doctors in Ukraine, where these operations have recently begun to be widely implemented at the level of secondary medical care.
In the university hall before the start of the conference. From left to right: Doctor of Medicine, Professor L.A. Hryschuk, Associate Professor N.A. Bilkevych, Professor Harald Teufelsbauer, Associate Professor N.I. Yarema, Rector of the University, Doctor of Medicine, Professor M. M. Korda, Professor Dariia Popovych, Vice-Rector for Education and Science, Doctor of Medicine, Professor A. H. Shulhai.
The following speakers discussed the news about standards and approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of internal diseases:
Nadiia Yarema, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 1 of TNMU, who reported on modern approaches to antihypertensive therapy.
Doctor of Medicine, Professor Nadiya Yarema
Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of the clinical pharmacology course of TNMU Department of Pharmacology with Clinical Pharmacology Volodymyr Shmanko highlighted modern approaches to the treatment of chronic heart failure in his reports.
Serhii Andreichyn, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of the Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine and Phthisiology of TNMU reported on modern approaches to the treatment of patients with gout.
PhD in Medicine, Associate Professor of the Department of Emergency Medical Care of TNMU Larysa Martyniuk presented the updated recommendations for the treatment of type II diabetes (ADA 2022) and commented on them in the light of comorbidity.
Nataliia Bilkevych, PhD in Medicine, Associate Professor of TNMU Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine and Phthisiology presented differential approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of cough in the practice of doctors, and also presented information on the topics of the seventh international training course in internal medicine McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine (MIRCIM ), held in Krakow, Poland, September 29-October 1, 2022. She also reminded the audience that modern guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of internal organs can be found in the textbook Evidence-Based Internal Medicine, published by McMaster University, Canada , and translated into Ukrainian with the assistance of the Polish Institute of Evidence-Based Medicine and the “Practical Medicine” publishing house, as well as that this textbook and many other useful information are widely available on the “Empendium” website of this publishing house.
Many reports at the plenary session raised great practical interest in the field of patient management in the modern realities of military operations and an overloaded epidemic situation. In particular, the problems of managing patients with psychological trauma in the conditions of war were touched upon in the report “Psychological trauma and its influence on psycho-somatic disorders”, which was presented by Olena Wenger, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of the department of psychiatry, narcology and medical psychology of TNMU.
Doctor of Medicine, Professor Olena Wenger
Doctor of Medicine, Processor of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology of TNMU Yurii Mysula, in the report “The patient at the limit of the competence of the therapist and psychiatrist” focused on the issues of phasing the treatment of patients with unexpressed signs of depressive disorder and the possibilities of non-pharmacological help in overcoming anxiety-depressive states, and as well as a differentiated approach in the use of antidepressants.
Considerable attention was paid to widespread infections and methods of combating them. So, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases with Epidemiology, Skin and Venereal Diseases of TNMU Mariia Shkilna spoke about the clinical and epidemiological features and laboratory methods of diagnosis of some tick-borne infections in the practice of a family doctor, in particular Lyme-borreliosis, in particular, about the possibilities of the diagnosis of elements of skin rashes, introduced at TNMU.
Doctor of Medicine, Professor Ihor Hospodarskyi, Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology, Allergology and General Patient Care of TNMU presented the report “Peculiarities of immunocorrection in patients with frequent respiratory diseases.”
Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of TNMU Department of Emergency and Simulation Medicine Arsen Hudyma spoke about the peculiarities of nuclear safety and protection in Ukraine.
On the second day, break-out sessions were held, in which 33 speakers participated, including guests from Azerbaijan. Based on the materials of the conference, a collection of conference materials was published.
According to the results of the conference, a resolution was adopted, which reflected that a number of issues of diagnosis and treatment of diseases of internal organs have intensified against the background of war events in Ukraine. In particular, the provision of medical care to the population takes place in conditions of comorbidity and unequal access of patients to medical care, today’s realities have prioritized the readiness of medical personnel to manage patients with psychological trauma and psychosomatic disorders at all levels of medical care, the question of protecting the medical population from a nuclear threat has arisen again. At the same time, the issues of diagnosis and treatment of common infections (COVID-19, Lyme borreliosis, and others) remain relevant. The information discussed at the conference will be useful for doctors of various specialties to solve the issues of providing medical assistance to the population in all discussed situations, based on modern standards, international guidelines and recommendations, and evidence-based medicine data.
The organizing committee of the All-Ukrainian scientific and applied conference with international participation “Modern aspects of diagnosis and treatment of internal diseases” express their deepest appreciation to all speakers and participants for their participation in its work. We wish the victory to our native Ukraine! Glory to Ukraine!
The information was provided by: Assoc. Prof. N. A. Bilkevych and Assoc. Prof. N. Ya. Vereshchahina.