ANDRE D’HOORE

D’Hoore André is chair of the department of Abdominal Surgery at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. He is full professor of surgery at the Faculty of Medicine.
He is a founding member of the European Section of Coloproctology and is the founder of the surgical branch of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (S-ECCO).
He is a founding member of the European Section of Coloproctology and is the founder of the surgical branch of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (S-ECCO).
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Sunday, September 03, 2025
Room 02 – Camila Bueno Auditorium – Einstein Morumbi Education and Research Center (2nd Floor)
Advanced Course on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
13:30-15:30
MODULE 3: CD: CROHN'S DISEASE
Conference: Robotic surgery in IBD: the present or the future?
Daily practice - Clinical case 4: Penetrating ileal CD
Mini-Conference 2: Appendectomy in UC: Where are we and what is missing?
Mini-Conference 3: Prevention of postoperative recurrence - current status and lessons learned
Conference: Robotic surgery in IBD: the present or the future?
Chair: Rogerio Saad Hossne (SP)
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Daily practice - Clinical case 4: Penetrating ileal CD
Moderator: Rogério Serafim Parra (SP)
Debater: Ornella Sari Cassol (RS)
Mini-Conference 2: Appendectomy in UC: Where are we and what is missing?
Chair: Cláudio Saddy Rodrigues Coy (SP)
Speaker: Willem Bemelman (Netherlands)
Mini-Conference 3: Prevention of postoperative recurrence - current status and lessons learned
Chair: Mariane Gouvea Monteiro de Camargo (SP)
Speaker: Paulo Gustavo Kotze (PR)
15:50-17:30
MODULE 4: CD: CROHN'S DISEASE
Mini-Conference 4: How do I prepare patients for surgery in IBD
Challenge 1: Understanding fistulizing perianal CD: essential knowledge Initial surgical approach – tips and techniques
Initial surgical approach – tips and techniques
Medical treatment: when, what and why?
Corrective surgery: when and which technique?
Discussion
Closing talk: Ileal reservoir: past, present and future
Closing
Mini-Conference 4: How do I prepare patients for surgery in IBD
Chair: Marcelo Rodrigues Borba (SP)
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Challenge 1: Understanding fistulizing perianal CD: essential knowledge Initial surgical approach – tips and techniques
Moderator: Idblan Carvalho de Albuquerque (SP)
Initial surgical approach – tips and techniques
Speaker: Gilmara Pandolfo Zabot (RS)
Medical treatment: when, what and why?
Speaker: Abel Botelho Quaresma (SC)
Corrective surgery: when and which technique?
Speaker: Eron Fábio Miranda (PR)
Discussion
Closing talk: Ileal reservoir: past, present and future
Chair: Cláudio Saddy Rodrigues Coy (SP)
Speaker: Willem Bemelman (Netherlands)
Closing
Room 04 - Einstein Morumbi Education and Research Center
Course on Functional Disorders and Pelvic Floor Diseases
08:00-09:30
ROUNDTABLE 1: MULTICOMPARTMENTAL PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTIONS
Repercussions of vaginal delivery on the pelvic floor
How to identify a sphincter injury during childbirth and what is the best management?
Diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence associated with fecal incontinence
Anterior resection rectal syndrome: interpreting the LARS questionnaire and better understanding the problem
Management of Anterior Resection Rectal Syndrome (LARS) - from clinical treatment to sacral neuromodulation
Surgical treatment of multicompartmental prolapse
Discussion - Images for debate (Eco defecography and pelvic floor ultrasound)
Moderator: Rodrigo Ambar Pinto (SP)
Debater: Anders Mellgren (United States)
Debater: Sthela Murad-regadas (CE)
Debater: Mara Rita Salum (SP)
Chair: Juliana Bezerra Farias (SP)
Repercussions of vaginal delivery on the pelvic floor
Speaker: Thais Villela Peterson (SP)
How to identify a sphincter injury during childbirth and what is the best management?
Speaker: Luciana Pistelli Gomes Freitas (SP)
Diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence associated with fecal incontinence
Anterior resection rectal syndrome: interpreting the LARS questionnaire and better understanding the problem
Management of Anterior Resection Rectal Syndrome (LARS) - from clinical treatment to sacral neuromodulation
Speaker: Franco Marinello (Spain)
Surgical treatment of multicompartmental prolapse
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Discussion - Images for debate (Eco defecography and pelvic floor ultrasound)
Debater: Sthela Murad-regadas (CE)
09:30-10:30
ROUNDTABLE 2: PROLAPSE
Duel: Perineal vs. Abdominal
Total rectal prolapse: perineal surgical treatment
Total rectal prolapse: abdominal surgical treatment
Rectal prolapse and constipation: rectopexy with resection or ventral rectopexy?
The prolapse is recurrent, what now?
Clinical Case and Discussion
Debater: Doryane Maria dos Reis Lima (PR)
Debater: Pedro Carlos Basílio (RJ)
Debater: Rosilma Gorete Lima Barreto (MA)
Chair: Louise Galantini Lana de Godoy (SP)
Duel: Perineal vs. Abdominal
Total rectal prolapse: perineal surgical treatment
Speaker: Hélio Moreira Junior (GO)
Total rectal prolapse: abdominal surgical treatment
Speaker: Sandra Felice Boratto (SP)
Rectal prolapse and constipation: rectopexy with resection or ventral rectopexy?
