Scientific Programme

6 March 2024

7 March 2024

8 March 2024

9 March 2024

6 March 2024

6 March 2024
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08:30 – 09:00	Conference Registration
09:00 – 14:00								General Assembly	International Day Meeting 09:30 – 15:45 Click here to see detailed programme
13:00 – 16:00		Pre-Conference Workshop – 1 Non-invasive Respiratory Support Moderators: Arzu Topeli Iskit, Türkiye Burcin Halacli, Türkiye 13.00-13.20 Revisiting pathophysiology of hypoxemia and hypoxia states and respiratory failure/ Sait Karakurt, Türkiye 13.25-13.45 Rational use of oxygen in different disease states: what is the current evidence? Burcin Halacli, Türkiye 13.50-14.10 Low-flow oxygen therapy: options and methodology Arzu Topeli Iskit, Türkiye 14.15-14.35 High-flow nasal oxygen system Pervin Hanci, Türkiye 14.40-15.00 Non-invasive mechanical ventilation Emel Eryuksel, Türkiye 15.00-16.00 Hands-on: Low-flow and high-flow oxygen systems and non-invasive mechanical ventilation equipment, interfaces and application All speakers	Pre-Conference Workshop – 2 Soft but hard: The essential skills to make you a better & happier doctor – Introduction Frauke Weidanz, UK – Experiences of starting in a leadership role Gemma Ortiz, Spain Ieva Ruza, Latvia Alberto Tosoni, Italy – Professionalism Ana Bustamante, Spain – Communication skills Frauke Weidanz, UK – Discussion	Pre-Conference Workshop – 3 Obesity Workshop Chair: Volkan Yumuk, Türkiye 13.00-13.20 The Patient Perspective Şeniz Ünal, Türkiye 13.20-13.40 Obesity for Internists – what we need to know ? Volkan Yumuk, Türkiye 13.40-14.00 Nutritional tools for weight loss and maintenance Maria Hassapidou, Greece 14.00-14.20 Physical activity tools for weight loss and maintenance Andreea Ciudin Mihai, Spain 14.20-14.35 Q & A 14.35-14.50 Coffee Break Chair: Jason Halford, UK 14.50-15.10 Psychosocial tools for weight loss and maintenance Jason Halford, UK 15.10-15.30 Pharmacotherapy tools for weight loss and maintenance Paolo Sbraccia, Italy 15.30-15.50 Metabolic Surgery for the Internist – What we need to know Dilek Yazici, Türkiye 15.50-16.00 Q & A		Pre-Conference Workshop – 4 Choosing Wisely (From choosing wisely to choosing greenly) The impact of our health care systems on the climate crisis. Moderators: Omar Kherad, Switzerland Karen Born, Canada Speakers: Choosing greenly: experience from Geneva University hospital Sylvain de Lucia, Switzerland Environment and implementation of choosing wisely Wendy Levinson, Canada	Pre-Conference Workshop – 6 Ultrasound Workshop Oğuz Abdullah Uyaroğlu, Türkiye Juan Torres Macho, Spain João Neves, Portugal Nick Smallwood, UK Chiara Cogliati, Italy
15:00 – 16:00					Pre-Conference Workshop – 5 Young Internists – How to Write and Publish an Article Moderators: Christine Sävervall, Sweden Anna Mavromanoli, Switzerland 13:00-13:10 Introduction 13:10-13:40 How to Focus and Summarize the Background Evidences and the Aim of Your Paper: The Successful Introduction Alberto M. Marra, Italy 13:40-13:50 Questions and Discussion 13:50-14:20 How to Report Your Study Protocol and Present Your Results: The Yin/Yang of Methods and Results Marco Proietti, Italy 14:20-14:30 Examples, Questions and Discussion 14:30-15:00 Starting the Editorial Process: The Role of The Editor in Chief Giancarlo Agnelli, Italy 15:00 – 15:10 Examples, Questions and Discussion 15:10-15:40 Closing with Fireworks: How to Discuss Your Results Valeria Raparelli, Italy 15:40-15:50 Examples, Questions and Discussion 15:50-16:00 Final Discussion
16:00 – 16:15	COFFEE BREAK
16:15 – 17:15		Parallel Session – 1 Management of Malnourished Hospitalized Patients: From hospitalist perspective Chair: Margus Lember, Estonia Patient in the ward/ Juana Carretero, Spain Patient in ICU Kursat Gundogan, Türkiye Abstracts: 2791- Edoardo Pirera / Malnutrition, poor quality of life and disability: part of the complexity of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and their influence on the rate of acute exacerbations 2361- Zeynep Fetullahoglu Durmus / Rapid malnutrition assessment with questioning anorexia of aging and weight loss: How useful are the keystones of malnutrition in older adults in detecting GLIM-defined malnutrition?	Parallel Session – 2 Autoinflammatory diseases Chairs: José Delgado Alves, Portugal Luc Mouthon, France Diagnostic algorithm Panagiotis Skendros, Greece Updated treatment options and follow-up Ahmet Gul, Türkiye Abstracts: 673- Paula Teresa López León/ Outcomes of subcutaneous immunoglobulin dose reduction strategy in primary immune deficiencies amid global shortage 331- Anastasia Maria Natsi/ IL-1β/DNA complex ELISA as a simple diagnostic tool for IL-1-mediated autoinflammatory diseases	Parallel Session – 3 Internal Medicine in the future hospital Chairs: Stephen Hewitt, Norway Mark Cranston, UK High intensity in Internal Medicine Ciro Canetta, Italy Comanagement Arantza Alvarez-de Arcaya, Spain Abstracts: 516- Walter Vincenzo Maccarrone/ Which tool is the most accurate for predicting patient deterioration in the emergency department? A comparison of six early warning scores and simple clinical judgment 210- Simone Barsotti / The importance of multidisciplinary collaboration in internal medicine: a multidisciplinary approach in rare diseases	Rapid-Fire Session – 1 Moderator: Bulent Ozin, Türkiye Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 2 Moderator: Alberto Tosoni, Italy Click here to see detailed programme	Pre-Conference Workshop – 6 Ultrasound Workshop Cont.
17:15 – 18:15		Parallel Session – 4 Preventive medicine: Prescribing physical activity, a practical guideline Chairs: Aleksandar Manolev, North Macedonia Healthy physical activity Marco Bernardi, Italy Onnivorous, Vegetarian, Mediterranean. A guide to health? Piero Portincasa, Italy Abstracts: 1681- Alberto Díaz Cáceres/ Cardiometabolic risk factors among individuals at risk of food insecurity according to economic factors and sex: from the E-ducass study 1762-Juan Francisco Muñoz Osuna / A prospective analysis according to chronotype of cardiometabolic profile and lifestyle habits among obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery	Parallel Session – 5 Multimorbidity in chronic hearth failure Chair: Christiane E. Angermann, Germany Prevalence and impact of multimorbidity in patients with heart failure across world regions and country income levels. Christiane E. Angermann, Germany Cardio-reno-metabolic multimorbidity in heart failure and the role of congestion. Jan Biegus, Poland Pharmacotherapy for comorbidities in heart failure: Focus on haematinic deficiencies and hyperkalaemia Stefan von Haehling, Germany Abstracts: 2031-Laura Ochando Montes/ Improvement in activities of daily living and health status associated with the use of once-weekly semaglutide in very old patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart failure 2845- Celalettin Küçük / The prevalence of frailty in older adults with heart failure according to the Simpler Modified Fried Frailty Scale and its association with mortality in follow	Parallel Session – 6 Whats new in Celiac disease and other types of gluten sensitivity syndromes Chair: Lèlita Santos,Portugal Celiac disease David S Sanders, UK Non celiac gluten sensitivities Taylan Kav, Türkiye Abstracts: 1586- Dante Pio Pallotta/ The changing scenario of Celiac Disease 714-Jostein Ibsen/ Diagnosis and follow-up of celiac disease – a contemporary patient material	Joint Session – 1 EFIM-FDIME Internists, health communications and FDIME. Chairs: Daniel Sereni,France Ricardo Gomez Huelgas, Spain 17:15 Opening and objectives 17:20 Internists, health communications and FDIME Jan Williem Elte, Netherland 17:25 Patient’s presentations with short introductions by Akif Bayyigit. Mr. Gokhan Eren on Diabetes type 1 and Mrs. Saniye Busra Aksoy on Lupus respectively, followed by a Round Table discussion with all speakers and a general discussion, “Patients address European Internists”. Moderator: Ramon Pujol, Spain. Panel: Daniel Sereni,France Ricardo Gomez Huelgas, Spain Akif Bayyiğit, Türkiye Jan Williem Elte, Netherland 18:10 Concluding remarks	Rapid-Fire Session – 3 Moderator: George Ntaios, Greece Click here to see detailed programme
18:30 – 19:30	Opening Ceremony
19:30 – 20:15	Plenary Session – 1 Chairs: Serhat Unal, Türkiye, Ricardo Gomez Huelgas, Spain Generative AI for a better healthcare Julio Mayol, Spain
20:15 – 21:30	Networking Event

