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The Joint Surgeryin the Mediterranean CountriesNews and perspectives

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1st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSOF THE MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIESON JOINT SSUURRGGEERRYY

Local SecretariatVia U. Giordano, 55 - PalermoTel (+39) 091 6824578 Fax (+39) 091 6818309e-mail: giuggioli@collagecongressi.it

Congress ChairsV.A. PaolilloA. NiceforoR. ZiniC. Zorzi

Honorary PresidentsM. D’ArienzoG. Sessa

Scientific CommitteeP. AdravantiS. AvondoG.C. CoariM. DentiG. Letizia MauroM. MarcacciF. PrianoR. ViolaP. Volpi

Scientific SecretariatR. BalistreriL. CamardaA. RussoA. San Filippo

Congress VenueTeatro Politeama GaribaldiPiazza Ruggero Settimo - Palermo

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JUNE 16TH- 18TH, 2011PALERMOTeatro Politeama Garibaldi

Regione Sicilia

Assessorato della Salute

AssembleaRegionale Sicilia

Provincia di Palermo Comune di Palermo

Under the aegis of

Ordine dei Medici- Chirurghie degli Odontoiatri della

Provincia di Palermo

Università degli Studidi Palermo

Associazione SicilianaOrtopedici Traumatologi

Ospedalieri

June 16th Thursday

15.00-15.30 Registration of participants

15.30-16.25 MENISCUS SESSION Chairmen: A. Delcogliano, V. Miceli

15.30-15.40 SutureZ. Noun

15.40-15.50 ScaffoldM. Ronga

15.50-16.00 TrasplantationsL. Pederzini

16.00-16.15 LECTUREC. Zorzi

16.15-16.25 DISCUSSION

16.30-17.00 Polynucleotidesuse in knee diseasesR. Vanelli

17.00-18.45 ACL SESSIONChairmen: P. Adravanti, P. Volpi

17.00-17.15 LECTUREG. Cerulli

17.15-17.35 Recostruction SBM. Karahan, W. Boueri

17.35-17.55 Recostruction DBC. Papageorgiu, M.Hantes

17.55-18.05 Complex injurieV. Madonna

18.05-18.45 Round TableE. Adriani, A. Caraffa, A. Dal Poggetto,F. Margheritini, Z. Noun, V. Salini, D. Tsoukas, Case report 1A. Niceforo

Case report 2M. Misiti

Case report 3A. Russo

18.45-19.15 Opening Ceremony20.30 Faculty dinner

FACULTY

Marco Addevico - ItalyPaolo Adravanti - ItalyEzio Adriani - ItalyManos Antonogiannakis - GreeceRon Arbel - IsraelEnrico Arnaldi - ItalyPaolo Avanzi - ItalyJosé Avila - SpainAndrea Baldini - ItalyEugenio Barbieri - ItalyPaolo Baudi - ItalyFabio Maria Bernetti - ItalyMassimo Berruto - ItalyMarco Bigoni - ItalyFilippo Boniforti - ItalyStefano Boschi - ItalyWissam Boueri - LebanonAlberto Branca - ItalyVittorio Calvisi - ItalyLawrence Camarda - ItalyErgis Cami - AlbaniaAuro Caraffa - ItalyAlessandro Castagna - ItalyClaudio Castelli - ItalyRoberto Castricini - ItalyPietro Cavaliere - ItalyGiuliano Cerulli - ItalyGiancarlo Coari - ItalyNicolò Coletti - ItalyMarco Conca - ItalyMichele D’Arienzo - ItalyRoberto D’Anchise - ItalyAntonio Dal Poggetto - ItalyVincenzo De Cupis - ItalyAssaf Dekel - Israel

Shmuel Dekel - IsraelAntonio Delcogliano - ItalyVincenzo Denaro - ItalyMehmet Dermitas - TurkeyGiovanni Di Giacomo - ItalyAngelo Di Giunta - ItalyMatej Drobnic - SloveniaChronopoulos Efstathios - GreeceEmmanouil M. Fandridis - GreeceFrancesco Franceschi - ItalyEnrico Gervasi - ItalyFrancesco Giacco - ItalySandro Giannini - ItalyFrancesco Giron - ItalyErmes Giuzio - ItalyJean Marc Glasson - FranceAndrea Grasso - ItalyStefano Gumina - ItalyMikel Gutierrez Amberri - SpainMichael Hantes - GreeceAhmed Kandil - EgyptMustafa Karahan - TurkeyElisaveta Kon - ItalyRosario Lupo - ItalyVincenzo Madonna - ItalyFabrizio Margheritini - ItalyPier Paolo Mariani - ItalyEnzo Marinoni - ItalyVincenzo Miceli - ItalyGiuseppe Milano - ItalyRiccardo Minola - ItalyMassimo Misiti - ItalyD.R. Morgenstern - IsraelGavriel Mozes - IsraelAntonino Niceforo - Italy

Ziad Noun - LebanonVincenzo A. Paolillo - ItalyCristos Papageorgiu - GreeceGianezio Paribelli - ItalyLuigi Adriano Pederzini - ItalyGiuseppe Pellegrino - ItalyGiuseppe Petrantoni - ItalyDario Petriccioli - ItalyGiuseppe Porcellini - ItalyFerdinando Priano - ItalyFilippo Randelli - ItalyPietro Randelli - ItalyManuel Ribas - SpainPaolo Righi - ItalyR. Paolo Rolla - ItalyAlfonso Romano - ItalyMario Ronga - ItalyDonato Rosa - ItalyArcangelo Russo - ItalyRaffaele Russo - ItalySamir Sagar - LybiaVincenzo Salini - ItalyAlfredo Schiavone Panni - ItalyGiuseppe Sessa - ItalyEttore Taverna - ItalyMassimo Toffolo - ItalyDimitrios Tsoukas - GreeceErnesto Valenti - ItalyRoberto Vanelli - ItalyPiero Volpi - ItalyStefano Zaffagnini - ItalyRaul Zini - ItalyClaudio Zorzi - Italy

