Programme

Latest developments in transplantation medicine: selected topics you should know

Friday, November 4^th, 2016

8:45 - 9:00
Opening Ceremony
Daniel Abramowicz, Descartes Chairman
Klemens Budde

Session 1

9:00 - 9:40
Stem cells: ready to enter in the clinical arena?
Ton Rabelink, The Netherlands

9:45 - 10:25
Basic science for dummies: what should you know?
Alain Le Moine, Belgium

10:30 - 10:55
How to manage patients with FSGS at transplantation?
Guillaume Canaud, France

11:00 - 11:30 – Coffee Break

Session 2

11:30 - 11:55
Comparisons between various allocation systems.
Uwe Heemann, Germany

12:00 - 12:25
Kidney transplantation for obese dialysis patients.
Gabriel Oniscu, UK

12:30 - 13:15
Usefulness of scoring systems for assessing suitability to receive a kidney transplant:
PRO, Rainer Oberbauer, Austria
CON, Klemens Budde, Germany

13:20 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 3

14:30 - 14:55
Pregnancy in living donors: what are the risks?
Maria Pippias, The Netherlands

15:00 - 15:25
What is the real risk of kidney failure after living donation?
Umberto Maggiore, Italy

15:30 - 15:55
What is optimal care for the patient with a failing transplant kidney?
Luuk Hilbrands, The Netherlands

16:00 - 16:25
The novel anti-HCV treatments before and after transplantation
Nassim Kamar, France

16:30 - 16:55
Infections before and after transplantation: how to deal with MDR (multi-drug-resistant) bacteria?
Paolo Antonio Grossi, Italy

17:00 - 17:25
New tools to detect non-adherence.
Sabina de Geest, Switzerland

17:30 - 18:00
Free communications - the three best scored abstracts

18:00 - Closing remarks
Daniel Abramowicz, Belgium

19:00 - Dinner