7 March 2024

7 March 2024
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08:00 – 09:00	Meet the Expert Session – 1 Metabolic Patient Dilek Gogas Yavuz, Türkiye	Meet the Expert Session – 2 Hepatitis B and D in Practice Cihan Yurdaydin, Türkiye	Meet the Expert Session – 3 HIV in Internal Medicine Practice Serhat Unal, Türkiye	Meet the Expert Session – 4 Mind confusing cases in thyroid hormone tests Alptekin Gursoy, Türkiye	Meet the Expert Session – 5 New recommendations by EMA about the properly use of Fluoroquinolones Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Italy
09:05 – 10:05	Rapid-Fire Session – 4 Moderator: Alberto Marra, Italy Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 5 Moderator: Sina Karimi, Belgium Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 6 Moderator: Ieva Ruza, Latvia Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 7 Moderator: Sara Lindberg, Greece Click here to see detailed programme	09:30 – 10:30 Celebrating Joy in Internal Medicine
10:10 – 11:10	Joint Session – 2 Highlights of the 2023 ESH Hypertension Guidelines Chairs: Ion Bruckner, Romania Vasco Barreto, Portugal General aspects and novelties Reinheld Kreutz, Germany Treatment of resistant hypertension and comorbidities Dragan Lovic, Serbia	Parallel Session – 7 Chalenges and updates in Dislipidemia Chairs: Ivica Lazúrová, Slovakia Alberto Marra, Italy LDL-C lowering therapies: How to choose? Lale Tokgozoglu, Türkiye Residual Cardiovascular Risk Despite Optimal LDL-Cholesterol Reduction – Etiology and Therapeutic Challenges Avishay Ellis Abstracts: 76- Ahmad Raiyan / LDL-c levels and lipid lowering treatment in coronary heart disease patients hospitalized because of anginal syndrome 2628- George Perifanos/ Adherence to an integrated care pathway for stroke is associated with lower risk of major cardiovascular events: A Report from the Athens Stroke Registry	Joint Session – 3 Protect Healthcare Professionals to Deliver Optimal Patient Care: A Joint ACP and EFIM Moderators: *Omar T. Atiq, US* *George Dalekos, Greece* Speakers: *Eileen Barrett, US* *Ricardo Gomez Huelgas, Spain*	Rapid-Fire Session – 8 Moderator: Kubilay Ukinc, Türkiye Click here to see detailed programme	10:30 – 12:30 Young Internists’ Assembly *by invitation only*
11:10 – 11:30	COFFEE BREAK Young Internists Corner Who is your role model? Let’s create one! Moderators: Andrea Salzano, Zora Lazurova
11:30 – 12:30	Plenary Session – 2 Chairs: Stefano Bassetti, Switzerland Patrick Lacor, Belgium Challenges and updates in Sepsis Evangelos Gıamarellos-Bourboulıs, Greece
12:35 – 13:35	Industry Supported Session – 1 Medscape New Paradigms in Obesity Care for Disease Prevention in Internal Medicine Chair: Arya M. Sharma, Germany  12:35 – 12:50  The Rationale – Why Obesity Must Be Treated as a Serious and Chronic Disease Arya M. Sharma, Germany  12:50 – 13:05 The Tools – How Novel Weight-Loss Therapies Can Prevent Disease Caterina Conte, Italy 13:05 – 13:25 The Expertise – How to Deliver Obesity Care in Internal Medicine Naresh Kanumilli, UK 13:25 – 13:30 The Obligation to Act Arya M. Sharma, Germany 13:30 – 13:35  Q&A   All faculty				12:30 – 14:00 Professional Issues and Quality of Care WGs *by invitation only*
13:35 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER DISCUSSION (Group 1 to Group 6) Click here to see detailed Poster Programme
14:30 – 16:00	Parallel Session – 8 Roundtable: Consideration about end-of-life Chairs: Robin Peeters, Netherlands Andrew Elder,UK Ethical considerations in end-stage disease management António H. Carneiro, Portugal Supporting family and caregivers in end-stage disease Mathieu Bernard, Switzerland Abstracts: 206- Munir Mohamed Mimun/ Cancer behind bars: The challenge of optimizing strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients in the Penitentiary Hospitalization Unit 2222-Ezgi Pinar/ Relationship Between Sleep Disorders and Other Geriatric Syndromes in Older Adults	Parallel Session – 9 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Chairs: Inga Stukena, Latvia Nikolaos K. Gatselis, Greece Epidemiology and clinic Gamal E. Shiha, Egypt Treatment Onur Keskin, Türkiye Abstracts: 1948-George Giannoulis/ Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis versus autoimmune hepatitis – a diagnostic challenge. are nmr-based metabolomics useful to set the final diagnosis?	Parallel Session – 10 Outpatient healthcare: hospital at home, quick diagnosis units, case management of chronic complex patient Chairs: Manuel Klein, Argentine Hospital at home:15 years of experience *Antonio Gonzalez Fernandez, Spain* An Ambulatory Care Unit Fernando Salvador, Portugal Abstracts: 1933- Riccardo Tirelli / Touch me if you can: the impact of contact isolation status on hospital length of stay and mortality. Preliminary data from a multicenter study in Lombardy 2846- Kursat Gundogan/ A Cross-sectional Retrospective Analysis of Earthquake Related Crush Injurie Patients in ICU: 6-February Earthquake in Türkiye	Parallel Session – 11 Updates of COVİD 19 Treatment Chairs: Rachid Malek, Algeria Juan Luis Salgado, Mexico Progression of update of Covid 10 treatments Karolina Akinosoglou, Greece Abstracts: 1907-Alfredo Caturano/ Remdesivir treatment and clinical outcome in non‑severe hospitalized COVID‑19 patients: a propensity score matching multicenter Italian hospital experience 534-Jose Felipe Varona Arche / Plitidepsin in the Treatment of Adult Patients with COVID-19 Requiring Oxygen Therapy. Results from a Phase III Clinical Trial (NEPTUNO) 1421- Stella Gabeta/ ALTERARTIONS IN SERUM CALPROTECTIN LEVELS (CaL) PREDICT SEVERITY AND OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH CORONOVIRUS DISEASE 19 (COVID-19) 1328- Francesco Rosiello/ Clinical and economic implications of oral antiviral agents in covid 19: a prospective study	14:00 15:00 European Board of Internal Medicine (EBIM) *by invitation only* 15:00 – 16:00 European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) *by invitation only*
16:10 – 17:10	Plenary Session – 3 Chairs: Valentin Kokorin, Russia Heart failure: state of art *Mehmet Birhan Yılmaz, Türkiye*
17:10 – 17:30	COFFEE BREAK Young Internists Corner Artificial medicine versus internal intelligence Speaker: Julio Mayol Moderators: Tuomas Aro, Irmengard Meyer
17:30 – 18:30	Joint Session – 4 Joint Session with Society of Hospital Medicine Joint session EFIM and SHM Perspective of Hospital Medicine in Europe and in US Moderators: Ricardo Gómez Huelgas, Spain Kris Rehm, US Speakers: Hospital Medicine in US *Flora Kisule, US* Hospital Medicine in Southern Europe *Luis Campos, Portugal* Acute and Hospital Medicine in UK Nick Smallwood (UK)	Parallel Session – 12 Antimicrobial resistance and new antibiotics Chair: Francesco Dentali ,Italy Antimicrobial resistance Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Italy New antibiotics Murat Akova, Türkiye Abstracts: 352- Fatih Mehmet Akıllı/ Investigation of Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Enterococcus Species Isolated from Hospitalized Patients 1631- Evangelos J Giamarellos Bourboulis/ Mortality in sepsis associated with Clostridioides difficile infection: a propensity-score matched analysis	Parallel Session – 13 The frail patient Chair: Carlos Walter Contreras Camarena, Peru How do we define frailty? Marco Proietti, Italy Acute medical care in frail patients at home Linn Kennedy, Sweden Abstracts: 1092-Serdar Ozkok/ Examining The Relationship Between Obesity and Metabolic Diseases in Older Adults: Is Obesity or Sarcopenic Obesity The Problem? 2010- Selin Ece Dedeoğlu/ Association of urinary incontinence with physical frailty and factors affecting frailty	Special Session – 1 Diabetes Session / Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Chair: Sebastian Bevc, Slovenia 91-Ismail Yigitdol/ The Role of Serum Asprosin Levels in Predicting the Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus 1506-Snezhana Brovkina/ Genetic prerequisites for the development of cardiometabolic disorders in the use of glucocorticoids 1189-Feray Akbas/ The relationship of dynapenic abdominal obesity and thyroid functions in individuals with and without obesity 1938-Mohamad Khalil / Effect of intermittent fasting on body composition: comparison between Ramadan and 16-hours intermittent fasting models 1239-Paula Carlota Rivas Cobas/ Sarcopenia, Diabetes Mellitus type 2 and Malnutrition complex relationship 1843-Selime Akşit/Comparison Of Controlled & Uncontrolled Blood Pressure-Blood Glucose Levels And Self-Compassion In Individuals With Metabolic Syndrome: A Cohort Study

