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SUNDAY, 31 May 2009

 

09:00  -  17:00
Room Mikulicz

The 1st Joint North American – European
Postgraduate Symposium on General Thoracic Surgery

 

 

17:30  -  18:30
Room Mikulicz

Opening Ceremony

 

 

18:30  -  20:00
Ground Level

Opening Reception

 

 

08:30  -  17:30
Foyer 1st l
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Sunday Posters
ESTS Greek Pioneer Prize (500 €) for best poster displayed

S-P1

104-P

SEVERITY OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM INFLUENCE THE CONSUMPTION OF OPIOID ANALGESICS FOLLOWING MINIMALLY INVASIVE CORRECTION OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM - A SINGLE-CENTER STUDY OF 236 PATIENTS
Kasper Grosen1; * Hans K. Pilegaard2; Mogens P. Jensen3
1Institute of Public Health, Studies in Health Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;   2Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark;   3Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, NBG, Aarhus, Denmark

S-P2

105-P

EFFECTS OF A LUNG SEALANT SYSTEM ON MORBIDITY AFTER PLEURAL DECORTICATION FOR EMPYEMA THORACIS: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMISED, BLINDED STUDY
* Luca Bertolaccini1; Paraskevas Lybéris1; Emilpaolo Manno2; Ferdinando Massaglia1
1Maria Vittoria Hospital, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Turin, Italy;   2Maria Vittoria Hospital, Division of Anaesthesiology, Turin, Italy

S-P3

106-P

TRANSAXILLARY APPROACH THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME: RESULTS OF SURGERY AND MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS
Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoglu; Ilkay Yavasman; Taner Tarladacalisir; Rustem Mamedov; * Yener Yoruk
Trakya University Faculty of medicine,Department of thoracic surgery, Edirne , Turkey

S-P4

107-P

CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS (CTCS) IN PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT LUNG RESECTION FOR LUNG METASTASES
Masaki Hashimoto1; Fumihiro Tanaka1; Kazue Yoneda1; Teruhisa Takuwa1; Seiji Matsumoto1; Yoshitomo Okumura1; Nobuyuki Kondo1; Seiki Hasegawa1; Toru Tsujimura2; Takashi Nakano3
1Hyogo College of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nishinomiya, Japan;   2Hyogo College of Medicine Department of Molecular Pathology, Nishinomiya, Japan;   3Hyogo College of Medicine Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

S-P5

108-P

CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF ALPHA-B CRYSTALLIN ANTIBODIES IN NSCLC PATIENTS PLASMA AS A MARKER OF LYMPHOGENIC SPREAD
Radostina Vlaeva Cherneva1; * Danail Borisov Petrov2; Draga Ivanova Toncheva4; Ognian Borisov Georgiev1; Nedka Lyubomirova Trifonova3
1Medical Academy, Department of Pneumology, Sofia, Bulgaria;   2Medical Academy, Thoracic Surgery Department, Sofia, Bulgaria;   3Medical Academy, Department of Biology, Sofia, Bulgaria;   4Medical Academy, Department of Genetics, Sofia, Bulgaria

S-P6

109-P

DEVELOPMENT OF A PORCINE MODEL TO STUDY DONOR LUNG INJURY
Caroline Meers1; Walter De Wever2; Eric Verbeken3; Robin Vos4; Shana Wauters1; Stéphanie Devleeschauwer4; Bart Vanaudenaerde4; Geert Verleden5; * Toni Lerut6; * Dirk Van Raemdonck6
1Laboratory of Thoracic Surgery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   2Department of Radiology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   3Department of Pathology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   4Laboratory of Pneumology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   5Department of Pneumology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   6Department of Thoracic Surgery, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

S-P7

110-P

IS A THORACIC TUBE LIABLE TO INFECTION: ANALYSIS OF INFECTION PATTERNS AND ANTIBIOTIC USE FOLLOWING CHEST TUBE INSERTION IN 500 PATIENTS IN A MAJOR TRAUMA CENTER
Peter Thr. Mihos; Christos Chatziantoniou; * John Gakidis; Christos Baltas; Kostas Ingoglou; Penelopi Evangelopoulou; Dimitris Doltsiniadis
General Hospital of Attica KAT, Athens, Greece

S-P8

111-P

OPEN-WINDOW THORACOSTOMY AND THORACOMYOPLASTY IN THE TREATMENT OF EMPYEMA AFTER PULMONARY RESECTION
* Begoña Gregorio1; * Mariano García Yuste1; * José Luis Duque1; José María Matilla1; * Félix Heras1; Manuel Castanedo1; * Guillermo Ramos2; * Sara Cabanyes1; Angel Cilleruelo1
1University Hospital Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain;   2School of Medicine Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

S-P9

112-P

THE EXPRESSION OF INTEGRIN-LINKED KINASE AND THE PROGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA
* Stefan B. Watzka1; Ralf Burgstaller1; Ulrike Setinek2; Gerhard Dekan3; Martin Toetsch4; Tatjana Fleck5; Guenter Weigel6; * Michael R. Mueller1
1Karl Landsteiner Institute for Thoracic Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   2Division of Pathology, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   3Division of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;   4Division of Pathology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany;   5Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;   6Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

S-P10

113-P

MANAGEMENT OF RESIDUAL PLEURAL SPACE AND PERSISTENT AIRLEAK AFTER MAJOR LUNG RESECTION
* Kalliopi Athanassiadi1; Stamatis Kakaris4; Penelope Kouki3; Georgia Simou2; Stamatia Pispirigkou1; Panagiota Dimou3; Elias Perros2; Achilleas Antonopoulos1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece;   2Department of Pulmonology, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece;   3Department of Anaesthesiology, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece;   4Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital for Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece

S-P11

114-P

THE USE OF THOPAZ PUMP IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AIR LEAKS. A TRANSITION FROM ANALOGUE TO STANDARDISED DIGITAL SCORING. EXPERIENCE OF FIRST 100 CASES FROM A SINGLE INSTITUTION
* Kostas Papagiannopoulos; Madhan Kuppusami; * Manolis Kefaloyanis
SJUH, Leeds , United Kingdom

S-P12

115-P

OPERATIVE STABILIZATION OF TRAUMATIC RIB FRACTURES BY TITANIUM MATERIAL: ANALYSIS OF 40 CASES
* Akin Eraslan Balci; * Mehmet Oguzhan Özyurtkan; Ibrahim Ethem Özsoy
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Firat University Medical Faculty, Elazig, Turkey

S-P13

116-P

CLINIC AND SURGICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF ADULT UNILATERAL DIAPHRAGMATIC EVENTRATION ACCORDING TO THEIR ETIOLOGY IN 20-PATIENTS: IMPORTANCE OF USING DIAPHRAGMATIC PATCH AND MINIMAL THORACOTOMY INCISION
* Akin Eraslan Balci; * Mehmet Oguzhan Özyurtkan
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Firat University Medical Faculty, Elazig , Turkey

S-P14

117-P

MAGE-A3 ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC (ASCI) AS ADJUVANT THERAPY IN RESECTED STAGE IB/II NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC): FROM PROOF-OF-CONCEPT TO PHASE III TRIAL (MAGRIT)
* Marcin Zielinski1; Johan Vansteenkiste2; * Albert Linder3; * Jubrail Dahabreh4; Emilio Esteban5; Wojciech Malinowski6; Jacek Jassem7; * Bernward Passlick8; Marta Lopez Brea9; Channa Debruyne10
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   2Respiratory Oncology Unit, University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium;   3Klinikum Bremen-Ost, Bremen, Germany;   4Medical Centre, Athens, Greece;   5Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain;   6Szpital Kopernika, Tusznin, Poland;   7Klinika Onkologii Radiotherapii, Gdansk, Poland;   8University Klinik, Freiburg, Germany;   9Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain;   10GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium

S-P15

118-P

WAR AND THORACIC SURGERY: KABUL EXPERIENCE
Pietro Rinaldi1; Cristiano Primiceri1; Miriam Estors Guerrero2; Rafael Esturi Navarro3; Jose Marcelo Galbis Caravajal2; Gino Volpato1
1University of Pavia School of Medicine, Pavia, Italy;   2Hospital Universitario La Ribera Department of Thoracic Surgery, Valencia, Spain;   3Hospital Universitario La Ribera Division of Anesthesia, Valencia, Spain

S-P16

119-P

INTRATHECAL MORPHINE: EFFECTS ON INTRAOPERATIVE ANAESTHETIC REQUIREMENTS AND RECOVERY PERIOD IN THORACIC SURGERY
Aise Moustafa; Lale Yuceyar; Cem Sayilgan; Hulya Erolcay; Ahmet Demirkaya; * Kamil Kaynak
Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Toracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey

S-P17

120-P

TREATMENT OF MULTILOCULATED EMPYEMA THORACIS WITH MINIMALLY INVASIVE METHODS
Muzaffer Metin5; Ali Yeginsu4; Adnan Sayar5; Okan Solak1; Süha Alzafer6; Akif Ozgul2; Unal Erkorkmaz3; * Atilla Gurses5
1Kocatepe University School of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey;   2Yedikule Chest Disease and Chest Surgery Teaching Hospital, Division of Chest Disease, Istanbul, Turkey;   3Gaziosmanpasa University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics, Tokat, Turkey;   4Gaziosmanpasa University School of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokat, Turkey;   5Yedikule Chest Disease and Chest Surgery Teaching Hospital, 1st Chest Surgery Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey;   6Acibadem Hospital Division of Chest Disease, Istanbul, Turkey

S-P18

121-P

REPAIR BY THORACOTOMY IN 15 PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA: RESULTS OF USING LIMITED INCISION AND DIAPHRAGMATIC GRAFT
* Akin Eraslan Balci; * Mehmet Oguzhan Özyurtkan; Semih Kocyigit
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Firat University Medical Faculty, Elazig, Turkey

S-P19

122-P

RESULTS OF NUSS RECONSTRUCTION AT YOUNGER ADULTS
* Attila Vagvolgyi; * Akos Kocsis; * Laszlo Agocs; * Pal Vadasz; * Zoltan Heiler; * Attila Csekeo
Koranyi National Institute of Tuberculosis and Pulmonology, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Budapest, Hungary

S-P20

123-P

PERSISTENT PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION CAN HAVE LONG TERM EFFECTS ON WORK AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES FOLLOWING CHEST TRAUMA.
* Kieran McManus
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

S-P21

124-P

LONG-TERM RESULTS OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM REPAIR IN ADULTS USING THE NUSS TECHNIQUE
* Javier Moradiellos; Jose Luis Campo-Cañaveral; Silvana Crowley; Mar Cordoba; * David Gomez; Andres Varela
Thoracic Surgery Department. Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Majadahonda, Spain

S-P22

125-P

MULTIMODALITY TREATMENT OF PANCOAST TUMOR: RESULTS OF A SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE.
* Giuseppe Marulli1; Cristiano Breda1; * Andrea Zuin1; Monica Loy1; Adolfo G Favaretto2; Lucio Loreggian3; Francesco Sartori1; * Federico Rea1
1Department of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences-University of Padova, Padova, Italy;   2Oncology-Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, Italy;   3Radiotherapy-Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, Italy

S-P23

126-P

THE UNEXPECTED DETRIMENTAL EFFECT OF ISOCAPNIC HYPERPNEA TRAINING PROGRAM BEFORE LUNG RESECTION
Elisa Calabrò; Barbara Conti; Vincenzo Delledonne; Luca Tavecchio; Vittorio Amedeo Bedini; Massimo Guglielmetti; Massimo Francese; * Francesco Leo; Ugo Pastorino
Thoracic Surgery Department, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

