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The Peritoneal Cavity : Adhesions, Tumour implantation and Mesh Biology

Thursday 28th /td>	Friday 29th	Saturday 30th
	Session 2 The PLAYERS Pathophysiology 1	Session 6 MESHES Clinical 2
	Session 3 THE PNEUMOPERITONEUM Pathophysiology 2	Session 7 TUMOR IMPLANTATION Clinical 3
Registration Opening of the congress	Session 4 THE MECHANISMS Pathophysiology 3	Session 8 NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Session 1 CLINICAL ASPECTS	Session 5 ADHESION PREVENTION Clinical 1	VISIT
Reception Leuven Pub tour	Reception Town Hall Congress Dinner	Guided visits Leuven-Brussels-Bruges

Thursday 28^th of September

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15.00	Welcome : Marc Waer, Vice Chancelor of KULeuven
15.05	Opening of the Congress : Hans Jeekel, President PAX society

Session 1 Clinical and cost aspects

	Chairmen : Freddy Penninckx and Victor Gomel
15.10	Keynote : Adhesions - the extent of the problem.	Adrian Lower
15.30 – 18.15	Pelvic Pain	Philippe Koninckx
	Incidence of wall adhesions after laparotomy	Alain Audebert
	Safe entry, adhesions and endoscopy	Arty Ternamian
	Gastro-intestinal complications	Andre D’Hoore
	Adhesions and infertility	Stephan Gordts
FC S1-1	The dynamic vascular structure of adhesions : a potential therapy for VEGF	JC Epstein et al
FC S1-2	The impact of baseline abdominal and pelvic adhesions on length of hospital stay	HS Kaufman et al
FC S1-3	Adhesion related complications of laparotomy after previous prosthetic incisional hernia repair	JA Halm et al
FC S1-4	Reconstruction of abdominal wall defects in a rat model with synthetic and biologic implant materials used in urogynaecology	ML Konstantinovic et al
	Discussion
	Surgery in 1900	Antonio Setubal

Welcome Reception in Jubileumzaal Universiteitshallen
Guided Leuven Pub Tour

Friday 29^th of September

Session 2 The players of the peritoneal cavity

	Chairmen : Harry Van Goor and Enda McVeigh
08.30 – 10.30	The mesothelial cell	Marjolein Van Egmond
	Macrophages and the inflammatory reaction	Steven Oosterling
	Angiogenesis	Christian Fisher
FC S2-1+2	The effect of laparoscopy upon peritoneal TGF-b and upon fibrinolysis	WJA Brokelman et al
FC S2-3	The role of hepatocyte growth factor in mesothelial repair and postoperative adhesion formation	S Wilkosz et al
FC S2-4	Surgical trauma induces elevated levels of hydrogen peroxide in blood and in peritoneal lavage fluid of rats	JBC Van Der Wal et al
FC S2-5	Postoperative dissemination after laparotomy and CO2 pneumoperitoneum : a syngeneic mouse model.	S Matsuzaki et al
FC S2-6	Experience with porcine acellular dermal collagen implant in one-stage tension free reconstruction of acute and chronic abdominal wall defects	FM Shaikh et al
FC S2-7	Lavage changes peritoneal fluid constituent concentration	D Ott
	Discussion
10.30	Coffee Break

Session 3 The CO2 pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopy

	Chairmen : Hans Jeekel and Arnaud Wattiez
11.00	Keynote : The pneumoperitoneum	Michel Canis
11.30 – 13.00	Morphology of the peritoneum	Mads Riiskjaer
	Morphologic changes of the peritoneum during metastasis	Joachim Volz
	Hypoxia during pneumoperitoneum	Roger Molinas
	Effects of temperature and humidification	Mercedes Binda
	Gazless laparoscopy	Daniel Kruschinski
FC S3-1	Peritoneal adhesions : a chronic imflammatory disease with a dysfunctional cell differentiation, proliferation and migration ?	M Binnebosel
13.00	Lunch

Session 4 Pathophysiology of the peritoneal Cavity

	Chairmen : Steven Oosterling and Antonio Setubal
14.00	Keynote : Why do we form adhesions ?	Michael Diamond
14.30 – 15.45	Surfactant and phospholipids	Nick Butz
	Infection and adhesions	Jasper Verguts
FC S4-1+2	An animal study on secondary peritonitis and the prevention of complications	OR Buyne et al
FC S4-3	Effect of morphine on experimental adhesion formation	DS Delbro et al
FC S4-4	Novel Polysaccharide derived hydrogels prevent postoperative adhesions in a rat cecal abrasion model	M Ito et al
15.45	Coffee Break

