Programa
9th Medinterna International Meeting
Hospital de S. João
“Pearls in connective autoimmune diseases”
26 — 29.01.2011 | Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto
26th January, Wednesday
14h30 Opening Lecture
Chairman – João Pedro Ramos (Porto, Portugal)
How to request and to value ANAs?
Isabel Abreu (Lisbon, Portugal)
15h00 Round Table *Sponsored by Sanofi-Pasteur-MSD*
Immunity and the aging
Chairman – Manuel Teixeira Veríssimo (Coimbra, Portugal)
Immunosenescence and its influence on disease courses
Manuel Santos Rosa (Coimbra, Portugal)
Vaccination recommendations in the elderly
Jean-Pierre Michel (Genève, Switzerland)
New advances in vaccination for the elderly: shingles vaccines
Robert Jonhson (Bristol, England)
16h15 Lecture
Chairman – Iva Brito (Porto, Portugal)
Cytokines, Bone and Biomechanics
João Eurico da Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal)
16h45 Coffee-break
17h15 Lecture *Sponsored by Anagene-Euroimmun*
Chairman – Ruth Geraldes (Lisbon, Portugal)
Novel Antigenic Targets in Autoimmune Encephalitis
Klaus-Peter Wandinger (Lubeck, Germany)
17h45 Case Report
A complex Rheumatoid Arthritis clinical case
Chair – Patrícia Pinto (V. N. Gaia, Portugal)
Case Report – Pedro Gil (V. N. Gaia, Portugal)
Discussion – José Alves Moura (Coimbra, Portugal), Maria José Santos (Barreiro, Portugal), Maria Augusta Pereira (Faro, Portugal)
18h15 Face to Face
Behçet´s disease
Chair – Fátima Farinha (Porto, Portugal)
Severe Behçet´s disease management
Jorge Crespo (Coimbra, Portugal)
New concepts in Behçet´s disease
Hasan Yazici (Istanbul, Turkey)
19h00 What did we learn?
First meeting pearls – Edite Pereira (Porto, Portugal)
19h05 Closure
27th January, Thursday
08h30 Secretariat opening
09h00 Lecture
Chairman – Jorge Martins (Funchal, Portugal)
The mechanisms leading to immunological alterations and autoimmunity
Eric Gershwin (California, USA)
09h30 Lecture
Chairman – Paulo Bettencourt (Porto, Portugal)
The human adjuvant disease – a new syndrome: infection, vaccination, silicone and autoimmunity
Yehuda Shoenfeld (Tel Aviv, Israel)
10h00 Opening Ceremony
Chairman – António Lobo Ferreira (Porto, Portugal)
Homage to Yehuda Shoenfeld
10h45 Coffee-break
11h15 Round Table *Sponsored by Actelion*
Systemic sclerosis
Chairs – Vicent Fonollosa Pla (Barcelona, Spain) and Isabel Almeida (Porto, Portugal)
Antinuclear antibodies in systemic sclerosis: clinical and prognostic profiles
Carmen Pilar Simeón (Barcelona, Spain)
Capilaroscopy: useful in systemic sclerosis
Vicent Fonollosa Pla (Barcelona, Spain)
Systemic sclerosis therapy: a general overview
Norberto Ortego (Granada, Spain)
12h30 Lecture *Sponsored by Roche*
Chairman – Carlos Dias (Porto, Portugal)
Tocilizumab: New insights towards remission in RA
Eugen Feist (Berlin, Germany)
13h00 What did we learn?
First morning pearls – Sérgio Silva (Porto, Portugal)
13h05 Lunch
14h30 Face to face *Sponsored by Actelion*
Pulmonary interstitium pathology
Chairman – Carlos Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal)
Interstitial Idiopathic Pneumonitis
António Morais (Porto, Portugal)
Interstitial pneumonitis in the connective tissue diseases
Athol Wells (London, England)
15h10 Round Table *Sponsored by Bristol-Myers-Squibb*
Treating RA with Abatacept: Start earlier. Stay longer. Towards a normal life!
Chairman – Carlos Vasconcelos (Porto, Portugal)
Targeting T cells in RA with Abatacept: the rational for Costimulation Blockade
Luís Graça (Lisbon, Portugal)
Treating RA patients with Abatacept: sharing real-life experience
Álvaro Gracia (Madrid, Spain)
Real-life, Real Patients: Portuguese Experience
Joana Vedes (Guarda, Portugal) and António Marinho (Porto, Portugal)
16h10 Lecture *Sponsored by Boeringher-Ingelheim*
Chairman – Manuel Campos (Porto, Portugal)
Advances in anticoagulation
Jorge Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)
16h40 Coffee-break
17h10 Face to face
Chairs – Maria José Sousa (Lisbon, Portugal) and Lèlita Santos (Coimbra, Portugal)
Laboratory diagnostics in ANCA associated vasculitis
Jan Damoiseaux (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Pathophysiology and therapy of ANCA associated vasculitis
Jan W. Cohen Tervaert (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
18h10 Case Report
A 63 years-old man with bilateral panuveitis
Chairman – Gerard Espinosa (Barcelona, Spain)
Case Report – Miguel Ángel Plasín (Barcelona, Spain)
Discussion – Luís Torrão (Porto, Portugal), Bernardo Sopeña (Vigo, Spain), António Marinho (Porto, Portugal)
18h55 What did we learn?