S-P24

127-P

PREDICTING RISK IN PULMONARY SURGERY. DO THORACOSCORE AND ESOS.01 MODELS REFLECT THE OUTCOMES OF A HIGH-RISK SURGICAL PRACTICE?
Ayo Meduoye; Rajani Annamaneni; * Antonio Martin-Ucar
Glenfield Hospital , University of Leicester Hospitals Trust, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Leicester , United Kingdom

S-P25

128-P

EARLY RESULTS FOLLOWING THE MINIMALLY INVASIVE REPAIR OF PECTUS CARINATUM DEFORMITY USING A NEWLY DESIGNED BAR : A TWO INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE
* Mustafa Yuksel1; Ahmet Onen2; * Korkut Bostanci1; Gun Murat Eyuboglu2; Riza Serdar Evman1; * Nezih Ozdemir2
1Marmara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Izmir, Turkey

S-P26

129-P

USE OF LACTOSORB® IN THE SURGICAL CORRECTION OF PECTUS CARINATUM.
* Hans K Pilegaard; Thais Pedersen
Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark

S-P27

130-P

USE OF THE REVERSED LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP FOR SUPPURATED DEFECTS IN THE INFERIOR PART OF THE CHEST
* Petre Vlah-Horea Botianu; Adrian Cristian Dobrica; * Alexandru Mihail Botianu
Surgical Clinic 4 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu-Mures , Romania

S-P28

131-P

TRANSTHORACIC APPROACH IN THE REPAIR OF MORGAGNI HERNIA
* Johannes Cárdenas-Gómez; * Ramón Vicente-Verdú; Yury Bellido-Reyes; Elena Corpa-Rodríguez; Juan Carlos Vázquez-Pelillo; José Luís Gil-Alonso; Joaquín Sánchez-García-Girón; * Prudencio Díaz-Agero
Thoracic Surgery Department. University Hospital La Paz., Madrid, Spain

S-P29

 

 

132-P

MINIMALLY INVASIVE REPAIR OF RECURRENT PECTUS EXCAVATUM FOLLOWING UNSUCCESSFUL OPEN SURGICAL PROCEDURES
* Mustafa Yuksel; * Korkut Bostanci; Riza Serdar Evman; Bedrettin Yildizeli
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul , Turkey

S-P30

133-P

SURVIVAL IN SOLITARY STERNAL METASTASIS FROM BREAST CANCER: SURGICAL APPROACH AND CLINICAL OUTCOME
* Emmanual Kefaloyannis; Kalyana Javangula; * James Andrew Thorpe; * Kostas Papagiannopoulos
St
James University Hospital , Leeds , United Kingdom

 

 

MONDAY, 1 June 2009

 

07:30  -  08:20
Room Rydygier

Breakfast Session 1 - LUNG
Remediastinoscopy

 

 

07:30  -  08:20
Room Ostrowski

Breakfast Session 2 - MEDIASTINUM
Thymic Tumours

 

 

08:20  -  08:25
Room Mikulicz

Opening Remarks
L. Molins, President

 

 

08:25  -  08:30
Room Mikulicz

Report Programme Committee
D. Van Raemdonck, Chair

 

 

08:30  -  10:30
Room Mikulicz

Session 1 - Brompton Session (Mixed)
ESTS Brompton Prize (1000 €) for best abstract by first author ESTS member

Oral Session (8' presentation + 4' invited discussant + 8' discussion)

Chairmen L. Molins, President; D. Van Raemdonck, General Secretary; S. Jordan, Brompton Hospital

08:30

001-O

ASSESSMENT OF LUNGS FOR TRANSPLANTATION: A STEPWISE ANALYSIS OF 476 DONORS
* Antonio Alvarez; * Paula Moreno; Dionisio Espinosa; Francisco Santos; Jose Manuel Vaquero; Jose Ramon Cano; Jennifer Illana; Francisco Javier Algar; Carlos Baamonde; Angel Salvatierra
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit.
University Hospital Reina Sofia., Cordoba, Spain
Discussant: A. Patterson (St Louis)

08:50

002-O

INTRAPLEURAL POLYMERIC DEVICES CONTAINING CISPLATIN FOR MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA IN A RAT TUMOUR MODEL: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
* Luca Ampollini1; Fabio Sonvico2; Rocco Bilancia1; Stefano Barbieri2; * Dionisios Stavroulias1; Andrea Cavazzoni3; Pier Giorgio Petronini3; Anna Maria Cantoni4; * Michele Rusca1; * Paolo Carbognani1
1Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy;   2Pharmaceutical Department, Parma, Italy;   3Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Parma, Italy;   4General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy, Parma, Italy
Discussant: W. Weder ( Zurich )

09:10

003-O

AN EARLY INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE TO ESOPHAGECTOMY PREDICTS THE OCCURRENCE OF PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS
* Xavier B D
'Journo1; Pierre Michelet2; Valérie Marin3; Dorothée Blayac2; Françoise Gaillat2; * Christophe Doddoli1; Pierre Bongrand3; Roger Giudicelli1; * Pierre Fuentes1; * Pascal A Thomas1
1Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marseille, France;   2Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Anaesthesiology, Marseille, France;   3Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Laboratoryof Immunology, Marseille, France
Discussant: R. Berrisford ( Exeter )

09:30

004-O

THE BENEFITS OF DIGITAL AIR LEAK ASSESSMENT AFTER PULMONARY RESECTION: PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED AND COMPARATIVE STUDY.
* José Manuel Mier; * Laureano Molins; * Juan José Fibla
Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor, Barcelona, Spain
Discussant: A. Brunelli (Ancona)

09:50

005-O

LEARNING THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY
* René Horsleben Petersen; * Henrik Jessen Hansen
Dep. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Discussant: T. D’Amico ( Durham )

10:10

006-O

PROMISING OUTCOME WITH NEOADJUVANT CHEMO- AND RADIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH OPERABLE STAGE III B NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER. A PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER TRIAL BY THE SWISS GROUP FOR CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH (SAKK 16/01).
* Hans-Beat Ris
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
Discussant: G. Stamatis ( Essen )

 

 

10:30 – 11:00
Exhibition Area

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00  -  11:30
Room Rydygier

Session 2 - Interesting Cases
ESTS Covidien Prize (free VATS Masterclass Elancourt) for best interactive presentation
This Prize is Sponsored by Covidien

Case Presentation (5' interactive presentation)

Chairmen

A. Martin-Ucar; A. Toker (Leicester, Istanbul )

11:00

 

007-C

TENSION PNEUMOCEPHALUS AND PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS: AN UNUSUAL POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATION OF THORACIC SURGERY
Michel Gonzalez; Sandra Asner; Thorsten Krueger; * Hans-Beat Ris
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne , Switzerland

11:05

 

 

 

 

 

008-C

CASE REPORT: LESSON LEARNED ON A CASE OF THREE SYNCHRONOUS NSCLC'S
Matteo Mandrioli1; Luca Ferruzzi1; Maurizio Zompatori2; Piero Candoli3; Maria Rosaria Aprile4; * Sandro Mattioli1
1Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;   2Department of Radiology, Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy;   3Department of Pneumology, Lugo Hospital, Ravenna, Italy;   4Department of Patholgy, Faenza Hospital, Faenza, Italy

11:10

 

009-C

HAEMOPTHYSIS DUE TO UNRESECTABLE LUNG CANCER SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION.
Federico Raveglia1; Andrea Leporati1; Angelo Maria Calati1; Maurizio Cariati1; Gianpaolo Cornalba2; * Alessandro Baisi2
1Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo, Milano, Italy;   2Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

11:15

 

010-C

LEFT PLEURAL CAVITY MASS IN A YOUNG PREGNANT WOMAN
* Dionisios Stavroulias; * Eveline Internullo; * Francesca Gussago; * Paolo Carbognani; * Michele Rusca
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

11:20

 

011-C

DELAYED PULMONARY EMBOLISM CAUSED BY A WANDERING BULLET AFTER ABDOMINAL SHOOTING INJURY - CASE REPORT
* Attila Vagvolgyi; * Pal Vadasz; * Zoltan Heiler; * Attila Csekeo
Koranyi National Institute of Tuberculosis and Pulmonology, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Budapest , Hungary

11:25

012-C

PRIMARY SYNOVIAL SARCOMA OF THE LUNG: A RARE NEOPLASTIC DISEASE
* Stefan B. Watzka1; Ulrike Setinek2; * Dantcho Janakiev1; * Franz Lax1; * Michael R. Mueller1
1Karl Landsteiner Institute for Thoracic Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   2Division of Pathology, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria

 

 

11:30  -  13:00
Room Mikulicz

Presidential Session

Chairmen L. Molins, President; M. Mueller, President-elect

Featured Abstract (10' presentation + 5’ discussion)

11:30

 

 

 

013-O

TRAINING, CERTIFICATION, AND PRACTICE OF CARDIAC AND THORACIC SURGEONS IN EUROPE: A COMPARISON OF THE MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGERY
* Douglas E Wood; Farhood Farjah
University of Washington, Seattle , United States

 

 

11:45

Invited Lecture
"Evolution of Cardiothoracic Training in the United States "
D.J. Mathisen , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , M

Introduction: L. Molins, President

 

12:20

Presidential Address
"An exciting journey through ESTS: from birth to adulthood"
L. Molins, President

Introduction: M. Mueller, President-elect

 

 

13:00  -  14:00
Cafetaria

Lunch

 

 

14:00  -  15:30
Room Mikulicz

Session 3 - Pulmonary Neoplastic

Oral Session (8' presentation + 7' discussion)

Chairmen R. Rami-Porta; G. Leschber (Barcelona, Berlin)

14:00

014-O

LUNG CARCINOID TUMORS: METASTASIS AND LOCAL RECURRENCE IN PATIENTS SURGICALLY TREATED
José María Matilla1; * Mariano García-Yuste1; Ignacio Muguruza3; Miguel Angel Cañizares4; Pedro Rodriguez5; * Begoña Gregorio1; Members EMETNE-SEPAR2
1University Hospital Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain;   2EMETNE-SEPAR, Barcelona, Spain;   3Ramon y Cajal Hospital, Madrid, Spain;   4Xeral Hospital, Vigo, Spain;   5Dr. Negrin Hospital, Las Palmas, Spain

14:15

015-O

RESULTS OF AGGRESSIVE LYMPH NODE DISSECTION IN THE ERA OF MODERN IMAGING AND INVASIVE STAGING FOR LUNG CANCER
Anand Ramasamy; Lavinia Magee; Mohammed Edamma; * Cliff Choong; * Francis Wells; * Aman Coonar
Papworth Hospital , Cambridge , United Kingdom

14:30

016-O

INDUCTION TREATMENT DOES NOT INCREASE THE RISK OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AFTER PNEUMONECTOMY FOR LUNG CANCER: A MULTICENTER CASE-MATCHED ANALYSIS
* Majed Refai1; * Alessandro Brunelli1; * Mark K Ferguson2; * Gaetano Rocco3; Sergio N Fortiparri4; * Antonello La Rocca3; * Michele Salati1; Kenji Kawamukai4
1Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy;   2University of Chicago, Chicago, United States;   3National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy;   4Bellaria-Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy

