BRS/RA Integrated Conference Programme 2006

 

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WEDNESDAY 3rd MAY 2006

8.30

REGISTRATION
10.00-12.00

Main Auditorium

Queens Suite 1

Queens Suite 2

Kings Suite

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
Chair:  Steve Smith, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, President BRS

O1 Variability in referral patterns to renal services in Kent
H J Hobbs, Kent and Canterbury Hospital

O2 Risk of CKD progression and mortality related to renal function in patients aged 61-65 years
MW Taal, Derby City General Hospital

O3 Recognition of a large cohort of CKD patients in West Lincolnshire by a primary care-based disease management programme (DMP)
NT Richards, Tipton Dialysis Unit, Brimingham

O4 Area deprivation predicts development of CKD in the population
AK Bello, Sheffield Kidney Institute

O5 A systematic Diabetic Renal Service – better for patients and clinicians
HC Rayner, Birmingham Hearlands Hospital

O6 The value of routine renal ultrasound (US) in patients with CKD
KPG Harris, Leicester General Hospital

O7 A longitudinal study of extracellular fluid in patients with CKD
LM Wells, York Hospital

O8 Outcomes in CKD : Prognostic role of ischaemia and subclinical left venticular abnormalities and impact of transplantation
DJ Rakhit, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

LABORATORY SCIENCE:
CELL COMMUNICATION

Chair: Jeremy Hughes, University of Edinburgh School of Medicine

Cross-talk between glomerular cells.
Guest Speaker: Moin Saleem, Reader in Paediatric Nephrology, University of Bristol

O9 VEGF165b defines the phenotype of the normal glomerulus
SJ Harper, University of Bristol

O10 Interferon Beta attenuates proteinuria in 3 models of experimental glomerular injury and modulates barrier properties of human glomerular endothelial cells and podocytes in culture
S C Satchell, University of Bristol

O11 The differential role of Ras Isoforms in TGFß1 induced connective tissue growth factor expression in human proximal tubule epithelial cells
MK Phanish, SW Thames Institute for Renal Research, Carshalton

O12 The hyperproliferation of PKD1 cystic cells to insulin-like growth factor-1 and cAMmP is medicated by a Ras/Raf dependent signalling pathway
E Parker, Sheffield Kidney Institute

O13 Toll-like receptor 4 is required on both bone marrow derived and non-bone marrow derived cells for maximal neutrophil influx in heterologous neprhotoxic nephritis
HJ Brown, King’s College London School of Medicine

O14 Investigating the role of tumour necrosis factor alpha in graft rejection across a minor (hy) mismatch skin transplantation model
PE Herbert, Imperial College London

TRANSPLANT FORUM
Sponsored by: Novartis
Chair: Phil Dyer, Manchester Royal Infirmary

The impact of 3 initiatives for improving donation rates in the UK.
Guest Speaker: Lisa Burnapp, Nurse Consultant, Living Transplantation, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital Trust, London

O15 Randomised controlled trial of open versus laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
ML Nicholson, University Hospitals of Leicester

O16 Outcome of renal transplantation in 300 children between 1973 and 2000
R Shroff, Great Ormand Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London

O17 Antibody incompatible transplantation – demand and outcomes
RM Higgins, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

O18 ABO incompatible live donor transplantation with Rituximab
JW Galliford, West London Renal Transplant Centre, Hammersmith

O19 Vitamin D status in long-term renal transplant recipients
AS Stavroulopoulos, Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust

O20 Early neural regeneration after pancreas transplantation detected by corneal confocal microscopy: A pilot study
S Mehra, Manchester Royal Infirmary

EXERCISE AND FRAILTY
Chair: Tom Mercer, Queen Mary University College, Edinburgh

The epidemiology of muscle wasting and weakness in renal failure.
Guest Speaker: Patrick Naish, Consultant Nephrologist, North Staffordshire Infirmary

O21 The Acidosis-Sensing amino acid pump SNAT2 determines intracellular levels of the anabolic amino acids L-Gln and L-Leu in Skeletal Muscle Cells
A Bevington, Leicester General Hospital

O22 Functionally significant progressive skeletal muscle wasting in CKD4 and CKD5 (PD and HD) patients
CW McIntyre, Derby City General Hospital

O23 Can a Structured, Multidisciplinary Programme Combining Exercise, Diet and Orlistat Achieve Significant Weight Loss and Improved Functional Ability in Patients with CKD ?
S A Cook, Kings College Hospital, London

024 Effects of a 12 month training programme on quality of life, functional ability and nutritional status in long term HD patients
S Smith, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

Towards exercise as part of routine care for chronic kidney disease.
Guest Speaker: Jamie MacDonald, Exercise Physiologist, University of Bangor, Wales

12.00-13.30 LUNCH & EXHIBITION - Hall Q

MODERATED POSTER SESSION & EXHIBITION - Hall D

13.30-15.30

Main Auditorium

PLENARY 1: VASCULAR ACCESS
Co-Chair: Chris Winearls, Oxford Kidney Unit & Mick Kumwenda, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl

Vascular Access - the current UK scene.

