Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,

We are proud to invite you to the upcoming combined meeting of the Belgian Hip Society and the Belgian Knee Society on Saturday 18th of March. This symposium will be organised in collaboration with the BVOT.

The topic of this meeting is “Musculoskeletal Infections of the Hip and Knee” where an outstanding national and international faculty will discuss the workup, diagnostics and treatment of implant and non-implant-related infections.
This meeting will take place in the Faculty Club in Leuven, Belgium.

Discover the preliminary program below.

In preparation for this meeting, we kindly invite you to share your experience and current practices to make this meeting as interactive as possible. Please participate via this online questionnaire.

We look forward to meeting you in Leuven!

The organising committee
Stijn Ghijselings, Joris Vles, Jan Myncke & Jan Somers for the BHS
Frank Verheyden, Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove, Philippe Van Overschelde & Willam Colyn for the BKS
In collaboration with the BVOT

Programme

08:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee amongst the exhibitors

Session 1: Diagnostics and work-up

Moderator: Jan Victor & Stijn Ghijselings
08:45 Opening - Stijn Ghijselings
08:50 Everything the surgeon needs to know about biofilm - Hans Steenackers
09:05 Artificial joint aspiration - Georges Vles
09:15 Cultures & sonication - Stefaan Vandecasteele / Jens Van Praet
09:25 Non-culture diagnostics I: PCR / NGS / synovasure - Pier Indelli (USA)
09:35 Non-culture diagnostics II: Intraoperative frozen section histopathology - Jan Somers
09:45 The role of nuclear imaging in musculoskeletal infection - Tim Van den Wyngaert
09:55 The minimum the surgeon needs to know about antibiotics - Jens Van Praet
10:15 Cases & Discussion

10:30 Coffee break amongst the exhibitors

Session 2: Non-implant infections

Moderator: Olivier Borens & Jeroen Neyt
11:00 General treatment principles for fracture-related infection of hip and knee - Willem-Jan Metsemakers
11:15 Septic arthritis of the native knee - Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove
11:25 Septic arthritis of the native hip - Georges Vles
11:35 Osteomyelitis of the femur and tibia adults - Jan Geurts (NL)
11:45 Septic arthritis of the pubic symphysis - Michiel Herteleer
12:00 Pediatric musculoskeletal infections - Frank Plasschaert
12:15 Cases & Discussion

12:30 Lunch amongst the exhibitors

Session 3: Periprosthetic joint infections

Moderator: Frank Verheyden & Jan Myncke
13:30 Orthopride data Belgium - Jeroen Neyt
13:40 One-stage revision: how I do it - Stijn Ghijselings
13:50 Getting everything out of your spacer - Olivier Borens (CH)
14:10 Second stage revision of the hip: how I do it - Sujith Konan (UK)
14:25 Second stage revision of the knee: how I do it - Nele Arnout
14:40 Dead space management - Hanne Vandevivere / Filip Stockmans
14:50 New concepts in the treatment of bone infections: bacteriophage therapy - Willem-Jan Metsemakers
15:00 Cases & Discussion

Confirmed faculty

• ARNOUT Nele - UZ Gent
• BORENS Olivier - Lausanne (CH)
• GEURTS Jan - MUMC+ (NL)
• GHIJSELINGS Stijn - UZ Leuven
• HERTELEER Michiel - UZ Leuven
• INDELLI Pier Francesco - Stanford University School of Medicine (USA)
• KONAN Sujith - UCLH (UK)
• METSEMAKERS Willem-Jan - UZ Leuven
• MYNCKE Jan - HH Lier
• NEYT Jeroen - UZ Leuven
• PLASSCHAERT Frank - UZ Gent & AZ St-Jan Brugge
• SOMERS Jan - Jan Yperman
• STEENACKERS Hans - KULeuven
• STOCKMANS Filip - AZ Groeninge & St-Jan Brugge
• VANDECASTEELE Stefaan - AZ St-Jan Brugge
• VANDEKERCKHOVE Pieter-Jan - AZ St-Jan Brugge & AZ St-Lucas Brugge
• VAN DEN WYNGAERT Tim - UZ Antwerpen
• VANDEVIVERE Hanne - AZ Groeninge & St-Jan Brugge
• VAN PRAET Jens - AZ St-Jan Brugge
• VERHEYDEN Frank - HH Lier
• VICTOR Jan - UZ Gent
• VLES Georges - UZ Leuven

Congress Venue

Faculty Club Leuven
Groot Begijnhof 14
3000 Leuven

Registration fees

BHS-BKS-BVOT members
Early Bird until 15/01/2023: 120,00 EUR
Normal until 28/02/2023: 135,00 EUR
Late as of 28/02/2023: 150,00 EUR

Non-members
Early Bird until 15/01/2023: 160,00 EUR
Normal until 28/02/2023: 200,00 EUR
Late as of 28/02/2023: 240,00 EUR

Residents & Students
Early Bird until 15/01/2023: 85,00 EUR
Normal until 28/02/2023: 95,00 EUR
Late as of 28/02/2023: 105,00 EUR

Cancellation Conditions
Before 15/01: 50% refund
As of 15/01: No refund

Our Partners

01 - Aqtor
02 - Medacta
03 - Materialise
04 - Promedionics
05 - Medical Tilman
06 - MoveUp
07 - Pfizer
08 - Implantcast
09 - smith & nephew
10 - Stryker
11 - esaote
13 - KiOmed Pharma
14 - Sprofit
15 - Heraeus
16 - V!GO
17 - DePuy-Synthes
18 - Essity (BSN)
19 - Zimmer Biomet