Plastic surgeon Karolis Varkalys

Professional activities

• 2014 – Clinical practice in General Surgery department in Kaunas Clinical Hospital, Lithuania.
• 2015 – Clinical practice in Vascular and General Surgery departments in Lille Hospital. Lille, France.
• 2016 – Clinical practice in Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery department.
• 2017 – Clinical practice in Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery department.
• 2017 – Clinical practice in Urology, Pulmonology and Internal medicine departments in „St Helen and Knowsley trust“, „Whiston and St Helen“ hospitals. Prescot, England.
• 2021-2023 – Assistant doctor at SV Plastic Surgery Center, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• 2021-2023 – Assistant doctor at Nordesthetics, Kaunas, Lithuania
• 2023-now – Plastic surgeon at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Clinics
• 2023-now – Plastic surgeon at Nordesthetics, Kaunas, Lithuania

Trainings:

• 2014 – Intesive course in Advanced Surgery Skills School in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• 2014 – 2 Days intensive course “Treatment and Diagnostics of Politrauma Patient” in Imperial College London, England.

Author or co-author of publications:

• 2017 – Conference of Young Scientists and Researchers (JMTK), Lithuania. “Drainage of the surgical wound after medial primary and postoperative abdominal wall hernia repair – first results”
• 2018 – Lithuanian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Conference: “Hand and Hand Surgery News”. “Hand thumb injuries, analysis of injury causes and operative solutions”.
• 2018 – International Health Sciences Conference (IHSC), Lithuania. „Comparison of “The Kleiner” dynamic immobilization vs “The Saint John” early active rehabilitation after flexor tendon
• 2016 – European Wound Management Association (EWMA), Germany. „Debridement options for the treatment of the forearm and hand deep dermal burns“.
• 2016 – World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS), Italy. “Debridement options for the treatment of the forearm and hand deep dermal burns”
• 2018 – European Wound Management Association (EWMA), Poland. “Clinical case: hypertrophic breast scarring treatment after radiotherapy”
• 2018 – European Wound Management Association (EWMA), Poland. „Post-traumatic wound treatment with different partial thickness skin grafts“ 
• 2016 Lithuanian obstetrics & gynecology. “Appendiceal mucocele”.
• 2016 – EWMA Journal. “Debridement methods optimization for the treatment of the forearm and hand deep dermal
• 2016 – British Journal of Surgery. “Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle- and low-income countries”.
• 2017 – Journal of Burns. “Comparison of non-surgical methods for the treatment of deep partial thickness skin burns of the hand”.
• 2018 – European Journal of Plastic Surgery. “Split-thickness skin grafting using grafts of different thickness”.
• 2018 – Journal of Health Sciences. “Early active rehabilitation after flexor tendon injuries of the hand”.
• 2021 – Lithuanian General Practitioner Journal. “Results of upper eyelid loading with golden plate and lateral canthopexy surgery for patients with facial paralysis”.
• 2022 – 6th Congress of WUWHS 2022, UAE. “Management of fingertip soft tissue defects”.
• 2022 – IMCAS World Congress 2022, France. “Comparison of eyebrow lifting techniques accompanying upper lid blepharoplasty in female patients”.
• 2023 – Lithuanian surgery, “Operative treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis: early and late results, complications”.
• 2023 – Medicina (Kaunas), “Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet Surgery of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Patients’ Experience and Recall Bias in a Day-Care Setting”.