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The head of the Center of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Children at Kaunas Pediatric Clinic, Dr. Valdone Miseviciene shares her thought about the conference "Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Children: From Theory to Clinical Practice" and is excited about the new polysomnography lab that had been acquired with KFF help and had already been successfully used by children in need.
Such equipment helps to diagnose causes for children's primary chronic respiratory ilnesses. Primary chronic respiratory organ illnesses are not that common. However, secondary damage to the respiratory system, while suffering from some other chronic illness, means complications and could even be a cause of death. It is crucial for the center to have access to sophisticated diagnostic equipment in order to find the causes for main chronic respiratory diseases and to provide proper care to those children as well as quality long term health care.
Specialists from the US and Poland came to the conference organized by the Kaunas Pediatric Clinic. Prof. Samya Z Nasr MB BCh and Prof. Amy Goldstein Filbrun MD came from the C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital, University of Michigan Health System (USA). Dr. Jakub Radliński M.Sc., Ph.D. from the Institute for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Rabka Branch Pathophysiology Department Sleep Laboratory arrived from Poland and was joined by Assoc. Prof. E. Gaveliene, VU MF, Hepatology and gastroenterology and dietology center, pediatric pulmonologist prof. A. Valiulis and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS), Pediatric Clinic representatives Prof. Rimantas Kevalas, Assoc. Prof. V. Gurskis, Assoc. Prof. L. Vaideliene, Assoc. Prof. J. Kudzyte and Assoc. Prof. V. Miseviciene. Participants had an opportunity to present important topics during this conference and to plan their further coloboration in a scientific field.
Dr. Valdonė Miseviciene expressed her gratitude in her letter to the Kazickas Family Foundation: "Once again we want to express our deepest gratitude for your interest in our Clinic. We're so excited to own such important equipment that was already used by many children in need. Even though we still have to learn a lot more and earn valuable experience, however fall conference allowed us to plan future perspectives for our specialists' to deepen their knowledge in chronic respiratory diseases in children and other medical fields learning from the specialists in the US and Poland. Our vision to become stronger, more progressive and most importantly, beneficial, is becoming reality due to many benevolent people".
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