36th EURAPS ANNUAL MEETING

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29 May 2026, 08:30 | 09:58

SESSION 3 - HEAT & HEAL

  • SCIENTIFIC SESSION
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Moderators
Dietmar Ulrich
Jyrki Vuola

29 May 2026, 09:58 | 10:00

INTRODUCTION OF 2025 AAPS BEST PAPER

  • AAPS - 2025 LEONARD RUBIN AWARD
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Speakers
Joseph Serletti

29 May 2026, 10:00 | 10:10

2025 AAPS BEST PAPER: THE POWER OF A SIGNAL THE IMPACT OF PREFERENCE SIGNALING ON MATCHING IN THE TOP 10 MOST COMPETITIVE SPECIALTIES

  • AAPS - 2025 LEONARD RUBIN AWARD
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Speakers
Tricia Mae Raquepo

29 May 2026, 10:10 | 10:40

COFFEE BREAK

  • COFFEE BREAK
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SILLIMED - GOLD PLUS
INDUSTRY PRESENTATION BY SILIMED
  • May, Friday 29 | 10:20 - 10:40

29 May 2026, 10:40 | 12:28

SESSION 4 - THE HEAD & NECK JOURNEY

  • SCIENTIFIC SESSION
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Moderators
Martin Halle
Dolores Wolfram-Raunicher
TO GIVE UP OR PERSIST? IMPACT OF MULTIPLE AND SEQUENTIAL FREE FLAP RECONSTRUCTIONS ON HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS SURVIVAL RATES: RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF 120 CONSECUTIVE CASES
  • May, Friday 29 | 10:40 - 10:52
Chiara Camilloni
CT-BASED PREDICTION OF POST-TRAUMATIC ENOPHTHALMOS: THE INDEPENDENT ROLE OF HERNIATED TISSUE VOLUME BEYOND ORBITAL VOLUME DIFFERENCE
  • May, Friday 29 | 10:52 - 11:00
Jola Makri
PEDIATRIC HEAD AND NECK FREE FLAP RECONSTRUCTION FOR NOMA SEQUELAE: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
  • May, Friday 29 | 11:00 - 11:08
Ilias Petrou
FREE TISSUE TRANSFER IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS: 30-YEAR EXPERIENCE FROM A TERTIARY CA CANCER CENTER
  • May, Friday 29 | 11:08 - 11:20
Farooq Shahzad
IS GENERAL ANESTHESIA ALWAYS MANDATORY? INTRODUCING THE "AIM" APPROACH TO MICROSURGICAL HEAD AND NECK RECONSTRUCTION WITH THE PATIENT AWAKE
  • May, Friday 29 | 11:20 - 11:32
Beniamino Brunetti
HEAD AND NECK RECONSTRUCTION WITH THE SUPERFICIAL CIRCUMFLEX ILIAC ARTERY PERFORATOR (SCIP) FREE FLAP: THE NEW GOLD STANDARD?
  • May, Friday 29 | 11:32 - 11:40
Mario F. Scaglioni
INTEGRATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BASED FACIAL ANALYSIS WITH CLEFT-Q SCORES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CLEFT LIP? PALATE RHINOPLASTY
  • May, Friday 29 | 11:40 - 11:52
Bahriye Nur
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF THE TRIGEMINAL NERVE IN PROPRIOCEPTION OF THE HUMAN FACIAL MUSCLES
  • May, Friday 29 | 11:52 - 12:00
Joep van Rooij
FACIAL REANIMATION ... REIMAGINED? ANALYSIS OF 100 FREE GRACILIS MUSCLE FLAPS USING NUMERIFACE SUITE, A NOVEL TOOL FOR FACIAL ANALYSIS
  • May, Friday 29 | 12:00 - 12:08
Raghave Upadhyaya
IN TWO STAGE FACIAL REANIMATION DOES AN INCREASE GAP BETWEEN STAGES AFFECT THE SURGICAL RESULT?
  • May, Friday 29 | 12:08 - 12:16
Marco Pappalardo
THE LEVATOR APONEUROSIS MÜLLER'S MUSCLE COMPLEX ADAPTATION TECHNIQUE AS A COMMON APPROACH TO THE CORRECTION OF CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED NON-SYNDROMIC BLEPHAROPTOSIS
  • May, Friday 29 | 12:16 - 12:28
Andrea Pasteris

29 May 2026, 12:28 | 13:30

LUNCH

  • LUNCH
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MOTIVA - DIAMOND PLUS
INDUSTRY PRESENTATION BY MOTIVA
  • May, Friday 29 | 13:00 - 13:30

