PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, November 9
18:00-18:15 Welcome
18:15-19:00 "Opening Lecture"
History of Organ Tx, Guido Persijn, Leiden, The Netherlands
Wednesday, November 10
Transplant Immunology (1)
08:00-09:00 The components of the immune system, James Hutchinson, Regensburg, Germany
09:00-10:00 The innate immune response, Stefan Tullius, Boston, United States
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Adaptive cellular immune responses, Giovanna Lombardi, London, United Kingdom
11:30-13:00 Humoral immune responses HLA/non-HLA and antigen presentation, Rainer Blasczyk, Hannover, Germany
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Immunoregulation / Tolerance, Kathrine Wood, Oxford, United Kingdom
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Fibrogenesis / Chronic graft destruction, Stefan Fichtner Feigl, Regensburg, Germany
Thursday, November 11
Transplant Immunology (2)
08:00-09:00 PRA testing and crossmatching, Illias Doxiadis, Leiden, The Netherlands
09:00-10:00 Genetic Profiling in organ transplantation, ALberto Sanchez-Fueyo, Barcelona, Spain
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Animal transplant models in transplantation, Ulrich Steger, Wuerzburg, Germany
11:30-12:30 Assaying alloresponses in transplantation, Birgit Sawitzki, Berlin, Germany
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Case discussions, Bernhard Banas, Regensburg, Germany
Special Topics
15:00-16:00 Role and State of Xenotransplantation, Bruno Reichart, Muenchen, Germany
16:00-16:30 Break
Liver Transplantation (1)
16:30-17:30 Diseases leading to liver transplantation and preop. management, Michael Manns, Hannover, Germany
17:30-18:30 Techniques of liver transplantation, Jan Lerut, Brussels, Belgium
Friday, November 12
Liver Transplantation (2)
08:00-09:00 Postoperative complications and management after liver transplant, Johan Pratschke, Innsbruck, Austria
09:00-10:00 Pediatric liver transplantation, Xavier Rogiers, Ghent, Belgium
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Role and state of living donation in liver transplantation, Bjorn Nashan, Hamburg, Germany
11:30-12:30 Case discussions, Marcus Scherer, Regensburg, Germany
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Various Transplantation Types
14:00-15:00 Role and state of small bowel transplantation, Silvio Nadalin, Tubingen, Germany
15:00-16:00 Multivisceral and cluster transplantation, Jacques Pirenne, Leuven, Belgium
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Composite tissue transplantation (hand etc.), Stefan Schneeberger, Innsbruck, Austria
17:30-18:30 BMT/HSCT for the organ transplanter, Ernst Holler, Regensburg, Germany
Saturday, November 13
Transplantation in Diabetes
08:00-09:00 Indications for pancreas transplantation/ patient selection, Thierry Berney, Geneva, Switzerland
09:00-10:00 Technique and management of pancreas transplantation, Peter Friend, Oxford, United Kingdom
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Role and state of islet transplantation, Antonio Secchi, Milano, Italy
11:30-12:30 Case discussion, Stefan Farkas, Regensburg, Germany
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Clinical Studies in Transplantation
14:00-15:30 statistics and study design for clinical trials in tx, How to read a clinical,study result, Henrik Ekberg, Malmo, Sweden
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Clinical studies from a pharmaceutical company´s point of view , Malcom Brown, city, United Kingdom
17:00-18:00 Investigator initiated trial: chances and problems, Andreas Schnitzbauer, Regensburg, Germany
Sunday, November 14
Controversial Issues in Organ Allocation
08:00-09:00 Liver allocation, Axel Rahmel, Leiden, The Netherlands
09:00-10:00 Specific aspects of pediatric organ tx and allocation, Birgit Knoppke, Regensburg, Germany
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Heart/Lung allocation and alternative options, Bruno Meiser, Munchen, Germany
11:30-12:30 Perspectives: Towards Tolerance Induction in Organ Transplantation, Edward Geissler, Regensburg, Germany
12:30-13:30 Lunch
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2011 - Session 2 - Oslo, Norway
May 24 – 29, 2011
Welcome and presentation of the course
A decade with decreasing waiting list for kidney transplantation. The Norwegian experience.
Wednesday 25
Organ Procurement and organ preservation
Procurement of organ from deceased donors
Organs from marginal deceased donors
Non-HeartBeatingdonors
Ischemia/reperfusionrelatedcomplications
Organpreservation
Hepatitis C positive donors
Living donation, emerging surgical techniques
Short term surgical complication following LD nephrectomy, and long term medical follow-up
Ethics LD, Utilitarian and egalitarian principles
Thursday 26
Immunosuppression
CNI
MPA/Aza, antimetabolites
The mechanisms of Steroids. Are steroids a necessity in organ transplantation?
Monoclonal and polyclonal, fusion proteins CD25,CD52, JAK, AEB, etc
mTOR
Drug monitoring, PK and PD. Interactions
Rejections
Acute cellular rejection. Clinical and histopathology. Treatment options
Acute humoral rejection. Clinical and histopathology
Friday 27
Pre-operative cardiovascular assessment
Surgical complications after tx
Transplanting immunological high risk patients, pre and post tx
Transplanting over AB0 pre and post
Non-Immunological causes of allograft dysfunction
Immunological causes of allograft dysfunction
Protocol biopsies, inflammation and subclinical rejection
Cause and consequence of over- or under- immunosuppression
Cancer post tx
Infections post tx – minus virus related
Saturday 28
Virus infection post-tx CMV, BK, EB.
Bone disease post transplant
Metabolic Disorders and Cardiovascular risks
Cardiovascular events and treatment options
Quality of life after tx
Strategiestoimproveadherence
Transplant tourism (Declaration of Istanbul)
Sunday 29
Heart and Lung
Clinical and Histopathology of acute rejctions: heart,transplantation
CAV in Hearttx
Bronchiolitis in Lungtx