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www.assicon2021virtual.com Scientific Program

(on virtual platform)

29th - 31st January, 2021

Annual Meeting of Association of Spine Surgeons of India

ASSICON 2021

InvitationOn behalf of ASSI, it is a great pleasure to welcome you all to the ASSI Annual

Scientic Meeting, ASSICON 2021. Unfortunately due to the prevailing COVID

pandemic, the meeting this year will also be on a virtual platform. The virtual meet

in September had a high attendance and was well appreciated by the

delegates.The Organising Committee together with the Scientic Committee,

have been working diligently to prepare for ASSICON 2021: VIRTUAL. Virtual

platform has also given us the opportunity to make the event global. This meeting

would be unique and we will be having 3 plenary joint sessions - Joint meeting

with the German Spine Society , with the Argentina Spine Society and a multi-

society panel discussion on the future of Spine care. You will be able to enjoy and

learn from our Keynote addresses, Presidential Lecture/Orations, ASSI awards,

VTI Medal Papers, Presentations, Panel discussions, Free papers and Posters.

DR HS CHHABRAPresident

DR SHANKAR ACHARYAPresident Elect

DR AJOY SHETTYSecretary

DR GAUTAM ZAVERIJoint Secretary

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ASSICON 2021CONFERENCE CORE ORGANIZING TEAM

PATRONS

Dr VT Ingalhalikar

Dr SM Hardikar

Dr S Rajasekaran

Dr PK Dave

Dr Arvind Jayswal

Dr Shekhar Y Bhojraj

Dr Sajan Hegde

Dr Ram Chaddha

Dr Raghav Dutt Mulukutla

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dr Saumyajit Basu

Dr Appaji Krishnan

Dr Bhavuk Garg

Dr Charanjit Singh Dhillion

Dr Rupinder Chahal

Dr Ranjith Unnikrishanan

Dr Janardhana Aithala

Dr Neeraj Gupta

Dr Thomas Kishen

Dr Pankaj Kandwal

Dr Ankur Nanda

CHAIRMAN

Dr HS Chhabra

CO-CHAIRMAN

Dr Shankar Acharya

ORGANIZING SECRETARIES

Dr Ajoy Shetty Dr Gautam Zaveri

SECRETARIES

Ms Neema Bisht (In-charge)

Ms Meenakshi Mohan

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ASSICON 2021

Sunday 24-01-2021

Time Topic Moderator / Faculty

08.00am - 08.35am Inauguration

08.00am - 08.15am Welcome HS Chhabra, President ASSI

08.15am - 08.20am Welcome JA Jayalal, President IMA

08.20am - 08.25am Welcome Abhay Dikshit, President FFPAI

08.25am - 08.30am Welcome Bharat Bhat, President GPA Greater Bombay

08.30am - 08.35am Introduction to Spine Gautam Zaveri, Jt Sec ASSI

08.35am - 09.25am Session I Moderators: Rushma Tandon, Vibhakar Adhvaryu

08.35am - 08.45am A primer of spinal anatomy and function Gurdip Das

08.45am - 08.55am Clinical evaluation of the spine Jwalant Patel

08.55am - 09.05am Spine Xrays simplied Hitesh Modi

09.05am - 09.15am How to read MRI of the spine Ravish Patel

09.15am - 09.25am Discussion

09.30am - 10.30am Session II Moderators: Saumyajit Basu, Pragji Vaja, Janak Shah

09.30am - 09.40am Rational approach to decision making in acute low back pain Feroz Ali

09.40am - 09.50am Current trends in nonoperative treatment of acute LBP Nalli Yuvraj

09.50am - 10.00am Understanding chronic low back pain Premik Nagad

10.00am - 10.10am Lumbar disc prolapse: An overview Rushma Tandon

10.10am - 10.20am Lumbar canal stenosis: A common problem in the elderly !! Raghavendra


10.35am- 11.35am Session III Moderators: Gautam Zaveri, Jayesh M Lele

10.35am - 10.45am Rational approach to the diagnosis of Neck pain Amol Rege

10.45am - 10.55am Cervical spondylosis and its sequelae Ashok Thomas

10.55am - 11.05am Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: A pandemic that is out of control

ML Bansal

11.05am - 11.15am Spinal Tuberculosis: A need for awareness !! Gautam Prasad

11.15am - 11.25am Understanding spinal deformities Dhiraj Sonawane


Master Class In Spinal Problems for Family Physicians

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Sunday 24-01-2021Industry Sponsored Sessions


11.40am - 12.40pm Session IV Moderators: Amol Rege,Pragnesh Shah, Ramesh Bansode

08.00am - 08.15am Video- lecture: Lumbar laminectomy with undercutting medial facetectomy

Priyank Patel

11.40am - 11.50am Exercises- the key to a successful resolution of spinal complaints Nitin Jaiswal

11.50am - 12.00pm Paralysis after spine surgery: A myth !! Saumyajit Basu

12.00pm - 12.10pm Enhanced recovery after spine surgery Gautam Zaveri

12.10pm - 12.20pm Minimally invasive spine surgery Ajay Krishnan

12.20pm - 12.30pm Newer technologies in spine surgery Vijay Kamath

12.30pm - 12.40pm Discussion

12.45pm Vote of Thanks Ajoy Shetty, Secetary ASSI

08.00 am- 10.00am Essential surgical techniques within Thoracolumbar spine(Supported By - Jayon Surgicals)

