General Assembly

Pre-Conference Workshop 4

Career development for Internists - Opportunities & Special Interests

Chairs :
Alina Dima (Romania)
Frauke Weidanz (UK) Speakers:
Candido Munoz (UK)
Friederike Bennett (Germany)
Leo Silven (Sweden) (TBC)

Pre-Conference Workshop 3

AI tools for clinical research: the basics for internistsSpeakers:
Tiffany Leung (The Netherlands)
Marco Montagna (Italy)

Pre-Conference Workshop 5

PoCUS Workshop

Speakers:
Joao Neves ( Portugal)
Juan Torres Macho (Spain)
Nicola Parenti (Italy)
Yale Tung-Chen (Spain)
Nick Smallwood (UK)

Pre-Conference Workshop 6

Young Internists – How to write and Publish an article

Chairs:
Miguel Romano (Portugal)
Andrea Salzano (Italy)Introduction (10 minutes)

Starting the Editorial Process: The role of the Editor in Chief
Giancarlo Agnelli (EiC European Journal of Internal Medicine)
30 minutes + 20 Q&A


First look at your paper: a concise and precise abstract
Anna Mavromanoli (Switzerland)
15 minutes

How to focus and summarize the background evidence and the aim of the your paper: the successful introduction
Alberto M Marra (Italy)
30 minutes

How to report your study protocol and present your results: the Yin/Yang of methods and results
Zora Lazurova (Slovakia)
30 minutes

Closing with Fireworks: How to discuss your Results
Caterina Delcea (Romania)
30 minutes

Round table with all the participants, with questions and discussion
15 minutes

Pre-Conference Workshop 1

EASO

Adult Obesity Treatment Course for Internists

Chairs:
Melania Manco (Italy)
Paolo Sbraccia (Italy)Chair:
Melania Manco (Italy)

13:00 –13:20 The patient perspective – Iris Zani (Italy)
13:20 –13:40 Obesity for internists: What we need to know – Melania Manco (Italy)
13:40 –14:00 Nutritional tools for weight loss and maintenance – Valerie Tikhonoff (Italy)
14:00 –14:20 Physical activity tools for weight loss and maintenance – Francesca Battista (Italy)
14:20 –14:35 Discussion Session: Panel discussion with Questions & Answers
14:35 –14:50 Coffee Break

Chair:
Paolo Sbraccia (Italy)

14:50 –15:10 Sarcopenia and obesity sarcopenia: Old problem, new perspective – Eleonora Poggiogalle (Italy)
15:10 –15:30 Pharmacotherapy tools for weight loss and maintenance – Paolo Sbraccia (Italy)
15:30 –15:50 How to take all the new data into a clinical practice – Dror Dicker (Israel)
15:50 –16:00 Close & Questions

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Parallel Session 1

New advances in rheumatic diseases

Chairs:
Shirhan Amikishiyev (Azerbaijan)
Luis Duarte Costa (Portugal)New therapies in systemic sclerosis
Luc Mouton (France)

Challenges in Rheumatic polymialgia for internists
Enrica Cipriano (Italy)

Abstracts :
1209 - Kevin Chevalier /
Treatment of mixed connective tissue disease: a multicenter retrospective study

453 - Ruggiero Mascolo /
Recurrent pericarditis with normal C-reactive protein: clinical and laboratory features, biomarkers and outcome

Parallel Session 2

Advances in the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC)

Chair:
George N. Dalekos (Greece)
Carmen Fierbinteanu-Braticevici (Romania)The role of obeticholic acid

PPARs as emerging therapies for patients with PBC
Ana Lleo (Italy)

Abstracts :
897 - Kalliopi Zachou /
Metabolomic signature in autoimmune hepatitis discriminates disease activity and predicts response to treatment

2669 - Eirini I. Rigopoulou /
Statins Are Associated With Decreased Risk Of Disease Progression And Death In Non-Cirrhotic Patients With Primary Biliary Cholangitis

2557 - Vasiliki Lygoura /
Natural History Of Primary Biliary Cholangitis (Pbc) In Greece: Results From A Large Cohort Of Patients Over 22-Years Of Follow-Up