29 May 2026, 13:30 | 15:30

SESSION 5 - THE ENHANCED BREAST

  • SCIENTIFIC SESSION
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Moderators
Moustapha Hamdi
Gemma Pons
SUPPORT OR SIMPLICITY: EVALUATING MESH USE IN TWO-STAGE PREPECTORAL BREAST RECONSTRUCTION
  • May, Friday 29 | 13:30 - 13:42
Krishna Vyas
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS IN MICROSURGICAL BREAST RECONSTRUCTION - A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
  • May, Friday 29 | 13:42 - 13:54
Arash Momeni
PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE HYPODERMAL VASCULAR PLEXUS IN BREAST SURGERY: ANATOMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CORRELATIONS FROM AN ONGOING PROSPECTIVE STUDY
  • May, Friday 29 | 13:54 - 14:06
Sara Matarazzo
ENHANCING NIPPLE RECONSTRUCTION: ARROW FLAP WITH AND WITHOUT OXYGEN-ENRICHED OLEIC MATRIX TRACTION DRESSING, A MULTICENTRIC PROSPECTIVE STUDY
  • May, Friday 29 | 14:06 - 14:14
Giuseppe Guarro
MULTI-SCENARIO APPLICATION OF PORTABLE 3D SCANNING IN VOLUME ESTIMATION AND SYMMETRY GUIDANCE DURING BREAST RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY
  • May, Friday 29 | 14:14 - 14:26
Yue Chen
EARLY DETECTION OF VIABLE MICROORGANISMS IN STERILE PERIPROSTHETIC FLUIDS IN IMPLANT-BASED BREAST RECONSTRUCTION: A BIOELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACH USING SCREEN-PRINTED ELECTRODES
  • May, Friday 29 | 14:26 - 14:34
Stefano Vaccari
WHAT IS THE OPTIMAL TIMING OF EXPANDER-TO-IMPLANT EXCHANGE FOLLOWING POSTMASTECTOMY RADIATION IN TWO-STAGE BREAST RECONSTRUCTION?
  • May, Friday 29 | 14:34 - 14:46
Justin Lee
SEMMES-WEINSTEIN MONOFILAMENT TESTING AS A SURROGATE MARKER OF MULTIMODAL SENSORY RECOVERY FOLLOWING BREAST NEUROTIZATION
  • May, Friday 29 | 14:46 - 14:58
Berfin Sakar
IMMEDIATE SMOOTH EXPANDER PLACEMENT AND DELAYED DIEP FLAP: A HYBRID PROTECTIVE STRATEGY AGAINST PMRT TOXICITY ON AUTOLOGOUS TISSUES
  • May, Friday 29 | 14:58 - 15:10
Lisa Vannucchi
IMPACT OF ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRIX ON CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE FOLLOWING IMPLANT-BASED BREAST RECONSTRUCTION: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
  • May, Friday 29 | 15:10 - 15:18
Murat Deha Uruç
FIRST PROSPECTIVE EXPERIENCE FROM 281 MULTI-STAGE PRE-PECTORAL BREAST RECONSTRUCTIONS AFTER MASTECTOMY USING A NEW BREAST TISSUE EXPANDER
  • May, Friday 29 | 15:18 - 15:30
Ettore Limido

29 May 2026, 15:30 | 16:00

COFFEE BREAK

  • COFFEE BREAK
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CORZA MEDICAL - GOLD
INDUSTRY PRESENTATION BY CORZA MEDICAL
  • May, Friday 29 | 15:40 - 16:00

29 May 2026, 16:00 | 17:44

SESSION 6 - THE SENSATIONAL BREAST

  • SCIENTIFIC SESSION
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Moderators
Efterpi Demiri
Jian Farhadi
USE OF FASCIA LATA FOR SUBPECTORAL BREAST RECONSTRUCTION INSTEAD OF ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRICES (ADMS) : SERIES OF PATIENTS
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:00 - 16:08
Georgia-Alexandra Spyropoulou
THE DEBATE ENDS: IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED FREE FLAP BREAST RECONSTRUCTION HAVE COMPARABLE OUTCOMES? WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER EARLY COMPLICATIONS IN IMMEDIATE CASES. A NATIONAL 10-YEAR COHORT STUDY OF OVER 20,000 AUTOLOGOUS BREAST RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:08 - 16:16
Franklin Gergoudis
THE EVOLUTION OF A ROBOT ASSISTED DIEP-FLAP PROTOCOL: FROM TAPP TO TEP AND BACK TO TAPP
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:16 - 16:24
Ernest Schouppe
THE 24-HOUR DIEP CHALLENGE: HOW ERAS REDEFINES RECOVERY IN MICROSURGICAL BREAST RECONSTRUCTION
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:24 - 16:36
Benedetto Longo
THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP: A VALUABLE TOOL IN MODERN BREAST RECONSTRUCTION
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:36 - 16:44
Silvia Condrea
THE DELTA FLAP TECHNIQUE: EXPANDING NIPPLE RECONSTRUCTION OPTIONS FOR CENTRAL POST-MASTECTOMY SCARS
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:44 - 16:52
Angelica Pistoia
OPTIMIZATION OF AUTOLOGOUS ADIPOSE TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION: THE IMPACT OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC AND INTRAOPERATIVE FACTORS ON CELLULAR VIABILITY BEFORE AND AFTER CRYOPRESERVATION
  • May, Friday 29 | 16:52 - 17:00
Valentina Pinto
SOMATOTOPIC REORGANIZATION AFTER INNERVATED BREAST RECONSTRUCTION: A 7T FUNCTIONAL MRI STUDY
  • May, Friday 29 | 17:00 - 17:12
Jeske Bubberman
STROMAL VASCULAR FRACTION : IMPROVES BREAST SENSITIVITY AFTER MASTECTOMY, PARTICULARLY IN POST RADIOTHERAPY PATIENTS
  • May, Friday 29 | 17:12 - 17:24
Laure Potvlieghe
COMPARISON OF POSTOPERATIVE BREAST SENSATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT FLAP TYPES FOR INNERVATED AUTOLOGOUS BREAST RECONSTRUCTION
  • May, Friday 29 | 17:24 - 17:32
Stefania Tuinder
SENSORY OUTCOMES OF DIRECT-TO-IMPLANT BREAST RECONSTRUCTION WITH TARGETED NIPPLE AREOLA COMPLEX REINNERVATION (TNR): A MULTICENTER PROSPECTIVE CONTROLLED COHORT STUDY
  • May, Friday 29 | 17:32 - 17:44
Katya Remy

29 May 2026, 20:00 | 23:59

SOCIAL DINNER

  • SOCIAL EVENT
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