14:45

017-O

IS THE LYMPHADENECTOMY ON PULMONARY METASTASECTOMY OF COLORECTAL CANCER NECESSARY?
* Tamas Szöke1; Ariane Kortner2; Rainer Neu1; Christian Grosser1; Zsolt Sziklavari1, Karsten Wiebe2; Hans-Stefan Hofmann1
1Dept. of Thoracic Surgery, KH Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg , Germany ;   2Dept. of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University Regensburg , Regensburg , Germany

15:00

018-O

THE EFFECT OF SEASON OF OPERATION ON THE SURVIVAL OF RESECTED PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
* Akif Turna1; Atilla Pekcolaklar1; Muzaffer Metin1; Ilhan Yaylim2; * Atilla Gurses1
1Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Istanbul University, Institute of Experimental Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Istanbul, Turkey

15:15

019-O

IMPACT OF NEOADJUVANT RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY ON BRONCHIAL TISSUE VIABILITY
* Thorsten Walles1; Martina Hampel2; Iris Dally2; Volker Steger1; Stefanie Veit1; Thomas Kyriss1; * Godehard Friedel1
1Dept. General Thoracic Surgery, Schillerhoehe Hospital , Gerlingen , Germany ;   2Fraunhofer Institute Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), Stuttgart , Germany

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Exhibition Area

Coffee Break

 

 

14:00  -  15:30
Room Rydygier

 

Session 4 - Young Investigators Award (Mixed)
ESTS Young Investigator Award (1000 €) for best research paper by first author < 35 years

Forum Session (7' presentation + 3' discussion)

Chairmen G. Rocco; D. Jones ( Naples , Charlottesville )

14:00

020-F

COMPLEX SPACE-FILLING PROCEDURES FOR INTRA-THORACIC INFECTIONS - PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH 76 CONSECUTIVE CASES
* Petre Vlah-Horea Botianu; Adrian Cristian Dobrica; Alexandra Butiurca; * Alexandru Mihail Botianu
Surgical Clinic 4 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu-Mures , Romania

14:10

021-F

COMPARISON OF 18FDG PET AND 99M TC MIBI-SPECT IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF INDETERMINATE LUNG LESIONS
Alfonso Fiorelli1; Filomena Napolitano1; Paolo Laperuta1; Pier Francesco Rambaldi2; Luigi Mansi2; * Giovanni Vicidomini1; * Mario Santini1
1Thoracic Surgery Unit, Naples, Italy;   2Medicine Nuclear Unit, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

14:20

022-F

LUNG SEALING USING THE TISSUE WELDING TECHNOLOGY IN SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX.
* Oleksandr Linchevskyy; Anatoliy Makarov; Vadym Getman
Clinical Hospital # 17, Kyiv , Ukraine

14:30

023-F

A SCALE FOR DECISION MAKING BETWEEN WHOLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION OR LOBAR TRANSPLANTATION
* Domenico Loizzi1; * Clemens Aigner1; Peter Jaksch1; Axel Scheed1; Bruno Mora2; * Francesco Sollitto3; * Walter Klepetko1
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;   2Department of CTV Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Vienna, Austria;   3Cattedra di Chirurgia Toracica, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy

14:40

024-F

ONE LUNG VENTILATION EXAGGERATES OXIDATIVE STRESS
* Tomasz Marjanski1; Radoslaw Owczuk2; Maria Wujtewicz2; Michal Wozniak3; * Witold Rzyman1
1Thoracic Surgery Department, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland;   2Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland;   3Chair of Medical Chemistry, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

14:50

025-F

RISK MODELING IN GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY: THE POSSUM SCORING SYSTEM VERSUS THE THORACIC SURGERY SCORING SYSTEM (THORACOSCORE).
* Carlos Martínez-Barenys1; Pedro E. López de Castro Alujes1; Núria Parra Macías2; * Javier Pérez Vélez1; * Esther Fernández Araujo1; Miguel A. Mesa Guzmán1; Julio Astudillo Pombo1
1Servei de Cirurgia Toràcica. Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona , Spain ;   2Unitat de Recerca i Desenvolupament Sant Joan de Déu. Serveis Salut Mental, Sant Boi del Llobregat , Spain

15:00

026-F

DOES CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AFFECT POSTOPERATIVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING LOBECTOMY FOR LUNG CANCER? A CASE-MATCHED STUDY
* Cecilia Pompili; * Alessandro Brunelli; * Francesco Xiumé; * Majed Refai; * Laura Socci; Armando Sabbatini
Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy

15:10

027-F

THE PROGNOSTIC RELEVANCE OF EGFR, P27 AND ß1-INTEGRIN PROTEIN EXPRESSION ON MESOTHELIOMA PATIENTS SURVIVAL
* Alexandra Schramm1; Alex Soltermann2; Peter Vogt2; Nicole Probst2; Holger Moch2; * Walter Weder1; * Isabelle Opitz1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland;   2Department of Pathology, University Hospital Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland

15:20

028-F

AN ALTERNATIVE POSTOPERATIVE PATHWAY REDUCES LENGTH OF HOSPITALIZATION FOLLOWING ESOPHAGECTOMY
Sandra Tomaszek; * Stephen D. Cassivi; Mark S. Allen; K. Robert Shen; Francis C. Nichols; Claude Deschamps; Dennis A. Wigle
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Exhibition Area

Coffee Break

 

 

16:00  -  17:30
Room Mikulicz

Session 5 - Pulmonary Non-Neoplastic

Oral Session (8' presentation + 7' discussion)

Chairmen D. Wood; E. Stoelben ( Seattle , Cologne )

16:00

029-O

INFLUENCE OF MAJOR PULMONARY RESECTION ON POSTOPERATIVE DAILY AMBULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE PATIENTS.
* Nuria M Novoa; * Gonzalo Varela; Marcelo Jimenez; Jose Luis Aranda
University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

16:15

030-O

STAGED BILATERAL LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION SURGERY-THE BENEFITS OF A PATIENT LED STRATEGY
Inger F Oey; Mike D Morgan; Tom J Spyt; * David A Waller
Dept of thoracic surgery and respiratory medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

16:30

031-O

COMPARISON OF EPIDURAL AND INTRAOPERATIVE PARAVERTEBRAL CATHETERIZATION FOR PAIN CONTROL IN THORACOTOMY PATIENTS
Gultekin Gulbahar1; * Bulent Kocer1; * Erkan Yildirim1; Serife Nursel Muratli2; Koray Dural1; Unal Sakinci1
1Ankara Numune Teaching and Research Hospital, Dept of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara, Turkey;   2Ankara Numune Teaching and Research Hospital, Dept of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Ankara, Turkey

16:45

032-O

SURGERY FOR PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS: A 15-YEAR EXPERIENCE
Ravindra Kumar Dewan
Thoracic Surgery, LRS Institute of TB & Respiratory Diseases,, New Delhi, India

17:00

033-O

HIGH COSTS OF THE PROCEDURE AS PRESUMABLE SLOW DOWN FACTOR OF VATS LOBECTOMY DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND .
* Cezary Piwkowski; * Pawel Zielinski; Lukasz Gasiorowski; Piotr Gabryel; * Mariusz Kasprzyk; Krystian Pawlak; Bartlomiej Galecki; * Wojciech Dyszkiewicz
Department of Thoracic Surgery.
K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

17:15

034-O

A COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS OF LOBECTOMY: THORACOSCOPIC VS. THORACOTOMY
William Richard Burfeind Jr.2; Eric M Toloza1; David H Harpole Jr.1; * Thomas A D'Amico1
1Duke University Medical Center , Durham , United States ;   2St.
Lukes Health Network, Bethlehem , United States

 

 

16:00  -  17:30
Room Rydygier

Session 6 - Innovative Techniques / Experimental
ESTS Grillo Prize (500 €) for best innovative/experimental abstract

Forum Session (7' presentation + 3' discussion)

Chairmen D. Mathisen; S. Fischer ( Boston , Hannover )

16:00

035-F

BETTER LUNG PROTECTION FOLLOWING DEATH DUE TO RAPID EXSANGUINATION IN RATS
* Korkut Bostanci1; Berna Karakoyun Lacin2; Meral Yuksel3; Feriha Ercan4; * Mustafa Yuksel1; Hasan Fevzi Batirel1
1Marmara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Marmara University Nursing School, Istanbul, Turkey;   3Marmara University Vocational School of Health Related Professions Department of Medical Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey;   4Marmara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Histology and Embryology, Istanbul, Turkey

16:10

036-F

VASCULAR IMMUNOTARGETING OF CATALASE VIA ANTI-ACE ANTIBODIES ATTENUATES REPERFUSION INJURY AFTER COLD LUNG PRESERVATION
* Kai Nowak1; Christine Hanusch4; Kathrin Nicksch1; Grietje Beck4; Roman Patrick Metzger2; Peter Hohenberger1; Sergei M Danilov3
1Dept. of Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany;   2Dept. of Pediatric Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany;   3Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States;   4Dept. of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

16:20

037-F

SELECTINE MEDIATED LEUKOCYTE ADHESION TO ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IS NECESSARY FOR PDT INDUCED VASCULAR PERMEABILISATION
François Mithieux1; Elodie Debefve1; * Jean Yannis Perentes1; Cai Cheng1; Stephan Christian Schaefer1; Hans-Anton Lehr1; Jean-Pierre Ballini2; Hubert van den Bergh2; * Hans-Beat Ris1; * Thorsten Krueger1
1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland;   2Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

16:30

038-F

CHEMORESISTANCE IN NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: CAN MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE MARKERS PREDICT THE RESPONSE OF XENOGRAFT CANCER MODELS TO CLASSICAL AND TARGETED THERAPIES?
* Johannes Merk1; Jana Rolff2; Cornelia Dorn2; * Gunda Leschber1; Iduna Fichtner2
1ELK Berlin Chest Hospital , Berlin , Germany ;   2Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , Berlin , Germany

16:40

039-F

THORACIC REGIONAL ANALGESIA AFTER THORACOTOMY. A RANDOMIZED STUDY TO COMPARE THREE DIFFERENT PARAVERTEBRAL APPROACHES
* Nicolás Moreno-Mata1; * Guillermo González-Casaurrán1; Leire Azcárate Perea1; * Carlos María Simón Adiego1; * Rafael Peñalver Pascual1; Biencinto Maria teresa2; Enma Novoa Lago2; Gabriel Cusati2; Maria del Carmen Benito2; Federico González-Aragoneses1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón , Madrid , Spain ;   2Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation.
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

16:50

040-F

EVALUATION OF VRI (VIBRATION RESPONSE IMAGING) UTILITY IN THE PREDICTION OF POSTOPERATIVE FUNCTION AFTER LUNG RESECTION SURGERY
Unai Jimenez Maestre; Nuria Marina Malanda; Lucia Hernandez Perez; Naia Uribe-Etxebarria Lugariza-Ares; Monica Lorenzo Martin; Juan Carlos Rumbero Sanchez; * Rafael Rojo Marcos; Juan Baltasar Casanova Viudez; Juan Bautista Galdiz Iturri; * Joaquin Pac Ferrer
Cruces Hospital, Bilbao, Spain

17:00

041-F

VANCOMYCIN LUNG CONCENTRATION IN ACUTE AND HYPERACUTE REJECTION MODELS OF LUNG TRANSPLANTATION IN RATS
* Jaroslaw Pierog; * Bartosz Kubisa; Marek Drozdzik; * Janusz Wojcik; Malgorzata Wojtys; Michal Bielewicz; Dominika Witkowska; Juliusz Pankowski; Krzysztof Safronow; * Tomasz Grodzki
Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

