Mayo Clinic Days in Lithuania 2024

Welcome Messages

Dear Colleagues,

It is my great privilege and pleasure to welcome you to our spring conference in Klaipeda, Lithuania, called “Mayo Clinic Days in Lithuania 2024”. This nice event started in 2007 and we are holding it every 2-3 years for the 8th time already. Years ago faculty would consist of colorectal surgeons from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and their ex-international clinical fellows, but now apart from Mayo’s it developed to a large number other well-known international luminaries. Unique topics and friendly atmosphere will help you to enjoy this one-day exclusive scientific program, and Klaipeda city will offer you an insight to exceptional history of this European city, friendly local people and famous Lithuanian cuisine.

Looking forward to welcome you all here.

Yours

Prof. Narimantas Evaldas Samalavicius

President, Lithuanian Society of Coloproctologists

Past-president, International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons

Chief of the Clinic of Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery

Klaipeda University Hospital

Klaipeda, Lithuania

Registration

All registration – 50 Euros
ISUCRS Fellows & Members – 25 Euros

Register HERE

Program

09.00-09.15 Opening speeches – Mayor of Klaipeda city, Director of Klaipeda University Hospital, & President of the Lithuanian Society of Coloproctologists

Basic session. Moderators Eric Dozois, Narimantas Evaldas Samalavicius.

• 09.15-09.30 William Perry (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Diet, the microbiome and colorectal cancer
• 09.30-09.45 Rich Fortunato (Pittsburgh, USA). I know the TNM stage, but not what to do
• 09.45-10.00 Kristen Rumer (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Screening and treatment of anal dysplasia-incorporating the new international guidelines into a surgical practice
• 10.00-10.15 Akram Pourshams (Tehran, Iran). Artificial intelligence in screening and management of colorectal cancer.

Crohn’s disease and colorectal endometriosis. Moderators Richard Fortunato, Audrius Dulskas.

• 10.15-10.30 Kristen Rumer (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Surgical management of perianal Crohn’s disease – what’s new?
• 10.30-10.45 William Perry (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Kono-S: technique and outcomes
• 10.45-11.00 Eric Dozois (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). A novel approach to anal fistula in patients with Crohn’s disease using a mesenchymal stem cell coated fistula plug
• 11.00-11.15 Herman Kessler (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA). Surgical approaches to intestinal endometriosis

11.15-11.30 Coffee break

Technical issues. Moderators William Perry, Pranas Sniuolis.

• 11.30-11.45 Herman Kessler (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA). Transverse colon cancer: are there differences depending on location and extent of surgery?
• 11.45-12.00 Sherief Shawki (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Right and left intra-corporeal anastomosis: laparoscopic vs. robotic.
• 12.00-12.15 Joaquim Costa Pereira (Braga, Portugal). Top-down approach in laparoscopic right hemicolectomy
• 12.15-12.30 Joaquim Costa Pereira (Braga, Portugal). NOSES surgery of left colon

Major issue. Moderators Kristen Rumer, Tomas Poskus.

• 12.30-12.45 Scott Steele (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA). Management of anastomotic leakage
• 12.45-13.00 Eric Dozois (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Presacral tumors: how to choose the right surgical technique
• 13.00-13.15 Eriz Dozois (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Anatomical compartment-based approach to achieving R0 resection in locally recurrent rectal cancer
• 13.15-13.30 Scott Steele (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA). Colorectal trauma

13.30-14.30 Lunch break

Miscellaneous. Moderators Scott Steele, Donatas Venskutonis

• 14.30-14.45 Ricardo Escalante (Caracas, Venesuela). Current indications for elective surgery of diverticular disease: when and how.
• 14.45-15.00 Herman Kessler (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA). Diverticular strictures are low Risk for occult carcinoma: demographics and outcomes of the 150 consecutive resections
• 15.00-15.15 Kyu Yoo Park (Seoul, Korea). Management of para-aortic lymph-node metastasis from colorectal cancer
• 15.15-15.30 Sherief Shawki (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA). Ta-TME approach beyond rectal cancer

15.30-17.00 ISUCRS proctology session. Moderators: Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, Ricardo Escalante

• 15.30-15.45 Parvez Sheikh (Mumbai, India). High intersphincteric fistula
• 15.45-17.00 Video based proctology (hemorrhoids, fistula, fissure)

Hemorrhoids

• Parvez Sheikh (Mumbai, India). Excisional hemorrhoidectomy with methylene blue injection
• Joaquim Costa Pereira (Braga, Portugal). PIPE technique: manual pexy of hemorrhoids
• Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (Cleveland Clinic and Kings College, London, UK). Stapled hemorrhoidopexy (Longo)
• Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (Cleveland Clinic and Kings College, London, UK). THD HALS
• Joaquim Costa Pereira (Braga, Portugal). Laser hemorrhoidoplasty
• Scott Steele (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA). House flap anoplasty

Fistula in ano

• Parvez Sheikh (Mumbai, India). Fistulotomy with immediate anal sphincter repair for posterior high transsphincteric fistula
• Parvez Sheikh (Mumbai, India). Fistulotomy with immediate anal sphincter repair for anterior transsphincteric fistula in female
• Joaquim Costa Pereira (Braga, Portugal). LIFT
• Richard Fortunato (Pittsburgh, USA). BioLIFT

Ana fissure

Parvez Sheikh (Mumbai, India). Lateral sphincterotomy