SSC Subcommittee Program, Sunday 23 May

Control of Anticoagulation, Session 1 

Chairman:  Trevor Baglin (UK)
Co-chairmen:  Walter Ageno (IT), Job Harenberg (DE), Clive Kearon (CA), John Olson (US), Gualtiero Palareti (IT), Sam Schulman (CA), Antonius Van Den Besselaar (NL)

Revision of WHO Guidelines for thromboplastins and plasma used to control oral anticoagulant therapy
Ton Van Den Besselaar (NL)

14.30

REGISTRY: Recurrent venous thromboembolism in anticoagulated patients with cancer
Sam Schulman (CA)

14:50

Reporting Prothrombin Time Results as International Normalised Ratios for Patients with Chronic Liver Disease
Armando Tripodi (IT)

15:00

UK NEQAS Anticoagulant dosing exercise 
Ian Jennings (UK)

15:30

Intra-individual variation of INR and analytical quality requirements
Ton Van Den Besselaar (NL)

15:50

The influence of the direct f Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban on thrombin generation assays in patients with thrombophilia
Thomas Siegemund (USA)

16:10

Thromboprophylaxis after knee arthroscopy and lower leg immobilization with LMWH - monitoring and endpoints
Suzanne Cannegieter (NL)

16:20

Rivaroaxaban and apixaban - age, weight, gender and renal function on rivaroxaban pharmacokinetics 
Michael Rud Lassen (DK)

16:40

A working party to delineate methodology/endpoints/harmonization of present and future studies on perioperative AC management and bridging therapy
Alex Spyropoulos (CA)
17:10

 

 

Fibrinolysis

 

Chairman:  Colin Longstaff (UK)
Co-chairmen:  Carl-Erik Dempfle (DE), Ann Gils (BE), Dirk Hendriks (BE), Osamu Matsuo (JP), Michael Nesheim (CA), Tetsumei Urano (JP)

WHO International Standards

 

The WHO 2nd International Standard for Streptodornase

Calibration of tPA antigen in the SSC/ISTH secondary plasma standard lot 3 and lot 4?  Update on standardising PAI-1 antigen measurements in plasma 
Colin Longstaff (UK)

14.30

Program to replace the WHO International Standard for Urokinase and other serine proteases
Craig Thelwell (UK)

14.45

TAFI/CPU

 

PAI-1 and TAFI measurements on samples from inflammatory bowel disease patients
Ann Gils (BE)

15.00

Applying functional TAFIa (CPU) assays to  samples from hemophiliacs 
Michael Nesheim (CA)

15.20

Comparative study on proCPU/TAFI assays
Evelien Heylen & Dirk Hendriks (BE)

15.40

Coffee break

16.00

Methods

 

Global Fibrinolysis Assays
Tetsu Urano (JP)

16.20

Comparison of methods used to study Fibrinolysis
Nicola Mutch (UK)

16.40

D-dimer

 

Update on the NEQAS EQA for D-dimer
Ian Jennings (UK)

17.00

Production and analysis of fibrin degradation products
Michael Nesheim (CA)

17.15

Plans for a collaborative study to prepare a reference preparation for D-dimer
Steve Kitchen (UK)

17.35

AOB, General discussion

17.50

 

Plasma Coagulation Inhibitors

 

Chairman:  Herbert C Whinna (US)
Co-chairmen:  Francesco Bernardi (IT), Elaine Gray (UK), Tilman Hackeng (NL), Steven Kitchen (UK), Richard Marlar (US), P Meijer (NL), Laurent Mosnier (US)

Inconsistencies in protein C assay sensitivity to protein C defects 
Peter Cooper (UK)

Variation in protein S activity measurement in clinical samples between different methods
Ian Jennings (UK)

Collaborative study on the establishment of the 3rd International Standard for Antithrombin, Plasma
Elaine Gray (UK)

Availability of reference plasmas for thrombin generation tests 
Elaine Gray (UK)

Report from Working Party on Thrombin Generation Tests

 

Vascular Biology

 

 

