23rd International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic

Surgery (EAES)
Incorporating the annual RAES congress
Breaking the frontiers of minimal invasive surgery
Scientific program 4-5-6 June 2015
Thursday, 4th June 2015
07.30 - 08.15
S01
Chairs:

Free paper video session

Early morning videos 1
Calin Tiu (Romania), Svend Schulze (Denmark)

08.30 - 10.00
S02
Chairs:

Scientific session
Hot topics in bariatric surgery; joint with RAES
Catalin Copaescu (Romania), Davide Lomanto (Singapore)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

How much sleeve is enough for effective weight loss - Ciprian Duta (Romania)
Bypass or BPD-DS to rescue a failed sleeve? - Antonio Iannelli (France)
Which bypass is better: Omega or Roux en Y? - Ramon Vilallonga (Spain)
How to avoid and manage complications in bariatric surgery? - Marius Nedelcu (Romania)
FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S03
Chairs:

Scientific session
Controversies in minimally invasive groin hernia repair; joint with RAES
Marek Solts (Slovak Republic), Adrian Miron (Romania)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

TAPP vs TEP; are we working in the same place? - Mihai Matei (Romania)
Time to decide for TAPP - Isaias Alarcn (Spain)
Endoscopic re-do for recurrences - Sorin Vartolomei (Romania/France)
Late follow up of MIS hernia repair. Do we need a registry? - Adrian Park (USA)
FREE PAPER

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08.30 - 10.00
S04
Chairs:

Scientific session
Management of dysplastic and early cancer of the oesophagus; joint with ESDE
George Hanna (UK), Manuel Pera (Spain)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

Surveillance program and chemoprevention in BE patients - Janusz Jankowski (UK)

Endoscopic resective therapies (Mucosectomy, Emr) - Alessandro Repici (Italy)
Endoscopic ablative therapies (Rfa, Cryotherapy) - Bas Weusten (The Netherlands)
MI esophagectomy for early cancer - Richard van Hillegersberg (The Netherlands)
FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S05

Free paper oral session

08.30 - 10.00
S06

Free paper oral session

08.30 - 10.00
S07

Free paper video session

10.30 - 12.00
S08

Scientific session
Face to Face 1: WEST meets EAST (online voting system)

10.30 - 11.15

a) Moderator: George Hanna (UK)

MIS robotic gastric surgery - Young Woo Kim ( Korea) vs
MIS gastric surgery - Donald van der Peet (The Netherlands)

11.15 - 12.00

b) Moderator: Roberto Bergamaschi (Norway)

Intersphincteric rectal resection for low rectal cancer: A valuable option or a useless
technique? Gyu Seog Choi (Korea) vs Timothy Rockall (UK)

10.30 - 12.00
S09
Chairs:

Scientific session
Metabolic response after BS
Rudolf Weiner (Germany), Gunnar Ahlberg (Sweden)

10.30 - 10.45
10.45 - 11.00

The effect of sleeve gastrectomy on weight and diabetes type 2 - David Goitein (Israel)
Mechanism of malabsorbitive procedures - TBA

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11.00 - 11.15
11.15 - 11.30
11.30 - 11.45

Malabsorption consequences - Yunus Yavuz (Turkey)

Which surgery for adolescents? A need for guidelines! - Luigi Angrisani (Italy)
FREE PAPER

10.30 - 12.00
S10
Chairs:

Scientific session
Laparoscopic biliary tract surgery: no rose without a thorn
Alessandro Paganini (Italy), Traian Patrascu (Romania)

10.30 - 10.45
10.45 - 11.00
11.00 - 11.15
11.15 - 11.30

Fluorescence cholangiography during lap chole - Rutger Schols (The Netherlands)

Which strategy for patients with suspected bile duct stones? - Florin Turcu (Romania)
Laparoscopic bile duct stones exploration - Michael Rhodes (UK)
BD injuries post cholecystectomy. Analysis of a nationwide database - Linda Bardram
(Denmark)
FREE PAPER

11.30 - 11.45

10.30 - 12.00
S11

Free paper oral session

10.30 - 12.00
S12

Free paper oral session

10.30 - 12.00
S13

Free paper video session

12.00 - 12.20
S14
Speaker:

Lecture
Jacques Prissat lecture: Two decades of laparoscopic bariatric surgery
Michel Gagner (Canada)

12.30 - 13.30 Luncheon

Meet the professor
1. Bariatrics - Michel Gagner (Canada)
2. Colorectal - Mario Morino (Italy)
3. Technology - Amir Szold (Israel)
4. Emergency - Selman Urans (Austria)
5. Esophageal surgery - Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany)
(only for participants who have registered for this event)

