Organ Perfusion Workshop (offsite): May 4, 2022, 8:00-13:30
ILTS organizes a one-day Machine Perfusion Workshop, putting the world leaders in perfusion machines and technology in one place.
Four machines for organ perfusion will be available in the wet lab setting.
The workshop takes place before the scientific program. ***Places are limited***
Transfer, coffee break and lunch are included in the ticket price.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
- 08:00 Bus Departure from ICEC
- Meeting point: ICEC, Rumeli Building, Main Entrance (as shown on the image)
- 09:00-10:00 Workshops
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
- 10:30-10:50 Normothermic NMP, Davide Ghinolfi
- 10:50-11:50 Workshops
- 11:50-13:00 Lunch and Presentations with Discussion:
- 11:50-12:10 Hypothermic HMP, Zoltan Czigany
- 12:10-12:30 Regional perfusion NRP, Amelia Hessheimer
- 12:30-13:00 Discussion
- 13:15 Bus departure back to the ICEC




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Session Room 1/ Track 1 Thursday, May 5, 15:30 – 16:15 |
Extending horizons in Liver Perfusion |
15:30-15:35 | Welcome – Prof. Gabriela Berlakovich & Associate Prof. Paulo Martins |
15:35-15:50 | Experience with HOPE for ECD-DBD grafts in a French center: the PERPHO study – Michel Rayar, M.D. PhD. CHU Pontchaillou, Rennes, FR |
15:50-16:05 | Combined hypothermic and normothermic machine perfusion of high-risk donor livers – Prof. Robert Porte M.D. PhD. University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, NL |
16:05-16:15 | Q&A and Discussion |
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Session Room 2/ Track 2 Thursday, May 5, 15:30 – 16:15 |
Management of patients after HBV-related liver transplantation |
15:30 – 15:35 | Welcome and Introduction – Peter Schemmer, FACS, MD, Prof, PhD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria |
15:35 – 15:43 | The role of HBV and HBsAg in liver transplantation – Peter Schemmer, FACS, MD, Prof, PhD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria |
15:43 – 15:56 | How can we achieve best patient outcomes after HBV-related liver Tx – Ramazan Idilman MD, Prof, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey |
15:56 – 16:09 | The role of HBIG in modern therapy approaches – Patrizia Burra, MD, Prof, PhD, Padova University Hospital, Padova, Italy |
16:09 – 16:15 | Discussion |
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Session Room 3/ Track 3 Thursday, May 5, 15:30 – 16:15 |
Current practice and future aspects of viability assessment during organ perfusion |
15:30-15:35 | Welcome – Andrea Schlegel, MD, MBA, FEBS |
15:35-15:55 | My clinical practice of viability testing during HOPE – Philipp Dutkowski |
15:55-16:10 | My clinical practice of viability testing during NRP and ex-situ machine perfusion – Davide Ghinolfi |
16:10-16:15 | Q&A and Discussion |
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Session Room 5/ Track 5 Thursday, May 5, 15:30 – 16:30 |
Coagulation Workshop – ROTEM (supported by Werfen) |
15:30-15:35 | Welcome and Introduction – Valentina Pigozzo, Milan |
15:35-16:15 | ROTEM Algorithm Implementation and New Evidence – Klaus Görlinger, Munich |
16:15-16:30 | Live Discussion – Valentina Pigozzo, Milan and Klaus Görlinger, Munich |
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Session Room 1/ Track 1 Friday, May 6, 08:00 – 08:30 |
Hernia prevention in Liver & Livertransplant surgery |
Moderator: Gerd Sillberhumer Doktor med. univ., Dozent (=PhD) Associate Professor Medical University Vienna, Austria |
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CRISTINA DOPAZO, PhD/MD, Consultant Surgeon Department of HPB Surgery and Transplants Hospital Universitario Vall d´Hebron (Barcelona, Spain) |
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FREDERIK BERREVOET Head of Department of General and HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation Pancreas and Abdominal Wall specialist University Hospital Gent (Gent, Belgium) |
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Session Room 5/ Track 5 Friday, May 6, 14:30 – 15:30 |
Normothermic liver perfusion: the future is now |
14:30-14:35 | Normothermic perfusion: more organs, more time – Prof Chris Watson, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge |
14:35-15:15 | High risk organs in the era of normothermia – Dr Thomas Vogel |
15:15-15:30 | NMP: from business case to routine use, supporting increased utilisation of liver grafts – Prof Joerg-Matthias Pollok, Royal Free Hospital, London |
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Session Room 2/ Track 2 Friday, May 6, 16:00 – 17:00 |
Liver Support and Ex Vivo Perfusion: from Organ Failure to Transplantation. |
16:00-16:05 | Welcome and Introduction – Claus, Niemann, Prof., San Francisco, USA |
16:05-16:20 | Extracorporeal therapies in liver failure – Ivano Riva, MD, Bergamo, Italy |
16:20-16:36 | The management of temperature in organ perfusion – Michele Colledan, MD, Bergamo, Italy |
16:36-16:52 | The role of purification in organ perfusion – Davide Ghinolfi MD, PhD, Pisa |
16:52-17:00 | Final Discussion with moderators and speakers |