8 March 2024

8 March 2024
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08:00 – 09:00	Meet the Expert Session – 6 Deranged Liver function tests in asymptomatic patients Moderator: George Dalekos, Greece Speaker: Nikolaos Gatselis, Greece	Meet the Expert Session – 7 How to write and article and a case report on digital medicine. Moderator: Ismael Said Criado, Spain Speaker: Tiffany Leung, Netherlands	Rapid-Fire Session – 9 Moderator: Alina Dima, Romania Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 10 Moderator: Gemma Ortiz, Spain Click here to see detailed programme
09:05 – 09:35	Parallel Session – 14 Chairs: Andreas Ioannou, Cyprus Biljana Ivanovska Bojadjiev, Skopje Lung cancer screening Mathias Prokop, Netherlands Abstracts: 1216-Asma Melhani/ Phenotypes and prognostic value of dynamic clustering of gait speed to predict one year mortality in aged patients with cancer 146- Kristina Kopeva/ Molecular and Genetic Predictors of Anthracycline-related Cardiac Dysfunction in Women without Cardiovascular Diseases: A Prospective Cohort Study 660-Ahmet Ahsen Polat/ Evaluation of the Diagnostic Stage and Diagnosis Patterns of Patients Diagnosed with Lung Cancer During the Covid-19 Pandemic Period	Controversies Debates – 1 Vitamin D supplementation Chair: Jan Willem F Elte, Netherlands Pros: António Marinho, Portugal Cons: Meltem Koca, Türkiye	Controversies Debates – 2 Is physical examination dying? Chair: Diana Rodrigues Hurtado, Peru Pros (YES): Joao Neves, Portugal Cons (NO): Lorenzo Dagna, Italy	Controversies Debates – 3 POST-COVID 19: Myth or reality Chair: Radovan Hojs, Slovenia Pros: Stefano Bassetti, Switzerland Cons: Fabio Vinci, Italy
09:40 – 10:40	Parallel Session – 15 Dermatology for internists Chairs: Jyotirmoy Pal, India Fever and rash Murat Durdu, Türkiye Abstracts: 118- Kukulege ChamilaDinushi Mettananda/ Role of serum ferritin as an early predictor of dengue infection progressing to critical illness 2345- Maddalena Elena Urbano/ Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Complications Associated with Mpox Infection 2777-Priyamali Jayasekera/ Clinical and haematological predictors of dengue haemorrhage fever (DHF)	Parallel Session – 16 The Phoenix Internist – Overcoming hardship and rising from the ashes Joint Session EFIM Young Internists: Valeria Raparelli, Italy Latin American Young Internists: TBA ACP Early Career Physician: Romela Petrosyan, US	Parallel Session – 17 Approach to the patients with dysphagia Chairs: Jan Dulawa, Poland Filomena Pietrantonio, Italy Oropharyngeal Shaheen Hamdy, UK Esophageal Serhat Bor, Türkiye Abstracts: 1148-Burcu Sallarel/ The relation of body mass index, homa-ir and quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome	Rapid-Fire Session – 11 Moderator: Ieva Ruza, Latvia Click here to see detailed programme
10:45 – 11:45	Parallel Session – 18 What is the role of internal medicine in disasters Chair: Serhat Unal,Türkiye Alfredo Cabrera Rayo, Mexico An introduction to disaster medicine Mehmet Şükrü Sever, Türkiye Role of internists in natural and man-made disasters Raymond Vanholder, Belgium Abstracts: 1042-Burak Göre/ Analysis of Emergency Internal Medicine Hospitalization After the Earthquake in Turkiye: Demographic and Clinical Results of Victims 1779- İyed Oğuz/ Analyses of Patients with Crush Syndrome with and without the Hemodialysis Need in the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: Experience of Mersin University	Joint Session – 5 Special Session for International Women’s Day: Women’s Health for Internists Chairs: Christine Savervall, Sweden *Ieva Ruza, Latvia* PCOS as a metabolic disease Okan Bulent Yildiz, Türkiye Menopausal Hormone Therapy Irene Lambrinoudaki, Greece	Parallel Session – 19 EFIM Academy A cognitive autopsy of an internal medicine case Chair: Frauke Weidanz, UK Speaker: Nicola Cooper, UK	Parallel Session – 20 Emerging Countries: new challenges between technology and health promotion Chair: Filomena Pietrantonio, Italy Designing an AI-Powered Multi-Modal, Multi-Lingual, and Multi-Cultural Healthcare Assistant for Addressing Chronic and Communicable Diseases in African Populations Oleg Missikoff, Italy Health promotion through physical activity: focus on Emerging Countries. What could be the role of an Olympic Champion? Venuste Niyongabo, Italy Abstracts: 2831-Filomena Pietrantonio/ Intra- and Extra-Hospitalization Monitoring of Vital Signs—Two Sides of the Same Coin: Perspectives from LIMS and Greenline H-T Study Operators 1514- Mine Durusu Tanriover/ The Vaccination Acceptance, Confidence and Conviction on Influenza in the Middle East, Eurasia and Africa Among Healthcare Providers (VACCIMENA-HCP) Project 2023: Determinants of Vaccination Behavior
11:45 – 12:00	COFFEE BREAK Young Internists Corner Doctors and patients – we teach each other Speakers: Mark Cranston, Houssem Abida Moderators: Orianne Claine, Michael Kolland
12:00 – 13:00	Plenary Session – 4 Chairs: Petra Maria Schumm Draeger, Germany Nikolaos Tentolouris,Greece Whats new in Diabetes Treatment Michael Roden, Germany			12:00 – 13:30 EFIM Guidelines Working Group *by invitation only*	12:00 – 13:30 Early Career Group meeting *by invitation only*
13:00 – 14:00	Industry Supported Session – 2 PFIZER From data to decision: Optimising COVID-19 patient care Chair: Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Italy 13:00-13:05 Welcome and introduction Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Italy 13:05-13:20 Using data to support COVID-19 treatment decisions Karolina Akinosoglou, Greece 13:20-13:35 Bringing your high-risk patients into the conversation: COVID-19 management and communication Francisco Lopez Medrano, Italy 13:35-13:45 An integrative approach to COVID-19 management All 13:45-14:00 Q&A All, moderated by Chair 14:00 Closing remarks Emanuele Durante-Mangoni,Italy	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER DISCUSSION (Group 7 to Group 12) Click here to see detailed Poster Programme
