Programme

Congress programme

Simultaneous translation of all lectures

Saturday 21.10.2023

Opening 08.45 - 09.10

Session I: Fertility and ovarian cycle

09.10 - 09.50
Nutrition and fertility - Michał Jank (Warsaw)

09.50 - 10.30
Infertility in male dogs – BPH and ROS- what do we know about it? - Anna Domosławska-Wyderska (Olsztyn)

10.30 - 11.00
Autoimmune and immune-mediated infertility – an underestimated problem? - Sandra Goericke-Pesch (Hannover)

11.00 - 11.40
Determining the optimal mating time – update on gold standard: the true history about reliability of cytology, accuracy of hormone analysis and vaginoscopy, and considerations on the reasonableness of ultrasound – Sebastian Arlt (Zurich), Chiara Milani (Padua), Wojciech Niżański (Wroclaw) - interactive discussion

11.40 - 12.10
Coffee break

Session II: Pregnancy, parturition, newborn – monitoring & pathology

12.10 - 12.50
Examination of a pregnant bitch and a queen, pathology of pregnancy, risk monitoring and determination of the parturition date - Piotr Socha (Olsztyn)

12.50 - 13.30
Ultrasound prenatal diagnosis: our future, challenge or essential veterinary practice? - Chiara Milani (Padua)

13.30 - 14.20
Lunch break

14.20 - 15.00
The course of the parturition and neonatal survival - Andrea Muennich (Berlin)

15.00 - 15.40
Anaesthesia for caesarean section - can it be optimal for both dam and newborn? - Agnieszka Antończyk, Małgorzata Ochota (Wroclaw)

15.40 - 16.20
Neonatal cases: two perspectives with one goal - health and well-being of the patient - Małgorzata Ochota, Wojciech Niżański (Wroclaw)

16.20-16.50
Coffee break

Session III: The Cat

16.50-17.30
How do they do it?! Bad semen quality in fertile tomcats - should we ‘calibrate’ our eye differently? - Sylwia Prochowska (Wroclaw)

17.30 - 18.10
Queens cycle - How it can be regulated and modified? – Lluis Ferre Dolcet (Padua)

18.10 - 18.40
Cat breeder - Veterinarian relationship: the basis for rational diagnostics, therapy and success – Sandra Goericke-Pesch (Hannover)

20.00 Gala Dinner

Sunday 22.10.2023

Session IV: New opportunities and challenges

09.00 - 09.40
Ethics in small animal reproduction - Sebastian Arlt (Zurich)

09.40 - 10.20
Evidence Based Medicine on the field of animal reproduction - Sebastian Arlt (Zurich)

10.20 - 11.00
Biomarkers in reproduction and their usefulness in daily practice - Ilona Kaszak (Warsaw)

11.00 - 11.30
Coffee break

Sesja V: Contraception

11.30 - 12.10
New directions and controversies in surgical contraception: LOVE, gonadal sparing contraception - Sabine Schaefer-Somi (Vienna)

12.10 - 12.40
Age at castration – an important consideration – Sabine Schaefer-Somi (Vienna)

12.40 - 13.20
Pharmacological contraception: an update - Sandra Goericke-Pesch (Hannover)

13.20 - 14.00
Considerations on long-term effects of blockage of estrous cycle & post-castration implications - Lluis Ferre Dolcet (Padua)

14.00 - 14.30
What about that avian flu in cats? – Tadeusz Frymus (Warsaw)

14.30 Final conclusions, closing and Poster Awards

14.50 Lunch