Special Session 1

Special Metabolic

Chair :
Peter de Jager (The Netherlands) (TBC)
Tamara Kandashvili (Georgia)Abstracts :
1540 - Ran Abuhasira /
SGLT2 Inhibitors-Induced Erythrocytosis

118 - Mohammed Aboukaoud /
Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 Inhibitors Not Associated with Severe Urinary Tract Infections: a meta-analysis of cohort studies

2834 - Dante Pio Pallotta /
Metabolic impact of gluten free-diet: the model of patient with the association of Celiac Disease and Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus

738 - Marco Montagna /
Leveraging Real World Data with Machine Learning to predict long term HbA1c changes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

1563 - Edoardo Pirera /
Association Of Glucacon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists And Exacerbations Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis

1948 - Dimitrios Sagris /
Hydroxychloroquine reduces atherosclerosis in ApoE knockout mice by inhibiting neutrophil extracellular traps formation and autophagy

1177 - Christina Antoniadou /
An IL-8/MMP-9 axis impairs wound healing in type 2 diabetes by mediating the crosstalk between neutrophil extracellular traps and fibroblasts

Rapid-Fire Session 1

Chair:
Gemma Ortiz (Spain)Abstracts :
199 - Varvara A. Mareyeva /
Clinical assessment of pulmonary hypertension due to chronic ischemic heart disease: the value of right ventricular-arterial coupling

608 - Lucia Ordieres Ortega /
Management of superficial vein thrombosis in patients over 100 kg in a tertiary hospital

2325 - Anna Dubinina /
Association between serum myocardial fibrosis markers and echocardiographic stiffness parameters in patients with atrial fibrillation after acute coronary syndrome

1646 - Giulia Crisci /
Right Ventricular to Pulmonary Circulation Uncoupling and NT-proBNP Levels During Exercise Performance in Heart Failure

1313 - Maddalena Alessandra Wu /
Recurrent idiopathic pericarditis: insights into autoantibodies targeting the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist

1514 - Tatiana Batluk /
Features of lipid-lowering therapy in polyvascular disease and coronary heart disease - international КАММА registry data

894 - Hamza Nahoui /
Mean oxygen saturation and time with elevated peak-to-peak esophageal pressure during sleep, predict mortality in patients with suspected sleep disordered breathing

Rapid-Fire Session 2

Chair:
Farouk Benmediouni (Algeria)Abstracts :

2904 - Aurora Merolla /
Population-Wide Cardiometabolic Screening: Insights from the UNISCREEN Study Using Point-of-Care Capillary Testing

413 - Dilan Yagmur Kutlay /
Determinants of vaccination behavior and uptake among adults

2177 - Giuseppe Murdaca /
Sars-Cov-2 vaccination and adverse events in autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease patients: real-world evidence from an Italian network of 7 clinical immunology centers

2299 - Zhou Jin /
Association between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure and current asthma: A population-based study

1572 - Filomena Pietrantonio /
Healthcare Workers after Two Years of COVID-19: The Consequences of the Pandemic on Psychological Health and Sleep among Nurses and Physicians

2406 - Ayşegül Uzun /
Evaluating Oxidative Stress Parameters in Older Adults with Malnutrition: A Cross-Sectional Case-Control Study

54 - Malik Benmachiche /
Limitation of therapeutic effort in internal medicine: 2013-2023 evolution and determinants

2875 - Ellina Lytvyak /
Management of obesity in a multimorbid patient population with chronic liver and gastrointestinal diseases is effective, safe and improves quality of life

2773 - Ali Can Kurtipek /
Point-of-Care Ultrasound as a Diagnostic Tool in Patients with Acute Dyspnea in the Acute Internal Medicine

Parallel Session 5

Mind body interaction

Chair:
Kim Petterson Fernholm (Finland)
Von Wowern Fredrik (Sweden)Stress and health
Christina Ottaviani (Italy)

From Visceral control to chronic diseases
Nicola Montano (Italy)

Abstracts :
1704 - Eleonora Tobaldini /
The effects of two different neuromodulation techniques on depressive symptoms: evidence from Deponest and Digest studies

1625 - Mattia Ronchetti /
Diagnostic accuracy of the STANDING algorithm in patients with isolated vertigo/dizziness, a multicentre prospective study (STANDING-M)

