Poster Presentations
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Instructions for poster presentations
Posters should be set up in the Reading room above the foyer of the
Radisson SAS Hotel, St Julian’s, on Wednesday 29th November, 2006 from 16.00 hrs
(PM). All poster boards will be PORTRAIT STYLE (NOT LANDSCAPE) and measure 210
(height) x 90cm (width).
Posters will be adjudicated by a panel of examiners who will view the posters over two sessions as shown in the programme. Authors are expected to be present at the time to discuss posters. A prize will be awarded to the best poster in the conference, and presented at the closing session on Saturday 2nd December at 12.45hrs.
| Corresponding Author | Subject | Title |
| Grech Erika | Anaesthesia | Bilateral hydrothorax and hydromediastinum after a subclavian line insertion |
| Borg Noel | Anaesthesia | General anaesthesia and acute intermittent porphyria: a case presentation |
| Lupi Andre | Experimental/Biomedicine | Reverse engineering applied to a lumbar vertebra |
| Chetcuti S | Experimental/Cell Biology | DNA modifying agents and co-culture techniques applied to cord blood mononuclear cell fraction enhance the expression of neuronal antigens |
| Grech C | Experimental/Cell Biology | Isolating, growing and expanding cord blood mesenchymal and haematopoietic stem cells |
| Debatista Y | Experimental/Cell Biology | Isolating, growing and expanding skin cells, using cadaveric skin and bone collagen as templates for skin reconstruction |
| Vidal Chris | Experimental/Genetics | Linkage analysis in two maltese families with a high incidence of coeliac disease |
| Farrugia Patricia | Experimental/Laboratory | Introduction to flow cytometric applications for diagnosis of haematological neoplasms in Malta |
| Debatista Neville | Experimental/Pathology | Incidence reporting at the Pathology department. A retrospective study |
| Debatista Neville | Experimental/Pathology | Compatibility testing at St. Luke's Hospital: used or abused? |
| Buttigieg Nicola | Family Medicine | Managing obesity in family practice |
| Calleja Neville | Public Health | Clinical trials on medicinal products in Malta after EU accession |
| Azzopardi Conrad | Public Health | Location of residence and access to the medical consultant clinic at Qormi Health Centre |
| Mizzi Joseph | Public Health | An audit of natural family planning training and usage |
| Abela Stephen | Health Management | The applicability of the technology Acceptance Model to Doctors in the Maltese Public Healthcare system |
| Vella Helen | Health Management | The Medicines Authority: The competent authority Malta responsible for the regualtion of medicinal products for human use and related pharmaceutical activities |
| Ellul Ian Carmel | Health Management | The implementation of the EU Clinical Trials Directive 2001/20/EC in Malta |
| Grima Marius | Health Management | Clinical practice guidelines: user perception |
| Chetcuti Ganado Claudia | Medicine/Cardiology | Atrial fibrillation following trans-catheter closure of patent foramen ovale |
| Grech Victor | Medicine/Cardiology | Isolated right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in an individual with William's syndrome |
| Grech Victor | Medicine/Cardiology | The heart in science fiction |
| Scicluna P | Medicine/Coagulation | Low protein Z levels and the risk of thrombophilia |
| Vella Sandro | Medicine/Endocrinology | Insulin induced fatal hypoglycemia in a type I diabetic with polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II |
| Vella Sandro | Medicine/Endocrinology | Lack of sunlight causing hypocalcaemia in a sun drenched archipelago |
| Azzopardi Conrad | Medicine/Endocrinology | Thyroid status in subjects on thyroid replacement treatment |
| Cachia E | Medicine/Gastroenterology | The incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Malta between 1993 and 2005: a retospective study |
| Fiorini Anthony | Medicine/Geriatrics | Monitoring thyroid function status in elderly patients on amiodarone |
| Ellul Pierre | Medicine/Hepatology | Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in Malta |
| Borg Michael A | Medicine/Infections | Antibiotic resistance in the southeastern Mediterranean: results from the ARMed Project |
| Scriha A | Medicine/Infections | An investigation into whether a combination of inspiratory muscle training and upper limb exercise improve outcomes in COPD patients |
| Farrugia Emanuel | Medicine/Nephrology | C² Cyclosporin therapeutic monitoring in kidney transplant recipients |
| Farrugia Emanuel | Medicine/Nephrology | Familial hypouricaemia associated with renal tubular uricosuria and uric acid calculi: a case report |
| Farrugia Emanuel | Medicine/Nephrology | Estimating the glomerular filtration rate by creatine clearance - 24 hour urine collection or formula? |
| Farrugia Emanuel | Medicine/Nephrology | Peritoneal dialysis drop-out: a single physician experience |
| Farrugia Joseph | Medicine/Nephrology | Dyslipidaemia in the Maltese chronic haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis population |
| Farrugia Joseph | Medicine/Nephrology | Calcium/phosphate control in the Maltese chronic haemodialysis population |
| Farrugia Joseph | Medicine/Nephrology | Effect of switching from subcutaneous to intravenous erythropoietin in haemodialysis patients |