17:10

042-F

MANAGING THE PNEUMONECTOMY SPACE AFTER EXTRAPLEURAL PNEUMONECTOMY: POSTOPERATIVE INTRATHORACIC PRESSURE MONITORING
Andrea S Wolf; Francine L Jacobson; W Francis Powell; Yolonda Colson; Tamara R Tilleman; William G Richards; * David J Sugarbaker
Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, United States

17:20

043-F

METALLOPROTEINASES EXPRESSION MRNA IN LUNG TISSUE OF PATIENTS WITH NSCLC AND BENIGN PULMONARY DISEASE.
Jarmil Safranek1; Vladislav Treska1; Ondrej Topolcan2; Lubos Holubec2
1Department of Surgery, Charles University and Faculty Hospital, Pilsen, Czech Republic;   2Second Internal Clinic, Charles University and Faculty Hospital, Pilsen, Czech Republic

 

 

17:30  -  19:00
Room Rydygier

ESTS Database Symposium
organised by ESTS Database Committee

 

 

17:30  -  19:00
Room Ostrowski

Symposium on Clinical Trials
organised by ESTS Ad Hoc Committee Women in Thoracic Surgery

 

 

08:30  -  17:30
Foyer 1st level

Monday Posters
ESTS Greek Pioneer Prize (500 €) for the best poster displayed

M-P1

134-P

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MULTIORGANIC END-STAGE DISESASE: EXPERIENCE WITH COMBINED DOUBLE LUNG AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.
* Paula Moreno1; * Antonio Álvarez1; Jennifer Illana1; José Ramón Cano1; Dionisio Espinosa1; Francisco Cerezo1; Carlos Baamonde1; Pedro López Cillero2; Francisco Santos1; Ángel Salvatierra1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit., Córdoba, Spain;   2Department of General Surgery, Córdoba, Spain

M-P2

135-P

3D-CT VOLUMETRY OF THE LUNG FOR PREDICTING RESIDUAL PULMONARY FUNCTION IN PATIENTS AFTER LUNG RESECTION
Noriyasu Usami1; Toshiki Okasaka1; Tetsuya Mizuno1; Noriaki Sakakura1; Norihisa Oohata1; Tetsuo Taniguchi1; Shingo Iwano2; Kohei Yokoi1
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan;   2Department of Radiology, Nagoya University of Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

M-P3

136-P

ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTION BY INTRAOPERATIVE TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY BEFORE AND AFTER SURGICAL REPAIR OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM
Thorsten Krueger; Pierre-Guy Chassot; Michel Christodoulou; Cai Cheng; * Hans-Beat Ris; Lennart Magnusson
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

M-P4

137-P

LOBECTOMY WITH PULMONARY ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION VS. PNEUMONECTOMY: SURGERY FOR HILAR NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC)
* Alper Toker1; Serhan Tanju1; Suat Erus1; Erkan Kaba1; Dilek Yilmazbayhan2; Yasemin Ozluk2; * Sukru Dilege1
1Istanbul University Istanbul Medical School Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul , Turkey ;   2Istanbul University Istanbul Medical School Department of Pathology, Istanbul , Turkey

M-P5

138-P

NEGATIVE EBUS TBNA - A CHALLENGE TO THE ESTS GUIDELINES
* Mark Krasnik1; Ralf Eberhart2; Felix Herth2
1dpt. thoracic and cardiovasc. surgery.
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark;   2Thoraxklinik Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

M-P6

139-P

PET SCAN/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND CONTRAST ENHANCED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY: THEIR ROLE IN PREDICTING THE NATURE OF THYMIC NEOPLASMS
* Domenico Galetta1; Piergiorgio Solli1; Laura Travaini2; Giuseppe Trifiro'2; Francesco Petrella1; Alessandro Borri1; Roberto Gasparri1; * Lorenzo Spaggiari1
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy;   2Division of Nuclear Medicine, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

M-P7

140-P

EGFR STATUS OF METASTASES OF NSCLC CORRESPONDS TO THE PRIMARY TUMOR
* Stefan B. Watzka1; Patrick Nierlich1; Ulrike Setinek2; Wolfgang J. Koestler3; * Michael R. Mueller1; Johannes Attems2
1Karl Landsteiner Institute for Thoracic Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   2Division of Pathology, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   3Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine 1, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

M-P8

141-P

IMPACT OF HISTOLOGICAL GRADING ON SURVIVAL OF LUNG CANCER PATIENTS
* Marco Anile1; * Federico Venuta1; * Daniele Diso1; * Tiziano De Giacomo1; * Edoardo Mercadante1; Domenico Vitolo2; * Flavia Longo3; Ylenia Pecoraro1; * Erino Angelo Rendina1; * Giorgio Furio Coloni1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy;   2Department of Pathology University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy;   3Department of Oncology University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

M-P9

142-P

PNEUMONECTOMY DUE TO LUNG CANCER RESULTS IN MORE PRONOUNCED ACTIVATION OF COAGULATION SYSTEM THAN LOBECTOMY.
Joanna Swiniarska1; Ewa Zekanowska3; * Maciej Dancewicz2; Mariusz Bella2; * Tomasz Szczesny1; * Janusz Kowalewski2
1Departament of Thoracic Surgery and Tumors, Oncology Center, Bydgoszcz, Poland;   2Departament and Clinic of Thoracic Surgery and Tumours, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland;   3Departament of Pathophysiology, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland

M-P10

143-P

EFFECT OF ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHESIS IN A LUNG AUTO-TRANSPLANT MODEL
* Carlos Simón1; Guillermo González-Casaurrán1; Leire Azcárate1; Elena Vara2; Cruz García2; Ignacio Garutti3; Jesús Isea1; * Nicolás Moreno1; * Rafael Peñalver1; * Federico González-Aragoneses1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain;   2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain;   3Department of Anesthesiology, Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain

M-P11

144-P

TRANSCERVICAL THYMECTOMY WITH PARTIAL STERNAL SPLIT IN THE TREATMENT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
* Alberto Oliaro; Maria Cristina Bruna; * Pier Luigi Filosso; Enrico Ruffini
University of Torino-Department of Thoracic Surgery, Torino, Italy

M-P12

145-P

A NEW METHOD TO AID IN EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER BEFORE LUNG RESECTION SURGERY- PRELIMINARY STUDY
Sedat Altin; Sinem Nedime Sökücü; Nurdan Simsek Veske; Levent Karasulu; Ekrem Cengiz Seyhan; Erdogan Çetinkaya
Yedikule Chest Disease and Thorasic Surgery Research and Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

M-P13

146-P

LONG TERM RESULTS AFTER VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACIC SURGERY (VATS) THYMECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH NONTHYMOMATOUS MYASTHENIA GRAVIS.
* Cezary Piwkowski1; Bartlomej Galecki1; Mariusz Kasprzyk1; Krystian Pawlak1; * Pawel Zielinski1; Lukasz Gasiorowski1; Piotr Gabryel1; Joanna Tyczka2; * Dyszkiewicz Wojciech1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery K. Marcinkowski Medical University, Poznan, Poland;   2Department of Ansthesiology and Intensive Care Regional Center of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery, Poznan, Poland

M-P14

147-P

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS WITH N2 AND N3 METASTATIC NODES
* Marcin Zielinski1; * Lukasz Hauer1; * Jolanta Hauer1; Juliusz Pankowski2; Tomasz Nabialek3; Artur Szlubowski4
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   2Department of Pathology, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   3Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   4Endoscopy Unit, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

M-P15

148-P

FIRST SERIES OF ROBOTIC PULMONARY LOBECTOMY IN AUSTRIA
* Florian Augustin; * Johannes Bodner; Heinz Wykypiel; Christoph Schwinghammer; * Thomas Schmid
Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant, and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck , Austria

M-P16

149-P

THE INFLUENCE OF ENDOGENOUS INTERLEUKIN-10 ON DENDRITIC CELLS MATURATION AND ACTIVATION OF LYMPHOCYTES IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF HUMAN LUNG CANCER CULTURES
Olga Jankowska2; Dariusz Sagan1; Pawel Krawczyk2; * Kazimierz Gozdziuk1; Janusz Milanowski2
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland;   2Department of Pneumonology, Oncology and Allergology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

M-P17

150-P

SEQUENTIAL RESECTION OF THE VENA CAVA SUPERIOR TO REDUCE CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONS
* Frank Beckers; * Corinna Ludwig; * Erich Stoelben
Hospital of Cologne , Lungenklinik, Cologne , Germany

M-P18

151-P

RETROSTERNAL COLONIC REPLACEMENT FOR DIFFUSE CORROSIVE ESOPHAGEAL STRICTURE: LONG TERM RESULTS OF A CLINICAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDY
Venanzio Porziella1; * Stefano Margaritora1; Venanzio Valenza2; Anna Maria Antonia Parisi1; Michele Marchese3; Maria Letizia Vita1; Elisa Meacci1; Maria Teresa Congedo1; Giacomo Cusumano1; Pierluigi Granone1
1General Thoracic Surgery Catholic University, Rome, Italy;   2Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Catholic University, Rome, Italy;   3Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

M-P19

152-P

A COMPARISON OF CT/FDG-PET SCAN STAGING WITH FINAL PATHOLOGICAL STAGING IN PATIENTS FOLLOWING LUNG RESECTION
Ayo Meduoye; * Edward Black; * John Duffy; * David Beggs; * Andzrej Majewski
Univeristy Hospitals Trust Nottingham, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nottingham, United Kingdom

M-P20

153-P

THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY AS THE STANDARD OPERATION FOR NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER IN A PUBLIC EUROPEAN HOSPITAL .
* Henrik Jessen Hansen; * Rene Horsleben Petersen; * Merete Christensen
Dept. of Cardiothoracic surgery RT, The Heart Center , Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen , Denmark

M-P21

154-P

SURGICALLY TREATED SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLE PRIMARY NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS: IS IT WORTH IT?
Celalettin Ibrahim Kocaturk; Zeki Mehmet Gunluoglu; Levent Cansever; Adalet Demir; Akif Turna; Ibrahim Seyid Dincer; Mehmet Ali Bedirhan
Yedikule Chest Disseases and Thoracic Surgery Center , Istanbul , Turkey

M-P22

155-P

COMPOSING AN ADHESION BARRIER USING HYALURONIC ACID AND CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE (SEPRAFILM®) TO PREVENT POST-SURGICAL ADHESION IN RABBIT MEDIASTINUM
Murat Akcil1; Ahmet Demirkaya1; Ezel Ersen1; Fatma Simsek1; Rana Ramazanoglu2; Buge Oz2; * Kamil Kaynak1
1Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Department of Pathology, Istanbul, Turkey

M-P23

156-P

THE CURRENT ROLE OF MEDIASTINOSCOPY IN THE STAGING OF NON-SMALL-CELL-LUNG-CARCINOMA (NSCLC): AN UPDATE
Ivar G.J.M. de Bruin; T Haitjema; A Welling; Nausicaa Bode; * W.A.
Schreurs
Medical Centre Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Netherlands

M-P24

157-P

VATS LOBECTOMY: TECHNIQUE AND RESULTS IN THREE HUNDRED CASES
* Miguel Congregado; Gregorio Gallardo; Sergio Moreno; Ana Triviño; Rafael Jimenez-Merchan; * Jesus Loscertales
Department of General Thoracic Surgery.
University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain

