Second International Symposium on Glomerulopathies
April 19th – 21st, 2001
Center of Conventions. Ariston Hotel
Rosario – Argentina
Final Program

International Lecturers

National Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Juan J. Gavosto (University of Rosario)
Dr. Graciela Boccardo (Córdoba)
Prof. Dr. Luis I. Juncos (University of Córdoba)

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: Epidemiología actual de las glomerulopatías 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 síndrome 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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