Workshops and joint meetings Friday December 7^th, 2012

• Workshop of general internal medicine (slides) - M. Lambert, UCL - A. Soupart, Jolimont Tubize
• When to think about metabolic disorders in adulthood? (slides) - W. Meersseman, KUL
• update in General Internal Medicine (slides) - S. Vanderschueren, KUL
• Endocrinology - B. Velkeniers, VUB - D. Maiter, UCL
• Nephrology - Hypertension - J.M. Billiouw, OLV Aalst - I. Becaus, OLV Aalst - J. Nortier, ULB
• Current Status of euthanasia in Belgium (slides) - P. Cras, Neurology & Ethics Comittee, UH & UA
• Refusal of treatment (slides) - P. Cras, Neurology & Ethics Comittee, UH & UA
• Basis for Ethical reflexion (slides) - O. Descamps, Comité d'éthique, Jolimont Tubize
• Case Analysis (slides) - O. Descamps, Comité d'éthique, Jolimont Tubize
• New Drug intervention (slides) - S. De Wit, CHU St-Pierre - D. Vogelaers, UGent
• Towards a cure... ? (slides) - S. De Wit, CHU St-Pierre
• Antiretroviral drugs and hiv prophylaxis: PEP, PrEP and TasP (slides) - P. Lacor,VUB
• Rare infectious diseases in the ED (slides) - D. Knockaert, KUL
• Chest Pain and Medical Emergencies (slides) - P. Mols, CHU St-Pierre

Plenary Sessions Saturday December 8^th, 2012

• Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant cell Arteritis (slides) - D. Blockmans, KUL - Chair: D. Vogelaers, UGent - W. Meersseman, KUL
• Update in Tuberculosis (slides) - Y. Van Laethem, CHU St Pierre - Chair: E. Bertrand, CHBAH – S. Vanderschueren, KUL
• A new era in Anticoagulation - Ph. Hainaut, UCL
• Young Internists’ corner: Interactive discussion of difficult cases - S. Allard, P. Lacor, VUB
• The misuse of the host coagulation system by Staphylococcus aureus: a potential novel target for treatment? (slides) - T. Vanassche, W. Peetermans, P. Verhamme, Department of Internal Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium - Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• Hyponatremia associates with mortality in virologically supressed HIV patients. (slides) - F. Gankam Kengne, H. Drechsler, N. Maalouf, R. Bedimo, University of Texas Medical Center, Dallas, USA - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
• Initiation of an anal cancer screeningin HIV+ MSM (men who have sex with men): results of cytology, biopsy and determination of risk factors. (slides) - A. Libois, F. Feoli, M. Nkuize, M. Delforge, S. De Wit, N. Clumeck, CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium - Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium
• Study of inappropriate prescription for elderly hospitalized people: using the STOPP-START screening tool. (slides) - A.-S. Perick, V. Lesage, O. Ddescamps - Jolimont Hospital, Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium
• Immunotherapy in Leukemia (slides) - A. Van De Velde, UA - Chair: Ph. Damoiseaux, Dinant – M. Petrovic, UGent
• Lecture by the winner of the prize “best Belgian clinical article 2011 in internal medicine”.
  JAMA. 2011 4;305(17):1777-85. “Fatal and nonfatal outcomes, incidence of hypertension, and blood pressure changes in relation to urinary sodium excretion.” By Stolarz-Skrzypek K, Kuznetsova T, Thijs L, Tikhonoff V, Seidlerová, J, Richart T, Jin Y, Olszanecka A, Malyutina S, Casiglia E, Filipovský J, Kawecka-Jaszcz K, Nikitin Y, Staessen JA;
  European Project on Genes in Hypertension Investigators Salt reduction in the general population: recommendations to be taken cum grano salis
  Presenting author: J. Staessen, KUL