Advances in Fetal Medicine Course

Saturday 2 December 2017

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:50 PREDICTION & PREVENTION OF PREECLAMPSIA

09:00 - 09:20 Results of ASPRE trial Kypros Nicolaides (UK)
09:20 - 09:35 Screening at 11-13 w: results of SPREE Min Yi Tan (UK)
09:35 - 09:50 Screening at 22 w: stratification of management Magdalena Litwinska (UK)

09:50 – 11:00 FETAL MRI / CT

09:50 - 10:05 Ventriculomegaly: diagnosis and long term outcome Vanessa Kyriakopoulou (UK)
10:05 - 10:20 Placental MRI in morbidly adherent placenta Jana Hutter (UK)
10:20 - 10:40 Extracranial anomalies Jim Carmichael (UK)
10:40 - 11:00 Cardiac defects Kuberan Pushparajah (UK)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 NEUROSONOGRAPHY

Dario Paladini (Italy)
Ritsuko Pooh (Japan)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:10 PRENATAL GENETIC TESTING

14:00 - 14:15 Implementation of cfDNA test for fetal trisomies Mar Gil (Spain)
14:15 - 14:30 Robustness and reliability of the cfDNA test Francesca Grati (Italy)
14:30 - 14:50 First trimester anomaly scan Oliver Kagan (Germany)
14:50 - 15:10 CMA and whole exome sequencing by NGS Francesca Grati (Italy)
15:10 - 15:25 Rare defects identified by WES Oliver Kagan (Germany)
15:25 - 15:45 Fetal cells in maternal blood Ida Vogel (Denmark)
15:45 - 16:10 Genetic and non-genetic disease Rossa Chiu (Hong Kong)

16:10 – 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 - 17:10 TRANSPERINEAL ULTRASOUND

16:40 - 17:00 Labor ward and beyond Aly Youssef (Italy)
17:00 - 17:10 Instrumental deliveries Adriana Aquise (Spain)

17:10 - 17:30 CONGENITAL INFECTION

17:10 - 17:30 Cytomegalovirus Yves Ville (France)
 Advances in Fetal Medicine Course

Sunday 3 December 2017

09:00 - 10:30 SMALL AND LARGE FETUSES

09:00 - 09:20 The 36 w scan Clara Formuso (UK)
09:20 - 09:40 Assessment of fetal growth by MRI Jacques Jani (Belgium)
09:40 - 10:00 LGA: implications and management Ranjit Akolekar (UK)
10:00 - 10:30 SGA: advances in management Andrew Sharp (UK)

10:30 – 11:00 GLOBAL HEALTH

Precision medicine Peter von Dadelszen (UK)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY John Simpson (UK)

Vita Zidere (UK)
Marietta Charakida (UK)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:50 PRETERM BIRTH

14:00 – 14:15 Update on prevention Kypros Nicolaides (UK)
14:15 – 14:35 Threatened preterm birth Alexandros Sotiriadis (Greece)
14:35 – 15:00 Transabdominal cerclage Andrew Shennan (UK)

15:00 - 16:35 MATERNAL MEDICINE

15:00 - 15:25 Pregnancy hypertension: beyond the CHIPS trial Laura Magee (UK)
15:25 - 15:40 New classification of chronic hypertension Nikos Kametas (UK)
15:40 - 15:55 Obesity: interventions to prevent PE and GDM Argyro Syngelaki (UK)
15:55 - 16:15 Thyroid disease Ines Velasco (Spain)
16:15 - 16:35 Obstetric neurology Surabhi Nanda (UK)

16:35 - 17:15 BEYOND ASPRE AND SPREE

16:35 - 16:50 Late PE: STATIN trial Anca Panaitescu (Romania)
16:50 - 17:15 1st trimester screening Kypros Nicolaides (UK)