Conveners: Rupinder Chahal, Pankaj kandwal


08.20am - 08.35am Video- lecture: Minimal incision fenestration discectomy Rupinder Chahal


08.40am - 08.55am Video- lecture: Open TLIF Parthasarthy Srinivasan


09.00am - 09.15am Video- lecture: Transpedicular/ transfacetal decompression in thoracic spine

Pankaj Kandwal


09.20am - 09.35am Video- lecture: Transthoracic anterior corpectomy and fusion Kshitij Chaudhary


09.40am - 09.55am Video- lecture: Transdiaphragmmatic anterior approach to thoracolumbar junction

Shankar Acharya


10.00am - 12.30pm Essential surgical techniques within the Cervical spine (Supported By - Globus Medical)

Conveners: P Upendra, Rishi Kanna

10.00am - 10.15am Video- lecture: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion Amrithlal Mascerenhas


10.20am - 10.35am Video- lecture: Anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion Rishi Kanna


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10.40am - 10.55am Video- lecture: Articial cervical disc replacement Ayush Sharma


12.30pm - 12.45pm Lecture: Basic concepts of MISS: Principles, Anatomy, Techniques, Equipment

Subir Jhaveri


01.30pm - 01.45pm Video- lecture: Mini- TLIF with percutaneous pedicle screw xation

Vikas Gupte


01.50-pm - 02.05pm Video- lecture: "Transthoracic approach to Giant Thoracic Disc” Bala Murali


12.30pm - 02.30pm Essentials of Minimally invasive spine surgery using tubular retractors (Supported By - Medtronics India)

Conveners: Subir Jhaveri,Gururaj Sangondimath

11.00am - 11.15am Video- lecture: Enbloc cervical laminectomy Neeraj Gupta


11.20am - 11.35am Video- lecture: Cervical laminoplasty Janardhana Aithala


11.40am - 11.55am Video- lecture: Cervical lateral mass/ pedicle screw xation P Upendra

11.55am - 12.00pm Discussion


12.50pm - 12.58pm Video- lecture: Docking the tubular retractors Vishal Peshattiwar

12.58pm - 01.05pm Video- lecture: Lumbar discectomy Gururaj Sangondimath


01.10pm - 01.25pm Video- lecture: Over the top decompression for lumbar canal stenosis

Shumayou Dutta


02.10pm - 02.25pm Video-lecture: Cervical laminoforaminotomy Umesh Srikant

03.00pm - 05.00pm Osteoporotic vertebral fractures(Supported By - GESCO)

Conveners: Ketan Badani, Shailesh Hadgaonkar

03.00pm - 03.15pm Rational approach to management of osteoporotic vertebral fractures

Samir Dalvie


03.20pm - 03.35pm Video-lecture: Percutaneous vertebroplasty Nikhil Arbatti

03.35pm- 03.40pm Discussion

03.40pm - 03.55pm Video- lecture: Balloon Kyphoplasty Varun Agarwal


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04.00pm - 04.15pm Video- lecture: Vesseloplasty Arvind Bhave


04.20pm - 04.35pm Video- lecture: Tips & tricks to avoid complications during surgery for OVCFs

Sailesh Hadgaonkar


04.40pm - 04.55pm Lecture: Current trends in Medical management of osteoporosis Ketan Badani


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Friday 29-01-2021 | Hall - A


07.30am - 08.30am Symposium: Navigation in Spine Surgery (12mins X 4) Moderators: S Rajasekaran, S Hadgaonkar

08.35am - 09.35am Case based Panel discussion: Complications in Spine Surgery(15 mins X4)Panelists: Bharat Dave, G Vijay Kumar, Prashant Kekre, VSP Rao

Moderators: Raghav Dutt M, Rupinder Chahal

09.20am - 09.30am Case 4: Intraoperative loss of neuromonitoring signals during scoliosis correction

Amitava Biswas

09.30am - 09.35am Case commentary V Suryaprakash Rao

09.40am - 10.40am Free paper session(4 mins Presentation + 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: Raghavendra S,Tarun Suri, Karunakaran

07.30am - 07.42am Navigation in spine deformity: Pearls & pitfalls David Polly

07.42am - 07.54am Key concepts in MIS when incorporating Navigation Masato Tanaka

07:54am - 08:18am Debate: Navigation & Robotics for spine deformity surgery

07.54am - 08.04am For Neel Anand

08.04am - 08.14am Against Munish Gupta

08.14am - 08.18am Rebuttals

08.18am - 08.30am Discussion, Q & A

08.35am - 08.45am Case 1: Dysphagia following anterior cervical spine surgery Charanjit Dhillon

08:45am - 08:50am Case commentary Bharat Dave

08.50am - 09.00am Case 2: CSF leak following lumbar decompression Appaji Krishnan

09.00am - 09.05am Case commentary G Vijay Kumar

09.05am - 09.15am Case 3: Pseudarthrosis following lumbar TLIF Ankur Nanda

09.15am - 09.20am Case commentary Prashant Kekre

09.40am - 09.44am Comparison of applied anatomy at L4-L5 and L5-S1 incontext of tubular decompression for LCS

Sanjeev Asati

09.46am - 09.50am Can prophylactic C5 foraminotomy prevent post-operative C5 palsy after laminectomy in cervical spine?

