There are about 10 million Italians and Italians at risk of urological problems. Sometimes it all starts with small problems that don’t seem too important. There are those who burn during urination, those who wake up several times at night to go to the bathroom and fear a prostate disease, those who are afraid of suffering from erectile dysfunction, or those who have recurrent cystitis. On 11 June each year, thanks to the work of the system of medical scientific societies (FISM) together with the Italian Society of Urology (SIU) and the Siu Foundation, the Day of Urology is celebrated. From today Siu and the Siu Foundation will make available on their website an area dedicated to one-to-one online consultations, which with a reservation can help you orient yourself in the world of prevention and treatment. It’s called #SIUresponde (https://siurisponde.it) and to act as testimonial is Rosario Fiorello, which will launch a ‘special’ video to convince Italian citizens, young and old, to dedicate half a day a year to a urological examination.
“Prevention and early diagnosis are not possible without a strong awareness of people. Just go to the dedicated page of the website www.siu.it and follow the instructions: with the utmost respect for privacy, anyone can get in touch with us and have a first video consultation with our pool of urologists and urologists. Of course, then, if necessary, he will have to follow a real visit. But since it is known that it is males who are the most fearful and listless towards their own urological sphere, intimate, sexual, the appeal is aimed primarily at them, “he explains Walter Artibani, general secretary of the Italian Society of Urology.
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In fact, it is men who do less prevention. “It is known that we males control ourselves a little less than women – he says Rosario Fiorello who is the testimonial of this day and of Siu -. Instead you have to do it alone, perhaps with self-examination of the testicle, or by asking your doctor. Problems such as prostate hypertrophy, infertility, impotence can be prevented. So check yourself, go to the urologist. Some exams are really simple. We must not arrive too late to control when the situation could now be compromised “.
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But how will #SIUresponde work? “The patient must first register on the platform on the site https://siurisponde.it, through which you can immediately book your appointment online – he adds Luca Carmignani, president of the SIU Foundation, professor of Urology at the State University of Milan, director of the UOC Urology at the San Donato Polyclinic Hospital -. At that point the system will send both him and the urologist identified an e-mail with a summary of all the information: date and time of the appointment, plus the Zoom link that will be used to connect. The day before the appointment, both will receive a first reminder with a link, followed by a second one a few hours before the video consultation. At the right time, just click on that link to start the link. It is essential to specify that the service does not intend to provide medical advice in lieu of the opinion of a specialist and does not in any way constitute a medical examination. Rather, it is an indicative consultation which must necessarily be followed by a clinical examination by the doctor for a diagnosis and possible therapy ”.
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