Zurab Zedginidze, MD

Zurab Zedginidze has 16 years of surgical experience in the treatment of surgical pathologies of the abdominal and thoracic organs, using both open and minimally invasive methods. He has performed more than 1,500 operations on the organs of the abdominal and thoracic cavities.

Zurab Zedgenidze was the first in Georgia to perform the HIPEC hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy procedure using CO₂.

Zurab Zedginidze is a principal investigator and co-investigator in eight international clinical studies on lung cancer and surgical infections.

Conditions

Abdominal field:

• Surgical treatment of esophageal pathologies;
• Operations on the stomach and duodenum;
• Surgical treatment of liver and biliary tract pathologies;
• Surgical treatment of splenic pathologies;
• Surgical treatment of pancreatic pathologies;
• Surgical treatment of diseases of the colon and rectum;
• Surgical treatment of pathologies of the anterior abdominal wall (inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia, ventral hernia);
• Treatment of urgent abdominal pathologies.

Thoracic field:

• Surgical treatment of esophageal diseases;
• Surgical treatment of lung diseases;
• Surgical treatment of mediastinal diseases;
• Surgical treatment of pleural diseases;
• Surgical treatment of diaphragmatic diseases.

Diagnostic procedures:

• Biopsy of mediastinal tumors and lymph nodes, both by needle under computed tomography guidance and by thoracoscopic method;
• Pleural biopsy.