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13.45 - 15.15
S15
Chairs:

Free paper poster presentation

Poster session 1
Amir Szold (Israel)

13.45 - 15.15
S16
Chairs:

Free paper poster presentation

Poster session 2
Giovanni Zaninotto (UK)

13.45 - 15.15
S17
Chairs:

Free paper poster presentation

Poster session 3
Roberto Bergamaschi (Norway)

13.45 - 15.15
S18
Chairs:

Free paper poster presentation

Poster session 4
Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands)

15.45 - 17.15
S19
Chairs:

Scientific session
Bariatrics unedited videos
Nicola Di Lorenzo (Italy), Michel Gagner (Canada)

15.45 - 16.30
16.30 - 17.15

Sleeve after Band: one stage vs two stages; David Nocca (France)
vs. Gianfranco Silecchia (Italy)
Gastric Bypass: Classic Roux-en-Y vs. Double loop; TBA vs. Rudolf Weiner (Germany)

15.45 - 17.15
S20
Chairs:

Scientific session
Surgical Endoscopy festival
Alfred Cuschieri (UK), Mark Talamini (USA), Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands)

15.45 - 17.15
S21
Chairs:

Scientific session
Difficult situations and controversies in upper GI surgery
Catalin Vasilescu (Romania), Minhua Zheng (China)

15.45 - 16.00
16.00 - 16.15
16.15 - 16.30
16.30 - 16.45

Management of large oesophageal diverticula - Riccardo Rosati (Italy)

Management of incarcerated intrathoracic stomach Stavros Antoniou (Greece)
Sentinel node identification in early gastric cancer - Jeroen Meijerink (The Netherlands)
MIS in advanced gastric carcinoma - Seigo Kitano (Japan)

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16.45 - 17.00

FREE PAPER

15.45 - 17.15
S22

Free paper oral session

15.45 - 17.15
S23

Free paper oral session

15.45 - 17.15
S24

Free paper video session

17.15 - 18.30
S25
Chairs:

Free paper oral session

EAES Video Award session
Roberto Bergamaschi (Norway), Giovanni Zaninotto (UK), Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands)

17.15 - 18.30
S26
Chairs:

Scientific session
EURONOTES
Mario Morino (Italy), Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany)

17.15 - 17.30
17.30 - 17.45
17.45 - 18.00
18.00 - 18.15
18.15 - 18.30

The EURONOTES Registry - Alberto Arezzo (Italy)

Trans-vaginal procedures: are they accepted? - Francesco Corcione (Italy)
Trans-anal colon resection for benign colon disease - Antonio Lacy (Spain)
Trans-esophageal and transgastric procedures - Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany)
FREE PAPER

17.15 - 18.30
S27
Chairs:

Scientific session
MIS for liver metastasis
Svend Schulze (Denmark), Irinel Popescu (Romania)

17.15 - 17.30
17.30 - 17.45
17.45 - 18.00
18.00 - 18.15
18.15 - 18.30

Combined hybrid approach: Interventional radiologist and MI surgeon - Franco Orsi (Italy)
Major liver laparoscopic resections - Takeo Nomi (France)
Laparoscopic ALPS - Long Jiao (UK)
Robotic approach - Mikhail Efanov (Russia)
FREE PAPER

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17.15 - 18.30
S28

Free paper oral session

17.15 - 18.30
S29

Free paper oral session

17.15 - 18.30
S30

Free paper video session

Friday, 5th June 2015

07.30 - 08.15
S31
Chairs:

Free paper video session

Early morning videos 2
Magnus Kjellman (Sweden), Baki Topal (Belgium)

08.30 - 10.00
S32
Chairs:

Free paper video session

Controversies in the management of early rectal cancer; joint with ESCP
Yves Panis (France), Yuri Shelygin (Russia)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

Indications: how far can we go? Giovanni Romano (Italy)

ESD - Alessandro Repici (Italy)
TEM, TEO or TAMIS? - Victor Tomulescu (Romania)
EPMR (endoscopic partial mesorectal excision) - Mario Morino (Italy)
FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S33 D30
Chairs:

Free paper oral session

Gerhard Buess Technology award session
Amir Szold (Israel), Gunnar Ahlberg (Sweden), Wolfgang Wayand (Austria)

08.30 - 10.00
S34
Chairs:

