Programme

Wednesday 12 June

10:00 – 16:00 Registration
12:30 – 12:45 Opening remarks
12:45 – 13:30 Keynote: Andres Rodriguez Lorenzo
(Un)solved Problems in Head and Neck Microvascular Reconstruction in 2024
13:30 – 14:00 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
14:00 – 14.30 S1 Head & neck

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  • Tuukka Veija: Flap versus skin graft reconstruction after excision of basal cell carcinoma of the nose
  • Ian Barner-Rasmussen: Postburn eyebrow restoration using combined tattooing and hair follicle transplant technique.
  • Patrik Lassus: Long-term survival of the first 50 face transplants worldwide – a multicenter study
14:30 – 15:10 S2 Education

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  • Jukka Pajarinen: The Helsinki micro board – an affordable new tool for the aspiring microsurgeon
  • Ali Raed Buheiri: Using simulation to assess basic ultrasound skills in plastic surgery: a validation study.
  • Toni Seppälä: Forequarter amputation – should we still be doing it?
  • Richard Hamilton: The free abdominoplasty (DIEP) flap in breast reconstruction – the untold story
15:10 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:00 Tord Skoog Lecture; Anna Elander
Almost 40 years in service of Plastic Surgery
16:00 – 17:00 Presidential Panel: ’Are we doing the right things?’

  • Inkeri Leonardsson-Schultz (Sweden)
  • Lars Frich (Norway)
  • Þórir Auðólfsson (Iceland)
  • Tuija Ylä-Kotola (Finland)
  • Vibeke Koudahl (Denmark) (not confirmed)

Moderator: Patrik Lassus
17:00 – 18:00 Welcome Reception & Exhibition

Thursday 13 June

09:15 – 10:00 Keynote: Junnu Leikola
Paediatric cranio-maxillofacial surgery: a part of plastic surgery
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
10:30 – 10:40 S3 Paediatric

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  • Magnus Becker: 25 years with the Swedish national quality register for cleft lip and palate: -where are we now?
10:40 – 11:30 S4 Reconstructive surgery

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  • Anna Louise Norling: Utilization and outcomes of Novosorb BTM for complex defect reconstruction: three-year experience in a case series of 35 consecutive patients
  • Kurtulus Oz: Comparative analyses of outcomes post sternotomy defects reconstructed with different flaps
  • Perçin Caşkan: Role of free and regional flaps in postburn joint contractures
  • Adas Cepas: Surgical and patient-reported outcomes after total knee arthroplasty requiring soft tissue flap reconstruction – a 12-year experience from high-volume arthroplasty hospital
  • Kurtulus Oz: is it ideal flap for Fournier’s gangrene?: internal pudendal artery perforator flap
11:30 – 12:30 S5 Gender reassignment

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  • Isak Gran: Health-related quality of life and gender congruence after gender-affirming surgery – a prospective cohort study
  • Lene Bjørnson: Life experiences leading to the choice of surgery- a qualitative study exploring the reasons behind undergoing gender affirmative surgery
  • Hanne Gauslaa: Patient information – gender reassignment surgery – female to male
  • Mirjam Saarinen: Patient-reported satisfaction and health-related quality of life after chest masculinization in transgender men using BODY-Q Chest module and the 15D.
  • Krisztina Sipos: Topical tranexamic acid and chest masculinization surgeries among transgender patients – impact on postoperative hematoma
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch & Exhibition
13:30 – 14:15 Keynote: Stian Almeland
Structuring medical assistance in disasters – good intentions are not enough
14:15 – 14:45 Session supported by Motiva

Theo Nanidis: Surface engineering and Breast Implant technology: Advancing Two-Stage Reconstruction with Motiva Flora®️ Tissue Expander
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
15:30 – 16:00 S6 Trauma

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  • Ilkka Kaartinen: Myth-busting the zone of injury concept: a prospective study on the vascular response to high-energy lower extremity trauma
  • Inger Karin Fuglesteg: Norwegian experience with medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) patients from Ukraine
  • Haris Mesic: Reconstruction of the lower limb injuries in Ukrainian war casualties through medical evacuation program (medevac)- Norwegian experience
  • Ceren Cömert: The last resort before amputation: muscular elementarization in earthquake victims with compartment syndrome introduction
16:00 – 17:00 S7 Wound

