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CME course

Baltic Nephrology Conference

Meeting of the Baltic Societies of Nephrology

Riga, Latvia

September 17-18, 2004

 

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)
               F. Locatelli, ERA-EDTA President (Italy)

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)

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Friday, 17.9.2004
9.00 – 9.30
Opening ceremony
9.30 - 9.50
How to manage the patient on PD (N. Lameire, Belgium)
10.00 - 10.30
How to control the quality of dialysis? (R. Vanholder, Belgium)
10.45 – 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 - 11.45
Preoperative work-up of the potential transplant donor (M. Lumans, Estonia)
12.00 - 12.30 
Immunosuppression - basic mechanisms and clinical application (W. Hörl, Austria)
12.45 – 13.15
Fabry disease - from the disease to the molecule to the treatment (C. Wanner, Germany)
13.25 - 14.45 
Lunch
14.45 - 15.15   
Blood pressure and the kidney (E. Ritz, Germany)
15.30 - 17.00 
Pathology Conference (R. Goldschmeding, The Netherlands; A. Laurinavicius, Lithuania and Miglinas, Lithuania)
   
Saturday, 18.9.2004
9.00 - 9.30
Diabetic nephropathy - pathomechanisms and prevention (E. Ritz, Germany)
9.40 - 10.10
Management of anemia in the pre-dialysis patient (V. Mihailova)
10.20 - 10.50
Management of anemia (including iron supplementation) in the patient on dialysis (A. Wiecek, Poland)
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.00
Minor renal dysfunction - how to diagnose and how to treat? (A. Petersons, Latvia)
12.15 - 12.45
Progression of renal failure - mechanisms and intervention  (M. Ots, Estonia)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch and Posters
14.00 – 14.30   
Calcimimetics – a new perspective in the control of Ca metabolism (T. Drüeke, France)
14.45 – 15.15
Management of hyperphosphatemia - a new look (I. Adamsone, Latvia)
  Poster Session (selection of the best posters)
15.30 – 16.00
Epidemiology of dialysis and transplantation in the Baltic countries – reports of the three Baltic Societies (Poster discussion)
16.00 - 16.20
Coffee break
16.20 - 17.45
Renal histology conference II (R. Goldschmeding, The Netherlands; A. Laurinavicius, Lithuania and Miglinas, Lithuania)