08:00 - 08:30 Welcome and introductory remarks

08:30 - 09:30 Navigating the pelvic anatomy

09:30 - 10:30 Exploring the route of the ureter and the rules of its dissection

10:30 - 11:30 Revisiting techniques to prevent bleeding in myomectomy

11:30 - 12:30 Dissection of the medial spaces for sacrocolpopexy

12:30 - 13:30 Exploration of the lateral spaces for benign and malignant diseases

OPEN LUNCH

13:30 - 14:30 Dissection of the neural bundles in the pelvis

14:30 - 15:30 Dealing with bowel endometriosis

15:30 - 16:30 Alternative energies to dissect the pelvis

16:30 - 17:30 Alternative approaches to difficult hysterectomies

17:30 - 18:30 Dealing with a frozen pelvis

18:30 Final remarks

Preliminary program*:

HOT sessions in parallel: 90 minutes suturing training led by tutorsSURGICAL MARATHON in parallel: live video streaming of surgical procedures performed by experts

*subject to changes

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Keynote lecture: Updates in techniques to preserve fertility in young patients affected by endometriosis

Plenary session 1: Hysteroscopy 1 09:00 Making the best out of outpatient hysteroscopy 09:15 Limiting patients’ pain in office hysteroscopy 09:30 Update in ablation techniques 09:45 Hysteroscopic center 10:00 What is left for in-patient hysteroscopy

COFFEE BREAK

Plenary session 2: Hysterectomy

11:15 Difficult situations and ways to proceed: how to make the impossible possible? 11:30 Preventing prolapse post hysterectomy? Does the technique of vaginal closure matter? 11:45 Mini laparoscopic hysterectomy: the future 12:00 Vaginal hysterectomy using vessel sealing devices: a new technique! 12:15 The woman in the mirror

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Plenary session 3: Ten Best Abstracts Presentation

Plenary session 4: Adenomyosis

15.30 Prevalence and diagnosis 15.45 Imaging of adenomyosis 16.00 Medical treatment 16.15 Hysteroscopic approach 16.30 Laparoscopic approaches 16.45 Original hysteroscopy approach for diffuse adenomyosis

Get together with experts: Video corner

08:30 - 09:00

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:15

11:15 -12:30

12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 18:30

Oncology

09:00 Laparoscopic management of borderline tumors 09:15 Update in Endometrial Cancer 09:30 Benefits, Indications and techniques in sentinel lymph node 09:45 Tips and tricks in radical hysterectomy 10:00 Paraaortic lymphadenectomy: Lessons learned after 1,000 cases 10:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Adnexal Pathology 11:00 Laparoscopic management of suspicious tumors 11:15 Tubal surgery in infertile patients 11:30 Is there still a place for a conservative surgical treatment of an ectopic pregnancy 11:45 Laparoscopic management of tuboovarian abscess 12:00 Conservative management in twisted adnexa: when? 12:15 Discussion

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Hysteroscopy 2 14:00 Myomas: How big is too big 14:10 Treatment of isthmocele 14:20 Modern management of hiperplasia 14:30 Update in hysteroscopic sterilization 14:40 Asherman and other sticky situations 14:50 Cesarian induced isthmocele and scar pregnancy

COFFEE BREAK

Clinical Cases: Challenge the Experts Case 1: One ovarian cyst in a young patient without actual desire of pregnancyCase 2: RV Nodule in a 26 years old patient, dysmenorrhea and mild dyschesiaCase 3: 17 years old Adolescent with severe dysmenorrhea

Get together with experts: Video corner

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 18:30

Tutorial 1: SacrocolpopexyEverything you should know to do a laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy

Tutorial 2: ComplicationsHow to prevent and to deal with laparoscopic complications

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Tutorial 3: EnergiesSurgeons do not know what they don’t know on Energies!

Tutorial 4: Hysteroscopic morcellationHysteroscopic morcellation and alternatives

Get together with experts: Video corner

09:00 - 10:00

11:00 - 12:00

12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:00

16:00 - 17:00

17:00 - 18:30

Oncology

09:00 Laparoscopic management of borderline tumors 09:15 Update in Endometrial Cancer 09:30 Benefits, Indications and techniques in sentinel lymph node 09:45 Tips and tricks in radical hysterectomy 10:00 Paraaortic lymphadenectomy: Lessons learned after 1,000 cases 10:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Adnexal Pathology 11:00 Laparoscopic management of suspicious tumors 11:15 Tubal surgery in infertile patients 11:30 Is there still a place for a conservative surgical treatment of an ectopic pregnancy 11:45 Laparoscopic management of tuboovarian abscess 12:00 Conservative management in twisted adnexa: when? 12:15 Discussion

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Hysteroscopy 2 14:00 Myomas: How big is too big 14:10 Treatment of isthmocele 14:20 Modern management of hiperplasia 14:30 Update in hysteroscopic sterilization 14:40 Asherman and other sticky situations 14:50 Cesarian induced isthmocele and scar pregnancy

COFFEE BREAK

Clinical Cases: Challenge the Experts Case 1: One ovarian cyst in a young patient without actual desire of pregnancyCase 2: RV Nodule in a 26 years old patient, dysmenorrhea and mild dyschesiaCase 3: 17 years old Adolescent with severe dysmenorrhea

Get together with experts: Video corner

Keynote lecture: Pelvic pain: the patient in the center of the picture OR Presidential Address

