PROGRAMME

Room: AULA

(Level 0)

Room: PANO

(Level 2)

Room: RAMA

(Level 2)

07.30 – Welcome Coffee, Posters & Visit of the Exhibitors

08.30 – Shoulder Trauma Session

Greater tuberosity fractures & midshaft humeral fractures

Moderators: Hans Van der Bracht & Antoon Van Raebroeckx

• 08.30 – Results of a national survey on greater tuberosity fractures – Jef De Mulder
• 08.38 – Indications for operative treatment – Antoon Van Raebroeckx
• 08.48 – Surgical techniques for greater tuberosity fractures – Bart Berghs
• 08.58 – Review and instructions for the survey cases – Klaas Victor
• 09.06 – Results of a national survey on mid-shaft humeral fractures – Patrick Demey
• 09.14 – Indications and surgical technique for midshaft fractures – Maïté Jaspers
• 09.24 – The extended delto-pectoral approach – Saartje Defoort
• 09.34 – Review and instructions for the survey cases? – Patrick Demey
• 09.42 – Questions & discussion, panel

08.30 – Foot & Ankle Session 1

PSI and TAR: luxury or necessity

Moderators: Laurent Goubau & Stefan Clockaerts

• 08.30 – Introduction – Laurent Goubau
• 08.40 – A startup journey with patient-specific instrumentation in ankle replacements – Karolien Schwagten
• 09.00 – Advantages and pitfalls of PSI and the Quantum TAR – Thibaut Leemrijse
• 09.20 – Advantages and pitfalls of PSI and Prophecy TAR – Andrew Goldberg (UK)
• 09.40 – Discussion

08.30 – Hip Session 1

Get your THA right the first time by fancy technology

Moderators: Pieter-Jan De Roo & Wouter Sioen

• 08.30 – No need for complex technology: Geert Meermans
• 08.37 – Augmented Reality – Thierry Scheerlinck
• 08.44 – Smart Assisted Surgery (Naviswiss) – Jan Somers
• 08.51 – Custom-made hip prosthesis- 3D planning (Symbios) – Pierre-Olivier Pinelli (FR)
• 08.58 – Mako Smart Robotics (Stryker) – Jan Myncke
• 09.05 – Personalizd Hip Pathway (Zimmer-Biomet) – Louis-Philippe Amiot
• 09.12 – RI Hip navigation (smith&nephew) – Jan Van Houcke
• 09.19 – VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution (Depuy-Synthes) – John Van Overschelde
• 09.26 – The boy in the candy shop – Prof Justin Cobb (UK)
• 09.40 – Discussion

09.50 – Keynote – Perioperative pain management: State of the art – Thibaut Vanneste

10.10 – Coffee Break, Posters & Visit of the Exhibitors

10.40 – Shoulder & Elbow Session 2

The athlete’s shoulder revisited: a case based discussion

Moderators: Tom Claes & Olivier Verborgt

• 10.40 – AC osteolysis in a weight lifter – Philippe Debeer
• 10.52 – Partial cuff tear in a tennis player – Pieter-Bastiaan Dekeyzer
• 11.04 – Pectoralis major rupture in a gymnast – Olivier Verborgt
• 11.16 – Paralabral cyst in a thrower – Mathias Colman
• 11.28 – Subacromial pathology in a swimmer – Dennis Brouwers
• 11.40 – Recurrent instability in a motorcross rider – Tom Claes
• 11.52 – Cartilage lesion in a Crossfitter – Tom Van Isacker
• 12.04 – Discussion

10.40 – Foot & Ankle Session 2

3D Printing in Foot and Ankle

Moderators: Melanie Vandenberghe & Stefaan Verfaillie

• 10.40 – Introduction – Stefaan Verfaillie
• 10.50 – In house 3D printing – Melanie Vandenberghe
• 11.10 – 3D printing in ankle osteotomies: pearls and pitfalls – Matthias Peiffer
• 11.30 – Balancing the joint: from Weight Bearing (CT) examen, Virtual foot model and virtual deformity correction planning to Patient Specific Guide and surgery – Kris Buedts
• 11.50 – Discussion

10.40 – Hip Session 2

A day in the life of… .A hip Surgeon

Moderators: Filip Bataillie & Kris Govaers

InQuizzition: Interactive discussion with Audience and Panel of Experts:

• Justin Cobb (UK)
• Marc Jayankura
• Geert Meermans (NL)
• Prof Pinelli (FR)
• Thierry Scheerlinck
• Jan Somers

