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1 DECISION MAKING in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery October 2013 Rome, italy auditorium antonianum

2 DECISION MAKING in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery October 2013 Rome, italy Dear Colleagues, on behalf of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and metabolic disorders (IFSO) and the Italian Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (SICOB), we are honoured to guest the First International Congress DECISION MAKING IN BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY which will be held in Rome, Italy, at the Auditorium Antonianum on October 24-26, The meeting is aimed to make debate and discussion as larger as possible on particular selected topics where selected presentations, presented by a prestigious international Faculty, will try to answer the most challenging and actual themes of bariatric and metabolic surgery. In particular, through the what I did and/or what I should have done methodology, different solutions to deal with complications and sequelae of bariatric surgery will be discussed, all through detailed imaging and video presentations. The meeting venue the Auditorium Antonianum, which combines history and technology, is not far from the central railway station, from the wonderful historical city centre and very easily reachable from the international airport of Fiumicino. See you in Rome! Marco Anselmino & Paolo Bernante CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS SLEEVE GASTrECTOMY DISASTERS REVISIONAL SURGERY FOR INTRACTABLE COMPLICATIONS SEQUELAE FOLLOWING DIABETES surgery PERI-OPERATIVE HIGH RISK BARIATRIC CASES RESTAURATIONs FOLLOWING BARIATRIC PRIMARY PROCEDURES COMPLEX BARIATRIC CASES Presidents Marco Anselmino pisa Paolo Bernante venezia Faculty Luigi Angrisani napoli Marco Barreca luton Nicola Basso roma Gianluca Bonanomi london Vincenzo Bruni viterbo Luca Busetto padova Stefano Cariani bologna Alper Celik istanbul Valerio Ceriani milano Jean-Marc Chevallier paris Pradeep Chowbey new delhi Jerome Dargent lyon Maurizio De Luca vicenza Stefano Del Prato pisa Bruno Dillemans bruges Nicola Di Lorenzo roma Claudio Di Salvo pisa ELEUTERIO FERRAnNINI pisa Mathias Fobi long beach Mirto Foletto padova Pietro Forestieri napoli Martin Fried prague Francesco Furbetta vinci Michel Gagner montreal Paolo Gentileschi roma Cristiano Giardiello napoli Alessandro Giovanelli milano Fabio Guarracino pisa Jacques Himpens bruxelles Antonio Iannelli nice Marcello Lucchese firenze Giuseppe Maria Marinari bergamo Karl Miller hallein Jan Paul Mulier bruges Giuseppe Nanni roma Monica Nannipieri pisa DAVID NOCCA montpellier Renato Pasquali bologna Paolo Pelosi genova Raul Rosenthal weston Francesco Rubino roma Abdelrahman Salem riyadh Nicola Scopinaro genova Scott Shikora boston Gianfranco Silecchia roma Michel Suter aigle Antonio Torres madrid Surendra Ugale hyderabad Rudolf Weiner frankfurt YURI YASHKOV moscow Marco Antonio Zappa erba

3 DECISION MAKING IN BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY scientific programme Thursday, October 24, REGISTRATION IFSO Presidential Address Luigi Angrisani (Napoli) SICOB Presidential Address Marcello Lucchese (Firenze) Congress Presentation Marco Anselmino (Pisa), Paolo Bernante (Venezia) LECTURE The Surgery of Third Millennium Paradox Pietro Forestieri (Napoli) Coffee break SEQUALAE FOLLOWING DIABETES SURGERY moderators: Nicola Scopinaro (Genova), Giuseppe Nanni (Roma) Persistent Hypoglicemia following RYGBP: what we need to do Monica Nannipieri (Pisa) Long-term recurrence of type II Diabetes following RYGBP: what we need to know and do Francesco Rubino (Roma) Lap RNY gastric bypass/lap sleeve in Type I diabetes patients: why and when A rare case of nesidioblastosis following bariatric surgery Pradeep Chowbey (New Delhi) Chronic ulcer following diabetes surgery in low BMI patient Gianfranco Silecchia (Latina) Type II diabetes recurrence following bariatric surgery in absence of weight regain Eleuterio Ferrannini (Pisa) LECTURE From Reactive Hypoglicemia to Nesidioblastosis Stefano Del Prato (Pisa) Debate with Presenters Lunch COMPLEX BARIATRIC CASES (I) moderators:, Marcello Lucchese (Firenze) Laparoscopic GBP in situs viscerum inversus How to deal with complications following Ileal Interposition with variable Sleeve Gastrectomy Surendra Ugale (Hyderabad), Alper Celik (Istanbul) Hyperammoniemic encephalopaty following RYGBP in liver transplantation patient Paolo Gentileschi (Roma) Laparoscopic revision of gastro-gastric fistula A complex case of BPD Giuseppe Nanni (Roma) Recurrent marginal/anastomotic ulcer following RYGBP Karl Miller (Hallein) Gastric pouch revision: is it the best option for weight loss failure or regain? Antonio Iannelli (Nice) Coffee break October 2013 Rome, italy auditorium antonianum Banding the gastric Bypass for severe weight regain

