More than 350 participants gathered in Ghent, Belgium, on 24–25 September 2026 for the ESGURS-ESAU26 meeting, featuring engaging talks, lively discussions, expert debates and live surgery showcasing the latest advances in reconstructive urology and andrology.
Maria Middelares Hospital played a central role at the meeting with national and international experts performing complex reconstructive and andrological procedures in their operating theatre. Thanks to streaming technology, these surgeries were broadcast live to the ESGURS-ESAU26 meeting, allowing participants to follow innovative techniques step by step and enter into a direct dialogue with the operating surgeons. Urologist Dr. Marjan Waterloos: “Exchanging knowledge is essential today to further improve patient care. Colleagues from all over the world were able to follow operations in real time, exchange experiences and learn from each other.”
The meeting also celebrated excellence in the field, recognising this year’s award winners for their outstanding contributions and achievements.
The Best Poster and Best Video Abstract Award winners:
- Angelo di Giovanni (London, GB) was awarded Best Poster Prize: “Fixed urethral reconstruction in transmasculine phalloplasty: Does technique matter?” and Best Video Prize: “Anterolateral thigh flap phalloplasty for genital gender affirmation: Surgical steps”.
- M. Banakhar (SA) was awarded Best Video Prize for ” Robotic-assisted bladder neck reconstruction using double onlay buccal mucosal grafting post RP and radiotherapy”.
- B. Bucca (Rome, IT) was awarded Best Poster Prize for: “UROPRIME: Urological prosthetic infection model evaluation. Development of a European multicentre nomogram predicting perioperative infectious risk in urological prosthetic surgery”.
- C. Katz-Summercorn (GB) was awarded Best Poster Prize for: “Are satisfaction rates after primary inflatable penile prosthesis surgery overestimated? An international multicentre study using a validated patient-reported outcomes measure.”
- F. M. Vaccaro (CH) was awarded the Best Video Prize for: “Salvage surgery for infected inflatable penile prosthesis with extensive scrotal infection: A sub-coronal adjunct to standard mulcahy salvage surgery.”
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Save the dates for next year’s meetings:
- ESAU27 (Meeting of the EAU Section of Andrological Urology) – Istanbul (TR) from 17 – 18 September, 2027
- ESGURS27 (Meeting of the EAU Section of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons) – Santander (ES) from 30 September – 1 October, 2027