Parallel Session 6

The Home of Medicine Live Podcast recording

Chair:
Inga Stuckena (Latvia)Speakers:
Amie Burbridge (UK)
Ben Lovell (UK)

Parallel Session 3

Immunomodulation and Host Response in Sepsis

Chair :
Steffano Bassetti (Switzerland)
Nikolaos Gatselis (Greece)Speaker:
Joost Wiersinga (Netherlands)

Abstracts :
2568 - Ozgur Aydin /
Predictors of the development of MALS in adult sepsis patients

189 - Lorenzo Bertolino /
Correlates of embolic complications in a contemporary cohort of infective endocarditis: performance of a diagnostic score model

Parallel Session 4

Enhancing the practice in Internal Medicine with new technologies.

Chair:
Ismael Said Criado (Spain)
Reinold Gans (The Netherlands)Artificial intelligence & clinical decision support systems
Mahmood Adil (UK/Qatar)

Digital Health and Bioethics: opportunities and threats
Alejandro Pazos Sierra (Spain)

Abstract :
2102 - Filomena Pietrantonio /
Technological Challenges of Continuous Wireless Monitoring in Internal Medicine. Green Line Hospital-Territory Study: A Single-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial

Opening CeremonyWelcome note by EFIM President
Ricardo Gomez Huelgas

Welcome Note by the Local Chairs
Nicola Montano
Francesco Dentali

Florence Dignitaries welcome address


ECIM Honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards

Winner of the EFIM 2025 Life Achievement Award in Clinical Medicine
Prof. Daniel Sereni, French Society of Internal Medicine


Winner of the EFIM 2025 Life Achievement Award in Research Medicine
Prof. Giovanni Gasbarrini, Italian Society of Internal Medicine

EFIM Fellowship acknowledgment and applause

Plenary Session 1

INTERNISTS: Many Lives in a Single Lifetime

Chair :
Runolfur Palsson (Iceland)
Nicola Montano (Italy)Speakers :
Xavier Corbella (Spain)

Fellowship Ceremony (diploma delivery and photo)

Networking Event

Meet the Expert Session 2

SyncopeSpeakers:
Eleonora Tobaldini (Italy)

Meet the Expert Session 1

The Jaundiced patientSpeakers:
Eirini Rigopoulou (Greece)
George N Dalekos (Greece)

Meet the Expert Session 3

Anticoagulation in oncologic patientsSpeakers:
Giancarlo Agnelli (Italy)

Meet the Expert Session 4

PericarditisSpeakers:
Antonio Luca Brucato (Italy)

Speed Mentoring Event

Meet the Expert Session 6

Acute Neurological Emergencies in Internal Medicine Wards.

Chair:
Andrea Salzano (Italy)Speakers:
Antonino Tuttolomondo (Italy)

Meet the Expert Session 5

Pitfalls of Autoimmune serological markersSpeakers:
Chiara Bellocchi (Italy)

Meet the Expert Session 7

Which vaccination should I prescribe? case based discussionsSpeakers:
Aurelien Sokal (France)

Discussants:
Lorenzo Bertolino (Italy)
Ester Lobato Martinez (Spain)
Ines de Almeida Ambrioso (Portugal)
Christos Michailidis (Greece)

Parallel Session 7

Guardians of Patient Safety: Innovations and Insights in Internal Medicine

Chair:
Miguel Romano (Portugal)Prevention of adverse events during hospitalization: elderly patients in the focus?
Manuel Klein (Argentina)

Homeward Bound: Navigating Early Discharge for Safer Transitions
Andrew Elder (UK)

Breaking the Silence: Addressing Medical Errors in Internal Medicine
John Kellet (UK)

Abstract :
2465 - Rachid Istambouli /
Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS) assessment of paracetamol overdose treatment using the Scottish and Newcastle Acetylcysteine Paracetamol (SNAP) protocol

Parallel Session 8

Rare diseases

Chairs:
Nica Cappellini (Italy)
Nadia Oumnia (Algeria)Heridetary angeoedema
Andrea Zanichelli (Italy)

Acute intermittent Porphyrı
Yonatan Edel (Israel)

