Program
10TH Medinterna International Meeting
Hospital de S. João
“Systemic Autoimmune Diseases”
15 — 18.02.2012 | Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto
15TH FEBRUARY — WEDNESDAY | ARTHRITIS DAY
14:00 – Round table sponsored by Pfizer
Chair – Iva Brito (Porto, Portugal)
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (criteria, classification, diagnosis and differential diagnosis)
Vera Silva (Barreiro, Portugal)
News in JIA therapy
Pierre Quartier (Paris, France)
JIA – Clinical case report
Nuno Fernandes (Barreiro, Portugal)
15:00 – Round table
Chairs – João Eurico Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal) and José Miguel Bernardes (Porto, Portugal)
Inflammatory immune-mediated mechanisms during the first weeks of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rita Moura (Lisbon, Portugal)
Rita Cascão (Lisbon, Portugal)
João Eurico Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal)
16:15 – Lecture
Chairman – António Marinho (Porto, Portugal)
Glucocorticoids co-therapy with DMARDS in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jos N. Hoes (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
16:45 – coffee-break
17:15 – Case report
Complex issues in the managing of arthritis patients
Chairman – João Eurico Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal)
Case report – Joaquim Pereira (Lisbon, Portugal)
Discussion – Borges Alexandrino (Coimbra, Portugal), Alexandra Bernardo (Porto, Portugal), Gabriela Vinhas Sousa (Lisbon, Portugal)
18:00 – Round table
Behçet’s syndrome
Chair – Fátima Farinha (Porto, Portugal)
Behçet’s Syndrome: Autoimmune, Autoinflammatory or both?
Hasan Yazici (Istanbul, Turkey)
Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Behçet’s Syndrome
Jorge Crespo (Coimbra, Portugal)
18:45 – Lecture
Chair – Mónica Bogas (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
Immunopathology of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Juan Cañete (Barcelona, Spain)
19:15 – closure
16TH FEBRUARY — THURSDAY | AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS DAY
08:15 – Secretariat desk opening
08:45 – What did we learn yesterday?
Sofia Santos Pimenta (Porto, Portugal)
09:00 – Lecture
Chairman – Jan W. Cohen Tervaert (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Pathophysiology of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
Cees G. M. Kallenberg (Groningen, The Netherlands)
09:30 – Opening Ceremony
Chairman – António Lobo Ferreira (Porto, Portugal)
Homage to Cees Kallenberg (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Porto by Tram — Carla Dias (Porto, Portugal)
10:15 – Lecture
Chairman – Paulo Bettencourt (Porto, Portugal)
ASIA – autoimmunity syndrome induced adjuvant: a new syndrome — Shoenfeld’s Syndrome
Yehuda Shoenfeld (Tel Aviv, Israel)
10:45 – coffee-break
11:15 – Lecture
Chairman — João Pedro Ramos (Porto, Portugal)
How can the laboratory help is SSc?
Isabel Abreu (Lisbon, Portugal)
11:45 – Round table sponsored by Actelion
Systemic Sclerosis – a true challenge
Chairs – Loic Guillevin (Paris, France) and Isabel Almeida (Porto, Portugal)
An actual look at the pathophysiology of SSc
Christopher Denton (London, UK)
Progresses made in the classification of SSc
Lèlita Santos (Coimbra, Portugal)
Management and therapeutics
Loic Guillevin (Paris, France)
13:00 – lunch
14:30 – Round table
Autoimmune endocrine disorders and beyond
Chairs – Daniel Braga (Porto, Portugal) and Luís Delgado (Porto, Portugal)
Autoimmune polyendocrinopathies: from bench to bedside
Eystein Husebye (Bergen, Norway)
Type 1 diabetes auto-immunity: which lessons to islet cell transplantation?
Catarina Limbert (Lisbon, Portugal)
Autoimmune thyroid disorders and cardiovascular disease
Celestino Neves (Porto, Portugal)
15:45 – Case report
Systemic Sclerosis – an aggressive disease
Chairman – Christopher Denton (London, UK)
Case Report – Emma Derrett-Smith (London, UK)
Discussion – António Morais (Porto, Portugal), Ivone Silva (Porto, Portugal), Ana Catarina Rodrigues (Lisbon, Portugal)
16:30 – coffee-break
17:00 – Lecture sponsored by Roche
Chair – Iva Brito (Porto, Portugal)
Tocilizumab in JIA treatment — results of TENDER
Fabrizio Benedetti (Rome, Italy)
17h30 – Round table sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim
The modern Era of Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrilation
Chairman – Pedro von Hafe (Porto, Portugal)
Call to action in Stroke Prevention in AF: the need to change the reality
Elsa Azevedo (Porto, Portugal)
New advances in Stroke Prevention: new concepts for new routines
Jorge Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)
18:15 – Case report
Young woman with polyarthalgias and cutaneous refractory vasculitis
Chair – Anabela Morais (Vila Real, Portugal)
Case report – Ana Raquel Lima (Vila Real, Portugal)
Discussion – Bernardo Sopeña (Vigo, Spain), Simon Bowman (Birmingham, UK), Joaquim Andrade (Porto, Portugal)
19:00 – closure
17TH FEBRUARY — FRIDAY | AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND SLE/APS DAY
08:00 — Secretariat desk opening
08:30 – What did we learn yesterday?
