Belgian Hernia Day 2025

BELGIAN HERNIA DAY 21/11/2025

            Provisional Programme

 

 

9:00: Coffee & registration

 

PART 1: Introduction

Maritime Room

Moderators: Mathias Allaeys/Nikolaos Koliakos

9:30-9:40: Welcome and overview of Hernia Day 2025 - Gaetan Vandeplas

9:40-9:55: Fistula management in open abdomen - M. Miserez

9:55-10:10: ‘One-Day-Hernia-Solutions’ - S. Van Hoef

10:10-10:25: Fasciotens: experience and future implementation - A. Beunis            

10:25-10:45: Q&A

 

10:45-11u00: Coffee-break and registration for parallel sessions

 

PART 2: PARALLEL SESSIONS

Maritime Room

11:00-11:30: Occult hernia’s during robotic repair - K.Boterbergh

11:30-12:00: Single port hernia surgery - A. De Troyer

Library

11:00-11:30: TEP and TAPP: overview - L. Van Bergen

11:30-12:00: CPIP guideline update - W. Janssens

 

12:00-13:00: Lunch

 

PART 3: 

Maritime Room

Moderators  E. Chelala/W.Janssens

13:00-13:20: Hiatal Hernia: to mesh or not to mesh? - A.Karimi

13:20-13:40: Redo Surgery: Always extract the previous mesh? - G. Vandeplas

13:40-14:00: Which suture do we use when? - S. Van Hoef

14:00-14:10: Q&A

 

PART 4: MEET THE UROLOGIST

Maritime Room

Moderators: S. Van Hoef/G. Vandenplas

14:15-14:45: Urologist (TBA)

14:45-15:00: Q & A

 

PART 5: WRAP-UP

Maritime Room

15:00-15:15: BSAWS as affiliated part of EHS/EHS travel grants/EHS 2027 - E. Chelala

15:15-15:30: Closing Remarks - S.Van Hoef