Adults Still Disease
Alina Dima (Romania)

Abstracts :
2683 - Sina Karimi /
Mepolizumab in patients with lymphoid variant hypereosinophilic syndrome: a multi-center prospective study

577 - Dimitrios Sagris /
R202Q homozygosity of mediterranean fever gene is associated with atypical clinical manifestations of Familial Mediterranean Fever: Results from a large cohort study from Northern Greece

Joint Session 1

EASD

Chair:
Petra-Maria Schumm-Draeger (Germany)
Nikolaos Tentolouris (Greece)EASD : From glucose lowering agents to disease-modifying drugs: a “SIMPLW” approach for the treatment of type 2 diabetes?
Stefano del Prato (Italy)

EFIM :
Alexandra Kautzky Willer (Austria)
Oguz Abdullah Uyaroglu (Turkiye)

Joint Session 2

ACP and EFIM Joint Session
The impact of climate change on health

Chairs:
Ricardo Gomez Huelgas (Spain)
Isaac O. Opole (USA)ACP :
Elizabeth Cerceo (USA)

EFIM :
Luis Campos (Portugal)

Parallel Session 9

Physical activity as a preventive and clinical intervention

Chairs:
Montserrat Chimeno Vinas (Spain)
Filomena Pietrantonio (Italy)How to prescribe physical activity
Marco Bernardi (Italy)

Physical activity in aging and frail patients
Philippe Noirez (France)

Abstract :
746 - Edward Bernard Jude /
Stairway to Health: Stair vs elevator usage and its impact on the Health of NHS Staff

COFFEE BREAK / YOUNG INTERNISTS CORNER SESSIONS

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Life Achievement Awards Winner - Dr. Stefano Pretolani Moderation: Young Internists

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Parallel Session 10

Management of Obesity

Chair:
Ivica Lazurova (Slovakia)
Nick Murch (UK)Pharmacotherapy
Ania Jastreboff, US (Virtually)


Bariatric Metabolic Surgery
Gerhard Prager, Austria

Rapid-Fire Session 3

Chair:
Alberto Tosoni (Italy)Abstracts :

420 - Lucía Adeva Contreras /
Sequential nephron blockade with acetazolamide: what is the evidence around it? A review of its use in heart failure

2823 - Irina Dzherieva /
The contribution of polymorphisms genes in the change of muscle mass and strength in the use of glucocorticoids

736 - Petr Grenar /
The impact of early use of echocardiography performed by non-cardiologist in patients with chest pain - the ENDEMIC study

234 - Qian Jin /
Integrating machine learning and neural networks for new diagnostic approaches to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and immune infiltration research

685 - Ran Abuhasira /
Do We Need to Treat Chronic Hypertension in Acute Non-Cardiac Hospitalizations?

463 - Helene G. Meyer /
Effect of SGLT2-inhibitors on iron biomarkers in the context of inflammation

1004 - Loris Vincenti /
Etiological spectrum and clinical courses of chronic myocarditis: insights from a retrospective cohort of 45 patients

1657 - Francesco Rosiello /
Clinical, economical and organizational impact of Chronic Ischemic Cardiovascular Disease in Italy: evaluation of nationwide hospital admissions data from a gender perspective

Parallel Session 11

New perspectives in the therapy of Alzheimer disease?

Chair :
Ramon Barrera Cruz (Mexico)New diagnostic tools for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Carlos Reyes Zavala (Mexico)

New therapies for Alzheimer’s disease
Jose Manuel Hernandez Barrera (Mexico)

Abstract :
1914 - Monica Bru Arca /
Investigating the Relationship Between Digestive Cancer Mortality and Alzheimer’s Disease in Spain: A Geographical Perspective

934 - Mario Daidone /
The impact of NOACs vs. VKAs on absolute and relative cognitive function decline over time: a Machine Learning approach

Parallel Session 27

Healthcare associated infections

Chairs:
Emanuele Durante-Mangoni (Italy)
Patrick Lacor (Belgium)A microbial safe hospital preventing hospital acquired infections; lessons learned
Margreet Vos (Netherlands)

Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Challenges and Strategies
Serhat Unal (Turkiye)

