MEETINGS ON CLINICAL GENETICS
SIGU
(Italian Society of Human Genetics)


Monday
29.06.2009 (2/09)

Bologna
Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi
Polo didattico A. Murri (ingresso al Policlinico da Viale Ercolani)
Aula didattica della Presidenza di Medicina e Chirurgia

Coordinator: Prof. Romano Tenconi - University of Padova

 

 


 PROGRAM


10.45

 -
Opening address (R. Tenconi)


11.00

Seminars

- Factors predisposing to chromosome nondisjunction (Enrico Cundari, Roma) ppt file

- Surgical genetics: prognosis and specific treatment for congenital cardiopathies associated with genetic syndromes
(Bruno Marino, Roma) ppt file

Updating

- New genes and new clinical conditions of the RAS-MAPK pathway (international workshop, 22-23 May 2009, Vienna)
(M. Tartaglia, Roma) ppt file


12.50

Educational

- Gestaltic test of malformation syndromes (M. Priolo, Reggio Calabria)


13.10
Lunch


13.40

Projects: old & new

- Clinical/genetic follow-up of patients/families (S. Belli, Trento)

- XLMR project (A. Renieri, Siena) ppt file

- Glossary of morphological terms: ocular region (M.F. Bedeschi, Milano) ppt file


Communications

- European acknowledgment of the Medical Genetics specialization: good news (A. Renieri, Siena) ppt file


Professional experiences in other countries:

- Three months in England (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) (K. Ludwig, PD) ppt file

 
14.20

Dysmorphology pitfalls in adult patients

- Adult patient with diagnostic hypothesis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease associated with other anomalies.
The clinical suspicion leads to diagnosis, otherwise (perhaps) the diagnosis would have never done (M.F. Bedeschi, Milano)
 


Presentation and discussion of new cases:
 
Presented by Diagnostic suspicion Discussant
F. Rivieri (Reggio Emilia, Trento) FSHD? E. Grosso
P. Bonasoni (L. Garavelli, Reggio Emilia) Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy P. Guanciali
F. Benedicenti (C. Castellan, Bolzano) X-linked Recessive Chondrodysplasia Punctata? M.L. Giovannucci-Uzielli
V. Bianchi (F. Lalatta, Milano) Silver Russell s. and cystic fibrosis? E. Tarantino
 A. Wischmeijer (L. Garavelli, Reggio Emilia) Moebius s.? L. Chessa
 M. Gnoli (M. Seri, Bologna) Albright Hereditary osteodystrophy? M. Della Monica


17.00

Closing session