14:00 – 15:00	Parallel Session – 21 What is new in Acute Medicine Chairs: Rijk Gans, Netherlands Enhanced Care – Enabling the Acute Physician to Deliver Great Care Nick Smallwood, UK Point-of-care ultrasound in acute medicine Juan Torres Macho, Spain Abstracts: 112- Andrea Boccatonda/ Ceus follow-up of acute pyelonephritis 1202- Arianna Bartoli/ Ultrasound assessment of peripheral intravenous catheter failure	Parallel Session – 22 Neutropenic Fever; Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infections Chairs: Maia Gotsadze, Georgia Low risk neutropenia assesment Begona De Dios, Spain Persistent neutropenic fever in high risk hematological patients and non-infectious disease causes Michael Samarkos, Greece Abstracts: 459-Francesco Ceppa / Prognostic Value of Procalcitonin in HIV Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department for clinical suspicion of infection 713-Enes Erul/ Epidemiology and Clinical Profiles of Bacteroides fragilis Bacteremia in a Tertiary Care Setting in Türkiye: A Five-Year Review	Parallel Session – 23 Health and Environment Chair: Mine Durusu Tanriover, Turkiye John Kellett, Ireland Health, Environment, and the responsibility of the healthcare professionals Luis Campos, Portugal European Climate and Health Observatory: from science to policy and practice Aleksandra Kazmierczak, Denmark Abstracts: 393- Marco Montagna/ Fostering the intersection between primary care and hospital with the Integrated Care system: the PRIME (PRIMary care-hospital Embedding) project 2829- Houssem Abida/ State of knowledge of Tunisian internists in the field of medical ethics	Parallel Session – 24 Microbiota, dysbiosis, probiotics: implementation to internists practice Chairs: João Araújo Correia, Portugal Serhat Bor,Türkiye New generation approach to gut microbiota: Exploring the gut microbiome and its modulation Meltem Yalinay, Türkiye Gut microbiota and metabolic consequences. The gut-liver-brain axis Piero Portincasa, Italy Abstracts: 2033-Mohamad Khalil/ 13C-urea breath testing (UBT) for Helicobacter Pylori (HP) infection. Precision medicine by novel laser-based (ISOMED) analysis vs. mass-spectrometry (MS) and infrared spectrometry (IRS) 2954- Mohamad Khalil / Effectiveness and safety of a substance-based medical device for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: real-world data from large-scale digital surveys
15:05 – 16:05	Plenary Session – 5 Chairs: Runolfur Palsson, Iceland Ramon Pujol, Spain Demantia; internist should not forget! Richard Dodel, Germany
16:10 – 17:10	Joint Session – 6 European Renal Association Chairs: Vera Larina, Russia Ihsan Ates, Türkiye Differential Diagnosis of Glomerular Disease Runólfur Pálsson, Iceland Advances in the Management ot Chronic Kidney Disease Mustafa Arici, Türkiye	Parallel Session – 25 Adult vaccination Chair: Serhat Unal,Türkiye Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Italy How can adult vaccination add life to years? Mine Durusu Tanrıover, Türkiye Vaccination as an indispensable standard of care: The case of diabetes mellitus and influenza Marco Goeijenbier, Netherlands Abstracts: 1527-Ana Nieto De Pablos/ Post-Exposure prophylaxis protocol against HIV in an Spanish hospital: evaluation 4 years after implementation	Parallel Session – 26 TIA/stroke; what internists should know and how to manage Chairs: Chris Davidson, UK Smiti Monia, Tunis Decision-making in secondary prevention of common stroke etiologies Ethem Murat Arsava, Türkiye The concept of embolic stroke of undetermined source: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas Vasileios Papavasileiou, UK Abstracts: 259- Paula Luque Linero/ What does an internist doctor have to look for after a sudden visual loss? 428- Ourania Psoma/ A case series of neuroinvasive disease caused by west nile virus (WMN): Adapting to evolving regional and clinical demands	Parallel Session – 27 Pitfalls of antibiotic therapy in community acquired pneumonia Chairs: Michael Samarkos, Greece Abbas Fadhil, Iraq How to resist overuse of antibiotics ? Patrick Lacor, Belgium Would Antimicrobial Stewardship make the trick? Güzin Surat, Germany Abstracts: 11-Gil Bornstein/ Rate and predictors of blood culture positivity after antibiotic administration: a prospective single-center study 207-Mohammed Salah Debes/ Sepsis Unmet needs, any role for cellular therapy ? Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Sepsis, Meta-analysis
17:10 – 17:30	COFFEE BREAK Young Internists Corner Unveiling the Mosaic: Diversity and Complexity in Internal Medicine Speakers: Eileen Barrett, Omar Atiq Moderators: Johanna Brägelmann, Sina Karimi, Belgium
17:30 – 18:30	Parallel Session – 28 Endocarditis in 2024, what is new? What is ‘old’? What should I know? Chairs: Murat Akova, Türkiye Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis,Greece Prevention and Diagnosis (Endocarditis Team & Diagnostic Criteria) Maria Sanchez Ledesma, Spain Management of Endocarditis Antimicrobial therapy, surgery and management of complications Emil Fosbol, Denmark Abstracts: 63- Valentina Scheggi/ Impact of cardiac surgery in left-sided infective endocarditis with intermediate-length vegetations 2925-Hanife Abanus/ Higher Expression Level of p16 and p21 Senescence Proteins in the Aorta is Associated with Higher SYNTAX Score in Patients Undergoing Bypass Surgery	Parallel Session – 29 Whats new in Geriatric Medicine Chair: Mustafa Cankurtaran, Türkiye Resilience and frailty Andrew Elder, UK Cognitive problems Pinar Soysal, Türkiye Abstracts: 1569-Jorge Benitez Peña/ Frailty Predicts One-Year Survival And Readmissions In Very Elderly Patients Better Than Comorbidity 864-Amteshwar Singh/ Inpatient outcomes among COVID-19 infected patients with dementia and behavioral disturbances when physical restraints are introduced 1634- Damla Aslan Kirazoglu/ The Relationship Between Dementia Subtypes and Dehydration in older patients	Special Session – 2 EJCRIM Case Report Competition Chair: John Kellet 525 – Karlinde A. Spit / A first-time observation of silicone-associated scleroderma-like syndrome: how to recognize and diagnose similar cases 1287 – Elena Rodríguez Llamas / Sudden hypoxemia: Differential diagnosis of orthodeoxia 2470 – Raghad Alobeid / Renal hypouricemia as the cause of acute kidney injury, a case report 501 – Aimilios Kaklamanos / Anti-LGI1 autoimmune encephalitis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and MGUS 1132 – Elena Hellín Valiente / These hands are not mine	Parallel Session -30 Fatty liver disease: Assessment and optimal management Chair: George Dalekos, Greece Assessment of patients with Metabolic dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Cihan Yurdaydin, Türkiye Optimal management of patients with MASLD Elisabetta Bugianesi, Italy
18:30 – 19:00	Controversies Debates – 4 Does all AF after stroke warrant anticoagulation? Chair: Mehmet Birhan Yılmaz, Türkiye Pros Marialuisa Zadde, Italy Cons George Ntaios, Greece	Controversies Debates – 5 Digoxin in heart failure? Yes or no? Chair: Javier Garcia Alegria, Spain Pros Laurent Fauchier, France Cons Marco Proietti, Italy	Early Career Session Physician Wellbeing: The Early Career Top Ten Tips Chairs: Alberto Tosoni, Italy Frauke Weidanz, UK Speakers: Ieva Ruza, Latvia Gemma Ortiz, Spain