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  • Leo Lehto: Sacral pressure ulcer reconstructions in Turku University Hospital 2002-2017
  • Elle Koivunotko: Nanofibrillated cellulose hydrogel as a carrier for growth factors in wound healing
  • Cemil Ozturk: Plan B in chronic wound reconstruction; acellular dermal matrices!
  • Eve Kinnunen: Baseline risk factors for split thickness skin graft failure
  • Emma-Lotta Kiukas: Successful management of extensive decubitus ulcers in a multi-drug resistant colonized patient with limited surgery and antimicrobials- a case-report
19:00 – 23:00 Gala Dinner, restaurant NJK (boat transfer)

Thursday 13 June, Nurse Program

08:30 – 09:30 Welcome Message: Embracing the Vision – Plastics Nursing Association’s Insightful Journey

  • Anna Marttala & Ida Silmunen
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote: Johanna Turunen
Gender-affirming surgery in Tampere University Hospital
The topic will address the surgical procedures for transgender individuals’ genital reconstruction.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
11:00 – 12:30 Ragnhild Bjørsvik: Frostbite after snowplowing

Frida Oftung: “Pre-pol”- a multidisciplinary initiative to meet the needs of patients and their next of kin regarding information given prior to secondary surgery
12:30 – 13:0 Lunch & Exhibition
13:30 – 15:00 Sara Mølgaard Hansen: Melacare: nurse-led follow-up after early-stage melanoma – feasibility study

Jenny Hals Andresen: Patient information – reconstruction after facial paralysis

Nora Kvande: Livopan – a part of wound care treatment

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15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
15:30 Workshop – Plastic Nurses Associations supporting professional growth
19:00 Gala Dinner, restaurant NJK (boat transfer)

Friday 14 June

08:15 – 09:00 Scaplas General Assembly
09:15 – 10:00 Keynote; 9:15-10:00, Hilkka Peltoniemi
Some issues in aesthetic plastic surgery – female surgeon´s perspective
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
10:30 -11:00 S8 Aestethic

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  • Reetta Tuominen: An abdominoplasty modification for post-pregnancy abdomen with diastasis recti with and without a midline hernia
  • Sahar Vanessa Amiri: An observational study comparing cold blade technique with CO2 laser for rhinophyma treatment- a quality development project
  • Kjersti Ausen: Perioperative mechanical preparation of NANOFAT/SVF concentrate/ micrografts/stem cells. What happens when we crush the lipoaspirate?
11:00 – 11:20 S9 Ideas & Innovations

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  • Christian Korvald: A patient with cosmetic submuscular breast implants – how to avoid animation deformity after mastectomy (case study)
  • Muiz Akram Chaudhry: The isolated perfused human abdominal skin flap model: a missing link in deep inferior epigastric artery perforator studies
11:20 – 12:30 S10 Lymphedema

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  • Eeva Rannikko: Prospective multicenter phase II study of adenoviral vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) and lymph node transfer in lymphedema
  • Caroline Lilja: Surgical treatment algorithm for breast cancer lymphedema: a systematic review
  • Frederik Gulmark Hansen: Treatment of breast cancer-related lymphedema with topical tacrolimus: a 12-month prospective, Phase II pilot
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch & Exhibition
13:30 – 14:15 Keynote: Tine Engberg Damsgaard
Autologous Breast Reconstruction and ICG-Angiography
14:15 – 15:00 S11 Breast

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  • Christian Korvald: Primary implant-based breast reconstruction and why we do as we do – an audit over 4 years.
  • Ina Korpiola: Better recovery with less complications: implementation of the enhanced recovery after surgery (eras) protocol to diep patients
  • Katariina Kilpivaara: Correlation of weight, height, and jugulum-mamilla measure in women – a population-based study of 1379 cases
  • Christoffer Bing: Enhanced preoperative imaging regime reduces major complications in abdominal free flap breast reconstruction – a retrospective cohort study
  • Charlotta Kuhlefelt: Health-related quality of life: preoperative reference values for breast cancer patients using the BREAST-Q
  • Michele Maruccia: Prepectoral breast reconstruction as the ideal approach to bilateral risk reducing mastectomies
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/tea break & Exhibition
15:30 – 17:00  S11 Breast (continues)

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  • Lisbet Rosenkranz Hölmich: Study protocol – incidence and risk factors of breast implant associated-ALCL and other lymphomas in the breast in Danish women with breast implants
  • Ali Raed Buheiri: Topical tranexamic acid in mastectomies on hematoma formation: a prospective cohort study
  • Ali Raed Buheiri: Tranexamic acid in breast surgery – a systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Vibeke Koudahl: Integrating shared decision making in reconstructive breast surgery; a study on patient involvement, decision conflict and decisional regret
18:00 – 23:00 Farewell party on Lonna island