Porto Alegre, one of the most important health centers in Brazil, receives a significant contribution. Clinic located in Moinhos de Vento district Berger UrologyLed by doctors and experts robotic surgery Andre Berger and Milton Berger will be the center of innovation and care for patients with urological cancer. With solid careers, nationally and internationally, the team has been working in the field of Urology for decades, being one of the pioneers in the use of robotic surgery in the country.
In 2013, André and Milton collaborated in the implementation of the first robotic surgery program at a Brazilian university hospital, the HCPA, also the first outside the Rio-So Paulo axis, according to Milton Berger, professor of urology at UFRGS, medical director of HCPA and Coordinator of its Robotic Surgery Program.
In Rio Grande do Sul, most surgeries of this type were performed by this group of urologists. “We have worked on more than 4,000 cases of robotic surgery over the past 10 years in Brazil and the United States, with state-of-the-art treatments for cancer treatment, a minimally invasive technique that allows for the oncological control and maintenance of quality of life patients. ‘Lives’, explains Andre Berger, who heads the Center for Robotic Surgery at the Hospital Moinhos de Vento and professor at the University of Southern California (USA).