9 March 2024

9 March 2024
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08:30 – 09:30	Rapid-Fire Session – 12 Moderator: Frauke Weidanz, UK Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 13 Moderator: Oguz Abdullah Uyaroglu, Türkiye Click here to see detailed programme	Rapid-Fire Session – 14 Moderator: Alberto Tosoni, Italy Click here to see detailed programme
09:35 – 10:35	Parallel Session – 31 Biomarkers to guide antibiotic treatment Chairs: Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Greece Murat Akova, Türkiye Bacterial versus viral: how to select at the emergency department Siran Keske, Türkiye Stop early antibiotics: how to do and what is the benefit Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Greece Abstracts: 796-Melody Pérez López/ CANDINEG Registry: Is it worth performing a fundoscopy examination in all patients affected by candidemia? 1990- Fabian Patauner / Leadless pacemaker infection risk in patients with cardiac implantable electronic device infections: a case series and literature review	Joint Session – 7 Joint Session International Atherosclerosis Society Recent advances in managing/understanding the epidemic of cardiometabolic disease Chair: Omar Kherad, Switzerland Lifestyle as a tool of cardiovascular prevention Juan Luis Romero Cabrera, Spain How we will treat the disease in 2030? Manfredi Rizzo, Italy	Parallel Session – 32 Vasculitis and mimicking syndromes Chairs: Antonio Marinho, Portugal Vasculitis mimics Benjamin Terrier, France A close look to the 2022 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR classification criteria for idiopathic vasculitides (GPA, EGPA, MPA, GCA and Takayasu’s arteritis) Omer Karadag, Türkiye Abstracts: 382- Kevin Chevalier/ Clinical Presentation, Course, And Prognosis of Patients With Mixed Connective Tissue Disease: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort
10:35 – 11:05	COFFEE BREAK Young Internists Corner Medical mistakes – Let’s open Pandora’s box Speaker: John Kellet Moderator: Veronika Lindblom
11:05 – 12:05	Plenary Session – 6 Chair: Ramon Pujol, Spain Thrombophilias: when and how to investigate Prof. Giancarlo Agnelli, Italy
12:05 – 13:05	Parallel Session – 33 How to incorporate Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) tool into routine internal medicine care Round table-Digital skills and competencies for internists Moderators: Ismael Said-Criado, Spain Julio Mayol, Spain Important aspects of the implementation of Telemedicine Frederic Llordachs-Marqués, Spain Digital skills and competencies for internists Filomena Pietrantonio, Italy Abstracts: 1891- Sergio Giovanni Santoro/ Early and precise detection of liver steatosis: artificial intelligence (AI)-based ultrasonography 2916- Zeynep Pelin Polat/ Clinical Analysis of Glycemic Trends in Patients Using Mobile Health App for Blood Glucose Monitoring	Parallel Session – 34 Guideline adaptations of EFIM Chairs: Wiktoria Lesniak, Poland Ricardo Gomez- Huelgas, Spain Acute heart failure Valentin Kokorin, Russia Hyperglycaemia Ignacio Marin, Spain	Parallel Session – 35 Acute coronary Syndrome Chairs: Tatiana Malchevska, Ukraine Caterina Delcea, Romania Acute management strategies in acute coronary syndromes Ali Oto, Türkiye Long term medical treatment after acute coronary syndromes Adriana Ilieșiu, Romania Abstracts: 51-Kristina Kopeva/ Coronary microvascular dysfunction in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease: a harbinger of adverse events 258-Paula Luque Linero/ Pathologies and biomarkers for early detection of intestinal ischemia
13:05 – 14:00	POSTER DISCUSSION (Group 13 to Group 17) Click here to see detailed Poster Programme
14:00 – 15:00	Special Session – 3 EJIM Best Paper(Virtual Session) Chair: Giancarlo Agnelli, Italy High Risk patients with AF: What Now? Wern Yew Ding, UK Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis Fabricio-Benavides-Villanueva, Spain Active fluid de-resuscitation in critically ill patients with septic shock Anna S. Messmer, Switzerland Serum uric acid and left ventricular mass index independently predict cardiovascular mortality: The uric acid right for heart health (URRAH) project Anna Paini, Italy	Special Session – 4 "Early Career ‘Joy in Internal Medicine" Award Session Moderators: Frauke Weidanz, UK Gemma Ortiz, Spain 1941 – Mehtap Kaçar / Evaluation of the Effects of the Course Titled "Healthy Living" on Healthy Lifestyle Development Behaviors in Medical Students 2744 – Dilusha Lamabadusuriya / Celebrating Joy in Internal Medicine- Team 22 SLCIM 2086 – Mark Cranston / Results of a training survey amongst European Internal Medicine residents to inform future training and curriculum requirements	Special Session – 5 Young Internists’ Best Abstracts
15:05 – 15:40	Awards Ceremony 15:05-15:12 EJCRIM Best Case Report Award 15:12-15:19 FDIME Research Grant Winner 2022 15:19-15:26 FDIME Best Research Abstract Award 15:26-15:32 Early Career “Celebrating Joy in Internal Medicine Award 15:32-15:39 Young Internists Best Abstract Award
15:40 – 16:15	Closing Ceremony

