13.15 – 13.30 Welcome Introduction
13.30 – 14.30 Opening Lecture: Evidence based medicine or not?

Chair: Antonio Pesenti
Giuseppe Remuzzi

APHERESIS AND CRITICAL PATIENTS

14.00 – 15.30 Round Table: Evidences, Clinical Practice and Clinical Research

Chairs: Loreto Gesualdo; Vito Marco Ranieri
Sepsis and Cytokines: Science, Reality and Legends
Didier Payen
Multi organ failure: the role of ECMO and Apheresis
Federico Pappalardo
Liver Failure, do we have new opportunities?
Stefano Faenza
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Apheresis
Maurizio Vecchi
The role of Registries on EBM and the Cytosorb Registry
Frank M. Brunkhorst

15.30 -16.30 Coffee Break

APHERESIS AND TRANSPLANTATION

16.30 – 17.00 Lecture

Transplantation in the “Marginal Organs” era: Results and Prospective
Chair: Umberto Cillo; Alessandro Nanni Costa

17.00 -18.30 Round Table: Organ Perfusion

Chairs: Mauro Rinaldi; Michele Colledan
Two voices Introduction: the mediators of Organ Damage
Giuseppe Castellano & Vito Fanelli
In situ Perfusion
Zanierato Marinella
Hypothermic ex vivo perfusion: The Kidney
Camillo Carrara
Normothermic ex vivo perfusion: The Liver
Davide Ghinolfi
What the lung experience is telling us
Massimo Boffini