Preliminary Topics
UTERINE TRANSPLANTATION
- Technical surgical consideration
- Results of surgery
- Perinatal pitfall and results
- Artificial Uterus – state of the art
OVARIAN STIMULATION
- Ovarian stimulation – lessons from over 30 years of IVF
- Innovative stimulation
- How to assess the polycystic ovary: An ultrasound and AMH update
- Screening and management of hypothyroidism
CURRENT MANAGEMENT OF UTERINE FIBROID
- Evidence base fibroids removal prior to IVF
- When to use hysteroscopy and when to use laparoscopy for removal
- SPRMs mechanism of action on fibroids
- Medical treatment of fibroids in infertile women
PRESERVATION OF FERTILITY
- Medical protection of gonadal damage
- Ovarian tissue transplantation techniques and results
- Ovarian tissue freezing- the lab perspectives
- The potential of spermatogonial stem cells as target for fertility preservation in boys
PGS/PGD
- Debate: Mosaicism- some PGS labs report mosaicism and others not. Why? Should we transfer mosaic embryos? What are the legal risks?
- Debate: PGS
All embryos should be tested
No embryo should be tested
ROLE OF HYSTEROSCOPY IN INFERTILITY
- role of hysteroscopy before IVF. Diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Endometritis
- Role of Hysteroscopy in proximal tubal occlusions
- Medical and Surgical therapy for adenomyosis
- Uterine adenomyosis: Hysteroscopic and laparoscopic approaches
ENDOMETRIOSIS
- Diagnosis of Endometriosis
- Deep endometriosis: back to less aggressive surgery
- Complications of deep endometriosis surgery: How to avoid them
- Laparoscopic management of the ovarian endometrioma: Why and how?
POOR OVARIAN RESERVE
- Oocytes quality deterioration with age: Chromosomes or else?
- The saga of older age and poor responders: Have we made any progress?
- Androgens: Do they make any difference?
- Evidence based Luteal support: Are poor responders different?
IMPLANTATION ISSUES
- The window of implantation: What do we now?
- AUGMENT by OvaScience: What is the evidence? what to practitioners need to know about what is being injected
- Endometrial scratch any solid proofs?
PERICONCEPTIONAL MEDICINE: WHERE REPRODUCTIVE AND FETAL-MATERNAL MEDICINE MEET
- IVF in the medically complicated patient
- Periconceptional medicine and the obstetrician
- Pre-eclampsia: A periconceptional disease
ART/IVF/ LAB WORK
- In vitro activation of dormant follicles
- Mitochondrial diseases: technical issues and future therapy
- improve the sperm selection
- Quality control in ART
- Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) as biomarker of preimplantation embryo viability
NON INVASIVE GENETIC TESTING OF THE PREIMPLATATION EMBRYOS
- Blastocoel analysis for PGS and the potential clinical value of mitochondrial screening assays
- PGS on culture media
- Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) as biomarker of preimplantation embryo viability
TIME LAPSE
- Debate: Evidence based benefit or simply closed system?
- Debate: Time lapse: What did we learn so far? Does universal algorithms work?
- Embryo development on day 3-4 what can be learned
- Debate: Metabolic needs of human embryos. Nurturing and improving quality of oocytes in the IVF laboratory
- Towards the best culture system
GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY
- Sparing Options in Gynecologic Oncology surgery
- Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer
- Fertility-Sparing Management in Young Endometrial Cancer Patients
- Assisted reproductive techniques after fertility-sparing treatments
- Fertility-sparing treatment of endometrial cancer
HPV VACCINES: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
- The adoption of HPV vaccines in the world and the axes of assessment of vaccine safety
- Vaccine confidence and vaccine hesitancy
- The promises of the HPV vaccines
- The role of the gynecologists in HPV vaccination
ENDOMETRIAL CANCER
- The role of lymphadenectomy in the surgical treatment of endometrial cancer
- Adjuvant therapy of endometrial cancer
- Lynch syndrome in endometrial cancer patients
OVARIAN CANCER
- Antiangiogenic treatment in ovarian cancer
- PARP-inhibition in ovarian cancer patients
MENOPAUSE
- HRT – WHI authors claim about wrong data interpretation
- Debates: HRT – Have the risks been overestimated? Will it rebound to pre-WHI era?
- Debate: Vaginal application of sex steroids: The future in women’s health? What are the limitations?
- HRT – Oral vs. Transdermal application
- Prevention of peri-menopausal obesity by diet and life style intervention
- Fat accumulation around the menopause – the implications
- Managing obesity: the place of bariatric surgery
- Exercising in menopause
- Medical treatment of endometriosis in the perimenopause
BREAST CANCER
- Progesterone (or hormones) and breast cancer
- Chemoprevention and prophylactic surgery for breast cancer
ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
- Neovagina using autologous cultured vagina tissue
- Vulvovaginoplasty
- Creation of a neovagina by Davydov’s laparoscopic modified technique in patients with Rokitansky syndrome
OC’s
- Which estrogen for contraceptive pills
- WHO guidelines for contraception – how to improve them?
- Contraceptives and thrombotic risks
- Contraceptive options for adolescent and the peri-menopausl
- OC’s are associated with depression?
HRT – DISEASE PREVENTION?
- Debate: HRT – Cardiovascular risk or prevention?
- HRT – How to prevent and/or treat (uterine) bleeding problems
Can we prevent Alzheimer - Ovarian tissue re-implantation: The HRT of the future
OSTEOPORSIS
- Breast cancer and bone health
PERINATAL LITIGATION
- Shoulder dystocia and Erb’s palsy: Can we do better?
- Are the criteria for the association between perinatal events and brain damage valid?
- Already brain damaged upon admission: can we diagnose?
- Planned home birth: A challenge of Perinatal Medicine
EMERGENCIES IN THE DELIVERY ROOM
- Amniotic fluid emboli: Radical change in outlook
- Intrapartum emergencies in twin birth
- Debate: Selecting the first line drug for prevention of PPH – Oxytocin / Carbetocin
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN PRETERM BIRTH
- Is pessary useful in prevention of preterm labor in singleton and twins
- Steroids for late preterm birth
- The long-term cardiovascular consequences of SGA
- Should Progesterone still be used for PTL after the OPPTIMUM negative study?
CS
- Debate: Is there a minimal advised period before conception after C-Section?
Proposition: Wait 6 or 12 months before pregnancy
Opposition: No time limit before new pregnancy after CS
- Cesarean scar defect – Why some women develop Niche? What are the risks?
- Surgical management of cesarean scar defect? Laparoscopy or Hysteroscopy
- Debate: Induction of labour decreases the CS rate
- Does episiotomy decrease the third and fourth degree tear rate?
FETAL SURGERY
- Fetoscopic Surgery for Congenital Birth Defects: From Bench to Bedside
- Diagnosis and treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
- Treatment of diaphragmatic hernia
- Fetal cardiac interventions: State of the art
INFECTIONS DURING PREGNANCY
- Zika – Update
- Strategies for GBS screening, prevention and treatment in the perinatal period (new consensus guidelines)
- Is there a cure for perinatal HIV-infected children?
- Bacterial and viral infections during pregnancy increase the risk of autism and schizophrenia in offspring
- Overview of Viral infection during pregnancy
- Infectious exposure during pregnancy and delivery and cerebral palsy
STEROIDS FOR LATE PRETERM BIRTH
- Debate – Steroids for late preterm birth
- Late effects of CS