The program is approved by the
(Akademie für tierärztliche Fortbildung, the German authority for continuous education).
CE credits will be given depending of the hours attended (lectures + workshops) and are accepted by the veterinary chambers of most countries.
We kindly thank our Sponsors and Exhibitors for their generous support of the conference:
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| DAY 0 | ||
| Saturday May 12th 2012 | ||
| Registration & Icebreaker | ||
| 18:00 | Opening registration and Icebreaker (in Palazzo Trecchi) | |
| DAY 1 | ||
| Sunday May 13th 2012 | ||
| Registration | Registration and Exhibition | |
| 09:00-… | ||
| Practical Workshop | ||
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Ultrasound Attendees of the Ultrasound workshop will have the opportunity to practice in small groups at several machines with several species (lizards, snakes, chelonians) under the supervision of experienced practitioners. Prior to the practical part lectures will be given about fundamentals of ultrasonography in reptiles, diagnosis of diseases (focus: reproductive disorders) and echocardiography. |
L. Schilliger |
| K. Biron | ||
| Lunch for workshop attendees | ||
| Coffee | ||
| Lectures | ||
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Welcome and Introduction | Selleri/Biron |
| Macina/Amand | ||
| Harkewicz | ||
| Parasitology / Bacteriology | ||
| 13:30 - 14:20 | Master class | N. Pantchev |
| Laboratory diagnosis of protozoal infections in reptile feces | ||
| 14:20 - 14:35 | Cryptosporidiosis in Snakes: Attention to a zoonotic risk | S. Rota |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | Cloacal prolapse and cystitis in a green iguana (Iguana iguana) | M. Kik |
| caused by a novel Cryptosporidium species | ||
| 14:50 - 15:05 | Pentastomids of wild snakes in the australian tropics | C. Kelehear |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | Devrisea agamarum infections - an emerging disease in Agamids | F. Marcel |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | Investigation on some potential zoonotic intestinal pathogens in | M.L. Marenzoni |
| populations of chelonians in central Italy | ||
| 15:35 - 16:15 | Coffee break & Exhibition | |
| Virology / Mycology | ||
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Survey of virological investigations in necropsied snakes in the years | S. Blahak |
| 2004-2010 in the Veterinäruntersuchungsamt OWL | ||
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Survey of virological investigations in necropsied lizards in the years | S. Blahak |
| 2004-2010 in the Veterinäruntersuchungsamt OWL | ||
| 16:45 - 17:00 | West Nile Virus infections in reptiles in Italy | P. Selleri |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Prevalence and diversity of reptilian adenoviruses and parvoviruses | J. Pénzes |
| detected in samples of animals kept in captivity or pet stores | ||
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Assessing the presence of eosinophilic inclusion bodies in boid snakes | T. Hellebuyck |
| with and without clinical signs | ||
| 17:30 - 17:45 | to be announced | |
| Anesthesia / Surgery | ||
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Spinal anesthesia and analgesia in red-eared slider turtles | C. Mans |
| (Trachemys scripta elegans) | ||
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Venomoid surgery in poisonous snakes: | M. Bielli |
| surgical technique and follow-up | ||
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Transcutaneous colopexia as a possibility for therapy of cloacal prolapses - | B. Rüschoff |
| the classical and a new surgical approach | ||
| 18:30 | End of lectures day 1 | |
| 19:00 | Aperitif in the Natural History Museum and Park (25 Euro) | |
| DAY 2 | ||
| Monday May 14th 2012 | ||
| Lectures | ||
| Physiology / Pathology | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Master class | Z. Knotek |
| Reproductive endocrinology in reptiles | ||
| 09:50 - 10:05 | Foreign Bodies in crocodilians | I. Cope |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Ocular diseasesin reptiles detected in clinical practice | I. Ciraci |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Is pyramidal growth in tortoises related to a variation in bone density? | N. di Girolamo |
| 10:35 - 10:50 | Chromatophoromas in Reptiles | K. Heckers |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Coffee break & Exhibition | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Effect of body position, leg and neck extension and sedation on | C. Mans |
| lung volume in red-eared-slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) | ||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Evalutation of rebound tonometry in red-eared-slider turtles | C. Mans |
| (Trachemys scripta elegans) | ||
| Diagnostics / Therapy | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Tonometry in Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni) | N. di Girolamo |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Endoscopic liver biopsies in chelonians | T. Giorgi |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Spirotome - evaluation of a manual biopsy device for liver biopsies | G. Nardini |
| in green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) | ||
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Flotac - a new and highly sensitive technique for copromocroscopic | M. Capasso |
| examinations | ||
