30th Congress of Nordic Association of Otolaryngology:
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revised 02 June 08
 

These abstracts will be presented during the congress: here...

 

Wednesday 11 June

Registration

17:00 – 19:00

at Radisson SAS Royal Garden Hotel

19:00 - 22:00 Get-together party at the restaurant Fru Inger

located by the canal, ca. 5 minutes walk from the congress hotel.

Music by Feetwarmers, soup with bread, and one beer/ glass of wine/ mineral water included.

  

Thursday 12 June

Breakfast from 06:30

Morning Jog 07:00 - 07:30

Registration

07:15 – 08:15

Radisson SAS Royal Garden Hotel

 

 

Registration office open till 14:00.

Plenary session

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

Opening of congress

08:15 – 09:00

 

Plenary session

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

Historical aspects of ENT in Scandinavia

Chairman: Per Møller, Norway

09:00 – 09:30

Speaker: Chr. Brahe Pedersen   

Chronic otitis media, new perspective

09:30 – 10:00

Speaker: Mirko Tos

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break and Exhibitions

Panel Discussion

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

United Airways

Chairman: Åke Davidson

Moderator: Sverre Steinsvåg

10:30 – 11:30

Lars Lundblad, Anders Enhage, Anne Pitkäranta

Panel Discussion

Meeting room "Brattøra", ground floor

Cochlear implant

Chairman: Haakon Arnesen

Effects of CI: QoL

Moderator: Claude Laurent

 

10:30 – 11:30

Jens Christian Thomsen, Silje Rembar

Free Paper Session

Meeting room "Haraldssalen", 1st floor

H&N/ Cancer

Chairman: Mats Engström

10:30 - 10:40

Clinical characteristics, treatment and outcome in children and adolescents with thyroid cancer between 1996 to 2002. A report based on the national Danish thyroid cancer database – DATHYRCA

 

 

Viveque Egsgaard-Nilsen, Denmark

 

10:40 - 10:50

Suprahyoid approach for surgical treatment of base of tongue cancer.

 

 

Hans H. Elverland, Norway

 

10:50 – 11:00

Topical photodynamic therapy with methyl aminolevulinate for basal cell carcinoma in the head and neck: results of a retrospective study

 

 

Beate Phillipson, Norway

 

11:00 – 11:10

Clinical applicability of digital volume tomography in the field of Otorhinolaryngology

 

 

Thomas Klimowicz, Norway

 

11:10 – 11:20

Carbonated Water Effectively Resolves Acute Esophageal Food Impaction

 

 

Maria Ekblom, Sweden

 

11:20 – 11:30

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-tbna) is a relevant alternative to mediastinoscopy.

 

 

Lars P. Schousboe, Denmark

Panel Discussion

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

Quality of life in ENT

Chairman: Dan Bagger-Sjöbäck

 

Moderator: Hans J. Aarstad (H&H)

 

11:30 - 12:30

Per Møller (VS), Anne-Sofie Helvik (aud), Mats Holmström (nose), Dan Bagger-Sjöbäck

Panel Discussion

Meeting room "Brattøra", 1st floor

Malformations

Chairman: Hans H: Elverland

of the ear

11:30 - 12:30

Radi Jönsson (embryologi), Anders Kinnefors (surgery), Joacim Stalfors, Anders Tjellström (BAHA)

 

 

Free Paper Session

Meeting room "Haraldssalen", 1st floor

Oris/ Oesophagus

Chairman: Anna Pitkäranta

11:30 - 11:45

Sialoendoscopy: A decade of practical clinical experience

 

 

Christoph Ziegler, Norway

 

 

Maria Ekblom

 

11:45 -12:00

Long-term effect of Laser-tonsillotomy in children with nocturnal obstructive breathing

 

 

Håkan Larsson, Sweden

 

12:00 - 12:15

Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage in Norway

 

 

Helga A. Lunde, Norway

 

12:15 - 12:30

Incidence of peritonsillar abscess and relationship to age and sex-females younger than males.

 

 

Svante Hugosson, Sweden

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and Exhibitions

Plenary session

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

Larynx cancer – diagnosis and treatment

Chairman: Kjell Brøndbo

14:00 - 14:30

Speaker: Jan Olofsson 

14:30 - 14:40

Kjell Brøndbo

Plenary session

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

Exercise related dyspnoe

Speaker: John-Helge Heimdal

14:40 - 15:10

 

15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break and Exhibitions

Panel Discussion

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

Nasal Polyps

Chairman:Sverre Steinsvåg

 

Moderator: Mats Holmström

 

15:40 - 16:40

Arild Danielsen, Vegard Bugten 

 

 

Long term effects of debridement and packing after sinus surgery

 

 

Vegard Bugten, Norway

 

 

Chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyposis; indicia of heterogeneity

 

 

Vegard Bugten, Norway

Panel discussion

Meeting room "Haraldssalen", 1st floor

Diagnosis of Vertigo 

Chairman: Stein Helge Glad Nordahl

Moderator: Mikael Karlberg

15:40 - 16:40

Krister Brantberg, Per Møller

 

Migraine Associated Vertigo

 

Krister Brantberg

Free Paper session

Meeting room "Brattøra", 1st floor

Sleep apnoe

Chairman: Olav Skatvedt

15:40 - 15:55

A comparison of subjective and objective measures of the nasal airway

 

 

Thomas Kjærgaard, Norway

 

15:55 - 16:10

Eight year Follow-up of Compliance in Patients with Sleep Apnea Syndrome Treated with CPAP or MAD

 

 

Håkan Larsson, Sweden

 

16:10 - 16:25

Quality of Life in Patients with Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Long-time Results Related to Treatment Efficacy and Modality.