M-P25

158-P

THE EFFECT AND OUTCOMES OF NEOADJUVANT THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: WHICH PATIENTS DO BENEFIT MOST?
* Akif Turna1; Murat Kiyik2; * Volkan Kara1; Zeki Gunluoglu1; Nur Urer3; Adnan Aydiner4; Adnan Sayar1; Muzaffer Metin1; Ibrahim Dincer1; * Atilla Gurses1
1Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Chest Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey;   3Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Pathology, Istanbul, Turkey;   4Istanbul University, Institute of Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Istanbul, Turkey

M-P26

159-P

THE USE OF THE LIGASURE™ IN ESOPHAGECTOMY
* Erdal Yekeler1; Hakki Ulutas1; Cevdet Becerik2; Kemal Peker3
1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Region Training and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey;   2 Department of Anesthesiology and General Surgery, Palandoken State Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey;   3 Department of  General Surgery, Palandoken State Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey

M-P27

160-P

EXPERIENCE OF EXTRACOPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION FOR RESPIRATORY OR CARDIAC FAILURE ON GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY
Man-shik Shim; Yong Soo Choi; Kiick Sung; Hong Kwan Kim; Kwhanmien Kim; Jhingook Kim; Young Mog Shim
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (South)

M-P28

161-P

INTRAOPERATIVE SERUM PARATHORMONE MONITORING TO CONFIRM COMPLETE RESECTION IN PATIENTS WITH MEDIASTINAL PARATHYROID ADENOMAS
Dariusz Sagan; Kazimierz Gozdziuk
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

M-P29

162-P

THE IMPACT OF VIDEO ASSISTED MEDIASTINOSCOPIC LYMPHADENECTOMY ON SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH RESECTED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
* Akif Turna1; Alper Celikten1; Necati Citak1; Nilgun Ulukol2; Muzaffer Metin1; Adnan Sayar1; * Atilla Gurses1
1Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Anesthesiology Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey

M-P30

163-P

SERUM VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C(VEGF-C) AND D(VEGF-D) IN PATIENTS WITH ESOPHAGEAL CANCER.
Miroslaw Dariusz Kozlowski1 Oksana Kovalczuk2; Anetta Sulewska2; Grzegorz Lapuc1; Wojciech Laudanski1; Piotr Dziegielewski1; Wieslawa Niklinska3; Lech Chyczewski2; Jacek Niklinski1; Jerzy Laudanski1
Departments of 1Thoracic Surgery, 2Clinical Molecular Biology, 3Histology and Embryology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

 

 

20:00  -  21:00
St Mary's Basilica

Concert

 

 

TUESDAY, 2 June 2009

 

07:30  -  08:20
Room Rydygier

Breakfast Session 3 – LUNG
Lymph Node Sampling versus Radical Lymphadenectomy

 

 

07:30  -  08:20
Room Ostrowski

Breakfast Session 4 – OESOPHAGUS
Lymph Node Sampling versus Radical Lymphadenectomy

 

 

08:30  -  12:30
Room Mikulicz

Thoracic Techno Meeting
"The Central Airway" – “Hot Topics”

 

 

12:30  -  13:00
Room Mikulicz

Extraordinary Lecture
"Professional Risk Management"
P. Konopka, professional mountaineer (Zakopane)

Introduction: J. Kuzdzal ( Krakow )

 

 

13:00  -  14:00
Room Mikulicz

Covidien Lunch Symposium
New Product Innovations in Thoracic Surgery

Lunch boxes are sponsored by Covidien

Moderator G. Rocco ( Naples )

 

 

14:00  -  17:00
Seminar Room

Ethicon Workshop
The Science of Tissue Management

 

 

14:00  -  15:30
Room Mikulicz

Session 7 - Chest Wall / Diaphragm / Pleura

Oral Session (8' presentation - 7' discussion)

Chairmen A. Chapelier; L. Lampl (Paris, Augsburg)

14:00

044-O

REPAIR OF CHEST WALL DEFORMITIES: 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH 744 OPERATIONS.
Jaroslaw Adamczak; Krystian Pawlak; Pawel Zielinski; * Cezary Piwkowski; Mariusz Kasprzyk; * Wojciech Dyszkiewicz
Department Of Thoracic Surgery, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan , Poland

14:15

045-O

SHOULD CHEMOTHERAPY BE GIVEN BEFORE OR AFTER EXTRAPLEURAL PNEUMONECTOMY FOR MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA ?
* Bram Balduyck; * Apostolos Nakas; * Antonio E. Martin-Ucar; * David A Waller
Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital , Leicester , United Kingdom

14:30

046-O

USE OF INTRAPLEURAL STREPTOKINASE FOR MAINTAINING BETTER LUNG EXPANSION IN PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED STUDY
* Erdal Okur; * Cagatay Tezel; * Gokcen Sevilgen; * Gokhan Ergene; * Volkan Baysungur; * Semih Halezeroglu
Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

14:45

047-O

STAGING ALGORITHM FOR DIFFUSE MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA
* Jolanta Hauer; * Lukasz Hauer; Juliusz Pankowski; Tomasz Nabialek; Artur Szlubowski; Artur Szlubowski; * Marcin Zielinski
Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

15:00

048-O

AWAKE VIDEOASSISTED PLEURAL DECORTICATION FOR EMPYEMA THORACIS
Federico Tacconi; * Eugenio Pompeo; Tommaso Claudio Mineo
Tor Vergata University-Thoracic Surgery Division, Rome, Italy

15:15

049-O

CHEST DRAINAGE SUCTION DECREASES DIFFERENTIAL PLEURAL PRESSURE AFTER UPPER LOBECTOMY AND HAS NO EFFECT AFTER LOWER LOBECTOMY
* Gonzalo Varela1; * Alessandro Brunelli2; * Marcelo F Jiménez1; Luca Di Nunzio2; José Luis Aranda1; * Michele Salati2; * Nuria Novoa1
1Thoracic Surgery Service Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain;   2Unit of Thoracic Surgery Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy

 

 

15:30 – 16:00
Exhibition Area

Coffee Break

 

 

14:00  -  15:30
Room Rydygier

Session 8 - Pulmonary Neoplastic

Forum Session (7' presentation - 3' discussion)

Chairmen J. Kuzdzal; L. Spaggiari (Krakow, Milan)

14:00

050-F

T2 NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF VISCERAL PLEURAL INVASION AND TUMOR SIZE .10 YEAR EXPERIENCE FORM RETROSPECTIVE SINGLE CENTRE STUDY
Bassel Al-Alao; Eilis McGovern; Kenneth O'Byrne; * Vincent K Young
St. James Hospital , Dublin , Ireland

14:10

051-F

WHAT IS THE SHELF LIFE OF PET/CT STAGING OF THE MEDIASTINUM IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER?
Karen Booth1; Gerard Hanna2; * Niall McGonigle1; * James McGuigan1; * Kieran McManus1; Joe O'Sullivan3; Tom Lynch4; Jonathon McAleese1
1Thoracic Surgery Unit Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom;   2Department of Clinical Oncology Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom;   3Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom;   4Department of Nuclear Medicine Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

14:20

052-F

STAGE IIIA (N2) NSCLC: THE NEED OF A NEW CLASSIFICATION WITH THERAPEUTIC AND PROGNOSTIC IMPACT.
Felipe Braga1; Juliana Guarize1; * Giulia Veronesi1; Piergiorgio Solli1; * Domenico Galetta1; Fernando Vannucci1; Patrick Maisonneuve1; Gilberto Perez Cardoso3; * Lorenzo Spaggiari1
1European Oncoligic Institute, Milan, Italy;   2University of Milan, Milan, Italy;   3Federal Fluminense University, Nietroi, Brazil

14:30

053-F

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH UNEXPECTED MEDIASTINAL LYMPH NODE INVOLVEMENT AT SURGERY FOR NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: RESULTS FROM THE DANISH LUNG CANCER REGISTRY
Ole Dan Jørgensen
Dept. of Heart-, Lung-, and Vascular Surgery, Odense , Denmark

14:40

054-F

DOES ANATOMICAL SEGMENTECTOMY ALLOW AN ADEQUATE LYMPH NODE (N) STAGING FOR NSCLC?
Alberto Ruffato1; * Sandro Mattioli1; Luca Ferruzzi1; * Vladimiro Pilotti1; Piero Candoli2; Frank D'Ovidio3
1Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery, Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;   2Division fo Pneumology, Lugo Hospital, Ravenna, Italy;   3Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University, New York, United States

14:50

055-F

THE REQUIREMENT OF MEDIASTINOSCOPY ON STAGING OF NSCLC PATIENTS WITH NEGATIVE MEDIASTINAL LYMPH NODE UPTAKE ON PET-CT IMAGING
Altan Kir; * Ilker Iskender; * Aysun Kosif Misirlioglu; * Hakan Sonmez; * Hasan Oguz Kapicibasi; Salih Zeki Kadioglu; Altug Kosar; Tulin Esin Sevim; Ali Atasalihi
Süreyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Investigation Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

15:00

056-F

LUNG CANCER IN WOMEN - PROGNOSTIC DIFFERENCE IN GENDER DIFFERENCE
* Kenji Suzuki; Kazuya Takamochi; Shiaki Oh
Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo , Japan

15:10

057-F

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLE LUNG CANCER LOCATED IN A DIFFERENT LOBE OR LUNG: GOOD SURVIVAL IN NODE-NEGATIVE SUBGROUP
* Luca Voltolini; Cristian Rapicetta; Luca Luzzi; Claudia Ghiribelli; Piero Paladini; Giuseppe Gotti
Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy

15:20

058-F

NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER RESTAGING WITH THE TRANSCERVICAL EXTENDED MEDIASTINAL LYMPHADENECTOMY
* Marcin Zielinski1; * Lukasz Hauer1; * Jolanta Hauer1; Juliusz Pankowski2; Tomasz Nabialek3; Artur Szlubowski4
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   2Department of Pathology, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   3Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   4Endoscopy Unit, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

 

 

15:30 – 16:00
Exhibition Area

Coffee Break

 

 

16:00  -  17:30
Room Mikulicz

Session 9 - Airway – Transplantation

Oral Session (8' presentation - 7' discussion)

Chairmen F. Venuta; W. Klepetko (Rome, Vienna)

16:00

059-O

BRONCHO-ARTERIAL FISTULA: A RARE, BUT USUALLY FATAL AIRWAY COMPLICATION AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
* Dirk Van Raemdonck1; Geert M Verleden2; Lieven Dupont2; Willy Coosemans1; * Herbert Decaluwé1; * Georges Decker1; * Paul De Leyn1; * Philippe Nafteux1; Marc Decramer2; * Toni Lerut1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   2Department of Pneumology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

16:15

060-O

DOES DONOR CAUSE OF BRAIN DEATH HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUTCOME AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION?
Shana Wauters1; * Dirk Van Raemdonck 2; Caroline Meers1; Geert Verleden3; Lieven Dupont 3; Willy Coosemans2; * Herbert Decaluwe2; * Paul De Leyn2; * Philippe Nafteux2; * Toni Lerut2
1Laboratory of Thoracic Surgery, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   2Department of Thoracic Surgery, U.Z.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   3Department of Pneumology, U.Z.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

16:30

061-O

URGENT SEGMENTAL RESECTION AS THE PRIMARY STRATEGY IN MANAGEMENT OF BENIGN TRACHEAL STENOSIS - A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE IN 164 CONSECUTIVE CASES
* Tibor Krajc1; Miroslav Janik1; * Roman Benej1; * Martin Lucenic1; Ivan Majer2; Juraj Demian2; * Svetozar Harustiak1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty Hospital Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;   22nd Department of Pulmonology and Phthiseology, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

