Registered Charity No. 1060134
CME course

“NEW CHALLENGES IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE: FROM BENCH TO PATIENT”

 

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (c/ Serrano, 117)

Madrid, 11th -12th November 2004

Madrid, Palacio Real

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Organizing Committee:

Jorge Cannata-Andía
Luis Hernando
Santiago Lamas
José Miguel López-Novoa
José Maria Mato
Francisco Ortega
Diego Rodríguez-Puyol
 
 

Thursday, 11th November

09.30

Registration

11.30 - 12.00

Opening Ceremony

12.00 - 12.55

SESSION I: “Gene expression analysis of renal fibrosis: identification of predictors and potential targets”

Matthias Kretzler (Poliklinik der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany)

Chairman: Santiago Lamas (CIB, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain)

    

13.00

Lunch

    

14.15 - 17.00

SESSION II: “Renal Fibrosis and the Progression of Chronic Renal Disease”

Chairmen: Jesús Egido (Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain)

                Matthias Kretzler (Poliklinik der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany)

“Endothelin as a profibrogenic factor”

  Berthold Hocher (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

“Bradykinin as a modulator of renal fibrosis”

  Jean Loup Bascands (INSERM U388, Toulouse, France)

“RAS: an intracellular system involved in the development of renal fibrosis”

  José Miguel López-Novoa (Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)

“The functional consequences of the accumulation of extracellular matriz at the kidney”

  Diego Rodríguez-Puyol (Hospital Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)
    

17.00-17.15

Coffee Break

    

17.15-20.00

SESSION III: “Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Damage in Uraemia”

Chairmen: John Harrington, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA)

                  Francesco Locatelli (ERA-EDTA President, Ospedale A. Manzoni, Lecco, Italy)

“Oxidative and nitrosative stress in kidney disease”

  Santiago Lamas (CIB, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain)

Kidney International Forum: “Traditional and novel risk factors for cardiovascular dysfunction in uraemia”

Principal Discussant: Carmine Zoccali (CNR, Ospedali Riuniti, Reggio-Calabria, Italy)

     

   

    

Friday, 12th November

09.15-10.00

SESSION IV: “The challenge of microarrays and proteomics”

  José Maria Mato (CIC – Biogune, Parque Tecnológico, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain)

Chairman: Luis Hernando (Presidente del Consejo Rector del Instituto Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain)

    

10.00-11.20

SESSION V: “The Parathyroid, the Bone and the Cardiovascular System in Uraemia”

Chairmen: Francisco Ortega (Presidente del Consejo de Dirección del Instituto Reina Sofía, Madrid,                 Spain)

                  Armando Torres (Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain)

“Genetic and molecular disorders in severe secondary hyperparathyroidism: Lessons from RNA and microarray studies”

  Iñigo Santamaría (Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain)

“Leptins in end-stage renal failure: the link between fat mass, bone and the heart”

  Francesca Mallamaci (CNR, Ospedali Riuniti, Reggio-Calabria, Italy)
     

11.20-11.35

Coffee Break

    

11.35-13.00

“Fetuins and vascular calcifications in uraemia: Clinical and experimental evidence”

  Jürgen Floege (Universitätsklinikum, Aachen, Germany)

“Bone mass, bone fractures and vascular calcifications: Clinical and epidemiological evidence”

  Jorge Cannata-Andía (Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain)
    

13.00-13.15

Closure