SCH Precongress
Canine and feline congenital portosystemic shunting
Date: Wednesday 20 September
Time: Full day programme of morning lectures and afternoon roundtable discussions 08.30-17.00
Venue: Hotel SB Diagonal Zero, Norte América Room
Registration fee - onsite live precongress (incl on-demand access afterwards): SCH member - €100 | SCH non-member €160 incl. VAT
Closing date for registration is Monday 14th of August
Registration fee - online live & on-demand precongress: SCH member - € 30 | SCH non-member € 90 incl. VAT
Closing date for registration is Monday 18th of September
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Registration: Online pre-registration via ECVIM-CA Congress registration or on-demand ECVIM-CA Congress registration
Programme
Lectures (morning)
08.30-09.00 Coffee starter
09.00-09.10 Welcome, sponsor thanking (Royal Canin) and housekeeping
09.10-09.50 cPSS genetics and genetic predictors of outcome | Frank van Steenbeek (Utrecht, Netherlands)
09.50-10.30 cPSS morphology and embryology, including their clinical significance | Mickey Tivers (Wakefield, England)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.40 Dissecting cPSS complications: HE (including pathogenesis); gastrointestinal haemorrhage | Adam Gow (Edinburgh, Scotland)
11.40-12.20 Biomarkers for cPSS diagnosis and surgical attenuation success assessment: current evidence and clinical significance | Nausikaa Devriendt (Ghent, Belgium)
12.20-13.30 Lunch
Roundtable discussions and Q&A from audience (afternoon)
Panel
Frank van Steenbeek (Utrecht, Netherlands), Mickey Tivers (Wakefield, England), Adam Gow (Edinburgh, Scotland), Nausikaa Devriendt (Ghent, Belgium), Chick Weisse (New York, USA)
13.30
Pros and cons
- Medical vs surgical management: how to arrive at an evidence-based decision on whether to treat a dog or cat with a cPSS medically or surgically?
- Interventional vs non-interventional: which methods achieve best outcome for cIHPSS and cEHPSS, respectively?
cPSS attenuation
- What do you consider before undergoing attenuation?
- Assessing vs not assessing closure post-procedurally
- How and when do you measure post-operative success after surgical attenuation? Which biomarkers or imaging techniques?
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30
How to deal with peri/postoperative complications
- Decide on the value of preoperative use of antiepileptics in management of post-ligation neurological syndrome
- How to deal with acute portal hypertension cases after coiling
Controversies in the medical management and monitoring response to treatment
- Discuss the nutritional management of young growing dogs with hepatic supportive diets
- Decide on the use of antibiotics on the long-term of medical therapy
- Discuss the use of proton pump inhibitors before and after cIHPSS attenuation
- When to stop medical therapy after surgery?
16.40-17.00 Final questions, thank you and goodbye
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