16:45

062-O

EXCESSIVE DYNAMIC AIRWAY COLLAPSE IS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR OUTCOME IN SLEEVE RESECTIONS IN THE ELDERLY.
* Servet Bölükbas1; * Thomas Bergmann1; Annette Fisseler-Eckhoff2; * Joachim Schirren1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany;   2Institutes for Pathology and Cytology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany

17:00

063-O

CHALLENGING PROBLEMS IN ANTERIOR MEDIASTINAL TRACHEOSTOMY. INADEQUACES AND DIFFICIENCES.
* Zeno Popovici
Lucian Blaga University , High School of Medicine , Sibiu , Romania

17:15

064-O

TRACHEAL RELEASE MANEUVERS ? HOW MUCH IS NECESSARY?
* Ioan Cordos; * Ciprian Bolca; * Cristian Paleru; * Radu Matache; * Codin Saon
1st Clinical Department of Thoracic Surgery, "Marius Nasta" National Institute of Pneumology , Bucharest , Romania

 

 

16:00  -  17:30
Room Rydygier

Session 10 - Oesophagus / Mediastinum

Forum Session (7' presentation - 3' discussion)

Chairmen P. Thomas; T. Lerut (Marseille, Leuven)

16:00

065-F

RADICAL SUPERIOR MEDIASTINAL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION WILL IMPROVE THE POOR PROGNOSIS FOR THORACIC ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CANCER
Yasuaki Nakajima; Yutaka Miyawaki; Akihiro Hoshino; Tomoyoshi Suzuki; Shigeo Haruki; Kenro Kawada; Tetsuro Nishikage; Kagami Nagai; Tatsuyuki Kawano
Department of Esophago-Gastric Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

16:10

066-F

MULTIMODALITY THERAPY FOR THE CURATIVE TREATMENT OF ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE ESOPHAGUS AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION: IS IT REASONABLE BEYOND 70 YEARS?
* Xavier B D'Journo1; André Camerlo1; Pierre Michelet2; Laetitia Dahan3; François Kerbaul2; * Christophe Doddoli1; Roger Giudicelli1; * Pierre Fuentes1; * Pascal A Thomas1
1Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marseille, France;   2Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Anaesthesiology, Marseille, France;   3Timone Hospital-Department of Digestive Oncology, Marseille, France

16:20

067-F

LONG-TERM RESULTS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NON-AXIAL GASTRIC HIATUS HERNIA (NAHH)
* Sandro Mattioli1; Marialuisa Lugaresi1; * Vladimiro Pilotti1; Luca Ferruzzi1; Alberto Ruffato1; Frank D'Ovidio2
1Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery, Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;   2Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University, New York, United States

16:30

068-F

A COMBINED APPROACH OF ENDOBRONCHIAL AND ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED NEEDLE ASPIRATION IN THE RADIOLOGICALLY NORMAL MEDIASTINUM IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER STAGING
Artur Szlubowski1; Jerzy Soja2; Marcin Kolodziej1; * Jolanta Hauer1; * Lukasz Hauer1; Witold Sosnicki1; Juliusz Pankowski3; Anna Obrochta3; Magdalena Jakubiak3; Marcin Zielinski1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   2Department of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland;   3Department of Pathology, Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

16:40

069-F

RADICAL OESOPHAGEAL RESECTION CAN USUALLY BE SAFELY MANAGED IN THORACIC SURGERY ENVIRONMENTS WITHOUT ADMISSION TO INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
Niall C McGonigle1; Alastair N Graham1; * Kieran G McManus1; Brian Armstrong1; * James McGuigan1
1The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom;   2The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

16:50

070-F

SUPERIOR VENA CAVA RESECTION IN THORACIC MALIGNANCIES. IS PROSTHETIC REPLACEMENT AT HIGHER RISK ?
* Francesco Leo; Roberto Bellini; Luca Tavecchio; Barbara Conti; Vincenzo Delledonne; Elisa Calabrò; Paolo Girotti; Ugo Pastorino
Thoracic Surgery Department, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

17:00

071-F

COMPARISON OF COMPLETE REMISSION RATES AFTER 5-YEARS FOLLOW-UP OF THREE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES OF THYMECTOMY FOR MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
* Marcin Zielinski; * Lukasz Hauer; * Jolanta Hauer; Juliusz.
Pankowski; Tomasz Nabialek; Artur Szlubowski
Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane,, Poland

17:10

072-F

PREDICTORS OF SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED THYMOMA (MASAOKA STAGE III AND IVA)
* Giuseppe Cardillo; Francesco Carleo; Luigi Carbone; Alessia Raffaella De Massimi; Daniele Forcella; Lorenzo Salvadori; Stefano Treggiari; Massimo Martelli
Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini, Rome, Italy

17:20

073-F

VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC (VAT) VERSUS OPEN THYMECTOMY FOR EARLY STAGE THYMOMA
Sofina Begum; Haitham Abunasra; Bakri Kaakeh; * Apostolos Nakas; * Antonio Martin-Ucar; * David Waller
Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

 

 

17:30  -  18:30
Room Ostrowski

ESTS General Assembly

 

 

19:30  -  23:30
Wieliczka Salt Mine

Gala Dinner

 

 

08:30  -  17:30
Foyer 1st level

Tuesday Posters
ESTS Greek Pioneer Prize (500 €) for best poster displayed

T-P1

164-P

MAJOR PULMONARY RESECTIONS FOR LUNG CANCER IN PATIENTS OVER 75 YEARS OLD
Krystian Pawlak; * Mariusz Kasprzyk; * Cezary Piwkowski; * Pawel Zielinski; * Wojciech Dyszkiewicz; Piotr Gabryel
Department of Thoracic Surgery, K. Marcinkowski Medical University, Poznan, Poznan, Poland

T-P2

165-P

COMPARING SLEEVE LOBECTOMY AND PNEUMONECTOMY FOR NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER AFTER INDUCTION THERAPY: A CASE-CONTROL MATCH STUDY
* Alessandro Marra1; Olaf M Koch2; Wolfgang Wagner3; Ludger Hillejan1
1Dept. Thoracic Surgery, Niels-Stensen-Kliniken, Ostercappeln, Germany;   2Dept. Medical Oncology, Klinikum Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany;   3Dept.
Radiation Oncology, Paracelsus Klinik, Osnabrück, Germany

T-P3

166-P

MEANING OF SURGERY IN TREATMENT OF RESISTANT FORMS OF LUNG TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
Sergo Vashakidze; Shota Gogishvili; * Gia Lursmanashvili
Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases National Center , Tbilisi , Georgia

T-P4

167-P

EXPANSIVE EXTRAPLEURAL HEMATOMA AFTER BLUNT THORACIC TRAUMA
David Pérez-Alonso; Enrique Bermejo-Casero; Santiago Quevedo-Losada; Jose Manuel Santana-Montesdeoca; Paula Junquera-Rionda; David Fernández-San Millán; Romen Santana-Suárez; Luis Mateo López-Rivero
Seccion de Cirugía Torácica del Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

T-P5

168-P

PLEURO MEDIASTINAL NEUROFIBROMA INVADING VERTEBRAL COLUMN AT T 10 LEVEL
* Cristian Paleru1; Marius Catana2; * Ciprian Bolca1; Mihaela Codresi1; Olga Danaila1
1National Institute of Pneumology "M.Nasta" Thoracic Surgery, Bucharest, Romania;   2Spitalul Bagdasar Arseni,Clinica de Neurochirurgie 4, Bucharest, Romania

T-P6

169-P

OVERWEIGHT AND WEIGHT LOSS DURING CHEMORADIOTHERAPY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTER SURVIVAL AFTER SURGERY IN STAGE III NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER
Barbara S van der Meij; Erik CJ Phernambucq; Geert-Mathijs Fieten; Egbert F Smit; * Marinus A Paul; Paul AM van Leeuwen; * Jan WA Oosterhuis
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

T-P7

170-P

LUNG CANCER IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: CLINICAL OUTCOME AND LONG-TERM RESULTS AFTER PULMONARY RESECTION
Makoto Takahama; Ryoji Yamamoto; Hirohito Tada
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

T-P8

171-P

PNEUMONECTOMIES - TO DRAIN OR NOT TO DRAIN - THAT IS THE QUESTION
Kandadai Seshadri Rammohan; Snehal Patel; Eric G Butchart; E N P Kulatilake; Peter A O'Keefe; Margaret Kornaszewska
University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

T-P9

172-P

ROLE OF SURGICAL RESECTION IN COLORECTAL LUNG METASTASES: ANALYSIS OF 137 PATIENTS
* Piero Borasio1; Mara Gisabella1; * Andrea Billè1; Luisella Righi2; Marco Tampellini3; Francesco Ardissone1
1University of Turin Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences Thoracic Surgery Unit San Luigi Hospital, Orbassano, Italy;   2University of Turin Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences Pathology Unit San Luigi Hospital, Orbassano, Italy;   3University of Turin Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences Oncology Unit San Luigi Hospital, Orbassano, Italy

T-P10

173-P

INFLUENCE OF THE EXTENT OF LYMPHATIC METASTASIS IN NON-SMALL-CELL-LUNG CANCER ON 10-YEAR-SURVIVAL RATES
Maren Petzold; * Johannes Merk; * Gunda Leschber
ELK Berlin Chest Hospital
, Berlin , Germany

T-P11

174-P

POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING THORACIC SURGERY: COMPARISON OF THREE SCORING SYSTEMS.
Paula Agostini1,2; Hayley Cieslik1; Babu Naidu1; Ehab Bishay1; Maninder Kalkat1; * Sridhar Rathinam1
1Birmingham Heartlands Hospital , Birmingham , United Kingdom ;   2Coventry University , Coventry , United Kingdom

T-P12

175-P

OXIDISED CELLULOSE IN THORACIC SURGERY - HUMAN IN VIVO STUDY OF EFFICACY, SAFETY AND ABSORPTION PROPERTIES
* Martin Hürtgen; Stefan Gross; * Michael Wolf; Antje Messerschmidt; * Hubertus Hillebrand; * Biruta Witte
Katholisches Klinikum Koblenz - Thoracic Surgery, Koblenz, Germany

T-P13

176-P

EFFECTS OF THORACIC SURGERY ON CHEST WALL VOLUME REGULATION: EVALUATION BY OPTOELECTRONIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY.
Elisa Meacci1; Pasciuto Giuliana1; Giuseppe Maria Corbo1; Mariella Milazzo2; Emilio Gallotta2; Stefano Cafarotti1; * Stefano Margaritora1; Silvia Sterzi2; Salvatore Valente1; Pierluigi Granone1
1Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Rome, Italy;   2Campus Biomedico University, Rome, Italy

T-P14

177-P

EFFECTIVENESS OF PET SCAN IN POSTOPERATIVE LONG TERM FOLLOW UP OF PATIENTS WITH NONSMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
Muzaffer Metin1; Okan Solak2; Adnan Sayar1; Murat Sezer3; Atilla Pekcolaklar1; * Atilla Gurses1
1Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey;   2Kocatepe University School of Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey;   3Kocatepe University School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

T-P15

178-P

NOVEL SPLIT CHEST TUBE AND CONVENTIONAL THORACIC DRAIN ? PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON
* Tanel Laisaar
Tartu University Lung Hospital, Tartu, Estonia

