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International Conference
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAMME
CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS
ROME SPINE 2012
VII Annual Congress
President
F. Postacchini
Rome 6-7 december 2012
Co– President
P.P.M. Menchetti
Crowne Plaza St. Pater’s Hotel
Via Aurelia Antica, 414 - Roma
Websites: www.formazionesostenibile.it - www.romespine.org
6 DECEMBER
8.15
INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE LECTURE
9.10-9.20
Management of scoliosis in the adult
D. Fabris Monterumici (Padova)
Discussion
CERVICAL DISC HERNIATION AND FORAMINAL STENOSIS
9.20
9.30
9.40
9.50- 10.05
10.05
10.15
10.25
10.35-10.50
DISC HERNIATION
Clinical features and diagnosis
G. Gargiulo (Torino)
Conservative treatments
J-YMaigne (Paris, France)
Nucleoplasty: indications, results and limitations
A. Cesaroni ( Roma)
Discussion
Discectomy without arthrodesis
R. Bartels (Nijmegen, Netherland)
Discectomy and fusion with autologous bone: obsolete ?
N. Di Lorenzo (Firenze)
Discectomy and fusion with cages: advantages and disadvantages
A. Zagra (Milano)
Discussion
FORAMINAL STENOSIS
10.50
Clinical features and imaging studies
J.P.Elsig (Zurich, Switzerland)
11.02
EMG: necessary, useful, superfluous?
R. Bartels (Nijmegen, Netherland)
11.12-11.20 Discussion
11.20
Dtrax: indications, clinical results, complications
……..
11.30
Discectomy and fusion
P. Cervellini ( Vicenza)
11.40-11.50 Discussion
DISC ARTHROPLASTY IN DISC HERNIATION AND FORAMINAL
STENOSIS
11.50
Surgical technique: re-live surgery
A. Raco (Roma)
12.02
Indications and contraindications
C. Logroscino (Roma)
12.12
Results at medium- and long-term
F. Tamburrelli (Roma)
12.22-12.35 Discussion
12.35-13.10
CONSENSUS CONFERENCE
Chairman: F. Postacchini (Roma)
Does disc arthroplasty represent a real progress, today?
R. Bartels (Nijmegen, Netherland), N. Di Lorenzo (Firenze), C.Logroscino (Roma),
A. Raco (Roma), A. Zagra (Milano), G. Maestretti (Friburg, Switzerland)
13.10-14.30 LUNCH AND WORKSHOPS
NEW THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES
14.30
14.40
14.50
15.00
15.10
15.20-15.45
Bipolar radiofrequency thermoryzotomy
C. Gauci (London, UK)
Vertebral navigation using O-Arm
P. Roccucci (Legnano, Mi)
Interfuse
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Percutaneous anterior and posterior lumbar fusion using PerX 360 system. Results
at 1 year
R. Morgenstern (Barcelona, Spain)
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Discussion
BASIC SCIENCE
NEW CONCEPTS FOR THERAPY OF DISC DEGENERATION
15.35
16.05-16.20
Intervertebral disc degeneration: new concepts and current therapeutic challanges
and opportunities
Nam VO ( Pittsburg,USA)
Treating intervertebral disc degeneration in an accelerated aging model with novel
therapeutics
L.A.Nasto (Roma)
Discussion
16.20
LECTURE
16.35-16.40
Presentation: P.P.M. Menchetti (Firenze)
Extension of indications for dynamic stabilisations based on selectable stiffnesses
S. Freudiger, M. Lorrain, G. Dubois (Zurich, Switzerland; Toulouse, France)
Discussion
15.50
SACRO-ILIAC JOINT AND POSTERIOR PELVIC PAIN
16.40
16.50
Anatomy and biomechanics of sacro-iliac joint
B. Struesson (Angelholm, Sweden)
Non-specific disorders of sacro-iliac joint: what prevalence? Meta-analysis of the
literature
F. Postacchini,M. Paolino (Roma)
17.00
17.40-18.00
Clinical features and diagnosis
B. Struesson (Angelholm, Sweden)
Physiscal therapy and rehabilitation
J-Y Maigne (Paris, France)
Thermoryzotomy
C. Gauci (London, UK)
Percutaneous stabilization using the iFuse system
G. Maestretti (Friburg, Switzerland)
Discussion
18.00
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE
17.10
17.20
17.30
Moderator: F. Postacchini
Surgical treatment of lumbar stenosis: interspinous spacers or open surgery?
