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Improving Treatment Outcomes & Managing Patient Expectations in Spine Surgery

Program | Thursday, September 04th

09.30 - 10.15

Check-in, Welcome Coffee & Exhibition

10.15 - 10.20

Welcome

PD Dr. med. Cordula Netzer MBA (President)
PD Dr. med. Pietro Scarone (Co-Host)

10.20 - 12.00

EndoSpine Academy @ SGS 2025

Chairs: Mazda Farshad, Frank Hassel

10.20 - 10.35

How to Get Started & Classification of Endoscopic Spine Procedures
Prof. Dr. med. Mazda Farshad, MPH

10.35 - 10.55

Advanced Indications of Spinal Endoscopy
Dr. med. Frank Hassel

10.55 - 11.25

Mono- Versus Biportal Endoscopy: What Are the Respective Limits? (debate)
PD Dr. med. Jean-Yves Fournier
PD Dr. med. Antonio Faundez

11.25 - 11.40

Navigation in Spinal Endoscopy
Dr. Hooman Esfandiari

11.40 - 12.00

Free Communications

  • 11.40 A Cadaver-Based Study on the Use of an Entry Guidance Tool for Transforaminal Endoscopic Spine Surgery (F. Wanivenhaus)
  • 11.46 Fluid Irrigation-Induced Pressure Changes During Lumbar Endoscopy: Insights from a Cadaver Model (J. F. Schader)
  • 11.52 Adopting simultaneously biportal endoscopic discectomy and biportal endoscopic decompression after sixty: a surgeon’s journey (C. Schizas)
12.00 - 13.00

Lunch Break & Exhibition

Lunch Symposium by Nexon Medical AG

SPINE CLUB: Endoscopy Evolved – Beyond Decompression
Fusion, Cervical, Thoracic, Intradural… How Mono- and Bi-portal endoscopy are redefining MIS

PD Dr. Antonio Faundez
Dr. Alexander Mameghani
Dr. Alexandre Simonin

13.00 - 14.05

Free Communications

Chairs: Andrea Cardia, Dennis Dominguez

Adolescent Corner

  • 13.02 3D-Printed Polyamide-12 Mesh Brace for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Preclinical Validation and Clinical Pilot Study (M. C. Deml)
  • 13.08 Monitoring curve progression in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: rasterstereography shows limited sensitivity compared to radiography in brace-treated patients (N. Gavira)
  • 13.14 Vertebral tethering’s effect on lumbar spine development in adolescent patients with lumbosacral transitional vertebrae: a comparative case–control study (A. Tabard-Fougère)

Basic Science

  • 13.22 Assessing spatio-temporal, kinematic and kinetic gait parameters in patients with degenerative cervical spinal stenosis (F. Mandelli)
  • 13.28 Promoting Intervertebral Disc Fusion: Synergistic Osteogenic Induction of Human Annulus Fibrosus Cells Using BMP2, L51P, and the EP4 Agonist KMN159 (S. Häckel)
  • 13.34 Biomechanics of Spinal Fusion Under Simulated Fully Flexed Position: Load Analysis Using Sensor-Equipped Rods and Cages (M. Khodaee)
  • 13.40 The effect of decompression techniques on lumbar spinous process strength (K. Hatziisaak)
  • 13.46 The “Rescue Screw” as a freehand revision strategy for implant loosening – A comparative biomechanical study on human cadavers (C. Laux)
  • 13.52 A safety sling more than doubles the mechanical stability of pedicle screws: a preventive measure against pedicle screw loosening in lumbar spinal fusion (A. Schuler)
  • 13.58 Lateral mass screw placement using patient-specific templates vs. free-hand technique - a biomechanical cadaveric study (A. Stauffer)
14.05 - 14.45

Rapid Fire Session

Chairs: Sonja Häckel, Raluca Reitmeir

  • 14.05 Comparison of Sagittal Spinal Alignment of Patients with symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Healthy Controls: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (V. Cara)
  • 14.09 Pre-to postoperative changes in trunk kinematics reflect changes in paraspinal muscle activity in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (D. Koch)
  • 14.13 The Impact of Ambient AI on Clinical Documentation: A New Era in Medical Record-Keeping (F. Ramadini)
  • 14.17 Machine Learning–Based Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality in Spondylodiscitis: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis (S. Häckel)
  • 14.21 Power-Drill Fluoroscopy-Controlled Freehand vs. Navigation-Assisted Pedicle Screw Placement: A Propensity Score-Matched Retrospective Cohort Study (Y. Yildiz)
  • 14.25 Long-term Surgical and Radiological Outcomes Following Posterior Carbon fiber/PEEK Instrumentation for Thoracolumbar Spinal Metastases: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of 66 cases (P. Hurni)
  • 14.29 Reconstructing the Past: Innovative Surgical Approaches for the Management of Kummell’s Syndrome (D. Valsecchi)
  • 14.33 Sex Differences in Traumatic Spine Injuries: A Combined Retrospective and Scoping Review (J. Divnych)
14.45 - 15.15

Coffee Break & Exhibition

15.15 - 17.30

SGS Jubilee Session | Bridging History and Tomorrow

Chairs: Cordula Netzer, Moritz Deml, Pietro Scarone

15.15 - 15.30

Damals
Autrefois
SGS Honorary and Founding Members

15.30 - 16.00

...bis Heute: Hürden und Meilensteine
...jusqu'à aujourd'hui : obstacles et milestones
SGS Former Presidents

16.00 - 16.15

SGS Award Ceremony

16.15 - 16.30

Geschichte der Wirbelsäulenchirurgie aus der Perspektive der Forschung
Histoire de la chirurgie de la colonne vertébrale du point de vue de la recherche
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Wilke

16.30 - 16.45

Zukunft der Wirbelsäulenmedizin
L'avenir de la médecine rachidienne
Prof. Dr. Norbert Boos

16.45 - 17.30

...und Morgen?
...et demain ?
Prof. Dr. Florian Ringel, DWG
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Wilke, Spine Research
PD Dr. med. Jean-Yves Fournier, SGNC
Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Zumstein, SO
Dr. Alessio Chiappini, SYSS
Nicolas Poletti, SYNS

18.30

Networking Dinner

Safran Zunft, Basel
Prior online registration required

to the program of Friday, September 05th