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
2279	Research/Medical Abstracts » Digital health Telemedicine Innovative Technology and Artificial Intelligence	Chatting For Life – The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Clinical Diagnosis And Internal Medicine Practice	Sina Karimi	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
121	Research/Medical Abstracts » Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases	Importance of Prognostic Scores for Assessment of Bridging Treatments in HCC Patients	MERVE GUZEL DIRIM	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
672	Research/Medical Abstracts » Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases	Increased IgG levels at diagnosis are associated with worse prognosis of patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis	Vasiliki Lygoura	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
703	Research/Medical Abstracts » Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases	Liver biopsy, diagnostic yield and complications: Experience from an Internal Medicine Department	Miguel Franco Álvarez	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
725	Research/Medical Abstracts » Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases	A low rate of individuals are screened for hepatitis C in primary care centers in Barcelona	Elena Vargas Accarino	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2359	Research/Medical Abstracts » Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases	Safety and Efficacy of Direct Antiviral Agents for Hepatitis C in Patients with Malignancies Other Than Liver Cancer: A Case Series	Fabian Patauner	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
742	Research/Medical Abstracts » Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases	Liver stiffness measurement predicts clinical outcomes in autoimmune hepatitis	Pinelopi Arvaniti	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 14	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
2704	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Fatal Case of ALK-negative Intravascular Anaplastic Large T-Cell Lymphoma in a Young Adult: A Rare Case Presentation	Malik Waleed Zeb Khan	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2080	Research/Medical Abstracts » Health Management	Factors associated with survival in the clinical management of patients with colorectal cancer in an integrated healthcare area of Galicia	Ismael Said-Criado	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2603	Research/Medical Abstracts » Health Management	Diagnosing diabetes and assessing its prevalence in patients attending A&E in an acute hospital in England	Edward Bernard Jude	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2970	Research/Medical Abstracts » Health Management	Survey of 494 Clinicians: Insights into Health Metrics, Lifestyles, and the Need for Targeted Interventions	Anamika Samant	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
149	Research/Medical Abstracts » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Aoutologous Stem Cell Transplantation(ASCT) on Multiple Myeloma (MM) patients with extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP)	Hakan Sandıkçı	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
798	Research/Medical Abstracts » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Salvage chemotherapy option for patients with heavily treated relapsed/refractory germ cell tumors: remembering an old friend	Ece Ornek	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
835	Research/Medical Abstracts » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Assessment of Sarcopenia with Ct/Pet-Ct and Examining Its Significance for Prognosis in Patients Receiving Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation	Muharrem Coşkunpınar	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
1032	Research/Medical Abstracts » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Ferric carboxymaltose induced methemoglobinemia: Preliminary data of a novel side effect	Yusuf Kimyon	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
1917	Research/Medical Abstracts » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Retrospective Evaluation of Upper Gastrointestinal System Complications in Patients with Philadelphia Chromosome Negative Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasia Treated with Low-Dose Acetylsalicylic Acid	Emine Zeynep Yılmaz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2509	Research/Medical Abstracts » Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases	Determination of Factors Increasing Thrombosis Risk in BCR-ABL Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Comparison of Thrombosis Risk Scoring Systems	Fatma Yörük	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 13	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
846	Research/Medical Abstracts » Emergency and Acute Care Medicine	Machine Learning-Based Mortality Prediction Model for Critically Ill Patients (MAC MBES)	Ertunç Şimdi	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
878	Research/Medical Abstracts » Emergency and Acute Care Medicine	Outcomes among hospitalized patients with bipolar disorder when physical restraints are introduced	Amteshwar Singh	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
1330	Research/Medical Abstracts » Emergency and Acute Care Medicine	GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN AND UBIQUITIN C-TERMINAL HYDROLASE-L1 AS POTENTIAL BLOOD BIOMARKERS FOR CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE IN MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY	Giacomo Spaziani	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2231	Research/Medical Abstracts » Emergency and Acute Care Medicine	Risk factors of the development of acute heart failure in patients with STEMI	Daria Didenko	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2657	Research/Medical Abstracts » Emergency and Acute Care Medicine	Diagnostic uncertainty and empiric treatment of suspected urinary tract infection in older adults in the emergency department: A retrospective single-centre descriptive study	Keshinie Samarasekara	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
219	Research/Medical Abstracts » Infectious Diseases	A rare case with tonsil involvement of Tuberculosis	Matin Iskandarov	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
344	Research/Medical Abstracts » Infectious Diseases	Are there any differences in mortality between patients diagnosed with candidemia who are followed up by an infectious disease clinician and those who are not?	Alejandra Ginett Perdomo Perdomo	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
500	Research/Medical Abstracts » Infectious Diseases	”Clostridioides difficile” infection in a third level hospital centre: evaluation of recurrences	De La Fuente Mercedes	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
794	Research/Medical Abstracts » Infectious Diseases	Emergence of {Myroides Odoratimimus} in Intensive Care Unit: Analysis of Nine Cases	Nadir Süleyman Çetinkaya	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30
2408	Research/Medical Abstracts » Infectious Diseases	Severe Acquired Brain Injury in the time of COVID-19	Camilla Grifoni	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 12	9.03.2024	08:30 – 09:30

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
521	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Respiratory Diseases	Pulmonary Benign Metastasizing Leiomyomatosis presenting Giant Bullae with lung function decline	Suah Lee	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
1688	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Respiratory Diseases	Mepolizumab Efficacy in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma: A Case Series Analysis	Kovuri Umadevi	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
2432	Research/Medical Abstracts » Preventive Medicine	State of public awareness about the prevention of cardiovascular diseases	Andrey Mikhailovich Shabardin	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
2920	Research/Medical Abstracts » Preventive Medicine	Sarcopenia Screening in the Pre-Geriatric Population: Preliminary Findings	Berkay Kapar	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
378	Research/Medical Abstracts » Respiratory Diseases	Development of the Multidimensional Assessment in COPD (MAC) score for short- and medium-term prognosis in elderly COPD patients at high-risk of acute exacerbation	Edoardo Pirera	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
415	Research/Medical Abstracts » Respiratory Diseases	TAPSE/SPAP Ratio Stratifies Mortality Risk in Mild-To-Moderate Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis	Matteo Colleoni	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
1122	Research/Medical Abstracts » Respiratory Diseases	The role of the Internal Medicine Physician in dyspnea in the medical-surgical services	María Del Rocío Fernández Dïaz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
1630	Research/Medical Abstracts » Respiratory Diseases	INFLUENCE OF STATIN THERAPY ON PULMONARY AND SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATON, ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION, AND OXIDANT-ANTIOXIDANT BALANCE IN COPD PATIENTS	Elena Samorukova	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
2745	Research/Medical Abstracts » Respiratory Diseases	An early predictor of noninvasive mechanical ventilation failure in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure: the lactate albumin ratio	Umut Sabri Kasapoglu	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40
2867	Research/Medical Abstracts » Respiratory Diseases	Antihypertensive therapy in patients with concomitant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	Laura Bolieva	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 11	8.03.2024	09:40 – 10:40

