Programme

DAY 1 – Friday 22 October 2010

08.00 – 09.20

REGISTRATION

09.20 – 09.40

INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

Wouter de Herder - Davide Carvalho - Eberhard Nieschlag

Welcome speech by Professor Manuela Carvalheiro, President of Portuguese Society of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism

Past, present and future of Endocrinology in Europe

09.40 – 10.30

Lectures

Chairs: Charlotte Hoybye / Valeriano Leite

Lecture 1: Endocrine disruptors

Hans Romijn, Leiden (Netherlands)

Lecture 2: Follow-up of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in 2010

Barbara Jarzab, Gliwize (Poland)

10.30 – 11.00

COFFEE

11.00 – 11.50

Lectures

Chairs: Maria Alevizaki / Jens Sandahl Christiansen

Lecture 3: Genetic causes of pituitary diseases

Albert Beckers, Liege (Belgium)

Lecture 4: Vitamin D and its actions

Neveen Hamdy, Leiden (Netherlands)

11.50 – 13.20

Parallel Workshops

I: Selected cases: Thyroid carcinoma

Eric Baudin, Paris (France)

Renal Metastases from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Rare Setting  (Mariana Martinho, Portugal)

Thyroid Follicular carcinoma with Osseous Metastases (Ana Marques, Portugal)

II: Selected cases: Hyperandrogenism in women

Fahrettin Kelestimur, Kayseri (Turkey)

III: Selected cases: Pituitary

Albert Beckers, Liege (Belgium)

TSH-secreting pituitary tumours: two case reports (Sofia Teixeira, Portugal)

IV: Selected cases: Hypercortisolism

John Newell-Price, Sheffield (UK)

Meet the Professor' Session

13.20 – 14.30

LUNCH

14.30 – 16.00

Parallel Workshops

I: Selected cases: Thyroid carcinoma

Eric Baudin, Paris (France)

What to do with persisting increased thyreoglobulin levels (Caroline Brumsen, Netherlands)

II: Selected cases: Hyperandrogenism in women

Fahrettin Kelestimur, Kayseri (Turkey)

How dermatology may interfere with endocrinology (Helmut Huber, Austria)

III: Selected cases: Pituitary

Albert Beckers, Liege (Belgium)

Septo-optic displasia in childhood. – Clinical case (Helder Simões, Spain)

IV: Selected cases: Hypercortisolism

John Newell-Price, Sheffield (UK)

The difficult management of refractory Cushing’s Disease (Joana Couto, Portugal)

16.00 – 16.30

TEA

16.30 – 17.45

Lectures

Chairs: Valdis Pirags / Manuel Lemos

Lecture 5: Prolactinoma treatment in 2010

Diego Ferone, Genoa (Italy)

Lecture 6: Review the causes of hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria

Neveen Hamdy, Leiden (Netherlands)

Lecture 7: Bariatric surgery: a translational perspective

Helena Cardoso, Porto (Portugal)

20.00

Welcome Reception

DAY 2 – Saturday 23 October 2010

09.00 – 10.40

 Lectures

Chairs: Andrea Giustina

Lecture 8: New therapies for acromegaly

Aart-Jan van der Lely, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Lecture 9: Growth hormone for adult-onset GHD

Vera Popvic Belgrado, (Serbia)

Lecture 10: Medullary thyroid carcinoma

Eric Baudin, Paris (France)

Lecture 11: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the adult setting

Wiebke Arlt, Birmingham (UK)

10.40 – 11.10

COFFEE

11.10 – 12.30

Parallel Workshops

V: Selected cases: Osteoporosis

Neveen Hamdy, Leiden (Netherlands)

VI: Selected cases: Endocrine tumours

Wouter de Herder, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Long-term follow-up (15 years) of an ACTH-producing neuroendocrine carcinoma treated with chemotherapy and octreotide LAR (Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)

VII: Selected cases: Hypothyroidism/thyrotoxicosis

Wilmar Wiersinga, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis resolved only after a long course of glucocorticoid and thionamides (Selma Maria Souto, Portugal)

Silent thyroiditis presenting as hypokalemic thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (Debmalya Sanyal, India)