Guest Speaker: Dr Richard Fluck, Consultant Nephrologist, Derby City General Hospital

Why does vascular access fail?
Guest Speaker: Dr Pietro Ravani, Consultant Nephrologist, Azienda Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona, Cremona, Italy

Vascular access in the complex case.
Guest Speaker: Dr Eric Chemla, Consultant Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer, St Georges Hospital, London

Planning a vascular access service.
Guest Speaker: Ms Mercia Spare, Project Leader, University Hospital of Birmingham

Vascular access and sepsis - the curse of the dialysis unit.

Guest Speaker: Dr David Goldsmith, Consultant Nephrologist, Guy's & St Thomas's Hospital Trust, London
15.30-16.00 COFFEE & EXHIBITION - Hall Q

POSTERS - Hall D

16.00-17.30

Main Auditorium

Queens Suite 1

Queens Suite 2

Kings Suite

MODERNISING RENAL SERVICES 1.
Chair: Rachael Lewis, Department of Health

Escaping from the anachronism of medical practice
Dr Charlie Tomson, Consultant Nephrologist, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

O25 Effective management of hypertension through nurse prescribing
RM Anson, Royal suxxes County Hospital

O26 Audit of the safety and efficacy of a computerised decision support system for the management of renal bone disease
EJ Lindley, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

O27 Do Once and Share Experiences of the Renal NpfIT Programme
B Stribling, Hinckley & Bosworth PCT, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire

O28 What the politicians thought about kidney disease during the May 2005 General Election – 45,000 Survey forms sent out by Kidney patients
T F Statham OBE, national Kidney Federation, Worksop Nottinghamshire

LABORATORY SCIENCE:
Renal Immunity & Inflammation
Chair: Alan Salama, Imperial College London

O29 Toll-like receptor 2 agonists exacerbate disease in accelerated nephrotoxic nephritis
HJ Brown, King’s College London School of Medicine

O30 CD46 is a key protein responsible for bacterial invasion of the urinary tract
K Li, King’s College London

O31 Transfer of tolerance to naïve recipients by splenic T cells from donors with experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis treated with an anti-ICOSL monoclonal antibody
J Reynolds, Imperial College London

O32 Differential suppressors of cytokine signalling (SOCS) expression by macrophages in acute glomerulonephritis
M Wilson, University of Aberdeen

Inhibitory Fc gamma receptors and SLE.
Guest Speaker: Ken Smith, Reader in Renal Medicine, University of Cambridge

CLINICAL TRIALS AND TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Chair: Dr David Jayne Addenbrook's Hospital Cambridge

Mycophenolate mofetil or intravenous cyclophosphamide for lupus nephritis: An appraisal of the Ginzler trial.
Guest Speaker: Dwomoa Adu, Consultant Nephrologist. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

ASTRAL update
Philip Kalra, Hope Hospital, Salford

EUVAS update
Lorraine Harper, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Membranous nephropathy trial update
Peter Mathieson, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

SHARP update
Martin Landray, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

O33 Resistance to the increase in GFR induced by rhIGF-I in non-diabetic patients with end stage renal disease
Y Kuan, Sheffield Kidney Institute

O34 Campath and Medium Dose Tacrolimus Monotherapy in renal transplantation: one year pilot study
K Chan, West London Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith

Vascular Access
Chair: Eric Chemla, St. George’s Hospital, London

O35 Vascular Access – A national survey of the prevalent dialysis population on behalf of the Renal Association Clinical Directors’ Forum and UK Renal Registry and Kidney Research UK
R Rao, UK Renal Registry, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

O36 Incident access in the UK dialysis population – results of a UK survey on behalf of the Renal Association Clinical Directors’ Forum and UK Renal Registry and Kidney Research UK
R Rao, UK Renal Registry, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

O37 DOPPS Estimates of Patient Life Years Attributable to Modifiable Haemodialysis Practices in the United Kingdom.
HC Rayner, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital


O38 Age and history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes are not contra-indications to arterio-venous fistula creation
B Yeung, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

O39 Is basilic vein transposition a real alternative to bypass? Results of a prospective trial monitored over two years by Transonic
L Anderson, St. Georges Hospital, London

O40 Radical transformation of vascular access provision to a more patient-focused service
R Murray, Liverpool University Hospital 

17.45-18.45 GUEST LECTURE

Main Auditorium

Chair: John Feehally, Leicester General Hospital, President, The Renal Association
'Healthcare is a risky business' Prof Aidan Halligan, Director of Clinical Governance, NHS, Leicester, UK
18.50-21.00 WELCOME RECEPTION IN THE EXHIBITION AREA AT HIC

Hall Q