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
518	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » COVID-19	Influence of cytokine levels on th effect of Tocilizumab on mortality or ICU admission in COVID-19 pneumonia	Guiomar Hernández García	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
115	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Relationship of symptoms and extracellular neutrophil traps in the postcovid period among young patients	Ekaterina Stodelova	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
467	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Comparison of immune profile and determination of genetic susceptibility in mild-moderate and severe adult COVID-19 cases: cross-sectional analysis	Nursel Çalık Başaran	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
519	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Low prevalence of osteonecrosis after steroids-related treatment of COVID-19: A cross sectional study	Anastasia Ladou	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
780	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Incidence of new cardiovascular disease within 12 months after COVID-19. Data from the «ACTIV» international registry	Roman Bashkinov	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
788	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Severe COVID-19 and insulin resistance is associated with glycose dysmetabolism in non-obese/non-diabetic COVID-19 patients. Results from The University Hospital of Ioannina COVID-19 Registry, NCT05534074	Angelos Liontos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
1185	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Hyperglycemia and Severity of COVID-19 is Associated with Worse Outcomes In Non-Obese/Non-Diabetic Hospitalized Patients. Results from The University Hospital of Ioannina COVID-19 Registry, NCT05534074	Angelos Liontos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
223	Research/Medical Abstracts » Perioperative Medicine	Preoperative electrocardiogram in prediction of 90-day postoperative mortality	Bronislav Čapek	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
676	Research/Medical Abstracts » Perioperative Medicine	The Effect of Preoperative Laboratory Findings on Clinical Outcome in General Surgery Patients	Merve Feyza Demir Gürdal	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
1676	Research/Medical Abstracts » Perioperative Medicine	Assessing OAC3PAD score scale performance for patients undergoing distal revascularization surgery for critical limb ischemia	MIGUEL ANGEL ROJO	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 10	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
367	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rare Diseases	An Unusual Cause of Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure: Hyper IgE Syndrome	Atilla Eren Kurt	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
1183	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rare Diseases	Pseudoxantoma Elasticum-like in a patient with hemolytic anemia	Sofía Álvarez Villalobos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
194	Research/Medical Abstracts » Organization and Quality of Health Care	Improving patient flow logistic and clinical outcomes: the impact of an internists-led Medical Admission Unit	Silvia Accordino	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
628	Research/Medical Abstracts » Organization and Quality of Health Care	Early In- Hospital Planning: a post-pandemic concept in the design of therapeutic decisions	Isabel Manoja Bustos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
1992	Research/Medical Abstracts » Organization and Quality of Health Care	Patient safety incidents notification in Internal Medicine: insights from a second-level hospital in 2023	Ana Belén Maroto Torres	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
250	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rare Diseases	The Sharp Sword of Generalized Inflammation: Ferritin	Şükriye Miray Kılınçer Bozgül	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
550	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rare Diseases	Evaluation of a screening method for VEXAS syndrome based on the Bordeaux University Hospital’s biomedical data warehouse	Alexis Jean	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
668	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rare Diseases	Title: Long-Term Follow-Up Of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Patients Treated With Mepolizumab: A Nationwide Real-Life Study Of 59 Patients	Kevin Chevalier	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
1507	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rare Diseases	Dysautonomia in Ehlers-Danlos: inquiring dysfunction and its impact on quality of life among different forms of disease	Alice Della Torre	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00
1541	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rare Diseases	Potential role of immune response in FD: involvement of MCP-1 and VCAM-1	Nuria Bara Ledesma	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 9	8.03.2024	08:00 – 09:00

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
98	Research/Medical Abstracts » Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases	Impact of Nutritional Interventions on Hospitalized Patient Outcomes	Álex García Tellado	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
304	Research/Medical Abstracts » Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases	Evaluation of Achieving Glycemic Control, Blood Pressure, and Dyslipidemia Goals in Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Single Center Experience	Bahadır Karayel	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
1254	Research/Medical Abstracts » Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases	Factors Associated With Persistent Postpartum Hyperglycemia Among Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus	Reşit Emre Alparğan	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
1278	Research/Medical Abstracts » Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases	The Relationship Between Malignancy and Preoperative Ultrasonography Nodule Size in Patients with atypia of undetermined significance Identified at Least Once After Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy	eren imre	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
1709	Research/Medical Abstracts » Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases	BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE DERIVED PHASE ANGLE (PhA) IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH OBESITY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH COMORBIDITIES AND INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS	Juana Carretero Gomez	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
2535	Research/Medical Abstracts » Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases	Association of Serum Sclerostin and Advanced Glycation End Products with Bone Mineral Density in Diabetes Mellitus Patients	Sevdenur Taşkın Kurşun	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
1996	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Can Urine Amino Acid Levels Be an Indicator of Sarcopenia?	Ridvan Sivritepe	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
2383	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Relationship Between Comorbidities, Proton Pump Inhbitor Use and Frequency of Short-term Aspiration Pneumonia After Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy in the Geriatric Patient Group, A Single Center Descriptive study	Ahmet Bahadir Ak	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
2462	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Prognosis after first admission for aspiration pneumonia (AP) in patients with dementia and oropharyngeal dysphagia (DO)	Jose Luis Cuevas Corrales	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10
2732	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Cognitive profile in multimorbid patients with arterial hypertension	Kantemir Dzamikhov	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 8	7.03.2024	10:10 – 11:10

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
613	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	SGLT2 inhibitors use in older pluripathological patients with acute heart failure. PROFUND-IC Registry	Alicia Guzmán Carreras	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
773	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Extreme polypharmacy in patients admitted to Internal Medicine. Are we doing it well?	Alicia Guzmán Carreras	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
957	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Nutritional and functional status, better predictors of mortality than comorbidity in very elderly patients	Sonia González Sosa	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1084	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Inappropriate medication use in older inpatients according to the TIME criteria: A multicenter, cross-sectional study from Türkiye	Serdar Ozkok	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1304	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Hyponatremia as a preventable leading cause of hospitalisation	Eirini Chrysovalantou Katsouli	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1551	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Survival analysis of patients included in the NONAVASC-2 registry	Sofía Álvarez Villalobos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1604	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Urinary Incontinence and the Association with Depression in Geriatric Populations	Damla Gul Cetin	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1771	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Predictors of mortality and readmission in multi-morbid patients admitted to internal medicine	Andrea María Vellisca González	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1839	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Characteristics and comorbidities of pluripathological patients admitted to a spanish tertiary hospital	Martin Aznal Begil	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1958	Research/Medical Abstracts » Geriatrics and Multimorbidity	Empagliflozin in Frail Diabetic Elders with Chronic Kidney Disease	Pasquale Mone	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 7	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
501	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	Anti-LGI1 autoimmune encephalitis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and MGUS	Aimilios Kaklamanos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
873	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	A rare case of familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 2 (FCAS2) recognized in adult life	Georgios Giannoulis	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2480	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	Aseptic meningitis as a first presentation of connective tissue disease	Eirini Tzanaki	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2517	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	An unusual diagnosis at the bedside	María Del Rocío Fernández Dïaz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2879	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	Cardiac manifestations in systemic lupus erythematosus	Soukaina Oumlil	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2881	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	Systemic lupus erythematosus and pregnancy	Soukaina Oumlil	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2883	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Rheumatologic and Immune-mediated Diseases	Ocular involvement in Behçet disease: An analysis of 83 patients (149 eyes)	Soukaina Oumlil	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2039	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cerebrovascular and Neurologic Diseases	The Frequency of Carotid Artery Disease in Patients with Hypertension and Association with Uric Acid Levels	Nurgül Tükel	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
251	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	In the Heart of Inflammation: The Heart	Şükriye Miray Kılınçer Bozgül	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
283	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	The role of Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Venous Thromboembolic Disease: results of a prospective study	Raquel Díaz Simón	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 6	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
447	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Anti-Nucleolar Organizer Region 90 antibodies (NOR90) in Systemic Sclerosis	Alina Dima	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
571	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Interstitial lung disease associated with systemic sclerosis and inflammatory myopathies: 2-year follow-up of a cohort of patients treated with cyclophosphamide and methylprednisolone pulses	Miguel Angel Rojo	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1075	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Forestier’s Disease: Focus on Epidemiological Characteristics and Associated Comorbidities	Rim Ben Chehida	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1346	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	AgoStaR protocol: effects of a standardized acupuncture protocol on chronic pain, inflammation and life quality in systemic autoimmune diseases	Eleonora Tobaldini	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1503	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Bone Mineral Density and Serum Netrin-1 Levels in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Evaluation of the Relationship	Merve Yalçın	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1697	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Case Series Experience Of Hemophagocytic Syndrome In a Tertiary Hospital	Juan Carlos Donaire Castaños	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2013	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Sarcopenia in women with rheumatoid arthritis	Vitaly Omelchenko	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2203	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Evaluation Of Thrombophilia Risk Factors In Behçet’s Patients With Vascular Involvement	Ummugulsum Karayildiz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2582	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	Use of carotid ultrasound to assess cardiovascular risk in patients diagnosed with systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erithematosus	Antonio Zamora Chisvert	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2753	Research/Medical Abstracts » Rheumatologic and Immune mediated Diseases	The mortality of interstitial lung disease associated with connective tissue disease: results of long-term follow-up	Ezgi Çimen Güneş	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 5	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
1186	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Hospital Acquired Hyponatremia and COVID-19. Impact on Disease’s Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients. Analysis and Results from The University Hospital of Ioannina COVID-19 Registry, NCT05534074	Angelos Liontos	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1473	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Alkalosis is associated with COVID-19 disease severity and worse outcomes. The University Hospital of Ioannina COVID-19 Registry, NCT05534074	Lazaros Athanasiou	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1538	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Applying Machine Learning to Anticipate Persistent COVID-19 Symptoms Two Years Following Infection	Murat Ozdede	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
1550	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Convex versus linear transducer in covid-19 lung ultrasound: a prospective comparative cohort	Jaime Gil Rodríguez	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2006	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome of the Adults (MIS-A). The undercover threat for young adults. A systematic review of medical cases	Christos Michailides	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2018	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Charlson comorbidity index and risk of death in patients with COVID-19	Alexey Sergeevich Abyzov	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2032	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Features of the new coronavirus infection in chronic kidney disease	Alexey Sergeevich Abyzov	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2144	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Long-term cognitive decline risk and associated factors in discharged older adults with Covid-19: A longitudinal prospective study	Elif Demir	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2804	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Somatic Symptom Disorder in patients with Post COVID-19 Neurological Symptoms: the SOMATIC study (Somatic Symptom Disorder Triggered by COVID-19)	Alexandra Kachaner	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05
2853	Research/Medical Abstracts » COVID-19	Changes in nationwide thyroid hormone replacement consumption during the pandemic: the effect of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on drug consumption in Turkey	Gokhan Tazegul	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 4	7.03.2024	09:05 – 10:05