June 17th Friday

08.30-09.25 BIOTECHNOLOGIESAND CARTILAGE SESSION Chairmen: M. Berruto, F. Priano

08.30-08.40 One step techniquesE. Marinoni

08.40-08.50 Two steps techniquesD. Rosa

08.50-09.00 BiotechnologiesE. Kon

09.00-09.10 What I do on a cartilage lesionM. Drobnic

09.10-09.25 LECTURES. Giannini

09.30-10.25 PATELLAR SESSIONChairmen: A. Branca, F. Giron

09.30-09.40 Clinical and instrumentalassessmentA. Schiavone Panni

09.40-09.50 Algorithm treatmentS. Zaffagnini

09.50-10.05 Patellar instability.What to doP. P. Mariani

10.05-10.25 DISCUSSION

10.25-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.30 ORAL COMMUNICATIONSSESSIONChairmen: M. D’Arienzo, G. Petrantoni

Torsion of Nodular Sinovitis of the Knee,a rare situation. A case report* E. Cami, K. Sejdini, A. Rroj, L. Berdica

ACL anatomic reconstruction techniquethrough a far anteromedial portalD.Tsoukas

Aperfix ACL reconstructionF. Giacco, V. Miceli, B. Tripo

Our experience with ACLreconstruction with artificialG. Pellegrino, F. Sapienza, A. Paolillo, R. Balistreri

Tunnel convergence in lateralcollateral ligament and bundleACL postero-lateralL. Camarda, G. Caradonna, A. La Gattuta,S. Moscadini M. D’Arienzo

A new clinical test for evaluating hipimpingement and acetabular labral tears:the Distraction-Relocation testD.R. Morgenstern

My experience in second generation ACIin the knee and ankleR. Arbel

PTG treatment in obese patientE.Giuzio

Gemini MIT-K. A less invasive approachF. Boniforti

Postero-lateral capsular release for thecorrection of sever valgus deformity duringknee arthroplasty - twenty years experienceS. Deckel

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 HYALURONIC ACIDIN OSTEOARTHRITISAND MOREChairman: S. Giannini

14.00-14.15 The use of HA in osteochondrallesions: mechanism of actionand indicationM. Toffolo

14.15-14.30 The use of Hyaluronic Acidin the shoulderG. Di Giacomo

14.30-14.45 Ultrasound guided intra-articularinjiection in the hipM. Addevico

14.45-15.00 DISCUSSION

15.00-17.00 SESSION PROSTHESISUP TO DATEChairmen: V. Calvisi, G.C. Coari

Round tableC. Castelli, P. Cavaliere, R. D’Anchise,S. Deckel, C. Efstathios, S. Sagar, E. Valenti

Case report 1 - PrimaryF. Bernetti

Case report 2 - RevisionA. Baldini

17.00-17.55 HIP SESSIONChairmen: V. Denaro, G. Sessa

17.00-17.15 LECTURER. Zini

17.15-17.35 CAMF. Randelli

17.35-17.45 PincerM. Bigoni

17.45-17.55 Mini openM. Ribas

June 18th Saturday08.30-11.00 SHOULDER SESSION

INTRODUCTION OF THE PRESIDENTOF THE SICSeG A. CastagnaChairmen: A. Grasso, G. Paribelli

08.30-10.30 CUFF TEARS08.30-08.40 How to manage a cuff pathology

in over head sport playerJ. M. Glasson

08.40-08.50 Partial rotator cuff tears: currentconcepts and repair techniquesE. M. Fandridis

08.50-09.00 The antero-superior cuff tearsJ. Avila

09.00-09.10 The postero-superior cuff tears A. Dekel

09.10-09.20 Rotator cuff healing withand without platelet rich plasmaM. Antonogiannakis

09.30-10.00 Italian contributions to thetreatment of cuff pathology S. Boschi, E. Gervasi, A. Grasso,G. Milano, G. Paribelli, P. Randelli, P. Rolla

10.00-11.00 Case presentationsModerators: A. Di Giunta, R. Minola

Round table Italian and guests(top specialists)E. Barbieri, F. Franceschi, S. Gumina,A. Romano, G. Porcellini

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11.15- 13.25 INSTABILITY SESSION Chairmen: P. Avanzi, E. Gervasi

11.15-11.25 First time anterior shoulderdislocation: decision makingM. Demirtas

11.25-11.35 Bone lossG. Mozes

11.35-11.45 Soft tissue inconsistencyA. Kandil

11.45-11.55 Posterior instabilityM. Gutierrez

11.55-12.25 Italian contributionto the instability treatment E. Gervasi, P. Baudi, R. Minola,G. Di Giacomo, R. Russo, E. Taverna

12.25-13.25 Case presentationsModerators: E. Arnaldi, A. Di Giunta

Round table Italian and guestsR. Castricini, N. Coletti, M. ConcaV. De Cupis, R. Lupo, D. Petriccioli

13.25-13.45 Discussion and closing ceremony

Congress VenueTeatro Politeama GaribaldiPiazza Ruggero Settimo - Palermo

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