LECTURERS AND CHAIRMEN

Paolo Caione, Roma - Italy
Giuseppe Calì, Palermo - Italy
Maurizio Carta, Palermo - Italy
Luigi Cataldi, Roma - Italy
Giuseppe Catalano, Palermo - Italy
Giovanni Celsi, Stockholm - Sweden
Robert Chevalier, Charlottesville, Virginia - USA
Giovanni Corsello, Palermo - Italy
Mario De Curtis, Napoli - Italy
Enrico De Grazia, Palermo - Italy
Vassilios Fanos, Cagliari - Italy
Mario Giuffrè, Palermo - Italy
Jean Pierre Guignard, Lausanne - Switzerland
Manlio Lo Cascio, Palermo – Italy
Ferdinando Meli, Palermo - Italy
Matteo Noto, Palermo - Italy
Angelo Rizzo, Palermo - Italy
Bartolomeo Spinella, Palermo - Italy
Giorgio Sulliotti, Palermo - Italy
Tivadar Tulassay, Budapest - Hungary
Antonino Turrisi, Palermo - Italy
Salavore Vendemmia, Aversa (CE) – Italy
Salvino Marcello Vitaliti, Palermo - Italy
Bradley Warady, Kansas City - USA

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Hotel Torre Normanna
Ruggero Hall

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

17:00
Opening Ceremony
Introduction: Luigi Cataldi, Robert Chevalier, Giovanni Corsello

17:15 - 19:00
Selected cases presentation
Chairmen: Luigi Cataldi, Giovanni Celsi, Robert Chevalier,
Giovanni Corsello, Vassilios Fanos, Jean Pierre Guignard,
Tivadar Tulassay

20:00
welcome party

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Morning: The very low birthweight infant
Chairmen: Luigi Cataldi, Giuseppe Catalano

08:30
Measurement of renal function
and dysfunction in the fetus and neonate
Luigi Cataldi

09:00
Response of the fetal and neonatal kidney
to stress: Hypoxia and ischemia
Jean Pierre Guignard

09:30
Response of the fetal and neonatal kidney to drugs
Vassilios Fanos

10:00
Discussion
Discussants: Matteo Noto, Bartolomeo Spinella

10:30
coffee break

11:00
Changing epidemiology of acute renal failure in the neonatal ICU
Giovanni Celsi

11:30
Nutrition in infants with renal failure
Mario De Curtis, Maurizio Carta

12:00
Discussion
Discussants: Angelo Rizzo, Antonino Turrisi

12:30
lunch

Afternoon: Anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract
Chairmen: Enrico De Grazia, Salvatore Vendemmia

13:30
Epidemiology of renal and urinary tract malformations
Giovanni Corsello, Mario Giuffrè

14:00
Renal imaging in the fetus and neonate
Giuseppe Calì

14:30
Indications for surgical intervention in the fetus and neonate
Paolo Caione

15:00
Discussion
Discussants: Ferdinando Meli, Giorgio Sulliotti

15:30
coffee break

16:00
Future strategies for diagnosis and treatment of congenital obstructive uropathy
Robert Chevalier

16:30
Dialysis in newborns and infants
Brad Warady

17:00
Prematury, IUGR and the Barker hypothesis
Tivadar Tulassay

17:30
Discussion
Discussants: Manlio Lo Cascio, Salvino Marcello Vitaliti

17:30
Adjourn