 

 

Håkan Larsson, Sweden

 

16:25 - 16:40

Two Year Follow-up in Patients With Sleep Apnea Syndrome Randomized to Treatment with CPAP or MAD.

 

 

Håkan Larsson, Sweden

19:00 Concert in the Nidaros Cathedral

with Arve Tellefsen, violin, Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir, Bjørn Moe, contuctor, and Bjørn Vevang, organ

20:00 Municipal reception in the Archbishop's palace,

located next to the Nidaros Cathedral. Refreshments.

  

Friday 13 June

Breakfast from 06:30

 Morning Jog  07:00 - 07:30

Panel Discussion

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvason", 1st floor

 

Thyroid surgery

Chairman: Jan Olofsson

 

Moderator: Ulrik Pedersen

 

08:30 - 10:00

Olav Jetlund, Thor Ellingsen, Mats Holmström, Christian Godballe

 

 

 

Technological   up-date

"Liv Ullmann", Nova Kurs og Konferanse (2 blocks from the congress hotel)

The Operating Room of the Future St Olav University Hospital

 

Chairman: Mette Bratt                 

 

 

 

08:30 - 08:55

The Operating Room of the Future, modern audio-Visual  ICT of the operating theatre with focus on minimal invasive treatment

 

 

Jan Gunnar Skogås, managing director, The Operating Room of the Future

 

08:55 - 09:20

Perspectives on the use of media technology for medical  improvements in the health sector 

 

 

Ketil Thorvik, managing director, Midgard Media Lab-NTNU

 

09:20 - 10:00

Examples from the world of ENT

 

 

 

Nils Petter Fossland, m.d., ENT dept., St Olav University Hospital

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break and Exhibitions

Poster presentation, authors available for questions

Main Lecture

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvason", 1st floor

Vestibular Schwannoma Quo vadis?

Chairman: Per Møller

 

10:30 - 11:00

Speaker: Jens C. Thomsen

 

Panel Discussion

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvason", 1st floor

 

Otitis medis secretoria

Chairman: Kari Jorun Kværner

 

Moderator: Sten Hellström

 

11:00 - 12:30

Mirko Tos, Olav Klausen, Per Møller

 

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and Exhibitions

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch symposium by Alk-Abello:

“Specific treatment of allergic rhinitis –an option for selected patients”

Speaker: Professor Hans-Jørgen Malling, Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen

Rhinoplasty

Meeting room "Haraldssalen", 1st floor

 

 

Chairman: Pontus Stierna

 

 

Moderator: Jarl Bunæs

 

 

14:00 - 15:00

Per Ole Haraldson 

 

1. Development of the ENT profession

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvason", 1st floor

 

Chairman: Jan Olofsson      

 

14:00 - 15:00

Reidar Grénman, Åke Davidsson, Ulrik Pedersen, Friðrik Guðbrandsson

 

2. Education within ENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Paper Session

Meeting room "Brattøra", ground floor

 

Chairman: Göran Laurell

 

Oto/ Audiology

14:00 - 14:15

Auditory neuropathy/dyssynchrony (AN/AD)

 

 

 

Marit Pedersen, Norway

 

 

14:15 - 14:30

Maternal infection with Toxoplasma gondii and the risk of hearing loss in the offspring. A population based prospective study.

 

 

Marit Erna Austeng, Norway

 

 

14:30 - 14:45

Why do some individuals with objectively verified hearing loss reject hearing aids?

 

 

Anne-Sofie Helvik, Norway

 

 

14:45 - 15:00

The heritability of tinnitus

 

 

Ellen Kvestad, Norway

 

15:00 - 16:00 Annual Meeting the Nordic Association of Otolaryngology

16:00 Visit to St. Olav’s University Hospital, the New ENT department

Bus departure from outside the congress hotel at 16:00.

Return by bus at 17:15

19:00 Congress dinner at Radisson SAS Royal Garden Hotel

Three course dinner including aperitif, wine, coffee and cognac/ liquer.

Dance to the duo "Nina and Jacek".

           

 

 

 

 Saturday 14 June

 

Breakfast from 07:30

Panel Discussion

Plenary hall "Olav Tryggvasson", 1st floor

 

Oncology, what happens?

Chairman: Helmut Abendstein

 

Moderator: Reidar Grénman

 

08:30 - 10:00

Stein Lybak, Mats Engström, Terje Osnes

 

Free paper session

Meeting room "Haraldssalen", 1st floor

 

Chairman: Aksel Grontved

 

Otology

08:30 - 08:42

Immunohistochemical study of collagen type I-IV in healthy human tympanic membranes

 

 

Johan Knutsson, Sweden

 

08:42 - 08:54

The relationship between symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea in adulthood and childhood otitis media: a population-based study

 

 

Håvard Anton Kristiansen, Norway

 

08:54 - 09:06

Multinanational survey highlights The clinical burden of otitis media in children

 

 

Kari Jorun Kværner, Norway