Dear Colleagues
We are delighted to share the programme of the 5th European symposium!
| Tuesday 25 June | ||
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration | |
| Room 1 | Room 2 | |
| 9:00-9:05 | General welcome – Christianne van Nieuwenhoven | |
| 9:05-10:30 | Introduction to Congenital Differences of the Hand – Moderator: Martijn Baas | |
| Updates from the IFSSH Scientific committee on congenital hands – Wee Lam | ||
| New developmental biology insights on congenital limb differences. – Kerby Oberg | ||
| Applying insights from digit regeneration to traumatic digit tip amputations – Kerby Oberg | ||
| Genetic aspects of prenatal limb anomalies – Kyra Stuurman | ||
| Discussion/questions | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:00-12:15 | Longitudinal deficiencies: a MDT approach – Moderator: George Murphy | Tips and trics in polydactyly – moderator: Brid Crowley |
| What is new in radial dysplasia treatment: a basic science approach – George Murphy | o Sporadic thumb duplications are radial cleft – Stéphane Guero | |
| What’s new in radial dysplasia treatment: less is more? – Andrea Jester | o Anatomy in Radial polydactyly – Brid Crowley | |
| What’s new in radial dysplasia treatment: tradition is best – Alexandre Kaempfen | o Tips and Tricks in Radial Polydactyly – Nunzio Catena | |
| RLD – 30 years experience with soft tissue distraction and radialisation – Wiebke Hulsemann | o Case presentations – from the Bilhaut drawing to the Cloquet results… – Stéphane Guero | |
| Case discussion, featuring: | o Case presentations – On-top plasty – Stéphane Guero | |
| o Andrea Jester | ||
| o Alexandre Kaempfen | Synpolydactyly moderator : Tobias Laurell | |
| o George Murphy | o Tobias Laurell | |
| o Wiebke Hulsemann | o Max Mann | |
| 12:15-13:15 | LUNCH | |
| 13:15-14:00 | Bring your own case! Moderated by Sarah Tolerton and Lisebette Burger | Splint session: Andrea Derks, Maren Schelly, Lisette Melis, Noémi Hünneman |
| Panel: Wiebke Hulseman, Daniel Weber, Alexandre Kaempfen, Tobias Laurel | Splints in congenital hand differences | |
| Wim Vanhove – a 6 months old boy with cleft hands and feet | ||
| Raluca Stefanescu – Syndactyly – managing postsurgical complications | ||
| Sophie Lauwagie – 4 year old boy with bilateral radial longitudinal dysplasia and hypoplastic humeri | ||
| Nathalie Bini – Tricky hand in Poland syndrome | ||
| 14:15-15:00 | Transverse deficiency – Moderator: Klaske Nieuwenhuis | Symbrachydactyly tips and tricks / brachydactyly. Moderator: Jaap Potuijt |
| Transverse reduction defects at or above the wrist: A national cohort study from Norway 1970-2019 – Ida Sletten | Darja Sippel | |
| Missing the Grip? Participation and solution strategies in children and youngsters with transverse reduction deficiency of the upper limb – Iris van Wijk | ||
| Successful prothesis usage in Young Adolescents with Unilateral Congenital Below Elbow Deficiency – Kennan van Gelder | Psychology of hand anomalies. Moderator: Jaap Potuijt | |
| – Case discussion | Max Horwitz | |
| 15:00-15:30 | BREAK | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Artrogrypose – Moderator: Christianne van Nieuwenhoven | Madelung deformity: a MDT approach – Moderator: Sebastian Farr |
| The multidisciplinary approach / upper limb surgeon – Christianne van Nieuwenhoven | Sebastian Farr – treatment algorithm | |
| Arthrogryposis Multiplex congenita. Treatment in a multidisciplinary setting – The lower Limb. – Jaap Tolk | Case discussion, featuring: | |
| Case discussion, featuring | o Filip Stockmans | |
| o Andrea Jester | o Alexandre Kaempfen | |
| o Sarah Tolerton | o Mona Winge | |
| 16:30-17:15 | Apert Syndrome – Moderator: Gill Smith | Bring your own case! Moderators: Ernst Smits en Jaap Potuijt |
| State of the art: Hand – Gill Smith | Panel: Brit Crowley, Stephane Guerro, Nunzio Catena | |
| State of the art: Feet – Lisebette Burger | Tobias Laurell – To late for amputation? | |
| How to deal with the rest but the hand? – Mieke Pleumeekers | Daniel Weber – Girl with congenital upper limb deformity | |
| o Patient experience | Kaja Gizewska-Kacprzak – a little girl with Pfeiffer Syndrome | |
