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15-16-17 May 2025 · Marriott Gent

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Thursday 15 May 2025

10:30 – Registration, welcome coffee and visit of the Exhibitors

11:00 – Opening

11:05 – Session 1: BPH
Moderators: Cecilia Cracco & Felipe Figueiredo

  • 11:00 – Live case: HOLEP – Fernando Gomez Sancha (supported by Quanta)

  • 11:30 – What’s the limit of enucleation? When to succumb to robot assisted? – Martin Kanne

  • 11:50 – The interactive patient consent: Evidence based approach on telling your patients the truth about the outcomes – Peter Schatteman

  • 12:10 – How to prevent stenotic complications? – Cesare Scoffone

  • 12:30 – Challenging situations in BPH:

    • Chair – Felipe Figueiredo

    • Panel – Feras Al Jaafari, Martin Kanne, Peter Schatteman, Cesare Scoffone

13:00 – Lunch Break and visit to the Exhibitors

14:00 – Session 2: Stone 1
Moderators: Leye Ajayi & Guillaume Krings

  • 14:00 – Live case: ECIRS with suction access sheath – Tom Chi & Thomas Tailly (supported by Wellead, Ambu)

  • 14:30 – Quality of life in stone patients: the most important outcome? – Gregory Tasian

  • 14:50 – Stone prevention: is drinking more the only advice we should give? Do’s and don’ts for a healthy stone diet – Leye Ajayi

  • 15:10 – Are we all fans of FANS?

    • Not a fan – Cecilia Cracco

    • Fan(s)tastic – Amelia Pietropaolo

    • Referee – Peter Kronenberg

15:35 – Pre-Recorded RIRS supported by Dornier – Silvia Proietti

15:55 – Coffee Break and visit to the Exhibitors

16:15 – Session 3: NMIBC/UTUC
Moderators: Amelia Pietropaolo & Peter Schatteman

  • 16:15 – UTUC: how to follow our patients after a kidney-sparing approach for UTUC? – Marianne Brehmer

  • 16:35 – Live case: TURB – Cesare Scoffone

  • 17:05 – Battle of the guidelines EAU vs AUA in UTUC: best practice for endoscopic management of UTUC in 2025 – Sima Porten

  • 17:25 – Adjuvant instillations after kidney sparing UTUC treatment: Bladder Kidney or both. Stent or Neph tube? – Joyce Baard

  • 17:45 – The debatable case: Do we always need a biopsy prior to nephro-ureterectomy. Do we need to prove that it’s UTUC?

    • Chair – Camille Berquin

    • Panel – Joyce Baard, Marianne Brehmer, Sima Porten, Silvia Proietti

  • 18:10 – Optimizing results in endoscopic UTUC treatment: Do scope, laser and disposables matter? – Silvia Proietti

18:30 – End of Day

20:00 – Faculty Dinner

Friday 16 May 2025

08:00 – Registration, welcome coffee and visit of the Exhibitors

08:30 – Session 1: Stone 2
Moderators: Peter Kronenberg & Eva Van Bos

  • 08:30 – Stone burden: The burden of stones… on a healthcare system: cost-efficiency as an outcome – Daron Smith

  • 08:50 – Live case: ECIRS – Marcos Cepeda & Cecilia Cracco (supported by Cook Medical, Quanta & Karl Storz)

  • 09:20 – Is Ho: YAG still the king? KOL: King of lasers? View of a KOL – Olivier Traxer

  • 09:40 – Getting access in PCNL:

    • Xray only is best – Silvia Proietti

    • Ultrasound only is best – Tom Chi

    • You need Both – Cesare Scoffone

    • Referee – Leye Ajayi

10:10 – pre-recorded case RIRS – Amelia Pietropaolo (supported by Pusen)

10:30 – Coffee Break and visit to the Exhibitors

11:00 – Session 2: BPH 2
Moderators: Pieter Uvin & Feras Al Jaafari

  • 11:00 – AEEP: miniaturization is not only for stones, or is it?

    • PRO – Felipe Figueiredo

    • CON – Feras Al Jaafari

    • Referee – Martin Kanne

  • 11:20 – To ejaculate or to urinate? Do we need to choose? – Thomas Herrmann

  • 11:40 – Live case: pulsed ThuLEP: Peter Schatteman (supported by Dornier Medtech/Bemedico)

  • 12:10 – The small obstructive prostates:

    • PRO: MIST is all – Stefania Feretti

    • CON: Clear the MIST – Fernando Gomez Sancha

    • Referee – Etienne Keller

  • 12:30 – Panel session: 18 carat tips from 1K enucleators. How did you…. What if….