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
The prolapse is recurrent, what now?
Speaker: Rodrigo Ambar Pinto (SP)
Clinical Case and Discussion
Presenter: Isaac Jose Felippe Correa Neto (SP)
Wednesday, September 04, 2025
Angelita Habr-Gama Golden Hall
14:00-15:30
SESSION: RECTAL CANCER - POST-TREATMENT DECISIONS
Case presentation: almost complete response
Watch and wait: how long to wait?
Local resection is the best choice
Total mesorectal excision: safer
What can and cannot MRI help in assessing response?
Complete response with resodual adenoma: what now?
ctDNA and response assessment
Discussion
Moderator: Tiago Leal Ghezzi (RS)
Debater: Pedro Carlos Basílio (RJ)
Case presentation: almost complete response
Speaker: Gustavo Leandro Rossi (Argentina)
Watch and wait: how long to wait?
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Local resection is the best choice
Speaker: Julio Garcia-aguilar (United States)
Total mesorectal excision: safer
Speaker: Rodrigo Gomes da Silva (MG)
What can and cannot MRI help in assessing response?
Speaker: Cinthia Denise Ortega (SP)
Complete response with resodual adenoma: what now?
Speaker: Guilherme Pagin São Julião (SP)
ctDNA and response assessment
Speaker: Julio Garcia-aguilar (United States)
Discussion
WTC Theater
17:00-18:00
SURGERY WORKSHOP: SURGERY WORKSHOP - RECTAL PROLAPSE AND OBSTRUCTION OF EVACUATION
Video 7 min X Discussion 3 min
Altemeier
Delorme
Robotic ventral rectopexy
Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy
Rectosigmoidectomy with laparoscopic rectopexy
Closing and announcements
Video 7 min X Discussion 3 min
Moderator: Eduardo de Paula Vieira (RJ)
Debater: Robert William de Azevedo Bringel (CE)
Debater: Jorge Henrique Reina (SP)
Altemeier
Speaker: Antonio Rocco Imperiale (SP)
Delorme
Speaker: Fang Chia Bin (SP)
Robotic ventral rectopexy
Speaker: Lucas de Araujo Horcel (SP)
Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Rectosigmoidectomy with laparoscopic rectopexy
Speaker: Rodrigo Ambar Pinto (SP)
Closing and announcements
Presenter: Eduardo de Paula Vieira (RJ)
Friday, September 05, 2025
Angelita Habr-Gama Golden Hall
08:00-10:00
SESSION: CROHN'S DISEASE
Complex anorectal Crohn's disease: clinical case presentation
Impact of advanced therapies in the management of anorectal Crohn's disease
Presentation of clinical case outcome & Discussion
Ileocecal luminal Crohn's disease: clinical case presentation
What to expect from advanced therapies in this context?
Side-to-side anastomosis always: it makes no difference
Manual Kono-S anastomosis: superior
Presentation of clinical case outcomes & Discussion
Moderator: Paulo Gustavo Kotze (PR)
Debater: Sinara Mônica de Oliveira Leite (MG)
Debater: Fabio Vieira Teixeira (SP)
Complex anorectal Crohn's disease: clinical case presentation
Speaker: Rogerio Saad Hossne (SP)
Impact of advanced therapies in the management of anorectal Crohn's disease
Speaker: Phillip Fleshner (United States)
Presentation of clinical case outcome & Discussion
Speaker: Rogerio Saad Hossne (SP)
Ileocecal luminal Crohn's disease: clinical case presentation
Speaker: Rogério Serafim Parra (SP)
What to expect from advanced therapies in this context?
Side-to-side anastomosis always: it makes no difference
Speaker: Mariane Gouvea Monteiro de Camargo (SP)
Manual Kono-S anastomosis: superior
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Presentation of clinical case outcomes & Discussion
Speaker: Rogério Serafim Parra (SP)
14:00-16:00
SESSION: CONSTIPATION, OBSTRUCTIVE EVACUATION, AND PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE
Consensus Definitions for the Imaging Diagnosis of Pelvic Floor Disorders
Better Management of Recurrent Rectal Prolapse and Obstructive Evacuation After Ventral Rectopexy
Is There an Impact of Bowel Resection on the Surgical Treatment of Rectal Prolapse?
Management of Colonic Inertia: What Has Changed?
When Should the Perineal Approach Be Indicated and What Is the Current Best Option?
Discussion
Moderator: Henrique Sarubbi Fillmann (RS)
Debater: Maurilio Toscano de Lucena (PE)
Consensus Definitions for the Imaging Diagnosis of Pelvic Floor Disorders
Better Management of Recurrent Rectal Prolapse and Obstructive Evacuation After Ventral Rectopexy
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Is There an Impact of Bowel Resection on the Surgical Treatment of Rectal Prolapse?
Speaker: Franco Marinello (Spain)
Management of Colonic Inertia: What Has Changed?
Speaker: Anders Mellgren (United States)
When Should the Perineal Approach Be Indicated and What Is the Current Best Option?
Speaker: Fang Chia Bin (SP)
Discussion
Monday, September 06, 2025
Angelita Habr-Gama Golden Hall
12:00-12:30
DAHER CUTAIT PRAYER: DAHER CUTAIT'S SPEECH - FROM GENERAL SURGERY TO A PERSONALIZED APPROACH IN RECTAL CANCER MANAGEMENT
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)