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
1131	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Cardiovascular Diseases	Myocarditis and skin rash: we should not forget iatrogenicity	María Del Rocío Fernández Dïaz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
2030	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Cardiovascular Diseases	Differences of cardiovascular health according to sex among vulnerable population at risk of food insecurity from e-ducass study	Javier Arenas Montes	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
105	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	A comparison study on validity of internal jugular vein and inferior vena cava ultrasound in predicting congestion in acute heart failure	Nicola Parenti	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
144	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Copeptin and catestatin as novel biomarkers of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	Kristina Kopeva	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
150	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	The role of systemic chronic inflammation in coronary microvascular dysfunction	Kristina Kopeva	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
202	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Prognostic Role of the Left Ventricular Global Function Index and Its Companion in Outpatients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction	Viktor Ivanovich Lunev	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
829	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Sleep quality and food addiction across years in training among internal medicine residents	Ece ORNEK	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
2464	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Statins. to infinity and beyond? Prevalence of statin consumption in patients over 80 years of age and the indication for deprescription	Pamela Dennisse Bedoya Riofrio	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
2537	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Adaptation of the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire into Turkish and Investigating of its Validity and Reliability	Rukiye Pinar Boluktas	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15
2633	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Markers of monocyte activation and inflammation and mortality in patients with severe alcohol use disorder	Julia Casado-Carbajo	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 3	6.03.2024	17:15 – 18:15

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
2648	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases	Mild Renal Involvement in Atypical Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease: Presentation of Three Cases	Muge Buyukaksoy	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
2951	Case Reports/Clinical Cases » Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases	Kidney and Sarcoidosis: A Multicenter Study	Mouna Riguen	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
260	Research/Medical Abstracts » Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases	L-FABP as an early marker of acute renal injury associated with iodinated contrast agents	Cecilia Suárez Carantoña	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
385	Research/Medical Abstracts » Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases	Overlooked Factor in the Etiology of Pruritus in Hemodialysis Patients: Ultrafiltration Volume	Hakan Ozer	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
1130	Research/Medical Abstracts » Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases	Evaluating Mean Platelet Volume as a Predictor of Progression in Chronic Kidney Disease	Mahmut Egemen Senel	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
2822	Research/Medical Abstracts » Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases	Retrospective Evaluation of Etiology, Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Patients Diagnosed with Secondary and Genetic FSGS	Aysenur Yilmaz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
182	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Scientific Communication Skills in Internal Medicine: a National Survey	Lucia Ordieres Ortega	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
440	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Traumatic Brain Injury in an Internal Medicine Service	Isabel Viegas Rodrigues De Sousa	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
536	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Profiling antiphospholipid antibodies in antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus patients by line immuno-assay technique	Candido Muñoz Muñoz	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
593	Research/Medical Abstracts » Other	Determination of employment status and health-related quality of life in adults with immunodeficiencies	Sarpcan Maden	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 2	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15

RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1

Abstract Number	Group	Title	Presenter	Rapid Fire Session	Date	Time
418	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Ejection Fraction at Hospital Admission Stratifies Mortality Risk in HFmrEF Patients Aged ≥ 70 Years: A Retrospective Analysis From A Tertiary University Institution	Lisa Tescaro	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
953	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Reliability and validity in predicting adverse outcomes of Venous Excess Ultrasound Score: a systematic review	Nicola Parenti	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
1429	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Influence of the mediterranean diet on the variation of carotid intima-media thickness according to the liver fibrosis degree. CORDIOPREV study	Juan Francisco Muñoz Osuna	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
1679	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Relationship between PCSK9 levels and the different genetic mutations present in individuals with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia	Alberto Díaz Cáceres	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
1785	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Volume overload assessed by bioelectrical impedance analysis predicts worsening heart failure events in chronic stable heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients	Barbara Soler Bonafont	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
1869	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Can HIF-1 Alpha (Hypoxia- inducible factor-1 alpha) be a New Cardiac Hypoxia Marker in Acute Coronary Ischemia?	Feray Akbas	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
2019	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	TMA to TMAO oxidation in coronary heart disease patients is sex-dependent: from the CORDIOPREV study	Javier Arenas-Montes	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
2172	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Lifestyle habits according to the chronotype among a vulnerable population at risk of food insecurity	Alejandro Serrán Jiménez	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
2495	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	clinical characteristics and prognostic impact of atrial fibrillation among older patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction hospitalized for acute heart failure	Giuseppe De Matteis	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15
2919	Research/Medical Abstracts » Cardiovascular Diseases	Association of the Left Ventricular Global Function Index with Adherence in Outpatients with Heart Failure	Viktor Ivanovich Lunev	RAPIDFIRE SESSION 1	6.03.2024	16:15 – 17:15

Time	Session title	Speaker
12:35 – 12:50	The Rationale – Why Obesity Must Be Treated as a Serious and Chronic Disease	Arya M. Sharma, MD, DSc (Hon), FRCPC
12:50 – 13:05	The Tools – How Novel Weight-Loss Therapies Can Prevent Disease	Caterina Conte, MD, PhD
13:05 – 13:25	The Expertise – How to Deliver Obesity Care in Internal Medicine	Naresh Kanumilli, MBBS, MRCGP
13:25 – 13:30	The Obligation to Act	Arya M. Sharma, MD, DSc (Hon), FRCPC
13:30 – 13:35	Q&A	All faculty

Time	Session title	Speaker
13:00	Welcome and introduction	Emanuele Durante-Mangoni (Italy)
13:05	Using data to support COVID-19 treatment decisions	Karolina Akinosoglou (Greece)
13:20	Bringing your high-risk patients into the conversation: COVID-19 management and communication	Francisco Lopez Medrano (Italy)
13:35	An integrative approach to COVID-19 management	All
13:45	Q&A	All, moderated by Chair
14:00	Closing remarks	Chair