Annual Meeting
Welcome to the ISBP 2009 Stockholm
Date: 17-19 Sept 2009
Go to the ISBP 2009 website
The 27th annual meeting of the International Society of Blood Purification will take place at the Clarion Hotel Sign- the largest and most modern hotel in beautiful Stockholm- close to the central station, Old City and shopping areas.
The program includes a series of innovative and clinically relevant symposia and invited lectures, as well as free communications and posters.
This meeting provides an update on relevant issues for nephrologists and researchers in the field of dialysis and CKD, and other conditions requiring blood purification therapies
This meeting has a unique and personal format which allows adequate time for discussions and interactions between researchers.
The attractive social program includes wine and cheese poster reception, special reception at the City Hall of Stockholm, and more.
Symposia and invited lectures (preliminary)
Protein-energy wasting in dialysis patients – causes and possible cures
• Impact of regular exercise
• Impact of gender and sex hormones
• Combating inflammation and adipokines in the wasted patient
• Nutritional interventions in dialysis patients – do they work?
• Effects of GH supplementation on the uremic wasting process
From renal physiology to optimal blood purification
• Water transport in theory and practice
• Impact of intermittent vs continuous treatment
• Proteomics in dialysis – a new tool in renal research
• Impact of different membranes and therapies on solute removal and retention
• Metabolic effects of dialysis treatment
Fluid status and CVD in the dialysis patient
• Definitions and impact of fluid overload on outcome
• How to estimate fluid overload in HD and PD
• Hypertension in the euvolemic dialysis patient
• Impact of intermittent vs continuous treatment on fluid status
Central and peripheral nervous system alterations in the dialysis patient
• Depression and association to co-morbidity, inflammation and outcome
• Dementia and premature cognitive alterations in the dialysis patient
• Is more frequent dialysis the answer?
• Emerging role of the parasympathic system in the dialysis patient
Infection and immune dysfunction in dialysis patients
• The epidemics of infections in dialysis patients
• Different dialysis techniques as a cause of infection
• Causes of immune dysfunction in dialysis patients
• Role of toll-like receptors in immune dysfunction
Guest Lectures:
• Defense mechanisms against vascular calcification in the uremic milieu
• Similarities and differences between the glomerular ultrafilter and dialysis
membranes
• The best is the enemy of the good: Multiple guidelines, polypharmacy and compliance
Award lecture: To be decided
Organizing committee ISBP 2009 Stockholm
Peter Stenvinkel, President
Olof Heimburger, General Secretary
(e-mail: olof.heimburger@ki.se)
Jonas Axelsson
Juan Jesus Carrero
Ingrid Ledebo
Bengt Lindholm
For more information contact us per e-mail, or send to:
ISBP 2009 Stockholm
Dr Olof Heimburger
K56 Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
