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The Global Interstitial Cystitis Bladder Pain Society (GIBS) is organizing its 4th annual conference on Beyond Horizon on 24th and 25th August 2019 at Hotel Orchid in Mumbai.
Worlds top subject experts are invited to empower the meet by their deliberations On the day to day practice of managing the patients suffering from this painful disease and enrich the subject by experience and evidence that has been carved out in a truly unprecedented format.
GIBS is the first initiative taken in India at this level. This is a body conceptualized by a team of physicians led by Dr Rajesh Taneja (Scientific Chairman); Dr Sanjay Pandey (Scientific Secretary), and Swati Spentose as a lead patron dedicated exclusively to Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Pain Syndrome.
GIBS started its journey from Basic Understanding (2016), Release of Practical guidelines (2017) and On the Horizon (2018) and progressed to the current year theme of IC/BPS Beyond Horizon. The 2019 annual conference of GIBS has been appropriately envisaged around the current theme Beyond Horizon in order to bring to the forefront the research that is being carried out in various domains linked to IC/BPS across the globe.
IC/BPS is a severe and chronic pain syndrome that affects the bladder lining with urinary urgency and frequency. Population suffering from this debilitating disease is nearly 70 per cent of women who are still battling due to lack of information and no treatment available. Diagnosing IC in women can be challenging because, its symptoms overlap with other common conditions in women i.e urinary tract infection. Hence timely identification of this chronic disease is the need of the hour to avoid its progression to end stage urinary bladder state. A deeper understanding amongst gynaecologists and urologist can bridge the growing gap between diagnosis and treatment.
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