Viksheth Basani

Friday 29-01-2021 Public Awareness Program

02.00pm - 03.00pm Launch of Injury Prevention Awareness Program

03.00pm - 04.00pm Community Awareness Program

10.22am - 10.26am Outcome of non-instrumented lumbar spinal surgery in bromyalgia- a matched retrospective cohort study

Shivan Marya

10.28am - 10.32am DIABETES MELLITUS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LUMBAR CANAL STENOSIS: IS THERE ANY RELEVANCE?

Ghanshyam Kakadiya

10.34am - 10.38am Clinical And Radiological Outcomes In The Patients Of Parkinsons Disease Undergoing Instrumented Lumbar Spine Surgery For Spinal Disorders.

Ashish Gupta

10.45am - 11.45am What's new in industry for spine surgeons

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10.45am - 10.55am "My experience with Viper prime" (Guidewire less MIS system) (Depuy)

Ayush Sharma


11.00am - 11.10am Breakthrough, revolutionary technology in deformity correction (Stryker)

Mayank


11.15am - 11.25am "India as a Global R&D and Innovation hub in the Spine domain" (Indius Medical Technologies)

Aditya Ingalhalikar


11.30am - 11.40am Terifrac Solo (Intas Inara) Chandraketu


09.52am - 09.56am Cervical facet joint effusion: a sign of instability in cervical degenerative spondylolisthesis

Shrikant S Sagane

09.58am - 10.02am Comparison of Mini-Open Modied Transformational Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Traditional Open Technique And Outcome Analysis at 2 Years Follow Up: A Retrospective Study

Vishnu Prasad Panigrahi

10.04am - 10.08am Pitfalls and complications associated with reduction of spondylolisthesis.

Sagar Sharma

10.10am - 10.14am A Prospective Study on Posterior Spinal Decompression Showing Enduring Improvement In Neurogenic Claudication Outcome Score For Patients With Lumbar Canal Stenosis.

Bharath H D

10.16am - 10.20am Evaluation of the Cervical range of movement (CROM) in postoperative Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) and Cervical Total Disc Replacement (CTDR) patients.

Prashanth J Rao

Friday 29-01-2021 | Hall - B

ASSICON 2021


07.30am - 08.30am Case based panel discussion: Pediatric Spinal deformity(10 mins X 4)Panelists: Arvind Jayaswal, SK Srivastava, Bhavuk Garg,

Moderators: Subir Jhaveri, Rajkumar Desphande

08.35am - 9.35am Techniques in Endoscopic spine surgery Moderators: Manoj Sharma, Arvind Bhave

09.40am - 10.40am Free paper session(4 mins Presentation + 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: JV Modi,Muralidharan Venkatesh, Ajay Kothari

08.35am - 08.47am Video: Full endoscopic decompression for thoracic myelopathy Gun Choi


07.30am - 07.40am Cervicothoracic scoliosis Saumyajit Basu

07.40am - 07.45am Case commentary Arvind Jayaswal

07.45am - 07.55am Cervicothoracic tuberculosis with kyphosis Sandeep Sonone

07.55am - 08.00am Case commentary SK Srivastava

08.00am - 08.10am Thoarcic kyphoscoliosis with diastomatomyelia Yogesh Pitwa

08.10am - 08.15am Case commentary Bhavuk Garg

08.15am - 08.25am Os odontoideum with cervical kyphosis Sachin Borkar

08.25am - 08.30am Case commentary Deepu Banerjee

08.50am - 09.02am Video: Interlaminar lumbar discectomy Pramod Lokhande


09.05am - 09.17am Video: UB endoscopic decompression for single level simple lumbar canal stenosis

Dong Hwa Heo


09.20am - 09.32am Video: Lumbar endoscopic fusion Girish Datar


09.40am - 09.44am Signicance of Vertebral Body Sliding Osteotomy in Surgical Strategy for Treatment of Ossication of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

Sehan Park

09.46am - 09.50am Comparative evaluation of functional outcomes and patient satisfactory level managed by telerehabilitation in chronic backache patients during pandemics.

Pankaj Kumar Sharma

09.52am - 09.56am Conditions that could aggravate regional and global sagittal balance after L5-S1 posterior lumbar interbody fusion

Hyung Rae Lee

09.58am - 10.02am Mortality In Spine Surgery Analysis of Data of 8000 Patients Operated In A Single Unit

Maddali Dheeraj Manikanta

10.04am - 10.08am Risk factors for worsening of sagittal imbalance after revision posterior fusion surgery in patients with adjacent segment disease

Sangyun Seok

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10.10am - 10.14am Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ULIF) Versus Conventional Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PLIF) for 2 lumbosacral segment : Clinical and Radiological Outcomes of One-Year Follow-up

Seung-Hyun Choi

10.16am - 10.20am Endoscopic Biportal Spine Surgery in patients with Cervical Disc Herniation

Seok-Bong Jung

10.22am - 10.26am Spine Surgery Checklist - A Step towards Perfection through Protocols

Jwalant Patel

10.28am - 10.32am Cauda equina syndrome: false positive diagnosis of neurogenic bladder can be reduced by multichannel urodynamic study

Mohd Raq Bhat

10.34am - 10.38am CLINICAL OUTCOME OF LUMBAR SPINE SURGERY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS

Balamurugan Thirugnanam

08.35pm - 09.35pm Interactive case discussionPanelists: Marcelo Gruenberg, Matias Petracchi, Shankar Acharya, R Satish

Moderators: Saumyajit Basu, Juan Emmerich

07.15pm - 07.27pm Surgical approach for cervical spondylotic myelopathy with kyphosis

Juan Emmerich


07.30pm - 07.42pm Indirect decompression (OLIF) for degenerative spondylolisthesis

Amit Jhala


07.45pm - 07.57pm Multiple rods instrumentation for spinal deformity Juan Pablo Bernasconi


08.00pm - 08.12pm Aggressive vertebral hemangioma with neurologic decit:Is aggressive neurological resection necessary ?