First afternoon pearls – Cláudia Costa (Porto, Portugal)
19h00 Closure
28th January, Friday
09h00 Lecture *Sponsored by Phadia*
Chairman – João Faro Viana (Lisbon, Portugal)
ANAs sensitivity and specificity in autoimmune diseases
Xavier Bossuyt (Leuven, Belgium)
09h30 Round table
Revisiting SLE
Chairman – Juan Jiménez-Alonso (Granada, Spain)
SLE and accelerated atherosclerosis
José Mario Sabio (Granada, Spain)
Lupic flares provoking factors
Nuria Navarrete (Granada, Spain)
News on lupic nephritis
Miguel Sousa (Lisbon, Portugal)
10h45 Coffee-break
11h15 Lecture
Chairman – Carlos Vasconcelos (Porto, Portugal)
What´s new in SLE?
Juán Jimenez-Alonso (Granada, Spain)
11h45 Case report
No pulse: a medical conundrum
Chairman – Carla Noronha (Lisbon, Portugal)
Case Report – Ana Carolina Araújo (Lisbon, Portugal)
Discussion – Anabela Morais (Vila Real, Portugal), Alexandrina Quintino (Lisbon, Portugal), Deolinda Portelinha (Coimbra, Portugal)
12h15 Lecture *Sponsored by MSD*
Chair – Iva Brito (Porto, Portugal)
A new step ahead in RA treatment – a new antibody
Juan D. Cañete (Barcelona, Spain)
12h45 EASI Portugal
Carlos Dias (Porto, Portugal)
13h00 What did we learn?
Second morning pearls – Marilda Santos (Porto, Portugal)
13h05 Lunch
14h30 Lecture
Chairman – Pier Luigi Meroni (Milan, Italy)
APS – mechanisms of thrombosis
Maria Cuadrado (London, UK)
15h00 Round Table
Advances in APS
Chair – Maria Cuadrado (London, UK)
Laboratorial and clinical criteria of the obstetrical antiphospholipid syndrome
Mariana Guimarães (Porto, Portugal)
Predictors of pregnancy outcome in antiphospholipid syndrome
Sara de Carolis (Rome, Italy)
New potential therapies for the treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome
David D´Cruz (London, UK)
16h10 Coffee-break
16h40 Face to face
Challenges in autoimmunity
Chairman – Jorge Fortuna (Coimbra, Portugal)
Autoimmune diseases triggered by biological agents
Manel Ramos-Casals (Barcelona, Spain)
Central nervous system involvement in primary Sjögren´s syndrome
Pilar Brito-Zerón (Barcelona, Spain)
17h25 Case Report
Young pregnant with severe thrombocytopenia
Chairman – Joaquim Andrade (Porto, Portugal)
Case report – Joana Rema (Porto, Portugal) and Daniela Freitas (Porto, Portugal)
Discussion – Joaquim Rodrigues (Barreiro, Portugal), Joana Vedes (Guarda, Portugal), António Chamorro (Verin, Spain)
17h55 Face to face
Autoimmunity and liver
Chairman – José Delgado Alves (Lisbon, Portugal)
Hepatic involvement in systemic diseases
Bruno Grima (Lisbon, Portugal
Hepatic disease as therapeutic limitation
Susana Oliveira (Lisbon, Portugal)
18h40 Lecture *Sponsored by Associação Nacional de Deficiências Mentais e Raras*
Chair – Elisa Leão (Porto, Portugal)
Autoimmunity and rare diseases
Margarida Reis Lima (Porto, Portugal)
19h10 What did we learn?
Second afternoon pearls – Helena F. Silva (Porto, Portugal)
19h15 Closure
29th January, Saturday
09h00 Lecture
Chairman – Luís Campos (Lisbon, Portugal)
SLE and primary APS: two different clinical entities but with a close biological background
Pier Luigi Meroni (Milan, Italy)
09h30 Case report
Autoimmune complex clinical cases in the daily practice
Chairs – Nuno Riso (Lisbon, Portugal) and Roberto Perez-Alvarez (Vigo, Spain)
Case 1 – Multiple autoimmune disease in one patient
Cándido Díaz-Lagares (Barcelona, Spain)
Case 2 – Guillain-Barré syndrome in a patient with SLE and Sjögren´s syndrome
Marta Pérez-de-Lis (Vigo, Spain)
Case 3 – Managing severe Raynaud phenomenon
Manel Ramos-Casals (Barcelona, Spain)
Discussion – Alexandra Bernardo (Porto, Portugal), Gabriela Vinhas Sousa (Lisbon, Portugal), Glória Alves (Guimarães, Portugal)
10h15 Lecture
Chairman – Carlos Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)
The rational request and interpretation of immunologic tests
Ana Paula Cruz (V. N. Gaia, Portugal)
10h45 Lecture
Chair – Isabel Abreu (Lisbon, Portugal)
The depressed lymphocyte…
José Delgado Alves (Lisbon, Portugal)
11h15 Coffee-break
11h45 Round table *Sponsored by Roche*
Rituximab experience in autoimmune diseases
Chairman – David D´Cruz (London, UK)
In APS
David D´Cruz (London, UK)
In RA
Maria Leandro (London, UK)
In Sjogren´s syndrome
Simon Bowman (Birmingham, UK)
13h00 Closure lecture
Chairman – Júlio Sanchez-Roman (Sevilla, Spain)
Autoimmunity and Infection: A two-way relationship
Ricard Cervera (Barcelona, Spain)
13h30 What did we learn?
Chairman – Manuel Pizarro (Porto, Portugal)
Meeting Pearls – Alberto Rivera Gallego (Vigo, Spain)
13h40 – Final lunch
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