Free paper video session

Alternative technical options for MIS adrenalectomy and splenectomy
Selman Urans (Austria), Fulger Lazar (Romania)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15

Partial laparoscopic splenectomy - Catalin Vasilescu (Romania)

Single port splenectomy: any advantage? - EduardoTargarona (Spain)
Transperitoneal submesocolic left adrenalectomy- Alessandro Paganini (Italy)

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09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

Single port retroperitoneal adrenalectomy - Pier Francesco Alesina (Germany)

FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S35

Free paper oral session

08.30 - 10.00
S36

Free paper oral session

08.30 - 10.00
S37

Free paper video session

10.30 - 12.00
S38
Moderator:
10.30 - 11.15

Scientific session
Face to Face 2: WEST meets EAST (online voting system)
Giovanni Zaninotto (UK)
MIE Esophagectomy three field - Chang Hyuan Kang (Korea) vs.
MIE Ivor Lewis - Richard van Hillegersberg (The Netherlands)
Bjorn Edwin (Norway)
Open hepatic resection - Guido Torzilli (Italy) vs.
Laparoscopic hepatic resection - Go Wakabayashi (Japan)

Moderator:
11.15 - 12.00

10.30 - 12.00
S39 D29
Chairs:

Free paper oral session

Karl Storz Award session
Mario Morino (Italy), Catalin Copaescu (Romania), Nicola Di Lorenzo (Italy),
George Hanna (UK)

10.30 - 12.00
S40
Chairs:

Scientific session
What we can learn from other surgical specialties
Antonello Forgione (Italy), Thomas Lang (Norway)

10.30 - 10.45
10.45 - 11.00
11.00 - 11.15
11.15 - 11.30
11.30 - 11.45

Overview: What can we learn - Andreas Melzer (UK)

Neurosurgery; MRI, navigation endoscopy ultrasound pacing - Uve Spetzger (Germany)
Cardiovascular fluoroscopy, electrophysiology endoscopy - Daniel Wendt (Germany)
Vascular surgery, endoscopy, radiology - Dan Deleanu (Romania)
New technologies in ophthalmology - Florin Balta (Romania)

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10.30 - 12.00
S41

Free paper oral session

10.30 - 12.00
S42

Free paper oral session

10.30 - 12.00
S43

Free paper video session

12.00 - 12.20
S44

Lecture

Speaker:
13.40 - 14.00
S45

Key note lecture

Regenerative medicine: the new frontier of surgery
Paolo de Coppi (UK)

Speaker:

Lecture
Sir Alfred Cuschieri Technology lecture
GI pathologies: will surgeons still be there in 2040?
Lee Swanstrom (USA / France)

14.00 - 15.15
S46
Chairs:

Scientific session
3D Video - colorectal surgery
Antonia Wells (UK), Petr Tsarkov (Russia)

14.00 - 14.15

Recognizing and repairing ureteral and vescical perforations during lap. colorectal
surgery - Lubomir Martinek (Czech Republic)
Robotic strictureplasty in Crohns - Simona Giuratrabocchetta (Italy)
Rectovaginal endometriosis - Bogdan Smeu (Romania)
Robotic pelvic exenteration - Seon-Hahn Kim (Korea)

14.15 - 14.30
14.30 - 14.45
14.45 - 15.00
14.00 - 15.15
S47
Chairs:

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Free paper oral session

European Cup for national societies
President: Mario Morino (Italy), President-elect: Eduardo Targarona (Spain),
past president: Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany)

14.00 - 14.15

15.00 - 15.15

Israel: Effects of pneumoperitoneum on renal function in rats with experimental DM as

compared with normal rats - Wisam Abboud (Israel)
Spain: Clinical, anatomical and pathological grading score to predict technical difficulty in
laparoscopic splenectomy for non-traumatic diseases -Carlos Rodriguez-Otero Luppi (Spain)
UK: Factors predicting 30 days re-admission after laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery
within enhanced recovery - Jennifer Mason (UK)
Lithuania: Laparoscopic rectum resection: natural orifice specimen extraction technique Rokas Rakauskas (Lithuania)
TBA

14.00 - 15.15
S48
Chairs:

Scientific session
Controversies in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair
Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands), Alexandru Nicolau (Romania)

14.00 - 14.15
14.15 - 14.30
14.30 - 14.45
14.45 - 15.00
15.00 - 15.15

Laparoscopic approach: a new gold standard - Salvador Morales Conde (Spain)

Which mesh is better - Maciej Smietanski (Poland)
Absorbable or permanent fixation - Davide Lomanto (Singapore)
Abdominal border defect: extreme surgery - Filip Muysoms (Belgium)
FREE PAPER