Chairman:  Françoise Dignat George (FR)
Co-chairmen:  Michael 
Berndt (IE), Jean-Marie Freyssinet (FR), John Griffin (US), Peter Newman (US)

 

Shed proteins/receptors 
Chairmen: Michael Berndt (IE),  Peter J Newman (US)

 

Basic mechanisms regulating receptor shedding.
Robert Andrews (AU)

14:30

Soluble GPVI as a clinical biomarker
Elizabeth Gardiner (AU)

14:50

Soluble CD146 displays angiogenic properties in vivo 
Nathalie Bardin (FR)

15:10

Characterization of circulating endothelial cells and progenitors
Chairmen: Françoise Dignat-George (FR), John Griffin (US)

 

Application of Polychromatic Flow Cytometry to Identify Circulating Mature Endothelial and Endothelial Progenitor Cells with Colony Forming Potential
Jamie Case (US)

15:30

Limits and advantages of direct flow cytometry for circulating endothelial cell detection
Françoise Farrace (FR)

15:50

Multifaceted circulating endothelial cells
Patrizia Mancuso (IT)

16:10

Determination and characterization of (circulating) microparticles
Chairmen: Jean-Marie Freyssinet (FR), Nigel Key (US)

 

Pre-analytical variables for plasma MP TF activity determination
Nigel Key (US)

16:30

Analysis of pre-analytical variables for circulating MP enumeration  
Romaric Lacroix (FR)

16:50

Advances in nanocytometry 
Chris Gardiner (UK)

17:10

A survey of last generation FCM performances 
Bernard Chatelain (BE)

17:30

Advances  in  impedance-based Flow Cytometry
Bruce Furie, Jeff Zwicher (US)

17:50

Correlation between capture assay and flow cytometry in microparticle determination
Jean-Marie Freyssinet, Françoise Dignat-George (FR)

18:10

 

 

Von Willebrand Factor

 

Chairman: Jeroen Eikenboom (NL)
Co-chairmen: Thomas Abshire (US), Imre Bodo (HU), Giancarlo Castaman (IT), Jorge DiPaola (US), Emmanuel J Favaloro (AU), Anne Goodeve (UK), Bernhard Lämmle (CH), David Lillicrap (CA), Reinhard Schneppenheim (DE)

Standardized Bleeding Scores. Joint session with the following subcommittees:

            Perinatal/Pediatric Hemostasis

            Factor VIII & Factor IX

            Women’s Health Issues in Thrombosis and Haemostasis

            Platelet Physiology

Chairmen: Thomas Abshire (USA)/David Lillicrap (CA)

Introduction
Francesco Rodeghiero (IT)

14:30

Bleeding scores: adult
Alberto Tosetto (IT)

14:35

Bleeding score: pediatric
Margaret Rand (CA)

14:50

Bleeding scores: rare bleeding disorders
Flora Peyvandi (IT)

15:10

Bleeding scores: women’s health
Andra James (US)

15:30

Working party for standardized bleeding score: "new" bleeding assessment tool
Francesco Rodeghiero (IT)

15:50

Discussion

16:10

Coffee break

 

VWF assays for VWD diagnosis
Chairman: Reinhard Schneppenheim (DE)

Alternative assays for GPIb binding, update

Hans Deckmyn (BE)

Bob Montgomery (US)

Reinhard Schneppenheim (DE)

 

16:50

17:00

17:10

Collagen binding assay, current status
Jeroen Eikenboom (NL), on behalf Emmanuel Favaloro (AU)

 

17:20

Flow based assays
Jaap-Jan Zwaging (NL)

Keith Neeves (US)


17:30

17:40

Discussion

17:50

VWF propeptide studies 
Chairman: Anne Goodeve (UK)

 

Working party on standardization of VWFpp assays
Tony Hubbard (UK)

18:00

Discussion

18:10

VWF plasma and concentrate standards
Chairman: Giancarlo Castaman (IT)

 

WHO 2nd international standard VWF concentrate
Tony Hubbard (UK)

18:20