Abstracts :
393 - Gal Trieman /
The impact of granulocyte-colony stimulation factor on 30 and 90-day mortality in patients with febrile neutropenia. A retrospective cohort study

466 - Maxime Beydon /
Short-course versus long-course antibiotic therapy for pyogenic liver abscess: a retrospective cohort study

Early Career Group Meeting
by invitation only

Multimorbidity Working Group Meeting
by invitataion only

Industry Supported Session

Diabetes and Obesity Working Group Meeting
by Invitation only

Heart Failure Working Group Meeting
by invitation only

Telemedicine, Innovative technologies and Digital Health Working Group Meeting
by invitation only

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POSTER DISCUSSION
HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES
"CELEBRATING JOY IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AWARD" POSTER DISCUSSION

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Parallel Session 13

Chairs:
Dror Dicker (Israel)
Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (Austria)The new framework for Diagnosis of Obesity
Dror Dicker (Israel)

First results of the cross-sectional survey of the management of diabetes and/or obesity in European hospitals
Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (Austria)

Parallel Session 12

What’s new on COPD ?

Chair:
Mark Cranston (UK)New perspectives in the treatment of COPD
Sergio Harari (Italy)

What changes with the new GOLD report
Filippo Pieralli (Italy)

Parallel Session 14

Updates in Dislipidemia management

Chair:
Avishay Elis (Israel)Hypercholesterolemia - early and aggressive treatment after ASC
Avishay Elis (Israel)

Inclisiran
Jose Lopez Miranda (Spain)

ICOSAPENT ETHYL
Evangelos Liberopoulos (Greece)

Abstracts :
1605 - Alba Quirós Jiménez
NOS3 gene polymorphisms modulate the effect on endothelial function of a heart-healthy dietary intervention in patients with ischemic heart disease. From CORDIOPREV study

Parallel Session 15

Anticoagulation in complex conditions

Chairs:
Marit Mark (Estonia)
Kalliopi Zachou (Greece)Cirrhotic patients
Heiner Wedemeyer (Germany)

Stroke patients
Tiago Gregorio (Portugal)


Abstracts :
593 - Eleni Ntalaouti /
Navigating the Unseen: Breakthrough Strokes in Elderly with Atrial Fibrillation

353 - Arianna Pannunzio /
Plasma concentrations of direct oral anticoagulants in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and different degrees of obesity

Plenary Session 2

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: Current guidelines of EASL-EASD-EASO

Chairs:
George Dalekos (Greece)
Dror Dicker (Israel)Speaker:
Paul Horn (Germany)(TBC)

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Life Achievement Awards Winner - Prof. Daniel Sereni Moderation: Young Internists

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Parallel Session 16

Infectious diseases

Chair:
Jyotirmoy Pal (India)
Steven Callens (Belgium)How to differentiate a bacterial infection from a colonization.
Miriam Stegemann (Germany)

New antibiotics: place in therapy in Internal Medicine
Emanuele Durante-Mangoni (Italy)

Abstract :
417 - Gil Bornstein /
Rate and predictors of urine culture positivity Following Single-Dose Antibiotic Administration: A Prospective Single-Center Study

1165 - Hüseyin Camli /
Are Tokyo-2018 Criteria Sufficient for Prediction of Disease Severity and Prognosis in Patients with Acute Colangitis?

Joint Session 3

Society of Hospital Medicine

Chairs:
Ricardo Gomez Huelgas (Spain)
Chad Whelan (US)EFIM : Hospital medicine, the Swedish experience
Von Wowern Fredrik (Sweden)

SHM : High value care in hospitals
Flora Kisule (US)

Abstracts :
1752 - Gabriele Angelo Vassallo /
Work Overload among young Internists across the Mediterranean Countries: preliminary results of a survey

1954 - Omar Khaddam /
The Length of Stay Conference - A Novel Method to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay and Improve Case Mix Index

1204 - Issa Issa /
The Association of Outdoor Temperature with Severe Hyponatremia

Parallel Session 17

Muscles and bones

Chair :
Margus Lember (Estonia)
Sarcopenia
Marcello Maggio (Italy)

Updates in prevention and management of Osteoporosis
Rene Rizzoli (Switzerland)