Ana Catarina Rodrigues (Lisbon, Portugal)
08:45 – Lecture
Chairman – Tiago Guimarães (Porto, Portugal)
Immunopathogenesis in autoimmune diseases
Francisca Moraes-Fontes (Lisbon, Portugal)
09:15 – Lecture
Chairman – Carlos Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)
APS pathogenesis: understanding the autoantibodies
Pier Luigi Meroni (Milan, Italy)
09:45 – Round table
SLE and APS
Chairman – A. Rodrigues Dias (Braga, Portugal)
CNS involvement in SLE and APS
Carlos Vasconcelos (Porto, Portugal)
Experience in SLE and APS pregnancy
Mariana Guimarães (Porto, Portugal)
10:30 – coffee-break
11:00 – Lecture sponsored by Bayer
Chairman – Júlio Sanchez-Román (Sevilla, Spain)
Digital ulcers in SSc – predictor factors
Ivone Silva (Porto, Portugal)
11:30 – Case report
Fever in a patient with ANCA-associated vasculitis
Chairman – Gerard Espinosa (Barcelona, Spain)
Case report — Pamela Doti (Barcelona, Spain)
Discussion – António Chamorro (Ourense, Spain), Pedro Vita (Porto, Portugal),
José Júlio Alves Moura (Coimbra, Portugal)
12:15 – Lecture
Chairman – Carlos Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal)
Idiopathic NSIP: an unrecognized CTD
Hilário Nunes (Paris, France)
12:45 – EASI Portugal
Carlos Dias (Porto, Portugal)
13:00 – lunch
13:15 — EASI Forum (for European Coordinators)
14:30 – Lecture sponsored by Glaxo Smith-Kline
Chair – Maria João Salvador (Coimbra, Portugal)
New developments in lupus therapeutics
David D´Cruz (London, UK)
15:00 – Round table sponsored by Bayer
A new paradigm in oral anticoagulation
Chairman – Carlos Dias (Porto, Portugal)
Haemostasis and limitation of the classic anticoagulants
Manuel Campos (Porto, Portugal)
New oral anticoagulants
Pedro Marques Silva (Lisbon, Portugal)
15:45 – Lecture
Chairman – José Delgado Alves (Lisbon, Portugal)
Is there clinical evidence to use statins in autoimmune diseases? Rheumatoid Arthritis, APS, SLE, Vasculitis, Digital Ulcers? Yes or No?
José Paulo Araújo (Porto, Portugal)
16:15 – coffee-break
16:45 – Lecture
Chairman – Jorge Fortuna (Coimbra, Portugal)
Sjogren’s Syndrome – a systemic autoimmune disease
Simon Bowman (Birmingham, UK)
17:15 – Round table
Sarcoidosis – state of art
Chairman – José Delgado Alves (Lisbon, Portugal)
Bruno Grima (Lisbon, Portugal)
Susana Oliveira (Lisbon, Portugal)
18:00 – Case report
ARDS in a patient with polyarthritis
Chair – Deolinda Portelinha (Coimbra, Portugal)
Case Report – Maria Mercedes Agundez Calvo (Coimbra, Portugal)
Discussion – Joana Vedes (Guarda, Portugal), Maria Augusta Pereira (Faro, Portugal),
João Matos Costa (Santarém, Portugal)
18:45 – closure
18TH FEBRUARY — SATURDAY | VASCULITIS DAY
08:30 – Secretariat desk opening
08:45 – What did we learn yesterday?
Ana Campar (Porto, Portugal)
09:00 – Round table
Rare and severe Vasculitis
Chairman – Ricard Cervera (Barcelona, Spain)
Giant-cell arteritis
Maria Cinta Cid (Barcelona, Spain)
Single-organ Vasculitis
Alfredo Adán (Barcelona, Spain)
Kawasaki disease
Jordi Anton (Barcelona, Spain)
10:15 – Lecture sponsored by Actelion
Chairman – Armando Mansilha (Porto, Portugal)
From Raynaud’s phenomenon to digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis…
Maurizio Cutolo (Genova, Italy)
10:45 – coffee-break
11:15 – Face to face
Chairs – Maria José Sousa (Lisbon, Portugal) and Nuno Riso (Lisbon, Portugal)
Diagnostics of ANCA-associated vasculitis requires two to tango: the clinical and the laboratory specialist
Jan Damoiseaux (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Jan W. Cohen Tervaert (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
12:15 – Closing lecture
Chairman – Luís Campos (Lisbon, Portugal)
Immunogenicity assessment of monoclonal antibodies
João Gonçalves Pereira (Lisbon, Portugal)
12:45 – Closure
Manuel Pizarro (Porto, Portugal)
13:00 – Final lunch
