PRE CONGRESS COURSES

• Multimodal treatment in HPB tumors
• Hands-on Course: Ultrasound in HPB

SYMPOSIA

• Indications and results of laparoscopic pancreatic resections
• Current trends in the treatment on liver metastases from neuroendocrine tumors
• Extended surgery in gallbladder cancer
• Biliary complications after liver transplantation
• Complex bile duct injuries
• Adenocarcinoma of pancreatic body and tail
• Preoperative assessment of liver function
• Development of liver transplant Programs in Latin American countries –  problems and solutions
• Education and training in HPB Surgery
• Quality of life in liver surgery
• Ampullary adenoma
• Nonfunctioning endocrine pancreatic tumors
• Management of Portal Hypertension
• PET CT scan in HPB tumors
• Management of the hydatid Cyst
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Special situations: surgical management of chronic pancreatitis

UPDATE LECTURES

• Downstaging strategies of liver tumors
• Closure of pancreatic remnant after left pancreatectomy
• Cholecystectomy by NOTES
• Marginal donors in liver transplantation
• Percutaneous cholecystostomy for acute cholecystitis
• Surveillance in familial pancreatic cancer
• Application of molecular/genetics in decision making on HCC
• Gallbladder cancer discovered after laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Disconnected left pancreatic stump
• Surgical margin in oncological liver resection
• Morbidity and quality of life of living donors
• Intrahepatic stones
• Autoinmune pancreatitis
• Chemoembolization in liver tumors
• Technical innovations in liver transplantation
• Cholangitis after biliodigestive anastomosis
• Hemorrhage after pancreatoduodenectomy
• Management of non parasitic liver cysts
• Liver transplantation in Non-HCC Tumors

DEBATES

• Endoscopic vs surgery in benign biliary strictures
• Surgery for benign pancreatic tumors
• Post-chemotherapy missing metastases 1) Resection 2) Expectation
• Liver transplantation in HCC with extended criteria beyond UCSF  - Yes  - no
• Endoscopic versus laparoscopic surgery in choledocholithiasis
• Timing of surgery in infected pancreatic necrosis
• Branch – duct IPMT´s
• Bilateral Caroli´s Disease
• Preconditioning in liver resection – Yes - No
• Synchoronous resection of liver metastases from colorectal cancer – Yes – No
• Pain in chronic pancreatitis – Endotherapy - Surgery
• Preoperative biopsy in liver tumors – Yes - No

KEYNOTE LECTURES

• Liver resection with parenchymal perfusion techniques
• Neoadyuvancy for pancreatic cancer
• Mirizzi syndrome in laparoscopic era.
• Small for size syndrome in liver transplantation
• Long term outcome of biliary reconstruction for bile duct injuries form laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Small pancreatic cyst
• Management of benign liver tumors
• Portal vein thrombosis in liver transplantation

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE

• Neoadyuvancy in resectable colorectal liver metastases
• Early endoscopic intervention in acute gallstone pancreatitis
• Cholecystectomy in asymptomatic lithiasis
• ALDLT in FHF

VIDEO DEBATE

• Postnecrotic acute pseudocyst – endoscopy - surgery
• Right hepatectomy – Laparoscopy - Open Surgery
• Congenital bile duct cyst - Laparoscopy  - Open Surgery
• Right lobe donor hepatectomy with or without MHV

CASE CAPSULE

• Páncreas
• Biliary
• Liver

SPECIAL TOPICS

• Anesthesia in HPB surgery