VIII: Selected cases: Pituitary

Diego Ferone, Genoa, (Italy)

Acute confusional state as a presentation of hypopituitarism (Angelos Kyriacou, UK)

Cause of erectile dysfunction in young man (Eva Zemljic, Slovenia)

12.30 – 13.45

 LUNCH

13.45 – 15.15

Parallel Workshops

V: Selected cases: Osteoporosis

Neveen Hamdy, Leiden (Netherlands)

Treatment of high fracture risk in renal failure (Niina Matikainen, Finland)

VI: Selected cases: Endocrine tumours

Wouter de Herder, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Challenging management of ileal neuroendocrine carcinoma – case report (Raquel Martins, Portugal)

VII: Selected cases: Hypothyroidism/thyrotoxicosis

Wilmar Wiersinga, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Amiodarone-Induced Thyrotoxicosis in a Heart Transplant Candidate – Clinical Case. (Helder Simões, Portugal)

The endocrine tale of the immune reconstitution syndrome (Marta Ferreira, Portugal)

VIII: Selected cases: Pituitary

Diego Ferone, Genoa, (Italy)

TSH-secreting pituitary tumours: two case reports (Sofia Teixeira, Portugal)

A case of pituitary TSH producing adenoma (Sassan Sharghi, Iran)

15.15 – 15.50

TEA

15.50 – 17.30

Lectures

Chairs: Paolo Beck Peccoz / Krzysztof Kula

Lecture 12: Hyperaldosteronism

Martin Reincke, München (Germany)

Lecture 13: In Pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma

Richard Feelders, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Lecture 14: Male hypogonadism

Eberhard Nieschlag, Muenster (Germany)

Lecture 15: Diagnosis and treatment of the ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome

John Newell-Price, Sheffield (UK)

17.30 - 17.45

Introduction to European Society of Endocrinology

20.00

Dinner

DAY 3 – Sunday 24 October 2010

09.00 – 10.30

Parallel Workshops

IX: Selected cases: Hypercortisolism

Richard Feelders, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Long-term follow-up (15 years) of an ACTH-producing neuroendocrine carcinoma treated with chemotherapy and octreotide LAR (Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)

Hoarseness in Cushing’s disease (Nel Geelhoed-Duijvestijn, Netherlands)

X: Selected cases: Thyroid carcinoma

Barbara Jarzab, Gliwize (Poland)

Routine serum calcitonin measurement may be a useful tool for an earlier diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in patients with thyroid nodules (Diego Peteiro-González, Spain)

XI: Selected cases: Hyperandrogenism in women

Wiebke Arlt, Birmingham (UK)

XII: Selected cases: Hyper- and hypocalcaemia

Neveen Hamdy, Leiden (Netherlands)

Persistent primary hyperparathyroidism: what should we seek for and how should we treat it (Sofia Gouveia, Portugal)

Woman with accidentally discovered hypocalcaemia (Peter Hallgren, Sweden)

10.30 – 11.00

COFFEE

11.00 – 12.30

Parallel Workshops

IX: Selected cases: Hypercortisolism

Richard Feelders, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

The difficult management of refractory Cushing’s Disease (Joana Couto, Portugal)

Pituitary Stalk Cushing’s Disease (Claudia Nogueira, Portugal)

X: Selected cases: Thyroid carcinoma

Barbara Jarzab, Gliwize (Polandl)

Thyroid Follicular carcinoma with Osseous Metastases (Ana Marques, Portugal)

What to do with persisting increased thyreoglobulin levels (Caroline Brumsen, Netherlands)

Slow but excessive thyroglobuline increase without adequate morphological findings (Helmut Huber, Austria)

XI: Selected cases: Hyperandrogenism in women

Wiebke Arlt, Birmingham (UK)

XII: Selected cases: Hyper- and hypocalcaemia

Neveen Hamdy, Leiden (Netherland)

Treatment-resistant Hyperparathyroidism in a Haemodialysis Patient (Hans De Boer, Netherlands)

A Case of Reversible Hypocalcaemic Cardiomyopathy due to Idiopathic Primary Hypoparathyroidism ((Debmalya Sanyal, India)

12.30

Meeting closes