T-P16

179-P

RESULTS OF PNEUMONECTOMY IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS
* Witold Rzyman; Artur Gibas; Piotr Chwirot
Thoracic Surgery Department, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

T-P17

180-P

PULMONARY FUNCTION BEFORE AND AFTER LUNG METASTASECTOMY. A PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF 50 CASES
* Stefan Welter; * Jan Jacobs; * Georgios Stamatis
Ruhrlandklinik, Essen , Germany

T-P18

181-P

VATS LOBECTOMY BY FLEXIBLE THORACOSCOPY: 111 CONSECUTIVE CASES
Peter Bjørn Licht; Lars Ladegaard
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Odense University Hospital , Odense , Denmark

T-P19

182-P

CERVICO-MEDIASTINAL GOITER: IS TELESCOPIC EXPLORATION OF THE MEDIASTINUM (VIDEO MEDIASTINOSCOPY) USEFUL?
* Marcello Migliore1; Giuseppe Strano1; Angela Branca1; Salvatore A Morello1; Mario Costanzo2; Matteo A Cannizzaro2
1Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;   2Surgical Endocrine Unit, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

T-P20

183-P

HYBRID MINIMAL ACCESS SURGERY FOR OESOPHAGEAL CANCER: AN INTENT-TO-TREAT EVALUATION OF LAPAROSCOPY COMBINED WITH TRANSTHORACIC OESOPHAGECTOMY.
* Christophe Doddoli; * Xavier B D'Journo; David Kalfa; * Delphine S Trousse; Roger Giudicelli; * Pierre Fuentes; * Pascal A Thomas
Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marseille , France

T-P21

184-P

HEPATIC HERNIATION THROUGH A DIAPHRAM DEFECT SIMULATING BASAL LUNG NODES
Rosa Maria Sanchez-Munoz; * Jose Ramon Jarabo Sarceda; * Elena Fernandez Martin; Joaquin Calatayud Gastardi; * Ana Gomez; * Florentino Hernando Trancho
Thoracic Surgery Section at Clinico San Carlos Hospital, Madrid, Spain

T-P22

185-P

INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMORS OF THE LUNG: A CLINICAL STUDY IN TWENTY-NINE PATIENTS
* Stefano Margaritora; Anna Mariantonia Parisi; Giulia Carnassale; Venanzio Porziella; Elisa Meacci; Maria Letizia Vita; Mariella Filotico; Maria Teresa Congedo; Giacomo Cusumano; Pierluigi Granone
Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

T-P23

186-P

SELF-AWARENESS OF HEALTH STATUS WITH SURGICAL ONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS.
Katarzyna Daniel2; * Adam Rzechonek1; Jerzy Kolodziej1; Aleksandra Kaminska1; Jaroslaw Adamiak2; Maciej Mraz2
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland;   2Lower-Silesian Centre of Pulmonary Diseases, Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

T-P24

187-P

THORACOSCOPIC THYMECTOMY PROVIDES COMPARABLE RESECTION TO SURGERY PERFORMED VIA MEDIAN STERNOTOMY WITH REDUCED PAIN, SHORTER HOSPITAL STAY AND IMPROVED COSMESIS.
* Mehmood Ahmad Jadoon; * Kieran Gerard McManus
Royal Victoria Hospital , Belfast , United Kingdom

T-P25

188-P

PATIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY OF A NEW PORTABLE CHEST DRAIN SUCTION DEVICE FOLLOWING LUNG RESECTION.
* Michael Klimatsidas; * Apostolos Nakas; * David A. Waller; * Antonio E. Martin - Ucar
Thoracic Surgery Department , Glenfield University Hospital of Leicester,UK, Leicester, United Kingdom

T-P26

189-P

BRONCHIAL STUMP INFILTRATION AFTER LUNG CANCER SURGERY. RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 2994 PATIENTS.
* Esther Fernandez1; Miguel Alejandro Mesa1; Carlos Martinez1; * Pedro Enrique Lopez de Castro1; Julio Astudillo1
1H.
Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol. Badalona. Barcelona, Badalona, Spain;   2School of Medicine. UAB, Badalona, Spain

T-P27

190-P

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF THORACIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT PATIENTS
Lukasz Pryt; Aleksandra Szlachcinska; * Jozef Kozak
Thoracic Surgery Department, Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland

T-P28

191-P

USEFULNESS OF EXPLORATORY VIDEOTHORACOSCOPIC STAGING TO DETECT T3 DUE CHEST WALL INVASION
* Miguel Congregado; Gregorio Gallardo; Rafael Jimenez-Merchan; Sergio Moreno; Juan Carlos Giron; Ana Triviño; * Jesus Loscertales
Department of General Thoracic Surgery. University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain

T-P29

192-P

OPERATIVE STRATEGY AND CLINICAL OUTCOME IN 222 PATIENTS WITH BRONCHUS CARCINOIDS
* Christian Biancosino1; Axel Niendorf2; Masaki Nakashima1; * Detlev Branscheid1; * Klaus D. Diemel1
1Grosshansdorf Lung Center, Grosshansdorf, Hamburg, Germany;   2Institute for Pathology, Hamburg, Germany

T-P30

193-P

QUALITY OF LIFE, EMOTIONAL STATE AND COPING SKILLS IN LUNG CANCER PATIENTS ONE YEAR AFTER THE SURGERY.
Raquel Rodríguez2; Pilar Laserna2; María Eugenia Olivares3; * Florentino Hernando1; Juan Antonio Cruzado2; Masafumi Yamaguchi1; * Jose Ramon Jarabo1; * Elena Fernández1; Ana María Gómez1; Joaquín Calatayud1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery. Hospital Clínico San Carlos , Madrid , Spain ;   2Facultad de Psicología Universidad Complutense , Madrid , Spain ;   3Servicio de Obstetricia y Ginecología.
Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 3 June 2009

 

07:00  -  07:50
Room Rydygier

Breakfast Session 5 – LUNG
VATS Lobectomy

 

 

07:00  -  07:50
Room Ostrowski

Breakfast Session 6 – OESOPHAGUS
Giant Hiatus Hernia

 

 

08:00  -  09:00
Room Rydygier

Session 11 - Best Posters (Mixed)

Moderated Poster Session (3' presentation + 2' discussion)

Chairmen S. Halezeroglu; K. Athanassiadi ( Istanbul , Athens )

 

08:00

178-P

NOVEL SPLIT CHEST TUBE AND CONVENTIONAL THORACIC DRAIN ? PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON
* Tanel Laisaar
Tartu University Lung Hospital, Tartu, Estonia

08:05

176-P

EFFECTS OF THORACIC SURGERY ON CHEST WALL VOLUME REGULATION: EVALUATION BY OPTOELECTRONIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY.
Elisa Meacci1; Pasciuto Giuliana1; Giuseppe Maria Corbo1; Mariella Milazzo2; Emilio Gallotta2; Stefano Cafarotti1; * Stefano Margaritora1; Silvia Sterzi2; Salvatore Valente1; Pierluigi Granone1
1Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Rome, Italy;   2Campus Biomedico University, Rome, Italy

08:10

174-P

POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING THORACIC SURGERY: COMPARISON OF THREE SCORING SYSTEMS.
Paula Agostini1; Hayley Cieslik1; Babu Naidu1; Ehab Bishay1; Maninder Kalkat1; * Sridhar Rathinam1
1Birmingham Heartlands Hospital , Birmingham , United Kingdom ;   2Coventry University , Coventry , United Kingdom

08:15

171-P

PNEUMONECTOMIES - TO DRAIN OR NOT TO DRAIN - THAT IS THE QUESTION
Kandadai Seshadri Rammohan; Snehal Patel; Eric G Butchart; E N P Kulatilake; Peter A O'Keefe; Margaret Kornaszewska
University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

08:20

141-P

IMPACT OF HISTOLOGICAL GRADING ON SURVIVAL OF LUNG CANCER PATIENTS
* Marco Anile1; * Federico Venuta1; * Daniele Diso1; * Tiziano De Giacomo1; * Edoardo Mercadante1; Domenico Vitolo2; Flavia Longo3; Ylenia Pecoraro1; * Erino Angelo Rendina1; * Giorgio Furio Coloni1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy;   2Department of Pathology University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy;   3Department of Oncology University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

08:25

138-P

NEGATIVE EBUS TBNA - A CHALLENGE TO THE ESTS GUIDELINES
* Mark Krasnik1; Ralf Eberhart2; Felix Herth2
1dpt. thoracic and cardiovasc. surgery.
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark;   2Thoraxklinik Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

08:30

136-P

ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTION BY INTRAOPERATIVE TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY BEFORE AND AFTER SURGICAL REPAIR OF PECTUS EXCAVATUM
Thorsten Krueger; Pierre-Guy Chassot; Michel Christodoulou; Cai Cheng; * Hans-Beat Ris; Lennart Magnusson
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

08:35

135-P

3D-CT VOLUMETRY OF THE LUNG FOR PREDICTING RESIDUAL PULMONARY FUNCTION IN PATIENTS AFTER LUNG RESECTION
Noriyasu Us
ami1; Toshiki Okasaka1; Tetsuya Mizuno1; Noriaki Sakakura1; Norihisa Oohata1; Tetsuo Taniguchi1; Shingo Iwano2; Kohei Yokoi1
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan;   2Department of Radiology, Nagoya University of Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

08:40

117-P

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS WITH N2 AND N3 METASTATIC NODES
* Marcin Zielinski1; * Lukasz Hauer1; * Jolanta Hauer1; Juliusz Pankowski2; Tomasz Nabialek3; Artur Szlubowski4
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   2Department of Pathology, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   3Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   4Endoscopy Unit, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

08:45

113-P

MANAGEMENT OF RESIDUAL PLEURAL SPACE AND PERSISTENT AIRLEAK AFTER MAJOR LUNG RESECTION
* Kalliopi Athanassiadi1; Stamatis Kakaris4; Penelope Kouki3; Georgia Simou2; Stamatia Pispirigkou1; Panagiota Dimou3; Elias Perros2; Achilleas Antonopoulos1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece;   2Department of Pulmonology, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece;   3Department of Anaesthesiology, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece;   4Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital for Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece

08:50

109-P

DEVELOPMENT OF A PORCINE MODEL TO STUDY DONOR LUNG INJURY
Caroline Meers1; Walter De Wever2; Eric Verbeken3; Robin Vos4; Shana Wauters1; Stéphanie Devleeschauwer4; Bart Vanaudenaerde4; Geert Verleden5; * Toni Lerut6; * Dirk Van Raemdonck6
1Laboratory of Thoracic Surgery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   2Department of Radiology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   3Department of Pathology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   4Laboratory of Pneumology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   5Department of Pneumology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;   6Department of Thoracic Surgery, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

08:55

107-P

CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS (CTCS) IN PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT LUNG RESECTION FOR LUNG METASTASES
Masaki Hashimoto1; Fumihiro Tanaka1; Kazue Yoneda1; Teruhisa Takuwa1; Seiji Matsumoto1; Yoshitomo Okumura1; Nobuyuki Kondo1; Seiki Hasegawa1; Toru Tsujimura2; Takashi Nakano3
1Hyogo College of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nishinomiya, Japan;   2Hyogo College of Medicine Department of Molecular Pathology, Nishinomiya, Japan;   3Hyogo College of Medicine Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

 

08:00  -  09:00
Room Mikulicz

Session 12 - Video (Mixed)

Video session (7' presentation + 3' discussion)

Chairmen T. Molnar; T. Kiefer (Pécs, Konstanz)