Meet the Expert Session 8

Hyperglycemia CrisisSpeaker:
Gian Paolo Fadini (Italy)

Meet the Expert Session 10

Sexually transmitted diseasesSpeaker:
Jose Antonio Giron Gonzalez (Spain)

Meet the Expert Session 9

Fever of unknown origin in 21st centurySpeaker:
Panagiotis Skendros (Greece)

Meet the Expert Session 11

Management of comorbidities in CKDSpeaker:
Julita Voicehovska (Latvia)

Controversies Debates 2

Soft but Hard: How to develop, teach and assess the essential non-technical skills of a successful internist

Chairs:
Alina Dima (Romania)
Frauke Weidanz(UK)Speakers:
Andrew Elder (UK)
Ieva Ruza (Latvia)

Controversies Debates 1

Should we continue anticoaguration after 3-6 months in patients will unprovoked VTE ?

Chair:
Javier Ena (Spain)Pros:
Francesco Dentali (Italy)

Cons:
Manuel Monreal (Spain)

Controversies Debates 3

CGM: time to change?

Chair:
İhsan Ertenli (Turkiye) Pros:
Maria Dolores Lopez Carmona (Spain)

Cons:
Ada Maffettone (Italy)

Parallel Session 19

Palliative medicine

Chair:
Mona Amin (Egypt)
Andrew Elder (UK)Palliative Sedation
Andrew Thorns (UK)

Limitation of therapeutic effort
Augusto Caraceni (Italy)

Parallel Session 18

Heart Failure: treating the patient and not only the disease

Chairs:
Vera Larina (Russia)
Jorge Soto Castillo (Dominican Republic)Sarcopenia and Heart Failure: a dangerous liason
Stephan von Haehling (Germany)

Multiple hormonal deficiency in heart failure
Antonio Cittadini (Italy)

Abstracts :
1609 - Maria Perticone /
Gut permeability and immune-mediated inflammation in heart failure

2050 - Juan Francisco Muñoz Osuna /
An intestinal microbiota profile associated to endotoxemia in coronary heart disease patients

Parallel Session 20

Hypertension in specific patients groups

Chairs:
Chris Davidson (UK)
Annette Kurrle (Germany)In Pregnancy;
Dario Manfellotto (Italy)

in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Jorge Polónia (Portugal)

Abstracts :
1326 - Avishai M Tsur /
Adolescent blood pressure and cardiovascular disease in young adulthood

Parallel Session 21

Clinical practice guidelines- the step in improving patient care

Chairs:
Wiktoria Lesniak (Poland)
Dror Dicker (Israel)Introduction (10’)
Wiktoria Lesniak (Poland)

5 years of the Critical appraisal EFIM WG: Achievements and challenges (20’)
Valentin Kokorin (Russia)

Context-adaptation of EFIM CPG for local implementation (20’)
Ignacio Marin-Leon (Spain)

Joint Session 4

European Society of Hypertension (ESH)

Chairs:
Ion Bruckner (Romania)-
Robin Peeters (Netherlands)- ESH: Update on Current European Hypertension Guidelines.
Thomas Weber (Austria)

EFIM:Hypertension prevalence and control rates in Europe:
Dragan Lovic (Serbia)

Parallel Session 22

Management of patients with kidney failure in internal medicine department

Chair:
Runolfur Palsson (Iceland)
Christiane Erley (Germany)Incidence in the context of inpatient treatment
Mariam Abu-Tair (Germany)

Care in the hospital
Daniel Zickler (Germany)

Abstracts :
780 - Alfredo Caturano /
Sex-difference of multifactorial intervention on cardiovascular and mortality risk in DKD: post-hoc analysis of a randomised clinical trial

1648 - Merve Arıkan Yamaner /
The Effect and Evaluation of Triglyceride Glucose Index on Prognosis in Patients with Renal Transplantation

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Quality of Life for the Young Internists with Early Career Group Candido Munoz & Gemma Ortiz Moderation: Young Internists

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Critical Appraisal Working Group Meeting
by invitation only

Quality of care and professional issues Working Group Meeting
by invitation only

Plenary Session 3

Early recognition and diagnosis of sepsis

Chair:
Johnson Douglas (Australia)
Stephen Hewitt (Norway)Speakers:
Mihai Netea (Netherlands)