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch and Exhibition | |
| 14:30 - 15:20 | Master class | L. Schilliger |
| Reptile Cardiology | ||
| 15:20 - 15:35 | Autovaccination confers protection against Devriesea agamarum-associated | T. Hellebuyck |
| septicaemia but not dermatitis in bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) | ||
| 15:35 - 15:50 | to be announced | |
| 15:50 - 16:05 | Evaluation of liver perfusion with contrast enhanced ultrasound | G. Nardini |
| in green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) | ||
| 16:05 - 16:20 | CT and MRI anatomy in clinically healthy captive bearded dragons | M. D'Acierno |
| (Pogona vitticeps) | ||
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Changes of clinical-chemical blood parameters in the course of the | A. Scope |
| summer season in Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni) | ||
| 16:50 - 17:05 | Hematological values for Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni) | M. Bielli |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Coffee Break & Exhibition | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | to be announced | |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Contribution to reproductive disorders in lizards | K. Mathes |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Shell fracture repair - a comparison of different methods and the use | I. Pelizzone |
| of PRP (platelet-rich-plasma) | ||
| Conservation | ||
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Captive management in headstarting turtles: | Y. Khadpekar |
| a veterinarian’s perspective | ||
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Health problems observed in rescued snakes around India and their | Y. Khadpekar |
| medical management | ||
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Possibilities to differentiate wild born from captive bred reptiles | S. Öfner |
| 19:00 | End of lectures day 2 | |
| 20:00 | Dinner | |
| DAY 3 | ||
| Tuesday May 15th 2012 | ||
| Lectures | ||
| Case reports | ||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Massive stranding of Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) | D. Gelli |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Transmission of Armillifer armillatus (Pentastomida) to local dogs | N. Pantchev |
| and humans at a snake farm | ||
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Use of palatal spacers for the correction of the carapax growth of a | M. Iannaccone |
| Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni) | ||
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Dystocia in a Bowsprit tortoise (Chersina angulata) | G. Tenti |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Ovariectomy in a burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) with | R. Kocsis |
| chronic degenerative oophoritis | ||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Suspected ammonium nitrate poisoning through a plant fertilizer in a | D. D'Ovidio |
| Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni) | ||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Skin neoplasia in three bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) | A. Nogradi |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Adenoma of the Harderian gland in a bearded dragon | C. Pignon |
| (Pogona vitticeps) | ||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Bacterial granuloma, liver hyperplasia and calcified thrombus of an | N. Kley |
| AV valve in a female veiled chameleon (Chameleo calyptratus) | ||
| Amphibians | ||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Anesthesia in Amphibians | H. Kempf |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Announcements | |
| 12:30 | End of lectures / Poster session | |
| 14:00 | Excursions | |
| Parco natura viva (Zoo), Verona | ||
| Herping trip | ||
| Posters | ||
| Presence and identification of yeasts detected by oral and cloacal | F. Agnetti | |
| swabs in captive chelonians from central Italy | ||
| Surgical resolution of preovulatory follicular stasis and postovulatory | M. Di Giuseppe | |
| dystocia in leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) | ||
| Preliminary study for the evaluation of hematological, blood-chemical | G. Deli | |
| and electrophoretic parameters in 100 turtles (Trachemys spp.) | ||
| Parasites of Chelonians | S. Gagno | |
| Beak reconstruction in Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni) using | Cs. Géczy | |
| polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) | ||
| Ear abscess in a captive Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) | D. Gelli | |
| First reptilian Heterosporis anguillarum (Microsporidia) infection | I. Graner | |
| in a garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) | ||
| Dermatomycosis in a mata mata (Chelus fimbriatus) caused by Paecilomyces | T. Hellebuyck | |
| lilacinus and successful treatment with voriconazole&xnbsp; | ||
| Nebulisation as a supportive therapy of respiratory distress in reptiles | M. Lukac | |
| Unusual in situ squamous cell carcinoma in a Boa constrictor | B. Richter | |
| (Boa constrictor) | ||
| Encephalitozoonosis in bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) | B. Richter | |
| Comparison of death causes in freeliving sea | D. Scaravelli | |
| turtles under different bycatch pressure | ||
| A case of myiasis in a Emys trinacris | D. Scaravelli | |
| First cloacal endoscopic approach to sex recognition in Emidid turtle | F. Spadola | |