Wednesday 28.04.2010   
08:00 – 08:30 Registration
08:30 -14:30 Live Transmission from Dubai Hospital Theatre
Transmission from 2 operating rooms of Dubai Hospital and from Berlin Minimally Invasive Surgery Institute to Al Baraha Auditorium of Intercontinental Festival City Operating surgeons: Davide Lomanto, Karl Miller, Omid Abri, Pradeep Chowbey, Reinhard Bittner, Samuel Kwok, Tim Tollens
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:00 Luncheon
15:00 Departure to Desert Safari

Thursday 29.04.2010   
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
Al Baraha Room 2&3
Opening Ceremony 09:00 – 10:00

1. Chairman of the Conference
2. President of GCC Chapter of APHS
3. President of Asia-Pacific Hernia Society (APHS)
4. President of Emirates Medical Association (EMA)
5. President of Emirates Society of Laparo-Endoscopic Surgeons (ESLES)

10:30 – 11:15 Session 1: Umbilical Hernia, Epigastric Hernia - Chairmen: Davide Lomanto & Harshad Doctor
Tim Tollens: Umbilical Hernia - Open or laparoscopic approach? Does the size matter?
Youn Baik Choi: Laparoscopic repair of umbilical hernia with PHS
Abdullah Al Dohayan: Laparoscopic management of umbilical and paraumbilical hernia
Karl Miller: Umbilical hernia in obese - influence of BMI and gender


11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: Inguinal Hernia - Chairmen: Barlian Sutedja & Tim Tollens
Kamel Boundouki: Evolution of inguinal hernia repair
Dildar Hussain: Current status of classification and guidelines
Subash Gautam: Inguinal hernia – laparoscopic or open repair?
Rajesh Khullar: Endohernia repair of groin hernias
Tim Tollens: Inguinal hernia repair with UHS
Pradeep Chowbey: How to prevent and how to repair recurrent inguinal hernia
Davide Lomanto: Single port surgery for hernia repair – the technique for the future?
Reinhard Bittner: TAPP - How to avoid mistakes?
Anil Sharma: Experience with light weight meshes in TEP



13:00 - 14:00 Lunch & Prayer, APHS General Meeting

14:00 - 15:00 Session 3: Diaphragmatic Hernia - Chairmen: Ahmad Al Jaziri & Samuel Kwok
Pradeep Chowbey: Laparoscopic repair of large hiatal hernia, to mesh or not to mesh?
Samuel Kwok: Diaphragmatic hernia repair
Ali Eghtedari: Laparoscopic repair of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture
Vishwanath Golash: Laparoscopic repair of acute ruptured diaphragmatic hernia



15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:45 Session 4: Mesh or not? Tension versus foreign body - Chairmen: Volker Schumpelick & Pradeep Chowbey
Salah Al Arnawoot: Mesh evolution since Usher
Uwe Klinge: Is there an ideal mesh?
Parveen Bhatia: Mess with mesh
Mohamed Hassan: New laparoscopic flip flap technique versus conventional inguinal hernia repair in children – is it worth it?
Thair Abbas Al Dujaili: Non-mesh open repair of huge or recurrent incisional hernia
Subash Gautam: Does mesh cause chronic pain?
Mesh explantation after multiple recurrences
Advances in tissue engineering for hernia repair


16:45 - 17:00 Lucky Winner

Thursday 29.04.2010   

Al Baraha Room 1 - Free Paper Presentations Part 1

10:30 – 11:15 Emergency and Complications - Chairmen: Basim Al Khafaji and Vishwanath Golash
Vishwanath Golash: Emergency laparoscopic repair of acute obstructed ventral hernia with prosthesis
Ritu Khare: Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair – difficulties and complications in the first 50 cases – lesson learnt
Alex Leung: Emergency laparoscopic repair of strangulated hernia – single center result
Merezban Katrak: Prophylactic ilioinguinal neurectomy in open inguinal hernia repair


11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break


11:30 - 13:00 Umbilical, Inguinal and Femoral Hernia - Chairmen: Abdullah Al Dohayan & Suresh Baliga
Abdullah Hussain Awad: Umbilical hernia repair - primary closure, open mesh or laparoscopic repair?
Mohamed Marzouk: Laparoscopic anatomy of inguinal hernia
Igor Cerni: Laparoscopic or open tension-free inguinal hernia repair – choice of method
Rajeev Sinha: Personal modification of open anterior preperitoneal repair of inguinal hernias
Mahamoud Ali Hamo: Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair
Vishwanath Golash: Endoloop ligation of hernia sac reduces the incidence of seroma formation and recurrences in TEP repair
Sviatoslav Mykytiuk: New tendencies in progress of plug technique for femoral hernia repair
Ritu Khare: Groin hernia in females - repair of femoral hernia with handmade “Ultrapro plug”
Kaushik Shah: Free meshplasty under local anaesthesia