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Parallel Session 24

Obesity and Metabolism

Chair:
Christiane Angermann (Germany)
Carlos Walter Contreras Camarena (Peru) The secretome of obesity: Pathogenetic role in multimorbidity and treatment options
Federico Carbone (Italy)

Obesity and Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction – new insights
Stephan von Haehling (Germany)

Cardiac energetics and iron metabolism: The role of SGLT2 inhibitors
Christiane Angermann (Germany)

Parallel Session 23

EFIM Academy Session

Chair:
Ieva Ruza, Latvia
Oguz Abdullah Uyaroglu, TurkiyeWhat’s new in the clinical management of type 2 diabetes in the outpatient clinic for the internist
Janaka Karalliedde (UK)

Parallel Session 25

Happy Internists & happy patients: Improving our work environment & workplace culture and providing safer and more effective care

Chairs:
Candido Munoz (UK)
Friederike Bennett (Germany) Speakers:
Claudia Garbrecht (Germany)
Sara Linberg (Sweden)
Frauke Weidanz (UK)

Plenary Session 4

GLP-1 and neurodegenerative protection

Chairs:
Heikki Koistinen (Finland)
Nizameddin Koca (Turkiye)Speakers:
Jacques Hugon (France )

Rapid-Fire Session 4

Chair:
Oguz Abdullah Uyaroglu (Turkiye) Abstracts :

1555 - Alfredo Caturano /
Impact of empagliflozin and metformin combination therapy vs. metformin monotherapy on masld progression in type 2 diabetes: findings from the imagin study

2606 - Pinelopi Arvaniti /
Drug-induced autoimmune like hepatitis: an overlooked entity leading to overtreatment in clinical practice

1629 - Maria Perticone /
Individuation of a cut-off value of triglyceride-glucose index for incident diabetes mellitus in patients with essential hypertension

1557 - Valentin Calvez /
MASLD and FIB4 are independent predictors of major adverse liver outcomes and cardiovascular events in type-2 diabetes: findings from a single-center cohort using AI-driven machine-learning

1799 - Anita S Kvist /
Differences in liver and adipose tissue insulin resistance in South Asian and Nordic women after gestational diabetes

1508 - Amed Trak /
Factors related to the development of hepatic osteodystrophy in patients with chronic liver disease

1578 - Jostein Ibsen /
Mucosal healing and follow-up of celiac disease

2493 - Hande Erman /
Evaluation of HOMA-IR and serum Adropin levels in MASLD patients with low fibrosis risk

648 - Banu Böyük /
Evaluation of the Effect of Dapagliflozin on Liver Fibrosis in Type 2 DM Patients Using Noninvasive Hepatic Fibrosis Scores

1559 - Jostein Ibsen /
Serological diagnosis of celiac disease: A single site Norwegian centre

1391 - Giuseppe De Matteis /
Prognostic importance of TAPSE/PASP ratio among older patients with acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Parallel Session 26

Hospitalists Across Europe. The EFIM Role

Chair:
Ombretta Para (Italy)
Antonio González Fernández (Spain)European Hospitalists in Surgical Areas
Ombretta Para(Italy)

European Hospitalists in Medical Areas
Arantza Alvarez de Arcaya (Spain)

The role of transitional care after a complex hospital admission. USA experiences
Chad Whelan (US)

Abstract :
1076 - Ali Can Kurtipek /
A New Simple Scoring System for Early Prediction of Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Prospective Observational Study

Parallel Session 28

Daily Challenges in heart failure

Chair :
Alberto M Marra (Italy)
Georg Ertl (Germany)How to manage congestion
Joan Carles Trullas (Spain)

How to manage Iron Deficiency
Zhanna Kobalava (Russia )


Abstracts :
745 - Alfredo Caturano /
Long-term clinical outcomes of patients with drug-induced type 1 Brugada electrocardiographic pattern: A nationwide cohort registry study

2313 - Giorgia Esposito /
Growth Hormone replacement therapy in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

1982 - Banu Böyük /
Assessment of Sarcopenia, Malnutrition and Frailty Prevalence and Effects on Hospitalization Duration and Mortality in Patients Aged 65 and over in the Internal Medicine Clinic

Who are we? - YI Quizz Moderation: Young Internists

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Parallel Session 29

Joint EFIM-FDIME session

Chairs:
Daniel Sereni (France)
Ricardo Gomez Huelgas (Spain) ▪ 17:10 h. Opening and objectives.