08:00

074-V

RESECTION OF THYMOMA WITH TRANSCERVICAL-SUBXIPHOID VATS MAXIMAL THYMECTOMY
* Marcin Zielinski; Juliusz Pankowski; Tomasz Nabialek; Artur Szlubowski
Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

08:10

075-V

VESSEL-LIGASURED LOBECTOMY FOR LUNG CANCER
* Carlo Curcio; Maurizio Valente
AORN Monaldi UOC I° Thoracic Surgery, Naples, Italy

08:20

076-V

LAPAROSCOPIC/THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY FOR COMPLEX NON AXIAL HIATUS HERNIAS
* Sandro Mattioli; Alberto Ruffato; Marialuisa Lugaresi; * Vladimiro Pilotti; Luca Ferruzzi
Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery, Villa Maria Cecilia and San Pier Damiano Hospitals, University of Bologna, Italy, Bologna, Italy

08:30

077-V

CHEST WALL AND DIAPHRAGM RESECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR EXTENSIVE CHEST WALL CHONDROSARCOMA
* Alberto Oliaro; Claudio Mossetti; * Pier Luigi Filosso; Riccardo Carlo Cristofori; Maria Cristina Bruna; Enrico Ruffini
University of Torino - Department of Thoracic Surgery, torino, Italy

08:40

078-V

ENDOMETRIOSIS-RELATED PNEUMOTHORAX AFTER F.I.V.E.T. PROCEDURE
* Alessandro Baisi2; Federico Raveglia1; Andrea Leporati1; Angelo Maria Calati1; Ugo Cioffi2
1Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo, Milano, Italy;   2Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

08:50

079-V

DEMONSTRATION OF DIFFERENT LUNG RESECTION TECHNIQUES WITH THE NEW 1318 NM DIODE LASER (ERASER) IN ONE PATIENT WITH 25 METASTASES OF COLORECTAL CANCER.
* Axel Rolle; Beata Bis
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery,Fachkrankenhaus Coswig, Coswig / Dresden , Germany

 

 

09:00  -  10:30
Room Rydygier

Joint ERS / ESTS Symposium
Mesothelioma

 

 

09:00  -  10:30
Room Ostrowski

Joint ISDE / ESTS Symposium
Barrett's Oesophagus

 

 

10:30 – 11:00
Exhibition Area

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00  -  13:00
Room Mikulicz

Session 13 - Mixed Malignant

Forum Session (7' presentation - 3' discussion)

Chairmen F. Detterbeck; M. Zielinski ( New Haven , Zakopane)

11:00

080-F

QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS 6 MONTHS AFTER LOBECTOMY FOR LUNG CANCER VIA VATS OR THORACOTOMY
* Volkan Baysungur; * Cagatay Tezel; * Erdal Okur; Burcu Kutlu; Pinar Varer; * Semih Halezeroglu
Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching Hospital, Istanbul , Turkey

11:10

081-F

PULMONARY METASTASECTOMY: THORACOTOMY OR VATS?
Yong Soo Choi; Jhingook Kim; Kwhanmien Kim; Hong Kwan Kim; Hee Chul Yang; Min Woong Kang; Young Mog Shim
Thoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (South)

11:20

082-F

LONG TERM RESULTS AFTER 1318 NM LASER RESECTIONS IN 415 PATIENTS WITH LUNG METASTASES.
* Axel Rolle; Beata Bis; Barbara Baier
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Fachkrankenhaus Coswig, Coswig/ Dresden , Germany

11:30

083-F

THE ROLE OF INTRATHORACIC, CERVICAL AND RETROCRURAL RESIDUAL TUMOR RESECTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NONSEMINOMATOUS GERM CELL CANCER OF TESTICULAR ORIGIN.
* Joachim Schirren1; Stephan Trainer1; * Thomas Bergmann1; Rebekka Schirren1; Annette Fisseler-Eckhoff2; * Servet Bölükbas1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany;   2Institutes for Pathology and Cytology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany

11:40

084-F

OBESITY IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ADVERSE OUTCOME FOLLOWING SURGICAL RESECTION OF ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA
Koroush Madani; Ronghua Zhao; * Alan G Casson
University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon , Canada

11:50

085-F

MEDIASTINAL STAGING FOR LUNG CANCER: THE INFLUENCE OF BIOPSY VOLUME
Elof Nelson1; Christian Pape1; Ole Dan Jørgensen1; Karen Ege Olsen2; Peter Bjørn Licht1
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark;   2Clínical Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

12:00

086-F

A DIAGNOSTIC YIELD OF ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND-GUIDED NEEDLE ASPIRATION IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER RESTAGING
Artur Szlubowski1; Jerzy Soja2; Jolanta Hauer1; Lukasz Hauer1; Joanna Figura1; Maciej Narski1; Juliusz Pankowski3; Anna Obrochta3; Magdalena Jakubiak3; * Marcin Zielinski1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland;   2Department of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland;   3Department of Pathology, Sokolowski Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

12:10

087-F

PRIMARY NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS OF THE THYMUS (THYMIC CARCINOID) : A CLINICOPATHOLOGIC AND PROGNOSTIC STUDY IN 19 PATIENTS
* Giuseppe Cardillo1; Paul Marinus2; Stefano Treggiari1; Michele Giovanni Lopergolo1; Alessia Raffaella De Massimi1; Francesco Carleo1; Massimo Martelli1
1Unit of Thoracic Surgery, S. Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy;   2Departments of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

12:20

088-F

EXTENDED SURGERY FOR LOCALLY ADVANCED MASAOKA STAGE III AND IVA EPITHELIAL THYMIC TUMORS
* Pascal A Thomas; * Delphine Trousse; Xavier B D'Journo; * Christophe Doddoli; Roger Giudicelli; * Pierre A Fuentes
Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marseille, France

12:30

089-F

POSTOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY REFERRAL PATTERNS AND ADJUVANT TREATMENT OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING CURATIVE RESECTIONS FOR NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER IN A REGIONAL THORACIC CENTRE
Remananda Krishnanand Pai; Sridhar Rathinam; Vishnu Sharma; Ehab Bishay; Richard Steyn; Pala Babu Rajesh; Maninder Kalkat
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom

12:40

090-F

ILK-POSITIVE NSCLC PATIENTS BEAR A HIGHER RISK OF DISTANT RECURRENCE
* Stefan B. Watzka1; Markus Marcher1; Irene Rauscher-Poetsch1; Ulrike Setinek2; Guenter Weigel3; * Michael R. Mueller1
1Karl Landsteiner Institute for Thoracic Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   2Division of Pathology, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria;   3Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

12:50

091-F

LATE IMPACT OF LOBECTOMY FOR NSCLC IN RESPIRATORY FUNCTION OF OCTOGENARIAN PATIENTS WITH COPD
Cristian Rapicetta; * Luca Voltolini; Stefano Bongiolatti; Sara Tenconi; Felice Granato; Mariasole Gallazzi; Piero Paladini; Claudia Ghiribelli; * Giuseppe Gotti
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Siena, Italy

 

 

11:00  -  13:00
Room Rydygier

Session 14 - Mixed Benign

Forum Session (7' presentation - 3' discussion)

Chairmen C. Gebitekin; J. Furak (Bursa, Szeged)

11:00

092-F

ENDOTHELIALIZATION OF A POLY-METHYL-PENTENE GAS-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE
Bettina Wiegmann1; Christian Hess2; Andres Hilfiker2; Ulrich Martin2; Axel Haverich1; * Stefan Fischer1
1Departement for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover , Germany ;   2Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover , Germany

11:10

093-F

A SIMPLE EXERCISE TEST TO PREDICT POSTOPERATIVE MORBIDITY AFTER ANATOMICAL LUNG RESECTION
* Gonzalo Varela; * Nuria M Novoa; Esther Ballesteros; Ricardo Oliveira; * Marcelo F Jiménez; Jose Luis Aranda
Thoracic Surgery Service Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

11:20

094-F

ROLE OF PREOPERATIVE FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF UNCOMPLICATED BULLOUS EMPHYSEMA
* Giovanni Vicidomini; Paolo Laperuta; Luigi Busiello; Anna Perrone; Filomena Napolitano; Gaetana Messina; * Alfonso Fiorelli; * Mario Santini
Thoracic Surgery, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

11:30

095-F

CATAMENIAL PNEUMOTHORAX: A PUZZLING ENTITY.
* Delphine S Trousse; Bastien Orsini; * Christophe Doddoli; Francois Prima; Roger Giudicelli; * Pierre A Fuentes; * Pascal A Thomas
Sainte Marguerite University Hospital - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marseille, France

11:40

096-F

QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER PULMONARY METASTASECTOMY: A CENTER- BASED PROSPECTIVE TRIAL
* Alexandra Schwan; * Stefan Welter; * Jan Jacobs; * Georgios Stamatis
Ruhrlandclinic, Department for Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, Essen , Germany

11:50

097-F

"STRIPPING" FOR THE PREVENTION OF PROLONGED AIR LEAK - IS THERE A FUTURE IN THE PAST?
Oral Akin; * Erdal Tasci; Senol Urek; Guven Olgac; * Cemal Asim Kutlu
Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching and Research Hospital , Istanbul , Turkey

12:00

098-F

THE AUTOLOGOUS PLEURAL BUTTRESSING OF STAPLE LINES IN SURGERY FOR EMPHYSEMA AND BULLOUS LUNG DISEASE: A PATIENT-CONTROL STUDY
* Volkan Baysungur; * Cagatay Tazel; * Gokhan Ergene; Gokcen Sevilgen; * Erdal Okur; * Semih Halezeroglu
Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

12:10

099-F

THE INTRATHORACIC VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE (VAC) DEVICE AS TOOL TO CONTROL THORACIC SEPSIS
Alend Saadi1; * Jean Yannis Perentes1; Michel Gonzalez1; Adrien Tempia-Caliera2; Nicolas Demartines2; * Hans-Beat Ris1; * Thorsten Krueger1
1Division of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland;   2Departement of Viceral Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

12:20

100-F

VATS DEBRIDMENT AND FIBRINOLYSIS IN PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION OR EMPYEMAS: SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE
* Claudio Della Pona; Casimiro Eugenio Giorgetta; Alessandro Marolla; Mario Robustellini
General Thoracic Surgery Unit Ospedale "E.
Morelli", Sondalo, Italy

12:30

101-F

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PRIMARY EMPYEMA OF THE PLEURAL CAVITY: OUTCOME OF EIGHTY ONE PATIENTS.
Yousef Shahin; * John Duffy; * David Beggs; * Edward Black; * Andrzej Majewski
Nottingham University Hospitals , Nottingham , United Kingdom

12:40

102-F

THORACOTOMY IN THORACIC INJURIES: RESULTS OF A TERTIARY REFERRAL HOSPITAL
* Mehmet Oguzhan Özyurtkan; * Akin Eraslan Balci; Muharrem Cakmak
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Firat University Medical Faculty, Elazig, Turkey

12:50

103-F

"CONSERVATIVE" SURGICAL TREATMENT OF LUNG ABSCESS.
* Ioannis Gakidis; Petros Mihos; Christos Chatziantoniou
General Hospital of Attica KAT, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Athens , Greece

 

 

13:00

ADJOURN

We look forward to welcoming you in Valladolid , Spain for the 18th European Conference On General Thoracic Surgery, 30 May - 2 June 2010

 

 

12:00  -  17:00
Seminar Room

Thoracic Exams
organised by the UEMS European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons

Chairman T. Orlowski