G. Calvosa (Volterra,Pi), R. Delfini (Roma), C. Lamartina (Milano) ,
E. Ramundo Orlando (Roma)
18.40 END OF THE DAY
7 DECEMBER
8.20
INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE LECTURE
9.10-9.20
Presentation: P.P.M. Menchetti (Firenze)
Isthmic spondylolisthesis
C. Bunger (Aahrus, Denmark)
Discussion
INSTABILITY OF THE LUMBAR SPINE
9.20
9.30
9.40
9.50-10.00
10.00
Generalities
What is for me
J.C. Le Huec (Bordeaux, France)
N. Specchia( Ancona)
C. Bunger (Aahrus, Denmark)
Discussion
Imaging studies
A. Zerbi (Milano)
10.10
The multiplicity of types and clinical features
F. Postacchini (Roma)
10.20
Conservative treatments: evidence-based medecine
V. Santilli (Roma)
10.30-10.40 Discussion
Degenerative spondylolisthesis
10.40
Clinical and imaging evolution
J. Fairbank (Oxford,UK)
Surgical management
10.50
Only low back pain
C. Lamartina (Milano)
11.00
Only radicular symptoms: is fusion necessary ?
F. Postacchini (Roma)
11.10
Low back pain and radicular symptoms: what decompression, what fusion
F. Guida (Mestre,Ve)
11.20-11.30 Discussion
Instability without spondylolisthesis
Surgical treatments
11.30
LECTURE
How I treat it
M. Balsano (Schio-Thiene,Vi)
11.45
LECTURE
How I treat it
J. C. LeHuec (Bordeaux, France)
12.00-12.10 Discussion
12.10
12.20
12. 30
12.40-12.50
12.50
13.05
13.20.-13.30
Postoperative instability
Clinical features
C. Doria (Sassari)
Imaging studies
G. Trasimeni (Roma)
Management
R. Morgenstern (Barcelona, Spain)
Discussion
LECTURES
Acute traumatic instability of the thoracic and lumbar spine: how to recognize it
N. Specchia (Ancona)
Chronic traumatic instability of the thoracic and lumbar spine: diagnosis and
management
C. Logroscino
Discussion
13.30-14.45 LUNCH AND WORKSHOPS
14.45
15.00-15.10
LECTURE
The ODI (Oswestry Disability Index): perceptions of the inventor
J. Fairbank (Oxford, UK)
Discussion
INTERSPINOUS AND INTERLAMINAR STABILIZATIONS:
STATE OF THE ART
15.10
15.16
15.22
15.28
15.40
15.50
Characteristics of the implants
Romeo 2 PAD
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Octave
Eng. D. Bergadano OK
ILIF
Eng. F. Orsatti OK
Clinical fearures
Indications and limitations
G. Maestretti (Friburg, Switzerland)
Results at short- and medium -term
PPM. Menchetti(Firenze)
May they replace pedicle-.screw instrumentation?
W.Taylor (San Diego, USA)
16.05-16.20
Discussion
16.20-17.15
FREE PAPERS
6 Papers (preferably Case Reports of complications or “disasters”)
6 m. each one
17.15-18.20 HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
MEDICO-LEGAL CORNER
18.20
18.35-18.50
What new initiatives to protect the surgeon?
Discussion
18.50 END OF THE CONGRESS