International Society of Nephrology		Lithuanian Association of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation	National Centre of Pathology, Lithuania
	Registered Charity No. 1060134

 

CME Course

 

ERA-EDTA & ISN/COMGAN

in cooperation with the Lithuanian Society

of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

and the National Centre of Pathology, Lithuania

 

 

 

 

 

ERA-EDTA
European Council for Accreditation in CME in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT of the ERA-EDTA accredited by the European Accreditation Council for CME - EACCME).

Chair-person: R. Coppo (Italy)

Secretary: A.L.M. De Francisco (Spain)

Members: J. Floege (Germany)

R. Vanholder (Belgium)

A. Wiecek (Poland)

C. Zoccali (Italy)

J. Cannata-Andia, ERA-EDTA President (Spain)

CME Courses Coordinators:

Basic Science and Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo (Italy) and J. Floege (Germany).

Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension and Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali (Italy) and G. London (France).

Dialysis: R. Vanholder (Belgium) and S. Davies (UK).

Transplantation: C. Ponticelli (Italy), A. Torres (Spain) and K. Olgaard (Denmark).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local Coordinator: Arvydas Laurinavicius

Local Organizing Committee:
• Arvydas Laurinavicius MD (chair)
• Dalia Alekniene MD
• Inga Bumblyte MD
• Vytautas Kuzminskis MD
• Marius Miglinas MD

ERA-EDTA Coordinator:

 

Description of the Course
The course will provide interactive training in most clinically relevant issues of renal pathology for
renal pathologists and clinical nephrologists from the EU and neighboring countries of the Baltic
region. The program will consist of short lectures covering major topics in renal pathology and
sessions for interactive case discussions. Each participating country (a team of a nephrologist and
pathologist) will be encouraged to provide an interactive case presentation with a teaching point for
discussion. Audience reply system is planned to be used during the course.

 

Registration
The registration fee is 200 euro.
The registration fee includes:
• Attendance to all scientific sessions
• Scientific documentation
• Coffee, lunch and dinners during the meeting
• Welcome Reception and Midsummer Night Party
• Vilnius City Tour
The deadline for registration is the 1st of May, 2006. Please note, that the number of participants for
his meeting will be limited. After the deadline the Organizing Committee will select the attendees for
the course according to the following criteria:
1) the date of registration
2) priority will be given to the delegates from Eastern and Central Europe.
The applicants will be informed by email about the decision by 10th of May, 2006. The selected
participants will be asked to pay the registration fee by the 1st of June, 2006. If the payment will not
be received in due time the Organizing Committee reserves the right to cancel the registration.

 

Accommodation and Venue
The Course will take place in Dubingiai Resort which is situated around 50 km from Vilnius.

 

 

 

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

 

WEDNESDAY, 21 JUNE 2006
10:00 - 13:00	Meeting Participants Arriving to Vilnius
13:00 - 17:00	Vilnius City Tour
17:00 - 18:00	Transfer from Vilnius to Dubingiai town – Course venue
18:00 - 20:00	Check–in at Dubingiai hotel
20:00 - 22:00	Get Together Party
THURSDAY, 22 JUNE 2006
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 - 09:20	Opening of the Course / Introduction
09:20 - 09:50	Principles in Renal Pathology (Jan J. Weening, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
09:50 - 10:20	Patterns of Renal Injury (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
10:20 – 11:00	Why and When Do We Do a Renal Biopsy? (Raymond Vanholder, Ghent, Belgium)
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00	Pathogenesis of the Nephrotic Syndrome and Mechanism of Edema Formation (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
12:30 - 13:00	Diagnostic Approach to Proteinuria and Nephrotic Syndrome (Raymond Vanholder, Ghent, Belgium)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Minimal Change Disease and Podocytopathies (Jan J. Weening, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
14:30 - 15:00	Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Primary and Secondary (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
15:30 - 16:00	Collapsing Glomerulopathy (Arvydas Laurinavicius, Vilnius, Lithuania)
16:00 - 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00	Diabetic Nephropathy (Norbert Lameire, Ghent, Belgium)
17:00 - 18.00	Case Discussions
18:00 - 18:30	Diagnostic Approach to Nephritic Syndrome (Norbert Lameire, Ghent, Belgium)
19.00 - 21.00	Dinner
FRIDAY, 23 JUNE 2006
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 - 11:00	Case Discussions
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00	The Diffuse Proliferative and Membranoproliferative Pattern of Glomerular Injury (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
12:00 - 12:30	Crescentic Glomerulonepritis (Arvydas Laurinavicius, Vilnius, Lithuania)
12:30 - 13:00	Mesangioproliferative Glomerulonephritis and IgA Nephropathy (Jan J. Weening, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Case Discussions
15:30 - 16:00	Diagnostic Approach to Isolated Proteinuria and Hematuria (Peter Kotanko, New York, USA and Graz, Austria)
16:00 - 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:50	Glomerular Basement Membrane Abnormalities (Jan J. Weening, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
16:50 - 18:30	Case Discussions
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner
SATURDAY, 24 JUNE 2006
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30	Kidney Complications Associated with Paraproteinemias (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
09:30 - 10:00	Renal Biopsy in Lupus Nephritis (Jan J. Weening, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
10:00 - 11:00	Case Discussions
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00	Case Discussions
12:00 - 12:30	Thrombotic Angiopathies in the Kidney (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
12:30 - 13:00	Case Discussions
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Drug-Induced and Iatrogenic Lesions of the Kidney (Helmut G. Rennke, Boston, USA)
14:30 - 16:00	Case Discussions
16:00 - 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00	Renal Allograft Pathology (Jan J. Weening, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
16:50 - 18:30	Case Discussions and Ending Remarks
19:00	Dinner and Midsummer Night Party
SUNDAY, 25 JUNE 2006
08:00 – 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00	Check–out and departure to Vilnius