Gautam Zaveri


08.15pm - 08.27pm Discoplasty: A new alternative for DDD Gaston Camino


08.35pm - 08.50pm Cervicothoracic kochs with complete laryngeal palsy Shankar Acharya

08.50pm - 09.05pm Severe Disc degeneration Marcelo Gruenberg

09.05pm - 09.20pm Atypical C2 fracture Matias Petracchi

09.20pm - 09.35pm Thoracic spinal cord herniation- An uncommon cause of myelopathy

R Satish

09.40pm - 11.10pm Meet the Legends Moderators: Rushama Tandon,S Gururaj

09.40pm - 10.10pm John Lonstein Interviewer: Kshitij Chaudhary

10.10pm - 10.40pm Lawrence Lenke Interviewer: Saumyajit Basu

10:40pm - 11:10pm VT Ingalhalikar Interviewer: Abhay Nene

06.00pm - 06.55pm Inauguration- ASSICON 2021

06.55pm - 09.35pm Combined Meeting of The ASSI & Sociedad Argentina de Patología de la Columna Vertebral

06.55pm - 07.00pm Introduction & Welcome to SAPCV (Argentina Spine Society) Gautam Zaveri

07.00pm - 08.30pm Combined Session of ASSI + SAPCV Moderators: Gautam Zaveri, Marcelo Gruenberg, KV Menon

07.00pm - 07.12pm Paediatric transarticular C1- C2 xation: Technique, Pearls & pitfalls

Vishal Kundnani


Friday 29-01-2021 Special Session Hall

Saturday 30-01-2021 | Hall - A

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07.30am - 09.00am VTI Gold Medal Free Paper Session (7 papers- 7 mins Presentation +3 mins Discussion each)

Moderators: V.T Ingalhalikar, Arvind Jayaswal

09.00am - 09.07am ASSI Basic Science Award 2021“Sub-clinical Infection can be an Initiator of Inammaging leading to Degenerative Disc Disease – Evidence from Host Defense Response Mechanisms”

S Rajasekeran

07.30am - 11.15am ASSI Plenary Session

09.00am - 10.00am ASSI awards Moderators: HS Chhabra, Gautam Zaveri

09.09am - 09.16am ASSI Young Investigator Award 2021The Catastrophization Effects of an MRI Report on the Patient and Surgeon and the Benets of 'Clinical Reporting' - Results from an RCT and Blinded Trials

Dilip Chand Raja

09.18am - 09.25am ASSI Clinical Research Award 2021All-Posterior Approach in Surgical Management of Thoracolumbar Tuberculosis; A Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Posterior-Only Stabilization Versus Global Reconstruction

Renjith KR

09.25am - 09.35am ASSI publication Award S Rajasekaran

09.35am - 09.40am Travelling fellowship Award Jwalant Patel, Kondety Srikrishna Chaitenya

07.30am - 07.37am Prospective randomized control pilot study to compare the role of injection Cerebrolysin in operated cases of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.

Ayush Sharma

07.40am - 07.47am Why do Modic Changes Result in Poor Clinical Outcomes? Novel Insights from Proteomic analysis of Lumbar discs with Modic changes

Dilip Chand Raja

07.50am - 07.57am CORRELATION BETWEEN CLINICAL SCORING SYSTEMS AND QUANTITATIVE MRI PARAMETERS IN DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS

Siddharth Gupta

08.00am - 08.07am Time to distinguish ligamentum avum buckling and hypertrophyin degenerative cervical myelopathy: Analysis of factors inuencing them

Kalyan Kumar Varma Kalidindi

08.10am - 08.17am Dynamic cervical MRI: An important diagnostic and preoperative planning tool in cervical myelopathy

Sudheer Kumar

08.20am - 08.27am A proposed classication based on strategies for surgical reconstruction of the lumbosacral spine in advanced lumbosacral tuberculous spondylodiscitis.

Aju Bosco

08.30am - 08.37am Biomechanical analysis of Instrumented decompression and Interbody fusion procedures in Lumbar spine: A Finite ElementAnalysis study.

Nagaraj Manju Moger

Report of ASSI Research Grant Award - 2019

09.42am - 09.49am Transforaminal selective nerve root block using steroid vs platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in prolapsed lumbar intervetebraldisc with radiculopthy - A randomised double blind trial

HS Chhabra

09.51am - 09.58am Investigating the pathogenesis of Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and the inuence of mechanical loading on scoliotic disc- A proteomic analysis

S Rajasekaran

10.00am - 10.35am Presidential Guest Oration Moderators: HS Chhabra, Raghav Dutt

10.00am - 10.05am Introduction of Guest Orator - Douglas Brown HS Chhabra

10.05am - 10.35am Translation of SCI research to clinical practice: why the long delays?

