08.00 - 08.30

Check-in, Welcome Coffee & Exhibition

08.30 - 10.00

Free Communications I

Chairs: Raluca Reitmeir, Dennis Dominguez

• Retro-Odontoid Pseudotumor in Atlantoaxial Instability: Insights into Presence, Subtypes, and Postoperative Regression (Jae-Taek Hong)
• Clinical Utility of a Lumbar CT-to-MRI Image Translation Framework Using Conditional CycleGANs for Fracture Stage Determination (Byung-Ju Lee)
• Initial Results for the Evaluation of Spinal Fusion: Delphi Consensus on Current Evaluation Preferences in the DACH Region (Stefan Motov)
• Early Spinal Surgical Site Infection or Sterile Inflammation after Degenerative Lumbar Spine Surgery? A matched Single Center Prospective Cohort Study (Siegmund Lang)
• Is Decompression of Adjacent Segment Stenosis During Lumbar Fusion worthwhile? A Propensity-Matched Analysis with 5 Year Follow-Up (Lukas Urbanschitz)
• Changes in Sagittal Alignment Following Surgery for Symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Prospective Cohort Study (Lukas Urbanschitz)
• Impact of Spinal Alignment on Adjacent Segment Disease and Degeneration After Short-Segment Lumbosacral Fusion (Giuseppe Loggia)
• Clinical Outcomes after Decompression followed by Fusion versus Primary Fusion for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: an Analysis of Propensity Score-Matched Registry Data (Maja Gocevic)
• A Simple Clinical Score for Early Identification of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Results of the Prospective Multicenter SCREEN-DCM Trial (Nasser Bouhalassa)
• Imaging Phenotypes Underlying Clinical-Radiological Discordance in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (Nasser Bouhalassa)

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee Break & Exhibition

East meets West V

Chairs: Thomas Forster, Granit Molliqaj

10.30 - 11.30

Surgery in the Elderly

10.30 - 10.50

Spine Surgery in the Elderly Osteoporotic Patients
Prof. Dongwuk Son

10.50 - 11.10

The Frail Spine: Surgical Treatment Concepts for Elderly Patients with Osteoporosis
Prof. Dr. med. Markus Loibl

11.10 - 11.30

Management of Cervical Deformity in Neuromuscular Disorders
Prof. Dr. Yoon Ha MD, PhD

11.30 - 12.30

SGS General Assembly

For SGS Members only

11.30 - 12.30

Korean Free Communications

Chair: Dr. Suhun Lee, M.D. Ph.D
In exhibition area

• Feasibility of decompression with SPIRE™ fixation for lumbar spondylolisthesis (Jung Kil Lee)
• Thoracoscopically assisted total en bloc spondylectomy with posterior stabilization for the metastatic spine disease (Jongtae Park)
• The Fusion Sequence and Risk Factors for Pseudarthrosis in Multilevel Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (Jae Keun Oh)
• The correction algorithm using Necessary Cervical Kyphosis Correction Angle (NeckCA) for Cervical Spinal Deformity (Jin Hoon Park)
• Management of cervical spinal dumbbell tumor-3 cases (Youngmin Oh)
• Analysis of Risk Factors for Mechanical Failure after Lateral Access Corpectomy: Impact of Fixation Range and Cage Selection (Jun Seok Lee)
• Risks and benefits of timely screw removal after thoracolumbar spine fractures treated with non-fusion technique (Moon Soo Han)
• Machine Learning–Based Prediction of Postoperative Surgical Site Infection After Spinal Surgery (Kwang Ryeol Kim)
• Enhancing Accuracy and Confidence in Cervical Pedicle Screw Insertion: A Case Series on Intraoperative Doppler Use (Sun Geon Yoon)
• Intraoperative Detection of Vertebral Endplate Injury Using Optical Coherence Tomography: Ex vivo Porcine Model (Dae-Chul Cho)
• Prediction of Angle Loss after L4/5 Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Development of a Risk Stratification Model (Suhun Lee)

12.30 - 13.15

Lunch Break & Exhibition

13.15 - 15.00

Free Communications II

Chairs: Victor Egon Staartjes, Franziska Altorfer

• Navigation-Assisted Endoscopic Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review of Clinical Outcomes and Procedure-Specific Roles (Stefan Motov)
• An Escalation of Complexity Defines the Learning Curve for Full Endoscopic Spine Surgery: A Real-World Analysis of a Consecutive Series of 100 Cases (Nasser Bouhalassa)
• Irrigation and Outflow Occlusion in Thoracic Spinal Endoscopy: Impact on Intra- and Epidural Pressure: An Experimental Model (Jana Felicita Schader)
• Robotic-Assisted Muscle-Preserving (RAMP) Decompression in the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine: A Cadaveric Validation (Giuseppe Loggia)
• Does the Goutallier Classification Reflect the Quantitative Amount of Fatty Infiltration of Paraspinal Muscles? A Volumetric MRI Analysis (Lukas Urbanschitz)
• The “Rescue Screw” as a Revision Strategy for Screw Loosening in Upper Instrumented Vertebra – A Biomechanical Cadaveric Study (Christoph Laux)
• Accuracy of Augmented Reality Navigation Versus Freehand Pedicle Screw Placement (Giuseppe Loggia)
• Twice as Many Surgical Site Infections between June and October than during the Rest of the Year: Results of a Retrospective Analysis of Single-Centre Data (Hedvika Nemcova)
• Physical Performance Continues To Improve After Surgery For Sciatica, Exceeding Recovery Periods Of Physical Capacity And Patient-reported Outcomes (Multicenter Prospective Observational Study) (Michal Žiga)
• Proximal Facet Joint Violations in Augmented Reality-Guided versus Freehand Pedicle Screw Placement in the Lumbosacral Spine (Giuseppe Loggia)
• Posterior Tension Band Integrity is Critical for Cervical Stability: A Cadaveric Biomechanical Study (Anna-Katharina Calek)
• Does Anterior Longitudinal Ligament (ALL) Reconstruction Enhance Stability in ACDF? A Comparative Biomechanical Analysis (Jana Felicitas Schader)
• How to Identify the Best Responders to Surgical Treatment in Cervical Myelopathy Using Electrophysiology (Maja Lazarczyk)

15.00 - 15.30

Coffee Break & Exhibition

15.30 - 16.45

Education & Training

Chairs: Moritz Deml, Cordula Netzer

15.30 - 15.45

Eurospine Perspective in Spine Surgery Education and Training
Prof. Dr. med. Dominique A. Rothenfluh, MD, PhD

15.45 - 16.00

EANS Perspective in Spine Surgery Education and Training
Prof. Dr. med. Enrico Tessitore

16.00 - 16.15

Shaping the Spine Surgeons of Tomorrow: Simulation and Digital Learning Ecosystems
Dr. med. Stefan Motov

16.15 - 16.45

Education, Research and Networking: National - SGS & Global - AO Spine Opportunities from Junior to Senior
Prof. Dr. med. Cordula Netzer MBA
Dr. med. Michal Žiga

16.45 - 17.00

Scientific Award Ceremony, Closing Remarks & Farewell

Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Nic Hausmann
Prof. Dr. Yoon Ha MD, PhD