4 Strategy of treatment of post RYGBP recurrent marginal ulcer when hiddens a gastro-gastric fistula. Michel Suter (Aigle) Gastric necrosis following gastric banding: could we have avoided total gastrectomy? Gianluca Bonanomi (London) An accidental O-reconstruction in GBP: Repeated mistakes Vincenzo Bruni (Viterbo) LECTURE Hypotalamic obesity: is there a role also for bariatric surgery? Renato Pasquali (Bologna) Friday, October 25, LECTURE Cardiovascular risk pattern prior to and following bariatric surgery Luca Busetto (Padova) PERI-OPERATIVE HIGH-RISK BARIATRIC CASES moderators: Jan Mulier (Bruges), Karl Miller (Hallein) Peri-operative high risk bariatric cases: what we have learned Claudio Di Salvo (Pisa) The role of intra-operative mechanical ventilation to prevent post-op complications Paolo Pelosi (Genova) Enhanced ICU recovery following bariatric surgery: what do we need to change? Jan Mulier (Bruges) BIB Weight loss in high risk bariatric patients: is it worthwhile? Yuri Yashkov (Moscow) Pre-op ketogenic treatment in high risk bariatric patients: is it worthwhile? Cristiano Giardiello (Napoli) Pulmonary embolism: what I did and what I should have done to prevent it Marcello Lucchese (Firenze) Coffee break LECTURE Non-operability of high risk bariatric patients: myth or reality? Fabio Guarracino (Pisa) Debate with Presenters Lunch RESTAURATION OF PRIMARY BARIATRIC PROCEDURES: When and Why moderators: Giuseppe Maria Marinari (Bergamo), Scott Shikora (Boston) Gastric plication dismantling Martin Fried (Prague) GBP restauration for upper GI dysmotility Cristiano Giardiello (Napoli) Restauration following BPD/DS: when and how Yuri Yashkov (Moscow) Restauration following GBP-on-AGB in HIV disease Francesco Furbetta (Vinci) Many reasons for reversal bariatric surgery Coffee break REVISIONAL SURGERY for INTRACTABLE COMPLICATIONS (I) moderators: Raul Rosenthal (Weston), Luigi Angrisani (Napoli) Chronic SG leak: when total gastrectomy Jean Marc Chevallier (Paris) Limbs shortening in BPD/DS When limb elongation in GBP BPD to atypical GBP for malabsorption side effects Valerio Ceriani (Milano) Weight regain following RYGBP: band or endoscopic restriction? Jerome Dargent (Lyon)

