Povijesni osvrt razvoja urologije na Sušaku

In the past the development of urology was as the part of the development of surgery. In the beginning the well known specialist come from Zagreb medical school to Susak and the era of surgery and urology started. The new hospital “Opca javno banovinska bolnica” was open in 1935 with Prim. dr. Janko Komljenovic as first chief of Department of Surgery. He applied new surgical techniques and also new surgery specialites as was urology. He was a founder of endoscopic urology. Afer the Second World War, in the same department, urology started to grow with more complicated operations such as those for urolithiasis and prostate adenomectomy. As independent ward urology was established in 1950, with doc. dr. Zlatko Sestic as first chief. The ward has 30 beds. In the 1959, the Urological secton of Croatian Medical Associaton was established in Rijeka with doc. dr. Sestic as frst president. In the 60-ties, prof. dr. Vinko Franciskovic became a new chief of Surgery and the urology become an independent surgical speciality. He started with the experimental programme of transplantaton surgery and on January 30th 1971 the first kidney transplantation was performed in former Yugoslavia. In that time the chief of urology was prof. dr. Tomislav Ticac. Except the transplantation programme urologists developed hemodialysis programme, use intestinal segments as substituton or urinary diversion, performed longitudinal nephrolithotomy, different resections of the kidney and surgery of the adrenal gland. Prim. dr. Vjerislav Peterkovic become chief of urology in 1986 with special emphesasis on transurethral resections, ureterorenoscopy, percutaneous treatment, radical treatment for prostate and bladder cancer and development of andrology. In 2000 the chief of urology, and also surgery, become prof. dr. Željko Fuckar. The ward was renovated, the new urologist was coming and also the extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy was introduced. In 2005 ward become a Clinic of Urology with prof. Fuckar as first chief. The next year urology become an independent department in the Rijeka Medical School. Also in 2006 Urology Clinic become Referral center for kidney transplantaton in Croata. The Clinic improved professional, scientific and educational activites and re-established programme of experimental urology. Prim. dr. Maksim Valencic was chief to 2013, after him prof. dr. Anton Maricic and finally doc. dr. Josip Spanjol. In the last years the Clinic made a substantal improvement of transplantation programme and in performing minimally invasive procedures.