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Educational Programme on Transplant Infectious Diseases

Country: 

Brazil

City: 

São Paulo

Topic: 

Transplant & Infectious Diseases

Institution: 

ESCMID Study Group for Infection in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH)

Link to Institution: 

https://www.escmid.org/

Price (€): 

300 for ESCMID members or members of the following societies: ESOT, TTS, ABTO, SBTMO, SBI, SBMT, STALYC or API & 350 for all others

Language: 

English

Level: 

Postgraduate

Type of Course: 

Advanced

Prerequisites: 

Specialists or physicians in training interested in infections in transplant recipients including: infectious disease doctors, microbiologists, mycologists, virologists, transplant surgeons and specialists in nephrology, hepatology, cardiology, endocrinology, pneumology, haematology and oncology

Date of Start: 

Friday, April 25, 2014

Date of End: 

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Deadline for Application: 

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Link for Application: 

https://www.etouches.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=77374

Associated Scholarship: 

NO

Degree delivering: 

Certificate

Keywords: 

Transplant, Infections

Contact details: 

Edson Abdala Departamento de Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 455 01246-000, São Paulo, Brazil Phone +55 113 085 16 01 Fax +55 113 085 16 01

Course Objectives

Learning about epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, prevention and therapy of main infections occurring after solid organ and haematopoietic stem-cell transplantations. Specific subjects include donor-derived, viral, bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal and parasitic infections. Travel medicine for immunocompromised hosts will be especially addressed.

 

Course Programme

Friday, 25 April 2014

08:30 Welcome address

Introduction: Infection in transplant recipients
09:00 Epidemiology of infections in solid organ transplant recipients.
           Edson Abdala
09:30 Epidemiology of infections in haematopoietic stem-cell transplant                             recipients. Murat Akova
10:00 Immunosuppression: risks of infections and drug interactions. 
           José María Aguado
10:30 Coffee break

Donor-derived infections
11:00 Donor-derived infections including donor and recipient’s screening. 
           Carlos Lumbreras
11:30 Illustrative clinical case. Julio César Medina
11:40 Illustrative clinical case II. Wanessa Trindade Clemente
11:50 Illustrative clinical case III. Maria Aparecida Shikanai Yasuda

Travel medicine for transplant recipients
12:00 Travelling to Latin America: risks and preventive measures. 
           Wanessa Trindade Clemente
12:30 Illustrative clinical case. Roberta Lattes
12:45 Illustrative clinical case II. Maurício Lacerda Nogueira
13:00 Lunch

Bacterial infections
14:00 Epidemiology of bacterial infections in transplantation. Jordi Carratalà
14:30 Illustrative clinical case. Lígia Camera Pierrotti
14:45 Illustrative clinical case II. Ricardo Rabagliati

Viral infections I
15:00 Screening and prevention of herpesvirus infections in transplantation.
           Julián de la Torre-Cisneros
15:30 Screening and diagnosis of respiratory virus infections in transplantation.
           Clarisse Martins Machado
16:00 Illustrative clinical case. Oriol Manuel
16:15 Illustrative clinical case II. Mauro José Costa Salles
16:30 Coffee break

Viral infections II
17:00 Transplantation in HIV-positive recipients. Paolo Grossi
17:30 Transplantation in HCV-positive recipients. Edson Abdala
18:00 Illustrative clinical case. Luís Fernando Aranha Camargo
18:15 Illustrative clinical case II. Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi

 

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Fungal infections
08:30 Fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients. Faouzi Saliba
09:00 Fungal infections in haematopoietic stem-cell transplant recipients.
           Claudio Viscoli
09:30 Illustrative clinical case. Alessandro Comaru Pasqualotto
09:45 Illustrative clinical case II. Arnaldo Lopes Colombo
10:00 Coffee break

Meet-the-experts: Preventing, diagnosing and treating infections
10:30 Renal and renal-pancreatic transplantation with interactive clinical cases.
           Guilherme Santoro Lopes, Francisco López-Medrano & Lígia Camera                     Pierrotti
11:00 Liver transplantation with interactive clinical cases. 
           Oscar Len, Faouzi Saliba & Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi
11:30 Heart and lung transplantation with interactive clinical cases. 
           Joan Gavaldà, Oriol Manuel & Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli
12:00 Haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation with interactive clinical cases.
           Georg Maschmeyer, Marcio Nucci & Maria Elena Santolaya

13:00 Closing remarks

Attendance Grants

ESCMID provides a number of attendance grants for ESCMID “young scientist members”. The grant covers the registration fee. Travel, accommodation and
dinners are not included. Please apply via the link on the right before 10 March 2014. Applicants will be informed about their acceptance by 24 March 2014.

Please note that attendance grant application does not include registration for the course.

 

Duration: 

2 days