MAIN TOPICS

New findings in basic knowledge of the spine and spinal cord: biology, biomechanics, cell and 3D technologies, materials.

Injury of the spine and spinal cord:

• Changes in classifications and treatment tactics, the role and place of MIS technologies;
• Problems of providing urgent care and the results of early operations in patients with SCI;
• Spinal injury in children and elderly patients.

Degenerative spine diseases:

• Minimally invasive technologies in pain management for young and old patients;
• Surgery of stable stenosis and unstable spondylolisthesis;
• New technologies of decompression and spinal fusion;
• Experience and results of dynamic stabilization and disk arthroplasty.

Сhildren's spinal deformities:

• Problems of conservative and surgical treatment of severe and rapidly progressive deformities in young children;
• Selective rigid or dynamic correction of idiopathic scoliosis;
• New findings in the surgery of "growing" kyphoscoliosis and dysplastic spondylolisthesis;
• Safety issues and ways to reduce intraoperative trauma during major interventions in children.

Adults spinal deformities:

• Static and dynamic balance of the spine: from theory to practical application;
• Dorsal or ventral correction of sagittal imbalance: difficult or easy choice?;
• Post-traumatic and iatrogenic spinal deformities;
• Idiopathic and degenerative scoliosis in adults: do and don’ts;
• Preoperative planning and real results of corrections;
• Problems and strategies of revisional surgery.

Tumors of the spine and spinal cord.

Osteoporosis problems in spine surgery and ways to overcome them:

• Treatment of high energy trauma in osteoporotic patients;
• Spinal fixation in osteoporosis;
• Preoperative preparation and postoperative management of patients with osteoporosis.

New findings in diagnostics, planning and intraoperative imaging:

• Present and future of spinal navigation: availability, accuracy, cost-effectiveness (navigation + surgeon, robot, 3D printing, VR / AR).

Complications in spine surgery. Failed back surgery syndrome. Problems of repeated and revisional interventions.

Medical care management, science and education:

• Solutions proposed by the industry - advantages and disadvantages of the Russian Healthcare system;
• Outpatient spine surgery: global achievements and perspectives in the Russian Federation;
• Federal registry and clinical guidelines as the basis for multicenter studies in spinal surgery;
• Learning curve in spine surgery: how to reduce risks for patients and physicians;
• Distance and simulation technologies in the training of spine surgeons;
• RASS: the reason to become a member of the association?

Infections in spinal surgery: medical, organizational and economic problems.