HIP AND KNEE SOCIETY MEETING
Herods Palace Hotel, Eilat, 27-29.04.2006

Organizing and Scientific Committee: 
 Dr. R. Sevi
 Dr. S. Velkes
 Dr. N. Cohen

Thursday, 27.04.06
15.30 Registration

16.00-19.00 HEMI-ARTHROPLASTY HIP - Symposium   Chairman:  Dr. N. Cohen

16.00  Treatment of sub-capital fractures in 2006 Golda Medical Center

16.30  Elliptical head – rational and clinical experience Prof. Francesco Pipino (Italy)

17.00  Bipolar hemi-arthroplasty  Dr. Werner Hauck (Germany) Discussion and Consensus

17.45-18.15 Coffee Break

18.15  Knee kinematics and the role of computer-aided surgery  Prof. Peter Scharf (Germany)
  
20.00  Dinner

Friday, 28.04.06

08.30-13.00 COMPLICATED KNEE JOINT ARTHROPLASTY - Symposium
  Chairman:  Dr. R. Sevi

08.30  Management of infected knee rthroplasty  Mr. Philip Mitchell (U.K.)

09.00 Mid-flexion instability  - Beilinson Medical center                                                                                  
09.30  Pitfalls of the mobile bearing uni-compartmental knee arthroplasty Dr. Kort Nanne (The Netherlands)

10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
  
10.30  Pitfalls in revision knee arthroplasty – Wolfson Medical Center  Discussion

11.15-12.15 Panel discussion with case presentation

13.00  Lunch

14.30-16.00 FREE PAPERS Chairman:  Dr. S. Velkes

14.30 Liner polyethylene cementation technique in asymptomatic versus  symptomatic osteolysis
L. Kandel, G. Rivkin, A. Friedman, D. Segal, M. Liebergall,       Y. Mattan
 
14.45 The influence of a caliper measurement technique on the resulting joint congruency following hip aemiarthroplasty
 Assaf Harofeh Medical Center

15.00 Distal femoral stem tip resection for thigh pain complicating the uncemented total hip arthroplasty
 L. Kandel,  M. Kligman, R. Sekel

15.15  DOUFIT hip arthroplasty – our experience
 M. Roffman, M. Kligman

15.30 The effect of a novel device and treatment methodology on knee osteoarthritis: A double-blind, randomized, prospective study
 Y. Bar-Ziv, Y. Beer, Y. Ran, S. Benedict, N. Halperin

  Discussion

20.00  Gala Dinner

Saturday, 29.04.06
  Free day