14.00 - 15.15
S49

Free paper oral session

14.00 - 15.15
S50

Free paper oral session

14.00 - 15.15
S51

Free paper video session

15.15 - 16.45
S52
Chair:

Scientific session
Consensus conference: Appendicitis
Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands)

Expert panel:

Andras Vereczkei (Hungary), Michael Rhodes (UK), Luigi Boni (Italy), Ramon Vilallonga
(Spain), Filip Muysoms (Belgium), Stavros Antoniou (Greece), Florin Iordache (Romania),
Mahir zmen (Turkey), Peter Go (The Netherlands), Marijn Poelman (The Netherlands)

14.15 - 14.30
14.30 - 14.45
14.45 - 15.00

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16.45 - 18.00
S53
Chairs:

Scientific session
Laparoscopy in emergency surgery; joint with RAES
Mircea Beuran (Romania), Wolfgang Wayand (Austria)

16.45 - 17.00
17.00 - 17.15
17.15 - 17.30
17.30 - 17.45
17.45 - 18.00

Management of cholecystitis - Razvan Popescu (Romania)

Laparoscopy in trauma surgery - Selman Urans (Austria)
Treatment of perforations; MIS treatment - Sorin Lunca (Romania)
Obstructed left colon cancer: options (incl. stenting) - Elsa Valsdttir (Iceland)
FREE PAPER

16.45 - 18.00
S54
Chairs:

Scientific session
Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision
Seon-Hahn Kim (Korea), Gabriel Dimofte (Romania)

16.45 - 17.00
17.00 - 17.15
17.15 - 17.30
17.30 - 17.45
17.45 - 18.00

Indication and technique One size fits all? - Pierpaolo Sileri (Italy)
Another option up our sleeves? - Florin Iordache (Romania)
Totally transanal or combined? - Antonio Lacy (Spain)
Any role for the robot? - Paolo Bianchi (italy)
FREE PAPER

16.45 - 18.00
S55
Chairs:

Free paper oral session

EAES Research grants session
Giovanni Zaninotto (UK), George Hanna (UK)

16.45 - 16.57

Serious gaming; bridging the gap between skills centre and operating theatre Magdalena Chmarra (The Netherlands)
INCH trial - Charlotte Deijen (The Netherlands)
Mechanisms underlying the cure of T2DM by bariatric surgery - Yoav Mintz (Israel)
The ORANGE II PLUS - Trial: An international multicentre randomised controlled trial of
open versus laparoscopic hemihepatectomy - Edgar Wong-Lun-Hing (The Netherlands)
The effect of extreme Trendelenburg positioning on cognitive function using
magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging and the n-back test - Austin Acheson (UK)
Optimizing working space in thoracoscopy: CT measurement of the effect of high-frequency
oscillatory ventilation in a porcine model - John Vlot (The Netherlands)

16.57 - 17.09
17.09 - 17.21
17.21 - 17.33
17.33 - 17.45
17.45 - 17.57

16.45 - 18.00

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Free paper oral session

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16.45 - 18.00
S57

Free paper oral session

16.45 - 18.00
S58

Free paper video session

Saturday, 6th June 2015

07.30 - 08.15
S59
Chairs:

Free paper video session

Early morning videos 3
Mahir zmen (Turkey)

08.30 - 10.00
S60
Chairs:

Scientific session
New devices for the bariatric patient
Natan Zundel (USA)

08.30 -08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

Balloons- Best fit for low BMIs? - Gontrand Lopez-Nava Breviere (Spain)
Endoscopic sleeve devices - Nicole Bouvy (The Netherlands)
Endoluminal suturing devices - Roman Turro (Spain)
Long term efficacy of the available endoluminal bariatric solutions - Jerome Dargent
(France)
FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S61
Chairs:

Scientific session
Reduced port laparoscopy
Francisco Snchez-Margallo (Spain), Barry Salky (USA)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30

Single incision colon resection - Luigi Boni (Italy)

Single incision liver resection - Ibrahim Dagher (France)
Single incision bariatric surgery - TBA
Single incision laparoscopic surgery in pediatric patients - Maud van Herwaarden
(The Netherlands)

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09.30 - 09.45

FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S62
Chairs:

Scientific session
Evaluation of surgical quality
Edmund Neugebauer (Germany), Adrian Park (USA)

08.30 - 08.45
08.45 - 09.00
09.00 - 09.15
09.15 - 09.30
09.30 - 09.45

Objective evaluation of surgical competency -Teodor Grantcharov (Denmark)

