Educational Programme on Transplant Infectious Diseases, ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course


25 - 26 April 2014, São Paulo, Brazil

Organiser
  • ESCMID Study Group for Infection in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH)
Supporters
  • Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP)
  • Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP)
Course Coordinators
  • Edson Abdala, São Paulo, Brazil
  • José María Aguado, Madrid, Spain
  • Wanessa Trindade Clemente, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Course Objectives

Learning about epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, prevention and therapy of main infections occurring after solid organ and haematopoietic stem-cell transplantations. Specific subjects include donor-derived, viral, bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal and parasitic infections. Travel medicine for immunocompromised hosts will be especially addressed.

Course Venue

Pullman Hotel Ibirapuera
Rua Joinville 515
Vila Mariana
04008-011 São Paulo
Brazil

Target Audience

35 – 55 specialists or physicians in training interested in infections in transplant recipients including: infectious disease doctors, microbiologists, mycologists,
virologists, transplant surgeons and specialists in nephrology, hepatology, cardiology, endocrinology, pneumology, haematology and oncology.

Contact Person

Edson Abdala
Departamento de Doenças
Infecciosas e Parasitárias
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 455
01246-000, São Paulo, Brazil

Phone +55 113 085 16 01
Fax +55 113 085 16 01

Administrative Secretariat

Fernanda Prestes Eventos
Rua Dr. Diogo Faria, 139
04037-000, Vila Clementino
São Paulo, Brazil

Phone + 55 115 084 42 46
Fax +55 115 081 70 28

Course Programme


Presentations are availabe in the ESCMID Online Lecture Library.

Friday, 25 April 2014


08:30 Welcome address

Introduction: Infection in transplant recipients
09:00 Epidemiology of infections in solid organ transplant recipients.
           Edson Abdala
09:30 Epidemiology of infections in haematopoietic stem-cell transplant                             recipients. Alessandro Busca
10:00 Immunosuppression: risks of infections and drug interactions.
           José María Aguado
10:30 Coffee break

Donor-derived infections
11:00 Donor-derived infections including donor and recipient’s screening.
           Carlos Lumbreras
11:30 Illustrative clinical case. Lígia Camera Pierrotti
11:40 Illustrative clinical case II. Wanessa Trindade Clemente
11:50 Illustrative clinical case III. Jimena Prieto

Traveller medicine for transplant recipients
12:00 Travelling to Latin America: risks and preventive measures.
           Wanessa Trindade Clemente
12:30 Illustrative clinical case. Guilherme Santoro Lopes
12:45 Illustrative clinical case II. Maurício Lacerda Nogueira
13:00 Lunch

Bacterial infections
14:00 Epidemiology of bacterial infections in transplantation. Jordi Carratalà
14:30 Illustrative clinical case. Jordi Carratalà
14:45 Illustrative clinical case II. Ricardo Rabagliati

Viral infections I
15:00 Screening and prevention of herpesvirus infections in transplantation.
           Julián de la Torre-Cisneros
15:30 Screening and diagnosis of respiratory virus infections in transplantation.
           Clarisse Martins Machado
16:00 Illustrative clinical case. Oscar Len
16:15 Illustrative clinical case II. Fabianne Carlesse
16:30 Coffee break

Viral infections II
17:00 Transplantation in HIV-positive recipients. Paolo Grossi
17:30 Transplantation in HCV-positive recipients. Edson Abdala
18:00 Illustrative clinical case. Luís Fernando Aranha Camargo
18:15 Illustrative clinical case II. Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi

 

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Fungal infections
08:30 Fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients. José María Aguado
09:00 Fungal infections in haematopoietic stem-cell transplant recipients.
           Claudio Viscoli
09:30 Illustrative clinical case. Alessandro Comaru Pasqualotto
09:45 Illustrative clinical case II. Arnaldo Lopes Colombo
10:00 Coffee break

Meet-the-experts: Preventing, diagnosing and treating infections
10:30 Renal and renal-pancreatic transplantation with interactive clinical cases.
           Guilherme Santoro Lopes, Julián de la Torre-Cisneros  & Lígia Camera                   Pierrotti
11:00 Liver transplantation with interactive clinical cases.
           Oscar Len, Carlos Lumbreras & Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi

11:30 Heart and lung transplantation with interactive clinical cases.
           Joan Gavaldà, Ricardo Rabagliati & Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli
12:00 Haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation with interactive clinical cases.
           Márcia Garnica, Alessandro Busca & Maria Elena Santolaya

13:00 Closing remarks

Faculty Members
  • Edson Abdala, São Paulo, Brazil
  • José María Aguado, Madrid, Spain
  • Alessandro Busca, Turin, Italy
  • Luís Fernando Aranha Camargo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Fabianne Carlesse, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Jordi Carratalà, Barcelona, Spain
  • Wanessa Trindade Clemente, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Arnaldo Lopes Colombo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Márcia Garnica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Joan Gavaldà, Barcelona, Spain
  • Paolo Grossi, Varese, Italy
  • Oscar Len, Barcelona, Spain
  • Guilherme Santoro Lopes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Carlos Lumbreras, Madrid, Spain
  • Clarisse Martins Machado, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
  • Alessandro Comaru Pasqualotto, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Lígia Camera Pierrotti, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Jimena Prieto, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Ricardo Rabagliati, Santiago, Chile
  • Maria Elena Santolaya, Santiago, Chile
  • Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi, Campinas, Brazil
  • Julián de la Torre-Cisneros, Córdoba, Spain
  • Claudio Viscoli, Genova, Italy