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25 May, 2010, Military Medical Academy n.a. Kirov S.M. – The annual meeting of pathologists of Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region took place at the Academy.

Professor Khmelnitskaya N.M., Doctor of Medical Sciences, RF Honored Doctor, the President of the Saint-Petersburg Association of Pathologists, Chairwomen of the Morbid Anatomy and Cytology Department of SPt Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education acted as a Chairwoman. More than 50 medical officers from Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad Region took part in the meeting. The participants listened to the report on the activity of the Saint-Petersburg morbid anatomy service by Professor Rybakova M.G., Doctor of Medical Sciences, Chairwoman of the Morbid Anatomy Department of the SPt State Medical University n.a. Pavlov I.P. According to the report one of the positive trends is the birth rate increase and death rate decrease by 2% when compared to 2008. Autopsy statistics was given particular interest to while autopsy is the quality measure of rendered medical aid, diagnosis correctness and prescribed therapy. Saint-Petersburg pathologists and forensic medical experts performed up to 80% of autopsies of the total death cases. However the sum total differs a lot in various institutions and is by 800 autopsies less when compared to 2008. Traditionally the leading death causes are cardio-vascular diseases, digestive apparatus diseases, infections, respiratory apparatus pathology, with cancer causing death of one in five patients. Special attention shall be given to the error diagnostics data. In 2009 there were established about 700 error diagnoses, mostly of governing significance for patients’ life. BioVitrum Company is acquainted with histology samples’ processing problems. It has been working for many years in order to support hi-tech laboratory equipment and to minimize errors at the samples processing and to consequently eliminate error diagnosis risk.

As a part of the meeting there was a report on the activity of the Leningrad Region morbid anatomy service by Vorobyov S.L. and a report on the bird flue pandemia 2008 that arouse much interest among various reports.

At the meeting BioVitrum Company was represented by Mikhailutsa A.A., sales manager with his specialized presentation on the products produced by BioVitrum. It is to be recalled that our Company is both a supplier of the equipment and disposables of the leading manufacturers and a confident producer with its own facilities in Saint-Petersburg offering a wide range of laboratory examination and diagnostic equipment that is unique, high quality and affordable. BioVitrum stains are suitable for manual and automated histology and cytology material staining, convenient packaging size allows choosing the stains according to the particular laboratory’ needs. Processing agent Isoprep does not require specialized accounting in comparison with ethyl alcohol, is not a toxic substance, does not give background at staining and is perfect both for standard and IHC examination. BioVitrum’s products list includes buffered formalin 10% and slides that are manufactured at the state-of-the-art facility in compliance with the international standards.

BoiVitrum Company is an active member of the Russian Society of Pathologists and could not leave this event unattended. The Company aims at the solution of problems that histologists and pathologists face with and at the achievement of the international standards in the field of laboratory examination and diagnostics’ quality.