Feline Soft Tissue Surgery: Advanced Abdominal Surgery

Name: Feline Soft Tissue Surgery: Advanced Abdominal Surgery
Start: 2025-10-02T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-12T23:59:59+01:00
Location: Vienna, Austria

Registration open

Program Director:

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gilles Dupré Dipl. ECVS (FR)

Principal Course Master(s):

Univ. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Chanoit, Dipl. ECVS, Dipl. ACVS (FR)

Course Overview

This Feline Soft Tissue Surgery course is one part of a three-part course on Feline surgery (parts can be taken in any order). It covers advanced abdominal surgery with a particular focus on urinary tract surgery, advanced intestinal surgery and liver and biliary tree surgery. This course is opened to delegates with some experience in surgery and/or who have taken the previous ESAVS STS courses (especially STS I and III) – there are minimal overlap between those courses and the advanced feline surgery courses. Basic knowledge will be reviewed but focus will be put on advanced practices. This course comprises an equivalent of 8 hrs of recorded webinars and 4 days of face-to-face lectures and practicals.

Course Program (Subject to change)

Thursday, 2 October 2025 – Online Course Introduction/Explanation

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction
8 Hours of Recorded Webinars:
• Abdominal wall anatomy, approaches, closure, and drainage Vincenti
• Abdominal biopsies Murgia
• Perioperative care: post-operative pain control Rocchi
• Perioperative care: Nutritional needs and support Handl
• FLUTD: current medical knowledge Gunn-Moore
• Tumours of the urinary tract Findji
• Endoscopy of the urinary tract Robertson
• Renal transplantation: Where are we now? Hardie

Sunday, 9 November 2025 - Lectures (Urinary tract surgery and advanced intestinal surgery I)

08:15 – 09:00 Local welcome
09:00 – 10:45 Urinary tract trauma (kidney, ureter, bladder) Murgia
When and how to place urinary tract tubes: Nephrostomy / Cystostomy Chanoit
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Debriefing from webinars
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 Urethral diseases of the cat: obstruction, trauma, calculi, stenosis Murgia
14:15 – 15:00 Techniques for ureteral calculi: stent vs. SUB vs. surgery Murgia / Chanoit
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Urinary incontinence Murgia
16:30 – 17:30 Advanced intestinal surgery (clinical cases): Intussusception / Linear foreign body Chanoit
17:30 – 18:00 Debriefing urinary tract
18:00 – 19:30 Ice-breaker

Monday, 10 November 2025 - Practical excercises

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Ex lap and closure
Nephrostomy tubes
Partial and total nephrectomy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Cystostomy tubes
Cystostomy, partial cystectomy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Ureteral stenting, SUB, ureteral surgery (introduction to surgery under magnification)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Urethrostomies (perineal, prepubic), colposuspension, urethropexy
17:00 – 18:00 Debriefing

Tuesday, 11 November 2025 - Lectures (liver and biliary tree- and advanced intestinal surgery II) and wrap-up session

08:30 – 09:30 Surgical diseases of the biliary tree: bile flow diversion, stenting Chanoit
09:30 – 10:30 Portosystemic shunts in the cat Chanoit
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Surgical diseases of the pancreas Vincenti
12:00 – 12:30 Surgical diseases of the adrenal gland Chanoit
12:30 – 13:00 Advanced intestinal surgery (clinical case): Atresia ani and fistulae Chanoit
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Liver lobectomy Vincenti
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16.30 Advanced intestinal surgery (clinical case): Megacolon Vincenti
17:00 – 17:30 Debriefing Liver, pancreas Vincenti / Chanoit
19:00 Social Dinner

Wednesday, 12 November 2025 - Practical exercises

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Abdominal exploration / Advanced dissections (pancreas, adrenals…)
Abdominal biopsies
Partial or complete liver lobectomy
Shunt explore
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Duodenal papilla catheterization – CBD stenting
Cholecystoenterostomies
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Partial pancreatectomy
Omental flap in pancreatic surgery
Subtotal colectomy
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Wrap up practical exercises – Quiz
17:30 – 18:00 Farewell