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Second International Symposium on Glomerulopathies

April 19th – 21st, 2001

Center of Conventions. Ariston Hotel

Rosario – Argentina

Final Program

International Lecturers

Dr Helmut Rennke (USA)

Dr Hugh Brady (Ireland)

Dr Daniel Cattran (Canada)

Dr J. Charles Jennette (USA)

Dra Sandrine Florquin (Netherland)

Dr Howard Austin (USA)

Dr Richard Glassock (USA)

Dr Nicolaos Madias (USA)

Dr Manuel Praga Terente (Spain)

Dr William Couser (USA)

Dra Laura Barisoni (USA)

 

National Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Juan J. Gavosto (University of Rosario)

Dr. Graciela Boccardo (C?rdoba)

Prof. Dr. Luis I. Juncos (University of C?rdoba)

 

Program:

Thursday April 19

Friday April 20

Saturday April 21

Thursday April 19, 2001

08.00 – 08.50: Registration and Accreditation

08:50 – 09:00 am: Opening Remarks: Dr Claudio Mascheroni (Argentina)

09:00 – 10:20 am: Symposium: Overview in Glomerulopathies

09.00 – 09.20 am: Historical landmarks in diagnosis and treatment of

glomerulonephritis (Prof. Gavosto)

09.20 – 09.40 am: Long-term evolution of glomerulonephritis (Dr Glassock)

09.40 – 10.00 am: Epidemiolog?a actual de las glomerulopat?as en el mundo

(Dr Cattran)

10.00 – 10.20 am: Audience?s Questions

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break

10:40 – 12:30 am: Lectures

10.40 – 11.15 am: Mechanisms of

immune injury of the glomerulus (Dr Couser)

11.15 – 12.00 am: Current therapy of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis

(Dr Glassock)

12.00 – 12.30 am: Audience?s Questions

12.30 – 02.30 pm: Lunch Break

02:30 – 03:45 pm: Clinical-pathologic interactive workshop

02.30 – 03.45 pm: Cases of nefritic syndrome presented by Dr Helmut Rennke

03.45 – 04.00: Coffee Break

04:00 – 05:50 pm: Symposium: Controversies in the treatment of glomerulopathies

04.00 – 04.20 pm: Controversies in the treatment of membranous nephropathy.

Conservative vs imunosuppressive approach (Dr Praga Terente).

04.20 – 04.40 pm: Controversies in the treatment of nephrotic syndrome in the

elderly (Dr Glassock)

04.40 – 05.00 pm: Controversies in the treatment of focal and segmental

glomerulosclerosis (Dr Cattran)

05.00 – 05.20 pm: Controversies in the treatment of IgA nephropathy IgA (Dr

Glassock)

05.20 – 05.50 pm: Audience?s Questions

05.50 – 06.20 pm: Coffee Break

06:20 – 20:20 pm: Lectures

06.20 – 07.05 pm: Glomerulopathies in the transplanted kidney (Dr Boccardo)

07.05 – 07.50 pm: Fibrillary glomerulopathies (Dr Brady)

07.50 – 08.20: Audience?s Questions

08.20 pm: End of activities of the day

08: 30 pm: Opening ceremony and reception

 

Friday April 20, 2001

07.00 – 07.50 am: Meet the Professor Breakfast

08:00 – 10:00 am: Lectures

08.00 – 08.45 am: Vasculitis and the kidney (Dr Jennette)

08.45 – 09.30 am: Therapeutic approaches to lupus nephritis (Dr Austin)

09.30 – 10.00 am: Audience?s Questions

10.00 – 10.30 am: Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30 am: Chapter of pathology applied to glomerular diseases

10.30 – 11.00 am: IgA nephropathy: Prognostic markers and their relation with

treatment outcomes (Dr Florquin)

11.00 – 11.30 am: ANCA: Usefulness for diagnosis and follow up, and relevance

to pathogenesis (Dr Jennette)

11.30 – 12.00 am: Pathophysiology of thrombotic glomerular lesions (Dr

Rennke)

12.00 – 12.30 am: Audience?s Questions

12.30 – 02.30 pm: Lunch Break

02:30 – 03:45 pm: Clinical-pathologic interactive workshop

02.30 – 03.45 pm: Cases of nephrotic s?ndrome presented by Dr Sandrine

Florquin

03.45 – 04.00 pm: Coffee Break

04:00 – 04:10 pm: Addendum: COMGAN activities and Objectives: Dr Couser

04:10 – 06:30 pm: Symposium: Advances in the pathogenesis of glomerulopathies

04.10 – 04.30 pm: Pahogenesis of membranoproliferative glomerulopathy (Dr

Rennke)

04.30 – 04.50 pm: Familial microscopic hematuria: Etiology, clinical features

and genetic basis (Dr Praga Terente)

04.50 – 05.10 pm: Pathogenesis of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis (Dr Jennette)

05.10 – 05.40 pm: Novel roles for complement in renal injury (Dr Couser)

05.40 – 06.00 pm: Modulation of podocyte phenotype in nephrotic syndrome (Dr

Barisoni)

06.00 – 06.30 pm: Audience?s Questions

06.30 – 07.00 pm: Coffee Break

07.00 – 09.00 pm: Nephrology Forum. Intrarenal mechanisms of salt and water

retention in the nephritic syndrome (Dr Juncos).

09:00 pm: En of activities of the day

Saturday April 21, 2001

08:00 – 09:30 am: Symposium: Current treatments in glomerular diseases

08.00 – 08.20 am: New immunosuppressive drugs (Dr Couser)

08.20 – 08.40 am: Current treatment of lupus membranous nephropathy (Dr

Austin)

08.40 – 09.00 am: Current treatment of collapsing glomerulopathy (Dr Cattran)

09.00 – 09.30 am: Audience?s Question

09.30 – 10.00 am: Coffee Break

10:00 – 12:30 am: Lectures

10.00 – 10.40 am: Pathogenesis of HIV-AN and idiopathic collapsing

glomerulopathy(Dr Barisoni)

10.40 – 11.20 am: Predictive algorithm and treatment in IgA nephropathy (Dr

Cattran)

11.20 – 12.00 am: Obesity-related glomerulopathies: its influence on chronic

proteinuric nephropathies (Dr Praga Terente)

12.00 – 12.30 am: Audience?s Questions

12.30 – 14.30 pm: Lunch Break

02:30 – 03:45 pm: Clinical-pathologic interactive workshop

02.30 – 03.45 pm: Cases of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis presented by

Dr J. Charles Jennette

03.45 – 04.00: Coffee Break

04:00 – 04:20 pm: Simposium: Conservative management of glomerulopathies

04.00 – 04.20 pm: Rol of ACE inhibitors and AT1 blockers (Dr Praga Terente)

04.20 – 04.40 pm: Can the resolution phase of glomerular inflammation be

harnessed for therapeutic gain? (Dr Brady)

04:40 – 05.00 pm: Role of lipid lowering drugs and of low protein diet (Dr

Praga Terente)

05.00 – 05.20 pm: The Human Genome Project and Clinical Nephrology: The Future

is Now (Dr Brady)

05.20 – 05.50 pm: Audience?s Questions

05:50 – 06:00 pm: Concluding Remarks

06.00 pm: End of the Congress

Organized by:

  • Association

    of Nephrology of Santa Fe. Argentina

Sponsored by:

  • International

    Society of Nephrology

  • Latin

    American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension

  • Argentine

    Society of Nephrology

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SCHR Congresos

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