Objective assessment of laparoscopic upper GI surgery - George Hanna (UK)
Objective assessment of bariatric surgery - Nicola Di Lorenzo (Italy)
Objective assessment of laparoscopic rectal surgery - Nader Francis (UK)
FREE PAPER

08.30 - 10.00
S63

Free paper oral session

08.30 - 10.00
S64

Free paper oral session

08.30 - 10.00
S65

Free paper video session

10.00 - 11.30
S66
Chairs:

Scientific session
Colorectal unedited videos
Abe Fingerhut (France), Gyrgy Lzr (Hungary)

10.00 - 10.45

Single-incision vs. multiport ileorectal anastomosis

Ronan Cahill (Ireland) vs Inna Tulina (Russia)
Laparoscopic vs. robotic low anterior resection for rectal cancer
Dursun Bugra (Turkey) vs. Irinel Popescu (Romania)

10.45 - 11.30

10.00 - 11.30
S67
Chairs:

Scientific session
Whats new in robotic surgery
Amir Szold (Israel), Alberto Arezzo (Italy)

10.00 - 10.15
10.15 - 10.30
10.30 - 10.45

Update in Robotic SILS Konstantinos Konstantinidis (Greece)

Bio-inspired robots - Arianna Menciassi (Italy)
New kids on the block - Yoav Mintz (Israel)

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10.45 - 11.00
11.00 - 11.15

MRC/EME ROLARR trial; the first results - David Jayne (UK)

A proposal to standardize robotic rectal surgery: the European Academy - Amjad Parvaiz
(UK)

10.00 - 11.30
S68
Chairs:

Scientific session
Endoluminal surgery tools
Joris Jaspers (The Netherlands), Adrian Saftoiu (Romania)

10.00 - 10.15
10.15 - 10.30
10.30 - 10.45
10.45 - 11.00
11.00 - 11.15

Robotic platforms - Adrian Lobontiu (Romania/France)

Surgical endoscopes - Silvana Perretta (France)
Articulating instruments - Jenny Dankelman (The Netherlands)
Suturing - Lee Swanstrom (France/ USA)
FREE PAPER

10.00 - 11.30
S69

Free paper oral session

10.00 - 11.30
S70

Free paper oral session

10.00 - 11.30
S71

Free paper video session

11.30 - 13.00
S72
Chairs:

Scientific session
Colorectal surgery bandwagon; joint with RAES
Paolo Bianchi (Italy), Dan Ulmeanu (Romania)

11.30 - 11.45
11.45 - 12.00
12.00 - 12.15
12.15 - 12.30
12.30 - 12.45

Is there a role for hand assisted surgery today ? - Bodgan Martian (Romania)
Is intra-corporeal ileocolic anastomosis worth the effort ? - Samson Tou (UK)
Single incision: Boutique for whom? - Vasile Bintintan (Romania)
Intraoperative evaluation of blood supply prior to anastomosis - Cristan Anderson (Norway)
FREE PAPER

11.30 - 13.00
S73
Chairs:

Scientific session
New solutions for UGI benign disease
Yoav Mintz (Israel), Adrian Lobontiu (Romania)

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11.30 - 11.45
11.45 - 12.00
12.00 - 12.15
12.15 - 12.30
12.30 - 12.45

Esophageal pacing in GERD - Stephen Attwood (UK)

Esophageal magnetic ring - Luigi Bonavina (ITALY)
Gastric pacing - Mario Costantini (ITALY)
POEM - Lee Swanstrom (USA/France)
FREE PAPER

11.30 - 13.00
S74
Chairs:

Scientific session
Minimally invasive pancreatic surgery
Victor Tomulescu (Romania), Eugenia Yiannakopoulou (Greece)

11.30 - 11.45
11.45 - 12.00
12.00 - 12.15
12.15 - 12.30
12.30 - 12.45

Laparoscopic vs robotic pancreatectomy - Igor Khatkov (Russia)

Controversies in distal pancreatic resection - Fernando Rotellar (Spain)
Role of MIS in neuroendocrine tumors of pancreas - Sven-Petter Haugvik (Norway)
Cystic tumor of pancreas: any role for MIS? - Airazat Kazaryan (Norway)
FREE PAPER

11.30 - 13.00
S75

Free paper oral session

11.30 - 13.00
S76

Free paper oral session

11.30 - 13.00
S77

Free paper video session

13.00 - 13.30

Closing ceremony

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