It is time once again to support the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.
The 19th Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra will be held on Sunday, January 9th. This year, the Orchestra will be raising money to buy medical equipment for children with urological and nephrological diseases
Sylwester Prokurat, Assistant Professor, Ph. D explains the need:
We would like to be able to detect diseases of the urinary tract earlier, because this enables early treatment and urological intervention. The reason why it is so important is that an early diagnosis may have a considerable impact on the patient’s future life.
When a developmental defect of the urinary tract is detected in a little patient, additional diagnostics is necessary, including bladder functioning tests. Since very often such defects are spotted in newborn babies, it is crucial to provide early treatment with the help of precise urological devices.
Another significant problem connected with kidney patients is the growing number of cases of severe kidney damage. As medicine progresses and new difficult yet necessary procedures are being introduced such as bone marrow transplant, liver transplant or heart transplant, the number of patients with acute kidney insufficiency is growing.
It is extremely important that the doctor has the access to so-called continuous hemofiltration methods, instead of having to send a patient to another clinic, sometimes hundreds kilometers away, where it is possible to eliminate toxins. Today, so-called intensive nephrology also includes early kidney support treatment or continuous hemofiltration treatment, aimed at stabilizing the patient, controlling the amount of water in his or her organism, supporting treatment of sepsis (especially within the first 24 hours), and eliminating toxins in cases of mushroom and drug poisonings.
In all those cases time and accessibility of treatment play a decisive role. Modern continuous hemofiltration devices give doctors a wide range of possible treatments, including plasmapheresis (therapeutic plasma transfusion) used in cases of poisoning. These methods are recommended and used in all European countries.
That is why it is very important now that specialists from the fields of nephrology, urology and intensive care work together in order to:
- Improve early diagnostics of urinary tract and provide efficient treatment;
- Prevent severe kidney damage in cases of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in patients in intensive care units;
- Keep high standard of continuous hemofiltration treatment in children with acute kidney disease;
- Diagnose and treat hypertension in children.
Finale Centers have been set up in the United States at:
Stamford, CT
Polska Sobotnia Szkoła
360 Washington Blvd.
Contact: Kazimiera Ferenc, 203-940-2185
Pomona, NY
Polskie Radio NEW YORK
1551 RT – 202
Contact: Marcin Filipowski, 845-354-2000
Chicago, IL
Copernicus Foundation
5216 W. Lawrence Ave.
Contact: Gregg Kobelinski, 773-777-8898
