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ECP Florence 2009

date from - to	Friday 4 September 2009 − Wednesday 9 September 2009
type & language	Global meeting − Spoken language: English
location	Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
organizer	ESP
website	www.ecp2009.org
announced by	Prof. Dr. Michael J. Mihatsch
last updated at	2010-04-04 21:47:21

Important Deadlines

ABSTRACT – Note: send as many as possible to attract interest!
Abstract submission deadline extended to 22 April 2009.
Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2009

REGISTRATION – Note: register as early as possible, the early registration fee is less expensive!
Early Registration: before 10 June 2009
Regular Registration: before 10 July 2009
Late Registration:before 10 August 2009

Pre-Congress Meeting of the WG Nephropathology

September 4th, about 2.5 hrs

Morning session 9.30 – 12.00h

Transplantation, Organization and chair: Prof. Dr. Volker Nickeleit (Capel Hill, USA)

• Recurrent and de-novo focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in renal allografts.
  Ingeborg M. Bajema, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Transplant glomerulitis and glomerulopathy: clinical significance and differential diagnosis.
  Volker Nickeleit and Michael J. Mihatsch, Chapel Hill/USA & Basel/Switzerland
• Coffee Break 10.30 – 11.00
• Challenging C4d staining results: C4d deposits late after transplantation, focal C4d staining, and C4d accumulations without pathology in ABO compatible and incompatible grafts: what does it mean?
  Mark Haas, Baltimore, USA
• Immune profiling in renal tyransplantation: biopsy correlations with urine and plasma PCR studies.
  Surya Seshan, New York, USA
• Lunch 12.00 – 14.00

Afternoon session 14.00 – 17.30

Native kidney diseases: Glomerular diseases Organization and chair: Prof. Ian SD Roberts (Oxford, UK)

• IgA nephropathy: a new international evidence-based consensus classification.
  Ian Roberts, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis: is a morphological classification adequate?
  Franco Ferrario, Milan Italy
• C1q nephropathy: diagnostic criteria and clinicopathological correlations.
  Alenka Vizjak, Ljubliana, Slovenia
• Coffee break 16.00 -16.30
• Thin membrane nephropathy or collagen IV nephropathy: how should we classify glomerular basement membrane disorders.
  Mark Haas, Baltimore, USA

Congress Meetings

Symposium

“The kidney in autoimmune diseases”
Organization and chair: Prof Dusan Ferluga (Ljubliana, Slovenia)
September 7, 2009 (8.30-12.00)

Program

• Immune complex- mediated small vessel vasculitis, Charles Jennette, USA
• Clinical pathologic classification and correlations in lupus nephritis, Jan A. Bruijn, The Netherlands
• Renal disease in rheumatoid arthritis, Surya V. Seshan, USA
• Antiphospholipid syndrome – pathologist’s perspective, Dusan Ferluga, Slovenia
• Renal involvement in primary Sjogren’s syndrome, Eva Honsova, Czech Republic
• Inherited regulatory protein disorders of complement activation and the kidney, Laure-Hélene Noël, France

Business Meeting

Major topic: How to organize and run a biopsy register
September 7, 2009 (17.30-19.00 h)

Program:

• Organisation and practice of a kidney biopsy register
• The Norwegian view: Bjarne M. Iversen, Norway
• The Italian view: Cataldo Abaterusso, Italy

Slide Seminar

“Renal Pathology without electron and immunofluorescence microcopy: A dead end street“.
September 8, 2009 (8.30- 12.00)

Transplant Pathology

• Bela Ivanyi, Hungary
• Helmut Hopfer, Switzerland
• Eduardo Vazquez Martul, Spain
• Agmeszua Perkowska-Ptasinska, Poland
• Heinz Regele, Austria

Native Kidney Pathology

• Kerstin Amann, Germany
• Jan A. Bruijn, The Netherlands
• Johan Mölne,Sweden,
• Guido Monga, Italy
• Maria M. Picken, USA

Short course

“New insights into the pathogenesis of renal diseases”
Organization and chair: Prof Dontscho Kerjaschki (Vienna, Austria)
September 8, 2009 (14.30-17.00 h)

Program

• Molecular mimicry in pauci-immune focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis, Renate Kain, Austria
• Molecular pathology of the glomerular slit diaphragm and proteinuria, Tobias Huber, Germany
• Towards the identification of a “renopoietic system”, Paola Romagnani, Italy
• Notch and glomerular pathgology (to be confirmed), Katalin Susztak, USA

Lectures for category «Native Kidney Pathology - Glomerular diseases»

Lectures for category «Native Kidney Pathology - Others»

Lectures for category «Native Kidney Pathology - Tubulo-interstitial diseases»

Lectures for category «Native Kidney Pathology - Vascular diseases»

Lectures for category «Transplant Pathology - Others»

Lectures for category «Transplant Pathology - Recurrent diseases»

Lectures for category «Transplant Pathology - Rejection related topics»