Meeting program

13:00–13:30 Opening and welcome

13:30–15:00 Session 1: Platelet Disorders: Pathophysiology

  • Inherited platelet disorders: Pathophysiology and genetics
    Loredana Bury (Italy)
  • Novel insights in the pathogenesis of ITP
    John Semple (Sweden)
  • Prothrombotic platelet disorders (TTP, HIT, VITT)
    Andreas Greinacher (Germany)

15:00–15:30 Coffee break

15:30–17:00 Session 2: Coagulation Disorders: Pathophysiology

  • The pathophysiology of von Willebrand Disease
    Peter Lenting (France)
  • Novel molecular mechanisms of the pathophysiology of hemophilia
    Mirko Pinotti (Italy)
  • Bleeding disorders and the vascular wall: a complex cross-talk
    Anna Randi (United Kingdom)

17:00–18:30 Session 3: Round table: Rare bleeding disorders registries

  • The ITP Natural History Study Registry
    Michele Lambert (United States)
  • The Italian Registry of inherited platelet function disorders
    Erica De Candia (Italy)
  • EuroBloodNet
    Mañú Mar Pereira (Spain)
  • European Registry of platelet disorders
    Jose Rivera (Spain)
  • Panel discussion
    All speakers

18:30–19:30 Poster session and welcome reception

09:00–10:30 Session 4: The laboratory of bleeding disorders (I)

  • The laboratory of hemophilia and the monitoring of the new drugs
    Peter Lenting (France)
  • How laboratory can help in understanding the pathophysiology of von Willebrand disease
    James O’ Donnel (Ireland)
  • The impact of next generation sequencing in the diagnosis of bleeding disorders
    Kathleen Freson (Belgium)

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–12:30 Session 5: The laboratory of bleeding disorders (II)

  • ITP, a challenging diagnosis
    Donald Arnold (Canada)
  • Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenias: an integrated approach
    Marie Scully (United Kingdom)
  • The laboratory diagnosis of platelet disorders
    Jose Rivera (Spain)

12:30–13:30 Lunch break

13:30–14:30 Oral session

14:30–16:00 Session 6: Rare coagulation disorders

  • Rare inherited coagulation disorders: an update
    Speaker to be announced
  • How to investigate bleeding disorders of unknown cause, clinical and laboratory diagnosis
    Johanna Gebhart (Austria)
  • Management of rare coaugulation disorders
    Giancarlo Castaman (Italy)

16:00–16:30 Coffee break

16:30–17:30 Satellite Symposium

17:30–19:00 Session 7: Real life problems

  • Patient reported outcome in hemophilia and inherited bleeding disorders: Matching only clinical endpoints?
    Speaker to be announced
  • Lecture title to be announced
    Speaker to be announced
  • The clinician point of view
    Andrea Artoni (Italy)
  • The regulatory agencies point of view
    Speaker to be announced
  • Panel discussion
    All speakers

08:30–10:00 Session 8: Treatment of bleeding disorders (I)

  • Innovative therapies for immune thrombocytopenia
    Francesco Rodeghiero (Italy)
  • Management of angiodysplasia and gastrointestinal bleeding in congenital bleeding disorders
    Speaker to be announced
  • Efficacy and safety of platelet transfusions for treatment of inherited platelet disorders
    Rutger Schutgens (The Netherlands)

10:00–10:30 Coffee break

10:30–11:30 Oral Session

11:30–13:00 Session 9: Treatment of bleeding disorders (II)

  • Gene therapy in hemophilia: Benefits and limits
    Wolfgang Miesbach (Germany)
  • Use of recombinant ADAMTS13 for treatment of thrombotic microangiopathies
    Marie Scully (United Kingdom)
  • Innovative treatments for platelet function disorders
    Suthesh Sivapalaratnam (United Kingdom)

13:00–13:30 Takeaways and closing