5 Transverse gastroplasty for persistent SG stricture Michel Gagner (Montreal) Gastric plication complications: What I did and What I should have done Mirto Foletto (Padova) Saturday, October 26, REVISIONAL SURGERY for INTRACTABLE COMPLICATIONS (II) moderators: Raul Rosenthal (Weston), Luigi Angrisani (Napoli) A case of late dysphagia in VBG: laparoscopic conversion Alessandro Giovanelli (Milano) Pouch dilatation and weight regain following GBP: what I would do Mathias Fobi (Long Beach) COMPLEX BARIATRIC CASES (II) moderators:, David Nocca (Montpellier) Bariatric surgery allows cure of persistent primary aldosteronism after unsuccessful adrenalectomy for Conn s adenoma Paolo Bernante (Mestre-Venezia) Esophago-gastric perforation following lap band operation: technical mistake or surgical complication? Maurizio De Luca (Vicenza) A case of internal hernia after GBP with complex septic lesions of the SMA Nicola Di Lorenzo (Roma) Massive common bile duct lithiasis following RYGBP: treatment strategy Marco Anselmino (Pisa) SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY DISASTERS (I) moderators: Michel Gagner (Montreal), Nicola Basso (Roma) Gastro-bronchial fistula following SG: treatment strategy Jean Marc Chevallier (Paris) Different types of SG disasters Complete obstruction of SG causing leak Michel Gagner (Montreal) Gastric cancer following SG: does bile reflux play a role? Luigi Angrisani (Napoli) Surgical mistakes during SG Rudolf Weiner (Frankfurt) A long way to reach healing of persistent leak in SG Stefano Cariani (Bologna) A case of five years failure of treatment of chronic gastric fistula in SG David Nocca (Montpellier) Multiple treatment of persistent leak in SG: Is there the best option? Raul Rosenthal (Weston) Lunch SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY DISASTERS (II) moderators: Rudolf Weiner (Frankfurt), Michel Suter (Aigle) First choice T-Tube insertion avoids persistent leak in SG Marco Barreca (Luton) What we have learned after treatment of some gastro-bronchial fistula cases David Nocca (Montpellier) Staple line failure in SG: what we have learned Abdelrahman Salem (Riyadh) SG acute leaks: handling them using different solutions Scott Shikora (Boston) Roux limb for treatment of chronic SG leaks SG disasters: Is it a matter of poor surgical technique or is sleeve a troublesome procedure? Antonio Torres (Madrid) Multiple endoscopic stenting in leak after SG Jerome Dargent (Lyon) Closing remarks and awarding to the best three presentations

6 GENERAL INFORMATION DATES Rome, October 24-26, 2013 THE CONGESS VENUE AUDITORIUM ANTONIANUM Viale Manzoni, Roma, Italy REGISTRATION Please register online on REGISTRATION FEES after July 19 and on-site Member SICOB/IFSO* 350,00 Non Member SICOB/IFSO 400,00 Integrated Health 250,00 Resident/Student** Nurse free of charge One day-registration 120,00 Please note that registration fees include VAT 21% as per Italian law. * This rate is applicable only to members in good standing with their annual membership fee. ** To be eligible for the student/resident rates, students/residents are required to produce documentary evidence of their status. Without this documentation, non-member fees will be applied. You may send necessary document to: info@mcmcongressi.it Registration fee includes: Participation to all scientific sessions Congress kit and badge Coffee breaks & lunches served during the congress scientific programme PAYMENTS All payments must be made in Euro ( ), addressed to MCM srl and marked with the code DECISION MAKING Credit Card: Visa, Mastercard Bank Transfer: Account holder: MCM srl Bank: Banca Cariparma, Agency 586, via Chiaia, Napoli (Italy) Account #: ; Swift code: CRPPIT2P586 IBAN code: IT74G Please indicate your full name on all money transfer and specify DECISION MAKING Certification of payment made by Bank Transfer must be mailed info@mcmcongressi.it or faxed ( ) with the registration form. Please note that all bank charges must be covered by the sender. HOTEL ACCOMMODATION For late hotel accommodation requests, please contact the Organizing Secretariat: info@ mcmcongressi.it INVOICING The invoice for registration and hotel accommodation will be issued by MCM srl to the subject indicated on the form. Please fill in the special section on the form in case of invoice must be released to another subject. LANGUAGE The official language of the Congress is English. INSURANCE Registration fee does not include insurance of any kind. The Congress Organizers will not be responsible for any participant failing or damages. Any type of insurance should be purchased by congress participants on their own. HOW TO REACH THE VENUE By plane - All major domestic and international airlines operate at Fiumicino International Airport. You can reach the conference site by the train called Leonardo Express that leaves every 30 minutes from Fiumicino airport to Termini railway station (30 minutes/14 euro); taxi service is also available (25 minutes/48 euro); bushuttle that leaves every 30 minutes (45 minutes/5 euro). By train - Termini is Rome s major railway station, serving Italian and European cities. It is located in the Eastern part of the city center. The walking distance from the congress venue is 15 minutes. By car - Coming from the highway take the exit Roma Centro-Grande Raccordo Anulare- Roma Est direction Tangenziale Est, exit EUR-San Giovanni. Parking is available close to the conference venue (Parking President- Via E. Filiberto,

7 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Luigi Angrisani Marco Anselmino Paolo Bernante Marcello Lucchese organizing secretariat Rione Sirignano, Napoli - Italy ph fax panico@mcmcongressi.it -

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