12.10 – Lunch Symposium by
smith&nephew

Changing the Course of Rotator Cuff Disease – The Power of Biology

Invited faculty: Dr Vanderstappen, Dr van Raebroeckx, Prof Verborgt

More info here

12.10 – Lunch, Industry sessions & Visit of the Exhibitors

13.30 – Shoulder, Elbow & Hand Session

Moderators: Pieter Caekebeke & Ilse Degreef

• 13.30 – EMG: What knowledge is essential for an orthopaedic surgeon to possess? – Ludovic Ernon
• 13.40 – Lateral elbow pain: PIN – Wim Vanhove
• 13.50 – Lacertus fibrosis – Bram Van Hove
• 14.00 – Management of cubital tunnel syndrome with a negative electrodiagnostic studies – Nader Chahidi
• 14.10 – Ulnar nerve compression at the elbow: in situ neurolysis or transposition? – Marleen Dezillie
• 14.20 – Delayed onset neuritis – Davide Blonna

13.30 – BOTRA-BOTA Session – Legs On

13.30 – Hip & BAPO Session

Young Adult Hips: Difficult Cases

Moderators: Frank Plasschaert & Thierry Scheerlinck

• 13.30 When nothing is going well : the hip prosthesis – Jean Rondia
• 13.50 Osteotomies around the hip – Frank Plasschaert & Maxence Vandekerckhove
• 14.10 Complex cases – Thierry Scheerlinck & Pierre-Louis Docquier

14.30 – Coffee Break, Posters & Visit of the Exhibitors

15.00 – Free Paper Session Upper Limb & Hip

• Clavicular tunnel widening after acromioclavicular joint reconstruction: comparison between single and double clavicular techniques – Maïté Jaspers
• Can Patients Who Have Low-Grade Hip Osteoarthritis Expect the Same Outcome After Total Hip Arthroplasty Compared to Those Who Have End-Stage Osteoarthritis? – A Matched Case-Control Study – Wouter Peeters
• A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial on the efficacy of dexamethasone combined with neuraxial anaesthesia in reducing pain and opioid consumption after primary cementless total hip arthroplasty using the direct anterior approach – Wouter Schroven
• Intra-articular antibiotics: a direct approach to treatment of infected cementless total hip arthroplasty – Frans-Jozef Vandeputte
• Does hip arthroscopy improve the clinical outcome of a Periacetabular Osteotomy for the treatment of Hip Dysplasia? A Multi-Center Randomized Clinical Trial – Jeroen Verhaegen
• Can the sagittal pelvic tilt be predicted from AP pelvic radiographs? – Jeroen Verhaegen

16.10 – Keynote – Allergy and Implants – Prof Aerts

16.30 – Flash Update BeSG – PVNS – Annelies Van Beeck

16.45 – BVOT Business meeting 1

17.15 – The Six Sided Box – Frank Plasschaert

17.30 – The future of Belgian healthcare – Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo

17.45 – Open discussion

18.00 – End of Day

19.00 – Congress Dinner
Keynote: Jan Noyez on BVOT Overseas

07.30 – Welcome Coffee, Posters & Visit of the Exhibitors

08.30 – Knee Session 1

Personalised TKA, Personalized Knee Arthroplasty

Moderators: Jan Victor & Frank Verheyden

• 08.30 – Every Knee is different – William Colyn
• 08.40 The compartmental Approach – Justin Cobb
• 08.48 Measured Resection: KA – Pieter-Bas Vererfve
• 08.56 Gap Balancing: FA – iKA – Philip Winnock de Grave
• 09.04 Do we need a Robot? – Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove
• 09.12 Patient- specific implants: What are the limits? – Bart Stuyts
• 09.20 Is MA still the Golden standard, or only for the valgus? – Emmanuel Thienpont
• 09.28 Panel discussion
  

08.30 – Hand Session

3D Guided Osteotomy in Wrist/Forearm

Moderators: Xavier Libouton & Matthias Vanhees

• 08.30 – BAPO – what is an acceptable reduction rate for forearm fractures? – Frank Plasschaert
• 08.45 – Can 3D technology improve distal radius fracture care? – Andreas Verstreken
• 09.00 – 3D corrective osteotomy of the forearm – Xavier Libouton & Olivier Barbier
• 09.15 – 3D correction of scaphoid nonunion deformity – Matthias Vanhees
• 09.30 – 3D planning an PSI, what creates the most added value for the patient– Filip Stockmans
• 09.40 – Discussion

08.30 – BOTA Session

Treatment of subtrochanteric fractures

Moderator: Wim Vandesande

• 08.30 Introduction and overview- Wim Vandesande
• 08.50 Reduction: Strategy – François Carlier
• 09.05 Cerclage : Good or bad – Fergus Bonnevie
• 09.20 Panel discussion: Four cases – Thierry De Baets, Christophe Marchal, Maike Reul & Jan Van Meirhaeghe

09.50 – Keynote: Personalised medical care in elite-level Olympic athletes: How do we do that in team Belgium – Johan Bellemans