Douglas Brown

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05.40pm - 06.40pm Interactive case discussionPanelists: Sajan Hegde, Karthik Kailash, Frank Kandziora, Ulf Liljenqvist, Peter Vajkoczy

Moderators: Shankar Acharya, Markus Arand, Ram Chaddha

04.00pm - 04.10pm Welcome & Introduction of DWG (German Spine Society): Opportunity & Challenges for ASSI & GSS collabaration

HS Chhabra

Moderators: HS Chhabra, Frank Kandziora, Raghav Dutt

04.00pm - 06.45pm Joint meeting of ASSI + DWG (German Spine Society)

05.40pm - 05.55pm Osteosarcoma of chest wall with spinal involvement Ulf Liljenqvist

04.10pm - 04.20pm Projects of the DWG (German Spine Society) and options for an ASSI / DWG cooperation

Frank Kandziora

04.20pm - 04.32pm Subclinical infection: A cause for lumbar disc degeneration S Rajasekaran


04.35pm - 04.47pm Indication, techniques and limitations of en -bloc resection of primary bone tumors of the thoracic spine

Ulf Liljenqvist


04.50pm - 05.02pm Treatment strategies for thoracic disc herniations Peter Vajkoczy


05.05pm - 05.17pm Surgical Approaches to Thoracic myelopathy Bharat Dave


05.20pm - 05.32pm Indication, techniques, tips and tricks for thoracoscopic spine surgery in trauma cases

Markus Arand


05.55pm - 06.10pm Giant calcied thoracic disc herniation - a complicated problem Peter Vajkoczy

06.10pm - 06.25pm Post -traumatic, post surgical thoracolumbar kyphosis Karthik Kailash

06.25pm - 06.40pm Spinal deformity: Is it time to turn the page on tradition? Sajan Hegde

10.35am - 10.40am Introduction of President Moderators: Shankar Acharya, Ram Chaddha

10.40am - 11.10am “Minimalism but comprehensiveness in spine care: are we giving adequate emphasis?”

HS Chhabra

11.30am - 01.30pm ASSI General Body Meeting

Saturday 30-01-2021 Special Session Hall

07.00pm - 09.30pm Spine Surgery: Navigating the future Moderators: HS Chhabra, Sajan Hegde, Shankar Acharya

07.10pm - 07.20pm Will day care spine centres take precedence in the future? Alok Sharan

07.20pm - 07.30pm Prospective application of virtual reality in improving access to quality and affordable spine care

Kern Singh

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09.40pm - 11.10pm Meet the Legends Moderators: Raghu Verma, Sajesh Menon

09.40pm - 10.10pm Stefano Boriani K Venkatesh

07.50pm - 08.00pm Future of robotics in spine care Sami Haddadin

08.00pm - 08.10pm Potential of Big Data, Computer Vision, Articial intelligence and machine learning in Spine Care

Doniel Drazin


08.20pm - 08.30pm Role of 3D printing in spine care Lawrence Lenke

08.30pm - 08.40pm Single position surgery Neel Anand

08.40pm - 08.50pm Neuromodulation in Spine Care: What lies ahead Aditya Gupta


09.00pm - 09.10pm Targeted/ Molecular therapies Prabhat Bhargava

09.10pm - 09.20pm What lies ahead - future of management of spinal tumors Ehud Mendel


10.10pm - 10.40pm Michael Fehlings Rohit Amritanand

10.40pm - 11.10pm Atul Goel & VJ Laheri Samir Dalvie

Discussion07.40pm - 07.50pm

07.30pm - 07.40pm Role of telemedicine to improve access to quality and affordable care

Suken Shah

07.00pm - 07.10pm Virtual reality for (remote) education and future of augmented reality in medical care

Andrea Luca

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Sunday 31-01-2021 | Hall - A


08.00am - 9.00am Free paper session(4mins Presentation+ 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: Bibhudendu Mahapatra,Sarvdeep Dhatt, Sandeep Kesarwani

09.05am - 09.17am Optimal Care for Complex Spine Surgery: What does it take ? Sigrud Berven

09.05am - 10.05am Symposium: Improving Outcomes in Spine Surgery(10 mins X 5)

Moderators: Ketan Badani, Abhishek Srivastava, Saheel Majid

09.17am - 09.29am Enhanced recovery after lumbar spine surgery - Awake spinal fusion

Alok Sharan

09.29am - 09.41am Current concepts of Multi modal anaethesia & Optimizing Postoperative Pain

Bala Venkat

09.41am - 09.53am A Checklist for safe spine surgery Arvind Kulkarni

09.53am - 10.05am Discussion, Q & A

08.00am - 08.04am The prevalence of Lumbosacral transitional vertebra (LSTV) and its affect on low back pain and radiculopathy- an MRI based study

Chintan Bhagchandani

08.06am - 08.10am The Impact of Acute Lumbar Disc Herniation on Sexual Function in Male Patients

Keerthivasan P

08.18am - 08.22am Intradiscal Vacuum Phenomenon (IDVP): radiological factors to predict the selective appearance and a new morphological classication system

Swapnil Sanjay Hajare

08.24am - 08.28am Lumbar facet joint morphometric analysis in south Indian population A cross-sectional study

Vishnu S

08.30am - 08.34am New onset Sacroiliac joint pain after transforaminal interbody fusion: What are the culprits?

Kuldeep Bansal

08.36am - 08.40am Lumbar Canal Stenosis: A Prospective Clinico-radiologic Analysis Nitin Adsul

08.42am - 08.46am Long term outcome of thoracoscope assisted anterior interbody fusion and simultaneous posterior instrumentation in prone position: Emphasis on location of pathology, fusion rates and operative time.