| Debono Miguel | Medicine/Neurology | Is erectile dysfunction a sentinel for cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in patients with Type 2 Diabetes |
| Valentino Mario | Medicine/Neurology | Visualization of hypoxic glial injury in white matter from transgenic mice: a morphometric and immunocytochemical study |
| Micallef Grimaud | Medicine/Neurology | A young confused tourist on a hot sunny island |
| Micallef Grimaud | Medicine/Neurology | Severe hyponatraemia due to co-amilozide |
| Casha Marilyn | Medicine/Palliative | Novel method for symptom control in palliative care in Malta |
| Camilleri Vassallo Franco | Medicine/Rheumatology | Patient satisfaction with rheumatology services |
| Mallia Carmel | Medicine/Rheumatology | Nitritoid reactions: occurrence in rheumatoid arthritis patients |
| Coleiro Bernard | Medicine/Rheumatology | Use of TNF blocker etanercept in a case of refractory Takayasu's arteritis |
| Cassar PJ | Medicine/Rheumatology | Severe osteoporosis secondary to undiagnosied Coeliac disease: 3 cases in Maltese women |
| Cassar PJ | Medicine/Rheumatology | Experience with leflunomide in a Maltese Cohort of Patients- A Preliminary report |
| Cassar PJ | Medicine/Rheumatology | Lupus nephritis treated with rituximab - a case report |
| Cassar PJ | Medicine/Rheumatology | Bronchiolitis obliterans in a Maltese women with Sjogeren's syndrome - a case report |
| Cassar PJ | Medicine/Rheumatology | Erdheim Chester disease in a Maltese patient - a case report |
| Micallef Stafrace K | Medicine/Sports | The role of exercise in the weight management of obesity |
| Attard Antoinette | Nursing | Nurse led clinics |
| Borg Joseph | Orthopaedics | Outcome of endoprosthetic replacement for proximal humeral metastases |
| Borg Joseph | Orthopaedics | A seven year epidemiological survey of Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphyses in the Maltese Islands |
| Pecotic G | Orthopaedics | Traumatic transverse fracture of the sacrum: a case report |
| Fearne Chris | Paediatric Surgery | Poland syndrome: a case presentation |
| Bugeja Simon | Surgery | The development of guidelines for primary catheterisation |
| Joseph P Vella | Surgery | A retrospective audit of the undergraduate surgical logbook: part 1 and 3 |
| Farrugia Daniela | Surgery | The effectiveness of analgesic regimens in renal colic |
| Torquero Laurence | Surgery/Cardiac | Surgical ablation with bipolar radiofrequency energy as treatment for the elimination of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing concomitant cardiac surgery |
| Cutajar John | Surgery/ENT | Reconstruction with temporalis muscle flap after total maxillectomy with orbital exenteration for resection of an extensive maxillary antral squamous cell carcinoma |
| Mamo Jonathan | Urology | Comparison of inguinovaginal fascial sling with synthetic transvaginal slingplasty for genuine stress incontinence |
| Samuel Stafrace | Radiology | Gallstone ileus: pictorial review of CT scan findings in a series of local cases |
| Jean Paul Tabone | Accident & Emergency | Abuse (physical and verbal) of doctors in the Accident and Emergency Department, St Luke's Hospital |
| Mamo Jonathan | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Bupivacaine infiltration and multimodal analgesia during gynaecology laparoscopy |
| Calleja Aguis Jean | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | An audit of threathened miscarraige as a predictor of obstetric outcome in Malta |
| Calleja Aguis Jean | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | The Role of TNF-alpha in pregnancy loss: a review |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Intervertebral disc height correlation with bone density and demographic data of postmenopausal women with osteoporotic vertebral fractures |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Iliac vessels wall thickness and artherosclerotic marker in menopausal women |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Lipid profile changes in postmenopausal women taking transdermal hormone replacement therapy |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | The epidemiology of polycystic ovarian sundrome |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Sands (Malta) still birth and neonatal death society |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Cartoid artery wall thickness in hormone treated and untreated postmenopausal women |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Bone density skin thickness and intervertebral disc height changes in postmenopausal women on long term corticosteroid therapy |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Challenges to obstetric medicine with the recent influx of irregular immigrants to the maltese islands |
| Muscat Baron Yves | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Mirena/dilatation and curretage - a one stop shop for treating menorrhagia and avoiding hysterectomy |
| Mangion MZ | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Characteristics of pregnancies undergoing preterm delivery from 2004 till 2006 |
| Custo R Zammit | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Should clomiphene citrate of low dose gonadotrophin therapy be first line treatment for anovulatory infertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome? |
| Savona Ventura C | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Temporal trends in multiple pregnancy rates in the Maltese islands |