10.10 – Coffee Break, Posters & Visit of the Exhibitors

10.40 – Knee Session 2

The holistic patient-tailored management of early knee OA

Moderators: Geert Van Damme & Hilde Vandenneucker

• 10.40 – Early knee OA, the needs, the modalities and benefits of exercise – Dieter Van Assche
• 10.50 – Early knee OA: the impact of weight-loss and behavioural approaches – Youri Taes
• 11.00 – Early knee OA: Sense and nonsense of adjuvant therapeutical options anno 2024 – Kurt De Vlam
• 11.10 – Meniscal (root) repair in the middle-aged patient with early OA. Can it slow down the further evolution? – Kristof Smeets
• 11.22 – Unloading procedures in early OA: Indications, personalized planning and surgical pitfalls – Steven Claes
• 11.37 – Small Personalized Implants in Early Knee OA – Emmanuel Thienpont
• 11.49 – Discussion

10.40 – Hand Session

Complicated Distal Radius Fracture

Moderators: Ilse Degreef & Nadine Hollevoet

• 10.40 – SL ligament lesions in DRF – Ilse Degreef
• 10.55 – DRUJ/TFCC in DRF – Laurens Van Melkebeke
• 11.10 – Arthroscopy in DRF – Jeroen Vanhaecke
• 11.25 – Approach in DRF: what osteosynthesis and when? – Nadine Hollevoet
• 11.40 – Discussion

10.40 – Spine Session

Personalised Spine

Moderator: Davy Hoste

• 10.40 – The Golden Circle of Future Spine Surgery – Geert Mahieu
• 11.05 – Patient expectations: How do they define the success of the surgery? – David van Schaik
• 11.30 – Robotic-assisted navigated MCS placement in the first 100 cases in Az Glorieux. What have we learned? – Arnaud Depraetere & Konstantijn van der Donckt
• 11.55 – Discussion

12.00 – Lunch Symposium by
Microport

Medial Pivot novel Technologies: Skywalker Robot

Faculty: Dr Mertens, Dr Vansintjan, Dr Stefancu

More info here

12.00 – Lunch Symposium by United Orthopedic

The “joint” adventure of technique and multidisciplinary teamwork in an outpatient TKA setting: Perspective to the future

Faculty: Dr Debrabandere , Dr Pierets, Dr Boogmans

More info here

12.00 – Lunch Symposium by
DePuy Synthes (Fifth Avenue Room)

The new Chapter in Robotics

Faculty: François Urvoy, Dr Vandekerckhove

More info here.

12.00 – Lunch, Industry sessions & Visit of the Exhibitors

13.30 – Knee Session 3

Geriatrics & Trauma

Moderators: Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove & Frank Verheyden

• 13.30 – Proximal tibia fractures in UKA – Francois Hardeman
• 13.40 – Extensor mechanism failure after TKA – Lucas Beckers
• 13.50 – Supracondylar femur fractures: nail, plate or combinations – Jeya Palan (UK)
• 14.02 – Resection prostheses for fractures around the knee – Tommaso Greco (IT)
• 14.14 – Exposure and fixation of posterolateral tibial plateau fractures – Jannik Frings (DE)
• 14.26 – Discussion

13.30 – BOTA Session

Proximal Humeral Fractures

Moderators: Heinz Hulsmans & Guy Putzeys

• 13.30 – Nonoperative vs Operative treatment of PHF in the elderly – Guy Putzeys
• 13.42 – Proximal Humeral Fractures Treated with a Dedicated External Fixator – Davide Blonna
• 13.54 – Osteosynthesis of PHF : plate versus nail – Heinz Hulsmans
• 14.06 – Tuberosity fixation in Proximal Humeral Fractures treated with RSA: how and why – Davide Blonna
• 14.18 – Panel Discussion on Cases

14.30 – Coffee Break & Visit of the Exhibitors

15.00 – Free Paper Session Lower Limb & Spine

• Deep cellular profiling reveals a pathological fibroblast population in human Achilles tendinopathy – Guillaume Planckaert
• Extra-articular tenodesis in ACL surgery: comparison of two techniques: anatomical ALL reconstruction vs ITB tenodesis – Imrane Gazali
• The use of routine knee MRI in a Belgian tertiary referral centre – Antoon Houben
• Outcomes of high tibial osteotomy in patients with mild varus versus patients with greater varus malalignment – Freya Mertens
• No Clinical Outcome Difference Between Varus Phenotypes After Medial Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy At 2 Years Follow-Up – Wouter Van Genechten
• Is mild lateral osteoarthritis a contraindication for high tibial osteotomy? – Dries Van Leemput
• Balancing the flexion gap first improves flexion and clinical outcome in total knee arthroplasty – Bart Vundelinckx
  
• Robotically Assisted Spine Surgery with CBT/MCS trajectory: Analysis of the First 100 Patients Utilizing the Robotic Navigation System – Arnaud Depraetere

16.20 – Keynote – Orthopaedic Implants & the Society: Costs & Benefits – Constantinus Politis

16.40 – Let’s go Private – Daniel Hoornenborg

16.55 – Flash Update BeSG – Update in central cartilaginous tumors management – Bilal Kapanci

17.10 – BVOT Business meeting 2

18.00 – Acta Orthopaedica Belgica Best Scientific Paper Award Winners Ceremony 2022-2023
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