Nirmal Patil

08.48am - 08.52am The natural history of patients with cervical radiculopathy treated conservatively -- clinical and MRI features after a mean follow-up of 33 months

J Ranga Sai Gowtham

08.54am - 08.58am Comparison of clinical outcomes of unguided versus ultrasound(USG) guided sacroiliac(SI) joint inltration in SI dysfunction related back pain A Randomized control study

Jitesh Manghwani

10.10am - 11.10am Report of ASSI Multicentre Trials Moderators: HS Chhabra, Shankar Acharya

02.00pm - 03.00pm Free paper session(4mins Prsentation + 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: Ramachandran Govindasamy, Shah Waliullah

03.05pm - 04.05pm Free paper session(2mins Presentation + 2 mins Discussion X 15)

Moderators: Arun K.Viswanadha, Ashish Jaiswal

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02.00pm - 02.04pm Proteomic evidence on the etiopathogenesis of Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Sri Vijay Anand K S

02.06pm - 02.10pm Predictors of Operative Duration in Posterior Spinal Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Nishank Mehta

02.12pm - 02.16pm Scoliosis in the adolescent period where cause is unknown is termed as idiopathic or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Axial translational technique using pedicular xation in managing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis provides an effective method of corre

Md. Anowarul Islam

02.18pm - 02.22pm Is There A Place For Surgical Repair in Adults With Spondylolysis Or Grade I Spondylolisthesis? A Systematic Review And Treatment Algorithm

Naveen Pandita

02.24pm - 02.28pm Can anabolic therapy be used to bail out from re-surgery in osteoporotic spines a Case series

Munjal Shah

02.30pm - 02.34pm Has the COVID-19 situation revealed us the next-generation modality for medical consultations? A retrospective audit of effectiveness and reliability of telemedicine consultations in patients with spine ailments

Vibhu Krishnan Viswanathan

02.36pm - 02.40pm Is CT angiography necessary to dene vertebral artery dominance: A CT scan based morphometric analysis?

Abhinandan Reddy Mallepally

02.42pm - 02.46pm Validation of freehand cervical pedicle screw placement in sub-axial spine using â�œBurcev techniqueâ�: A cadaveric study

Mantu Jain

02.48pm - 02.52pm Spinal dural arteriovenous stulas: Clinical characteristics, outcomes and long term follow up from a single institution.

Sudharsan P V

02.54pm - 02.58pm Management of Atlanto axial Instability in Paediatric Age group: Upto 7 years follow up

Habung Chobing

03.05 pm - 03.07pm Comparison of outcomes of Dorsolumbar and Lumbar Spine Tuberculosis treated by Open and Minimally invasive techniques- A Prospective study

Syed Ifthekar

03.09pm - 3.11pm Improving Safety, Accuracy And Reliability In Placement of Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws Using O-Arm Based Navigation: A Single Centre Analysis Of Over 1400 Pedicle Screws In Indian Population

Raj Sakhrekar

10.10am - 10.16am Characteristics, management and outcomes of culture negative pyogenic spondylodiscitis: a systematic review & multi-centre retrospective case series

Naresh Babu

10.22am - 10.28am Comparison of functional outcomes following discectomy between global disc degeneration and selective disc degeneration

Janardhana Aithala

10.34am - 10.40am Evaluation of predictors affecting shoulder balance in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients and the effect of corrective surgery

Bhavuk Garg

10.46am - 10.52am A novel classication system for spinal instability and assessing surgical candidacy for patients with active spinal tuberculosis - an evidence-based approach and multinational expert consensus study

Dilip Chand Raja

10.58am - 11.04am A prospective study to be conducted comparing the outcomes (VAS, ODI, Macnab criteria, return to work, need for analgesia, complicationsin 2 years etc.) of discectomy using various MIS techniques

Arvind Kulkarni

10.58am - 11.04am Management of thoracolumbar burst fractures: a multicentric study

HS Chhabra

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03.13pm - 03.15pm Are we our own patients? Neck Pain in spine surgeons Prevelence and Risk factors

Hriday P Acharya

03.17pm - 03.19pm Cauda Equina Syndrome - Retention (CESR) type: Outcome after delayed discectomy & decompression for lumbar disc herniation

Tarun Chabra

03.21pm - 03.23pm Clinical Efcacy of Selective Nerve Root Block in Management of Lumbar Radiculopathy

M D S Sasidharan

03.25pm - 03.27pm A survey of low back and neck pain and associated risk factors among nurses

Manoj Kumar Ramachandraiah

03.29pm - 03.31pm Temporal pattern of pain and disability following the administration of a selective nerve root block (SNRB) in the management of lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy. Abstract

Thomas J Kishen

03.45pm - 03.47pm Percutaneous Ilio Sacral Screw Fixation for Sacral fractures and SI Joint disruption in Supine versus Prone position when to choose what? A retrospective analysis of 138 Cases

Sudeep Kumar V N

03.33pm - 03.35pm Results of conservative management in low grade lytic spondylolisthesis- A prospective observational study

Srinivas Balagani

03.37pm - 03.39pm Multi-Rod Constructs in Thoracolumbar spine: Technique, Indications and outcomes

Vishal Manharkumar Dindod

03.41pm - 3.43pm Computer tomography based morphometric analysis of C1-C2 vertebra to evaluate safe corridors for Anterior Trans-articular screw xation.