13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Prayer


14:00 – 15:00 Incisional Hernia - Chairmen: Salah Abdulqadir & Subash Gautam
Narendra Ganguly: Open ventral hernioplasty – the gold standard Youn Baik Choi: Laparoscopic repair of ventral and incisional hernia Abdullah Al Dohayan: Laparoscopic percutaneous repair of incisional hernia BS Pathania: Comparative clinical trial of laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with and without closure of sac Arshad Malik: Mesh repair of incisional hernia. Is there a remarkable improvement in outcome? Rajeev Sinha: TAPP for small ventral hernias Enas Al Alawi: Intraperitoneal repair of incisional hernia post appendectomy


15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break


15:15 – 16:45 Education and Training - Chairmen: Faruq Badiuddin & Songzhang Ma
Arwa Al Harazi: Laparoscopic hernia repair for residents in general surgery?
Venugopal Venkatesh: Lap-hernia training in Indian subcontinent
Abdullah Aldohayan: The role of robots in hernia repair
Narendra Ganguly: Open inguinal hernioplasty – the gold standard procedure
Davide Lomanto: Training of hernia repair in training center
Karl Miller: Training of hernia repair as a visiting expert


16:45 - 17:00 Lucky Winner

17:00 - 18:30 Executive Committee Meeting in Al Amwaj Room 1

20:00 - 23:00 Gala Dinner in Intercontinental Dubai Festival City

Friday 30.04.2010   

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Al Baraha Room 2&3


09:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Infected Hernia - Chairmen: Uwe Klinge & Rajesh Khullar
Rolf Hartung: Infected mesh
Venugopal Venkatesh: Mesh rejection and must infected mesh always be explanted?
Uwe Klinge: Biological mesh for every hernia?
Mario Testini: Which mesh to use in clean-contaminated surgery
Tim Tollens: Laparoscopic parastomal hernia repair with modified Sugarbaker
Subash Gautam: Mesh infection and chronic pain
Pannel discussion: Guidelines for treatment of infected mesh?

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: Burst Abdomen, Incisional Hernia, Trauma - Chairmen; Youn Baik Choi & Anil Sharma
Volker Schumpelick: Incisional hernia repair – open gold standard or laparoscopic repair
Annett Al Hamadi: Closure techniques and hernia repair after burst abdomen
Enas Al Alawi: Anterior abdominal wall hernias with diverication of the recti muscles
Rajeev Sinha: TEP for infraumbilical incisional hernia
Karl Miller: Open versus laparoscopic incisional hernia repair - a prospective study
Anil Sharma: Incisional hernia - a case for laparoscopic repair?
Parveen Bhatia: Laparoscopic repair of re-recurrent hernia after mesh repair
Suresh Baliga: Port site hernias – technical failure, how to prevent and how to repair

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch & Prayer – GCC Hernia Society Meeting

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Mesh Selection and Fixation - Chairmen: Parveen Bhatia & Karl Miller
Uwe Klinge: Classification of meshes - different mesh for different technique or patient?
Harshad Doctor: Selection of prosthesis and fixation
Barlian Sutedja: Why the mesh size is different in open and laparoscopic hernia repair?
Bernd Klosterhalfen: Shrinking of mesh
Songzhang Ma: Abdominal wall desmoids tumor resection and reconstruction with mesh
Faruq Badiuddin: TEP – fixation of mesh?
Subash Gautam: Chronic pain related to mesh fixation
Role of seroma in mesh displacement


15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:45 Session 4: Legal Aspects and Consequences - Chairmen: Zameer Pasha & Reinhard Bittner
Bernd Klosterhalfen: Responsibility of mesh complications
Basim Al Khafaji: Injury to the spermatic cord
Samir Shirodkar: Orchiectomy after inguinal hernia repair
Shahid Sarfraz: Informed consent for hernia repair
Zameer Pasha: Litigation after hernia repair
Pradeep Chowbey: Complications of endo-hernia repair and responsibility of the surgeon

16:45 - 17:00 Lucky Winner

17:00 Closing

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