    • Chair – Martin Kanne

    • Panel – Felipe Figueiredo, Fernando Gomez Sancha, Cesare Scoffone, Pieter Uvin

13:00 – Lunch Break and visit to the Exhibitors

14:00 – Session 3: Stone 3
Moderators: Vincent De Coninck & Greg Tasian

  • 14:00 – Favourite disposables in endourology: My disposable is best because

    • Olivier Traxer

    • Tom Chi

    • Etienne Keller

    • Marcos Cepeda

  • 14:25 – Live case: RIRS – Leye Ajayi (supported by Quanta, Cook Medical and Karl Storz)

  • 14:55 – Current status of AI in endourology. Are we there yet? – Amelia Pietropaolo & Greg Tasian

  • 15:15 – Applied laser physics for the practicing urologist: feeling Hot Hot Hot – Peter Kronenberg

  • 15:35 – Today’s complications in stone treatment are not yesterday’s – Vincent De Coninck

16:00 – Coffee Break and visit to the Exhibitors

16:20 – Session 4: UTUC/NMIBC
Moderators: Marianne Brehmer & Camille Berquin

  • 16:20 – Are all NMIBC created equal? Challenging the current T staging – Tim Muilwijk

  • 16:40 – Live: RIRS – Olivier Traxer (supported by Hugemed)

  • 17:10 – Does this patient need another TURBT after initial resection? Challenging the indication – Benjamin Pradere

  • 17:30 – Indications for Hexvix? Should we all glow in the dark? Or only for limited use?

    • PRO – Benjamin Pradere

    • CON – Joyce Baard

    • Referee – Sima Porten

  • 17:55 – What’s on the horizon after the era of BCG? New treatments for NMIBC. Urologist or oncologist? – Sima Porten

  • 18:15 – What’s the best practice in follow-up of patients treated with TMT? – Camille Berquin

18:35 – End of Day

20:00 – Congress Dinner at Gravensteen

Saturday 17 May 2025

09:00 – Session 1: Stone 4
Moderators: Feras Al Jaafari, Joyce Baard

  • 09:00 – Challenging situations in PCNL/ ECIRS. What would you do?

    • Chair – Stefania Feretti

    • Panel – Leye Ajayi, Marcos Cepeda, Tom Chi, Cecilia Cracco

  • 09:30 – Best practice in ureteric stone treatment: what does the data tell us? – Daron Smith

  • 09:50 – Same day surgery, are we there yet for PCNL – Tom Chi

  • 10:10 – Challenge the guidelines: Is it time to change the way we think about stone burden and treatment suggestions?

    • Volume vs size? – Vincent De Coninck vs Gregory Tasian

    • The increasing range of flex URS? Lowering the threshold for PCNL? – Peter Kronenberg vs Marcos Cepeda

    • Referee – Daron Smith

10:50 – Coffee Break and visit to the Exhibitors

11:10 – Session 2: All about Stents
Moderators: Guillaume Krings & Peter Kronenberg

  • 11:10 – Difficult ureteral stenting: The difficult ureter: Thou shalt not pass. How to deal – Marcos Cepeda

  • 11:30 – Overcoming stent encrustation: Changing the stent or changing the medium – Etienne Keller

  • 11:50 – Stenting for malignant obstruction – Stefania Feretti

  • 12:10 – Predicting and managing stent related symptoms. What have we learned so far? – Gregory Tasian

  • 12:30 – Pre-recorded case: Lithovue Elite (supported by Boston Scientific) – Andreas Skolarikos

13:00 – Lunch Break and visit to the Exhibitors

14:00 – Session 3: The grand finale
Moderators: Thomas Tailly & Carl Van Haute

  • 14:00 – Pre-recorded case HOLEP with Moses – Tev Aho (supported by Boston Scientific)

  • 14:25 – BPH = Big Prostate Horrors

    • Chair – Fernando Gomez Sancha

    • Panel – Tev Aho, Felipe Figueiredo, Thomas Herrmann, Pieter Uvin

  • 15:10 – Balloon Debate: Stone treatment from all angles

    • Chair – Leye Ajayi

    • Panel – Feras Al Jaafari, Tom Chi, Etienne Keller, Cecilia Cracco, Daron Smith

15:55 – Closing of the congress

16:00 – End of Congress

Faculty

International

Leye AJAYI - UK
Feras AL JAAFARI - UK
Joyce BAARD - NL
Marianne BREHMER - SE
Marcos CEPEDA - ES
Tom CHI - USA
Cecillia CRACCO - IT
Stefania FERETTI - IT
Felipe FIGUEREIDO - BR
Fernando GOMEZ SANCHA - ES
Thomas HERRMANN - CH
Martin KANNE - DE
Etienne KELLER - CH
Peter KRONENBERG - PT
Amelia PIETROPAOLO - UK
Sima PORTEN - USA
Benjamin PRADERE - FR
Silvia PROIETTI - IT
Cesare SCOFFONE - IT
Daron SMITH - UK
Gregory TASIAN - USA
Olivier TRAXER - FR

National

Camille BERQUIN
Vincent DE CONINCK
Guillaume KRINGS
Tim MUILWIJK
Peter SCHATTEMAN
Pieter UVIN
Eva VAN BOS

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