| María Martínez Carlón Reina – Bilateral clasped thumbs | ||
| 17:15-18:00 | DRINKS | |
| Wednesday 26 June | ||
| Room 1 | Room 2 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Psychopathologic Disorders of the Upper Limb – Moderator: Christianne van Nieuwenhoven | Registries and outcome assessment. Moderator: Wee Lam |
| Introduction – Christianne van Nieuwenhoven | Outcome assessments in pediatric hand surgery – updates and challenges – Wee Lam | |
| View from the anesthesiologist – Tom de Leeuw | Registries around the world – Ida Sletten | |
| View from the psychiatrist – Marlijn Vermeiden | Big data and study designs in pediatric hand surgery research – how should we proceed? – Ruud Selles | |
| View from the physiatrist – Matthias Koudijzer | ||
| Discussion | Discussion | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Pediatric Trauma – Moderator: Ernst Smits | Four or Five digits? 3b thumb, what would you do? Moderator: Konrad Mende |
| Malunions, what to do? | Featuring: Gill Smith, Andrea Jester, Konrad Mende | |
| Distal non unions, Hook-nail deformity with restoration of the length of distal | Cultural perception of 4/5 fingered hands and their aesthetics/significance and available literature | |
| How to prevent mal/nonunion in pip fractures in children – Charlotte Jaloux | Reconstruction as an option for parents who insist on keeping the thumb: Literature and case | |
| 3D reconstructions what’s possible – Eline van Es | Pollicisation: what’s new, debated, evolving? Incisions, intrinsics, metacarpal osteotomy | |
| 3D reconstructions in children what have I learnt? – Filip Stockmans | Discussion: Where do we go with it? How to compare outcomes? What can we tell parents what to expect from what? | |
| Discussion/scaphoid non unions – Maxim Horwitz | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | BREAK | |
| 11:15-12:30 | Cerebral Palsy – Moderator: Konrad Mende | Pediatric limb reconstruction – Moderator: Carla Baldrigi |
| Multidisciplinairy approach – Miryam Obdeijn and Jessica Warnink | Reconstruction in pediatric tumors – Carla Baldrigi | |
| Hyperselective neurectomy – Konrad Mende | Severe combined bone/soft tissue injuries in children – Kaja Gizewska-Kacprzak | |
| Case discussion / Complications of HSN | Nerve injuries – Nunzio Catena | |
| o Konrad Mende | ||
| o Miryam Obdeijn | ||
| o Jessica Warnink | ||
| o Max Horwitz | ||
| o Klaske Nieuwenhuis | ||
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Musculoskeletal tumours – Moderator: Daniel Weber | Abstract session – Moderator: Jaap Potuijt |
| Bone tumours in the hand, rare X rare – Kirsten van Langevelde | Diagnostic and therapeutic proceeding in pediatric patients with closed distal finger extensor tendon injury in the hand – Maximilian Sliwinski | |
| Surgical Considerations for Bone Tumors with a Focus on Implications for Skeletal Growth – Jaap Tolk | Patient education on surgical procedures that reduce spasticity of the upper limb in cerebral palsy – Juliette van Limbeek | |
| – Case discussion | Ulnar Longitudinal Deficiency Type 0 – an underreported entity – Andreas Weber | |
| o Daniel Weber | Wrist arthroscopy in children and adolescents. Why and how far? – Laura M. Perez-Lopez | |
| o Jaap Tolk | Trapeziometacarpal dislocations in the paediatric age group: is there a better treatment – Laura M. Perez-Lopez | |
| o Gill Smith | ||
| o Kirsten van Langevelden | ||
| 14:30-15:30 | Vascular malformations – Moderator: Bran Sivakumar | Live Planning and Lecture on Madelung Deformity reconstruction with patient specific planning, guides an custom-made implants |
| General introduction and medication – Elise Verboom | Moderator: Martijn Baas | |
| The role of the intervention radiologist – Kevin Wiese | Speaker: Prof. Hermann Krimmer | |
| – Case discussion | Live Planning by KLS Martin Group | |
| o Bran Sivakumar (moderator) | ||
| o Kevin Wiese | ||
| o Elise Verboom | ||
| o Carla Baldrighi | ||
| 15:30-16:15 | Pulpe session – Moderator: Daniel Weber | |
| Introduction and activities – Daniel Weber (20 min) | ||
| Best congenital abstract – Tobias Laurel (25 min) | ||
| 16:15-16:30 | Closure – Christianne van Nieuwenhoven | |