| Savona Ventura C | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Multiple pregnancy outcomes in the Maltese islands |
| Savona Ventura C | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Short term obstetric outcomes in obese Maltese women |
| Savona Ventura C | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Multiple pregnancy outcomes in the Maltese islands: 2000-2004 |
| Savona Ventura C | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Pregnancy outcome in multiple diabetic pregnancy: 1999-2004 |
| Zammit K | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Starvation and the development of the Metabolic Syndrome |
| Grech Heidi | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | The prevalence of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) mutations in patients attending a recurrent miscarriage clinic |
| Grech Heidi | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | An analysis of the investigation of patients attending a recurrent miscarriage clinic |
| Cassar Marisa | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Detection of chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoea in urine by real time PCR |
| Cassar Marisa | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Detection of human papilloma virus in clinical samples by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) |
| Grech Victor | Obstetrics/Gynaecology | Infertility in science fiction |
| Grech Victor | Ophthalmology | The eyes and vision in science fiction |
| Grech Victor | Paediatrics | Stenosis of the upper body arteries in association with coarctation and interrupted aortic arch |
| Grech Victor | Paediatrics | Mycoplasma pneumonia - an unusual cause of acute myocarditis in childhood |
| Andrejevic Hermoine | Paediatrics | A case of congenital cytomegalovirus infection |
| Attard Montalto Simon | Paediatrics | Protocol for administering medicines in mainstream schools |
| Galea Christine | Paediatrics | Brain and myocardial infarction in a patient with complex transposition of the great arteries |
| Zammit Valerie | Paediatrics | Myocardial injury following perinatal asphyxia |
| Soler Paul | Paediatrics | Coverage of neonatal cranial ultrasound scanning - current practice in the Special Care Baby Unit and recommendations |
| Pace David | Paediatrics | Autoantibodies in visceral leishmaniasis |
| Pace David | Paediatrics | Neonatal zoonosis |
| Pace David | Paediatrics | Autoimmune neutropenia of infancy |
| Vella Muskat Ruth | Paediatrics | Gram-negative septicaemia and peritonitis - an unusual neonatal presentation of cystic fibrosis |
| Vella Muskat Ruth | Paediatrics | Transient shoulder paralysis after vaccination in childhood - two cases with differenct vaccines |
| Soler Doriette | Paediatrics | Aicardi Goutieres syndrome: a genetic syndrome mimicking congenital infection - a description of two new cases |
| Soler Doriette | Paediatrics | Special Education Need Terms (SENT) Project in Schools - A model of service delivery |
| Ellul Marthese | Paediatrics | Griscelli syndrome - the commonest cause of Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Maltese children |
| Mizzi Joseph | Paediatrics | DC cardioversion in a case neonatal atrial flutter |
| Mifsud Janet | Pharmacology | Therapeutic drug monitoring of lamotrigine in the paediatric population |
| Scerri C | Pharmacology | Age related effects on in vivo tau protein processing in different regions of the rat brain following nicotine admistration: Relevance in Alzheimer's disease pathology |
| Serracino Inglott A | Pharmacy | Point of care glycosylated testing |
| Serracino Inglott A | Pharmacy | Interpretation of glycosylated haemoglobin testing |
| Serracino Inglott A | Pharmacy | Evaluation of management of pregnancy-induced hypertension |
| Serracino Inglott A | Pharmacy | Chronopharmacology of atenolol in controlling hypertension |
| Zarb Adami M | Pharmacy | Knowledge of paediatric diabetic patients on their disease state |
| Zarb Adami M | Pharmacy | A comparative cost-effectiveness study in wound management |
| Zarb Adami M | Pharmacy | Quality of life measurement and use of losartan in patients with ACW inhibitors intolerance |
| Zarb Adami M | Pharmacy | Pharmacoeconomics and quality of life in continuous ambulatory dialysis |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Pharmacist intervention in elderly patient discharge |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Validation of hospital clinical pharmacist intervention |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Use of fish enzyme gel for the management of pressure sores |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Management of psoriasis and impact on quality of life |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Quality of life measurement of multiple sclerosis |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Development of a Maltese drug reference handbook |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Readability and use of patient package inserts |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Health promotion programmes in community pharmacies |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Development of a diary for infant colic |
| Azzopardi Lillian | Pharmacy | Chemotherapy patients' knowledge and expectations |
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