The IIIrd World Congress on MVD and Cranial Nerve Disorders
A very interesting neurosurgical meeting, The IIIrd World Congress on MVD and Cranial Nerve Disorders took place in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) on July 8-10, 2022. Dr. Christopher Honey, MD, DPhil, FRCSC, FACS Professor and Head, Division of Neurosurgery University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada was the President of the Congress.
The program was very interesting, it may be found here.
Microvascular decompression of cranial nerves takes a significant part of the professional lives of many neurosurgeons. It is related to the fact that correctly performed MVD gives relief to the patient just after anesthesia recovery. It’s a fine and delicate to some degree surgical procedure. To be short, many neurosurgeons like these procedures. In spite of the fact that we are talking about very specific and small sphere of general neurosurgery, the volume of knowledge on this problem is as huge as specialized neurosurgical conferences devoted to treatment of hyperfunctional syndromes of cranial nerves are held.
A great amount of similar surgery is performed in our Center – about 50 per year. The amount is not huge but significant.
The trip to British Columbia has been planned but unfortunately, at present such trips are practically impossible or problematic for Russian doctors. So that is why only one report was presented in the scientific program of the Congress in online format. Even partial online format of the event had demonstrated one again one very evident thing – all of us, neurosurgeons, are the members of a unique whole-world neurosurgical and, to our fortune, close family.