Plenary session 5: Endometriosis 1, from understanding to diagnosis 09:00 From physiopathology to clinical practice 09:15 Pre-operative planning and the role of various imaging modalities 09:30 Which is the role of clinical evaluation in the imaging era? 09:45 Can we spare patients from surgery with medical treatment? 10:00 Post-operative imaging techniques to follow-up patients 10:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Plenary session 6: Endometriosis 2, Infertility and fertility preservation 11.00 Results of surgery in infertile women 11.15 Ovarian tissue cryopreservation: what indications when and how? 11:30 New ART technologies for fertility preservation 11:45 Ovarian reserve and surgery 12:00 Optimal treatment of recurrent endometrioma in infertile patients 12:15 Discussion

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Plenary session 7: Endometriosis 3, Endometriosis is a social disease 14:00 Endometriosis and sexuality 14:15 Endometriosis in adolescence: would an early treatment be beneficial 14:30 Social cost of Endometriosis: the role of insurances and health authorities14:45 Patient point of view: role of patient associations in endometriosis awareness 15:00 Center of excellence or excellent center? 15:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Plenary session 8: Endometriosis 4, Endometriosis surgical technique and outcomes

16:00 Surgical principles in the management of Endometriosis 16:15 Nerve sparing techniques in endometriosis16:30 Surgical options for bowel endometriosis 16:45 Does the results of surgery last in time and what are the conditions 17:00 Decision making process and results in hysterectomy in young patients with endometriosis 17:15 Discussion

08:00 - 09:00

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:30

Keynote lecture: Pelvic pain: the patient in the center of the picture OR Presidential Address

Video Communications COFFEE BREAK

Patient safety and operative risk management 11:00 Consenting in laparoscopic surgery 11:15 Sharing the complication with the patient (or Supporting decision making and consents in the era of information explosion TBC) 11:30 How to keep your brain in case of complications 11:45 How to involve patient in preventing complications occurrence 12:00 Specified check-list: how to do it 12:15 Discussion

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Uterine and vaginal malformations 14:00 Benefits of the new classification 14:15 Surgical technique for RKH 14:30 Alternative laparoscopic techniques 14:45 Hysteroscopic management of total genital septum 15:00 Psychological aspects in patients with genital malformation 15:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Implementing a pathway for Day-case hysterectomy 16:00 How anesthetic technique can help early discharge 16:15 Fast track surgery: the American experience 16:30 What are the benefits? 16:45 Feasible but safe???17:00 Is there specific patient information needed? 17:15 Discussion

08:30 - 09:00

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:30

Keynote lecture: Pelvic pain: the patient in the center of the picture OR Presidential Address

Plenary session 5: Endometriosis 1, from understanding to diagnosis 09:00 From physiopathology to clinical practice 09:15 Pre-operative planning and the role of various imaging modalities 09:30 Which is the role of clinical evaluation in the imaging era? 09:45 Can we spare patients from surgery with medical treatment? 10:00 Post-operative imaging techniques to follow-up patients 10:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Plenary session 6: Endometriosis 2, Infertility and fertility preservation 11.00 Results of surgery in infertile women 11.15 Ovarian tissue cryopreservation: what indications when and how? 11:30 New ART technologies for fertility preservation 11:45 Ovarian reserve and surgery 12:00 Optimal treatment of recurrent endometrioma in infertile patients 12:15 Discussion

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Plenary session 7: Endometriosis 3, Endometriosis is a social disease 14:00 Endometriosis and sexuality 14:15 Endometriosis in adolescence: would an early treatment be beneficial 14:30 Social cost of Endometriosis: the role of insurances and health authorities14:45 Patient point of view: role of patient associations in endometriosis awareness 15:00 Center of excellence or excellent center? 15:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Plenary session 8: Endometriosis 4, Endometriosis surgical technique and outcomes

16:00 Surgical principles in the management of Endometriosis 16:15 Nerve sparing techniques in endometriosis16:30 Surgical options for bowel endometriosis 16:45 Does the results of surgery last in time and what are the conditions 17:00 Decision making process and results in hysterectomy in young patients with endometriosis 17:15 Discussion

Keynote lecture: Pelvic pain: the patient in the center of the picture OR Presidential Address

Tutorial 5: HysterectomyHysterectomy from simple to complex

Tutorial 6: LymphadenectomyLymphadenectomy made simple

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Tutorial 7: UreterThe ureter

Tutorial 8: Fibroids / ICGFibroids/ICG

08:30 - 09:00

09:00 - 10:00

11:00 - 12:00

12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:00

16:00 - 17:00

Keynote lecture: Pelvic pain: the patient in the center of the picture OR Presidential Address

Video Communications COFFEE BREAK

Patient safety and operative risk management 11:00 Consenting in laparoscopic surgery 11:15 Sharing the complication with the patient (or Supporting decision making and consents in the era of information explosion TBC) 11:30 How to keep your brain in case of complications 11:45 How to involve patient in preventing complications occurrence 12:00 Specified check-list: how to do it 12:15 Discussion

LUNCH AND SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM OR DEBATE

Uterine and vaginal malformations 14:00 Benefits of the new classification 14:15 Surgical technique for RKH 14:30 Alternative laparoscopic techniques 14:45 Hysteroscopic management of total genital septum 15:00 Psychological aspects in patients with genital malformation 15:15 Discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Implementing a pathway for Day-case hysterectomy 16:00 How anesthetic technique can help early discharge 16:15 Fast track surgery: the American experience 16:30 What are the benefits? 16:45 Feasible but safe???17:00 Is there specific patient information needed? 17:15 Discussion

Join the leading experts in gynecological surgery to learn about the latest advances in minimally invasive surgery.

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