Session 5 Clinical prevention of adhesion formation

	Chairmen : Michael Parker and Leila Adamyan
16.15	Keynote : How effective are we ?	Gere diZerega
16.45 – 18.15	Surgical aspects	Harry Van Goor
	Adept	Geoff Trew
	Hyalobarrier	Valerio Mais
	Oxiplex	Jacques Donnez
	Adhesiolysis : limits and difficulties in RCT	Dingeman Swank
	Seprafilm and adhes-X	Michael Diamond

Reception at Leuven Town hall
Welcome by Mr L. Tobback, Mayor of Leuven
Congress Dinner

Saturday 30^th of September

Session 6 Meshes

	Chairmen : Freddy Penninckx and Michel Canis
08.30	Keynote : The ideal mesh	Stefan Muller
09.00 – 10.30	Intra-abdominal meshes : types and fixation	Marc Miserez
	Collagen Meshes	Hans Brolmann
	Sutures and adhesions	Leila Adamyan
	Mesh related complications in gynaecology	Arnaud Wattiez
	Mesh related complications in surgery	Michael Parker
FC S6-1	Influence of different coatings in adhesion formation with prosthetic meshes	MHF Schreinemacher et al
	Discussion
10.30	Coffee Break

Session 7 Tumor implantation

	Chairmen : Guy Hubens and Eliezer Shalev
11.00	Keynote : Tumor Metastasis and growth	Giovanni Scambia
11.30 – 13.00	Mouse models	Adriana Bastidas
	Rat models	Marjolein van Egmond
	In vitro models	Ospan Mynbaev
	Endometriosis	Thomas D'Hooghe
	Peritoneal trauma and implantation	Hans Jeekel
	Phospholipids and tumour implantation	Marc Jansen
13.00	Lunch

Session 8 New developments

	Chairmen : Gere diZerega and Marc Miserez
14.00 – 15.45	Lessons from pathophysiology : combination therapy for the prevention of adhesions	Philippe Koninckx
	CO2 resorption during endoscopy	Bernard Vanacker
	Tissue engineering for hernia repair	Brent Matthews
	Robot assisted incisional hernia repair	Nicole Bouvy
	Tissue restoration, repair and remodeling:lesions from inflammatory joint disease	Rik Lories
FC S8-1	A role for substance P in postoperative peritoneal adhesion formation	KL Reed et al
	Closing Lecture	Victor Gomel
15.45	Closure of the congress	Hans Jeekel

Posters :

P1	Management of open abdominal wounds using dynamic closure	Reimer MW et al
P2	Diagnostic laparoscopy through Mc Burney's incision in patients with clinically suspected appendicitis	Shaikh FM et al
P3	Ultrasonore dissection causes less tissue damage than electrocautery	Van Goor H et al
P4	The impact of suturing and type of suture materials on adhesion formation	Mynbaev O et al
P5	Changes in diaphragmatic passage of radiolabelled liposomes in intraperitoneal tumour growth	Postma VA
P6	Desiccation of a macrophage cell line is caused by traditional laparoscopic dry cold carbon dioxide gas and is avoided by humidification and warming of the carbon dioxide	Ott D et al
P7	Reduction of peritoneal nidation of ovarian cancer cells in vivo via adhesion prophylaxis substances	Roos J et al
P8	Incisional hernias in old stoma wounds	Schreinemacher MHF et al
P9	The acute appendicitis can serve as an in situ model to analyse the dynamic processes of peritoneal inflammation	Ch Brochhausen et al
P10	Long-term follow-up of a randomized clinical trial of hyaluronic acid-carboxymethylcellulose membrane vs no membrane in adhesion prevention	Van der Wal JBC et al
P11	The two-faced (duplicity) impact of CO2 pneumoperitoneum regimes on tumor cell invasion and metastasis.	Mynbaev O et al
P12	Pathophysiological mechanisms of CO2 pneumoperitoneum induced parietal peritoneum tissue acidosis during laparoscopic surgery.	Mynbaev O et al
P13	Effect of adding more than 3% Oxygen to Carbon Dioxide pneumoperitoneum on adhesion formation in a laparoscopic mouse model	Elkilani O et al
P14	Adhesion prevention in a laparoscopic mouse model	Binda MM, et al.
P15	Importance of training upon adhesion formation in a laparoscopic mouse model	Bastidas A. et al.
P16	Cytokine Production Following Experimental Implantation of Xenogenic Dermal Collagen and Polypropylene Grafts in Mice	Zheng F et al.
P17	Statins(HMG–COA reductase inhibitors) reduce intra-abdominal adhesions by increasing peritoneal fibrinolytid activity via mechanisms that may involve the RHO signalling pathway	Aarons CB et al
P18	Determinants of the abdominal pressure volume relation	Mulier J et al

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Final Program : Last update 22-08-2006