Raju Soorgani

03.49pm - 03.51pm Neglected / Delayed unstable Hangman fracture- Is anterior only approach sufcient

Dhiraj Sonawane

03.53pm - 03.55pm Comparison of cemented and noncemented pedicle screw instrumentation in the management of vertebral insufciency fractures

Ravi Varma V N

03.57pm - 03.59pm SINGLE STAGE REDUCTION AND STABILIZATION OF SUBAXIAL CERVICAL FACET DISLOCATIONS BY POSTERIOR ONLY APPROACH USING PEDICLE SCREWS.

Amlan Singh

04.02pm - 04.04pm A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME BETWEEN POSTERIOR LUMBAR FUSION AND POSTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION IN SPONDYLOLISTHESIS

Bineet Oza

04.10pm - 04.22pm Video: Total Endoscopic Laminoforaminotomy for cervical disc herniation

Arun Bhanot


04.25pm - 04.37pm Video: OLIF Paul Taylor


04.40pm - 04.52pm Video: Cervical osteotomy for kyphosis correction Daniel Riew


04.10pm - 05.10pm Learn from the Masters - How to do it right Moderators: S Rajasekaran, V Ravi, Ram Chaddha

04.55pm - 05.07pm Video: Posterior Vertebral column resection for complex spine deformity

Larry Lenke


05.10pm - 05.15pm Valedictory

06.30pm onwards Social program

Sunday 31-01-2021 | Hall - B


08.00am - 9.00am Free paper session(4mins Prsentation + 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: Vishnu Prasath, Deep Sharma, GD Tharadra

09.05am - 10.25am PJF and ASD- Prevention and treatmentPanelists: Mihir Bapat, Ram Chaddha, Rajesh Parasnis, Jwalant Mehta, Kyu-Jung Cho

Moderators: Amol Rege, Siva Kumar, Niraj Vasavda

09.05am - 09.15am Case 1: Proximal failure after xation of OVCF Vikas Tandon

09.15am - 09.20am Case commentary Mihir Bapat

09.20am - 09.30am Case 2 : ASD after instrumented lumbar fusion Thomas Kishen

09.30am - 09.35am Case commentary Ram Chaddha

09.35am - 09.45am Case 3: PJF after correction of adult spinal deformity: Ranjith Unikrishnan

09.45am - 09.50am Case commentary Rajesh Parasnis

09.50am -10.00am Lecture: Reducing proximal junctional failure in adult spinal deformity - the importance of the GAP score

Jwalant Mehta


10.05am - 10.15am Lecture: How to obtain optimal lumbar lordosis in adult spinal deformity surgery

Kyu - Jung Cho


08.00am - 08.04am Post-traumatic thoraco-lumbar (TL) kyphosis: A major, challenging, late complication following TL spinal injuries A retrospective analysis of its clinical presentation, surgical management and long-term outcome following surgical intervention

Rohit Kavishwar

08.06am - 08.10am Analysis of Multicentric Vertebroplasty Data regarding Subsequent Vertebral Fractures, Cement Leakage and Correlation to BMD

Gokul Bandagi

08.12am - 08.16am Prospective study to evaluate the incidence of deep vein thrombosis in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury

Roop Singh

08.18am - 08.22am Nonfusion Method for Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Spinal Fractures

Yong Min Kim

08.24am - 08.28am Central cord syndrome: what is the effective management for this type of cervical injury

Sulaiman Sath

08.30am - 08.34am Management of AO-type C thoracolumbar fractures during COVID 19 pandemic using distractor device: A novel technique

Darshan Mahesh Kapoor

08.36am - 08.40am Single stage one level corpectomy in delayed presented irreducible Sub-axial Cervical Dislocation: Our experience with 8 consecutive patients

Harshit Dave

08.42am - 08.46am Outcomes of Long Segment Posterior Fusion in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis with Thoracolumbar fractures

Prem Sahi

08.48am - 08.52am Is Fusion Necessary in AO Type C Injuries of the Thoracolumbar Spine ?

M Chandhan

08.54am - 08.58am Short segment posterior stabilization in compression mode for AO Type B exion distraction thoracolumbar fractures

Nitin P Jaiswal

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10.30am - 10.34am ROLE OF DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING(DTI) IN PATIENTS OF TB SPINE WITH NEUROLOGICAL DEFICIT

Kaustubh Ahuja

10.36am - 10.40am Can We Extrapolate SINS Score To Evaluate Instability In Spinal Tuberculosis?

Vikrant Sinha Roy

10.42am - 10.46am Comparative analysis of long term outcome of anterior reconstruction in thoracic tuberculosis by direct anterior approach vs posterior approach

Manojkumar.B.Gaddikeri

10.48am - 10.52am Revisiting The Epidemiology Of Spinal Infection : A Retrospective Analysis of 231 Patients With Infective Spondylodiscitis

Nitin Goyal

10.54am - 10.58am Tuberculosis of the spine in children Does drug resistance affect surgical outcomes?

Deepika Pinto

11.00am - 11.04am Is is worthwhile to use drains in spine surgery? A Meta - analysis

Sathish Muthu

11.06am - 11.10am Gene Xpert/MTB RIF assay for spinal tuberculosis -Sensitivity, Specicity and Clinical utility.

Siddharth Aiyer

11.12am - 11.16am Prognostic Factors for Short - Term Versus Long - Term Readmission - Free Survival After Metastatic Spine Tumor Surgery

Sirisha Madhu

11.18am - 11.22am The spinal metastasis invasiveness index: A novel scoring system to assess surgical invasiveness

Naresh Kumar

11.24am - 11.28am Do aggressive vertebral hemangiomas warrant aggressive surgery? Inferences from a retrospective surgical cohort of 19 patients

K.Guna Pratheep

02.00pm - 03.00pm Free paper session(4mins Prsentation + 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: Devanand D, Raju Iyenger

02.00pm - 02.04pm Long - term outcome after surgical treatment of Scheuermann Kyphosis (SK)

Ujjwal K Debnath

10.30am - 11.30am Free paper session(4mins Prsentation + 2 mins Discussion X 10)

Moderators: Tushar Rathod, Rajat Mahajan, Chandrasekhar Gaike

02.06pm - 02.10pm Vertebral Column Resection by Concave Pedicle Drilling in Severe Kyphoscoliosis

D Anjaneyulu Reddy

02.12pm - 02.16pm Clinical, Radiological and Functional Outcome of Posterior - Only Three - Column Osteotomy in Congenital Kyphosis: A minimum of 2 years follow up

Tungish Bansal

02.18pm - 02.22pm Efcacy of Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering in skeletally mature children with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A preliminary report

Keyur K Akbari

02.24pm - 02.28pm The Analysis of Progression of The Prrmann's Grade in Distal Unfused Segments in Post - Operative Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Long - term Follow - up MRI Based Study.

Sridhar Jakkepally

02.30pm - 02.34pm Magnetically controlled growth rods (MCGR): a single center, single surgeon experience of 12 consecutive patients after a mean 4year follow - up

Saurabh Kapoor

02.36pm - 02.40pm The clinical and radiological outcomes of reduction of high grade spondylolisthesis using a Modied approach: Combination of percutaneous pedicle screws with contained midline microscopic decompression (CMD).

Bharat Patel


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02.42pm - 02.46pm Optimising the Results of Posterior Vertebral column resection by categorisation of patients

Vishnu Prasath

02.48pm - 02.52pm Is isolated Pulmonary Function Test sufcient to assess the pre - operative pulmonary status of scoliosis deformity correction cases?

Jvaghar Jill

03.17pm - 03.29pm MRI for Spinal infections: In disease and with healing Rishi Kanna

03.29pm - 03.41pm Postoperative Fluid collections Ravi Thapar

03.05pm - 04.05pm Symposium: Day school in Spinal Imaging Moderators: P Upendra, Kalidutta Das, Kenny David

03.05pm- 03.17pm Normal & abnormal MRI following lumbar discectomy Harsh Mahajan

03.41pm - 03.53pm Spinal fusion assessment Naresh Babu

03.53pm - 04.05pm Discussion, Q & A

04.10pm - 05.10pm Free paper session (2mins Presentation + 2 mins Discussion X 15)

Moderators: Siddharth Aiyer, Priyank Patel

04.10pm - 04.12pm Assessment of Pedicle Screw Malposition in Uniplanar versus Multiplanar Spinal Deformities in Children: A Pilot Study

Kailash Sarathy

04.14pm - 04.16pm A Prospective comparative study of functional outcome of open vs minimally invasive spine surgery in degenerative lumbar pathology

Akash Shakya

04.18pm - 04.20pm Clinical and radiological outcomes Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion study of 317 patients and review of literature with fusion rates of Open TLIF, oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF), lateral lumbar interbody fusion(LLIF), an

Mohan Gawande

04.22pm - 04.24pm UNILATERAL LAMINOTOMY & BILATERAL DECOMPRESSION VS CONVENTIONAL LAMINECTOMY IN MANAGEMENT OF LUMBAR CANAL STENOSIS

Ratish Kumar Mishra

04.26pm - 04.28pm A novel technique for the management of AtlantoAxial OsteoArthritis (AAOA)

Mirant Dave

04.30pm - 04.32pm Clinical and radiographic outcome at 7 years of follow - up after Cervical Total Disc Replacement

Kushal Gohil

04.34pm - 04.36pm FUNCTIONAL AND NEUROLOGICAL OUTCOME OF POSTERIOR CERVICAL LAMINECTOMY AND LATERAL MASS SCREW INSTRUMENTATION FOR MULTILEVEL CERVICAL

R J Bharat Kumar

04.38pm - 04.40pm Observations On Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion In Lumbar Segmental Instability

Mohd Shahid Bhat


04.42pm - 04.44pm Clinico - Radio - Histopathological Correlation by C - armImage Guided Biopsy in Spinal Tuberculosis

Mayukh Guha

04.46pm - 04.48pm Predicting neurological decit in patients with Spinal Tuberculosis A single center Prospective Observational study.

Samarth Mittal

04.50pm - 4.52pm Epidemiological Trends of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries from the Developing World: A Single Centre Study

R.Karthik

04.54pm - 04.56pm Role of short instrumentation in spinal TB: prospective study Gagan Deep

04.58pm - 05.00pm Tuberculosis of the cervical spine: Operative strategy and clinical outcomes

Ashwin H. Sathe

05.02pm - 05.04pm mycobacterial tb of the spine ( pott's spine) presenting as unilateral paralysis

Kiran B M

05.06pm - 05.08pm Anterior debridement and stand alone bone grafting in thetreatment of sub axial cervical tuberculosis: A single centre experience

Aditya Raj

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