▪ 17:15 h. Internists, health communications, AI and FDIME.
Jan Willem Elte

▪ 17:20 h. Two patient presentations: Mr Mario Carniani, with diabetes and hypertension and Mr Antonio Berni, with CAD and hypertension with short introductions
Filippo Pieralli

Round Table discussion with all speakers and a general discussion,“Patients address European Internists”.
Moderators: Daniel Sereni / Ramon Pujol

Panel: Ramon Pujol, Daniel Sereni, Ricardo Gomez Huelgas, Filippo Pieralli and Jan Willem Elte

▪ 18:10 h. Concluding remarks.

Special Course
Mayo Clinic

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Practical Tips for the Internist
Fernando Rivera (US)

Management of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease
Fouad Chebib (US)

Post COVID-19 complications: approach and available therapies/ Mayo Clinic Model of Care
Juan Carlos Cardenas (US)

Special Session 2

EJCRIM Case Report Competition

Chair:
John Kellett (UK)

Rapid-Fire Session 5

Chair:
Stefano Ministrini (Sweden)Abstracts :

1439 - Sara Jiménez González /
Genetic polymorphisms of inflammatory response and their relationship with the risk of infectiveendocarditis

2411 - Arianna Bartoli /
Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection (CRBSI) and Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CABSI) Outside of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Preliminary Insights from an Italian Monocentric Study

1423 - Daniel Guimarães de Oliveira /
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Adults – a Single-centre Retrospective Review Spanning 3 Seasons

1837 - Mario Martín-Portugués /
Trends in hospitalizations in adults with HIV infection in spain over 25 years

2815 - Salsabeel Abujalala /
Post-COVID-19 neurological manifestations characterized by positive anti-ku antibodies: a narrative review and case series

229 - Mohammed Aboukaoud /
Vancomycin Associated Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms: Meta-analysis, Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacovigilance

2423 - Jorge Benitez Peña /
Descriptive Analysis Of Infective Endocarditis In Our Environment And Factors Related To Mortality

2631 - Cecilia Bussolari /
Infective endocarditis in Internal Medicine: clinical features and prognostic factors

560 - Lisa Collodoro /
The prognostic value of Mid-Regional-pro-adrenomedullin serum levels in predicting in-hospital death in patients with sepsis and septic shock

583 - Christina Antoniadou /
Targeting complement C3 with AMY-101 as a novel approach to attenuate IL-8-driven inflammation in COVID-19

Rapid-Fire Session 6

Chair:
Katarzyna Zielińska (Poland)Abstracts :

72 - Georgia-Nektaria Porfyri /
{"The invisible signs of abuse}": A clinical guide to detect female domestic violence victims

1642 - Veer Bahadur Singh /
“Diagnostic Utility Of Serum Psefocholensterase to Assess Early Support Of Mechanical Ventilation In Organophospharus Poisoning- A Analytic Study In A Tertiary Care Hospital”

441 - François Panosetti /
Smarter medicine guidelines: an effective tool to reduce proton-pump inhibitor overprescription?

1670 - Chiara Pomaranzi /
Continuous real world data collection from internal medicine wards for modern patients’ patterns description and forecasting

1672 - Corinne Vons /
Development of a clinical pathway for the management of adult iron deficiency anaemia: improving patient management and diagnostic performance

966 - Chiara Tinner /
Sex-specific insights into iron deficiency in the presence of anemia and inflammation

1973 - Eda Nur Duran /
Identification of Early Biomarkers for Diabetic Nephropathy: A Comparative Analysis in Normoalbuminuric and Albuminuric Patients

1219 - Valentin Kokorin /
Diagnostic Potential of Kerdo Index Variability in Young Women with Connective Tissue Dysplasia and Autonomic Imbalance

1122 - Melike Yakut /
Autoimmune Hepatitis: Early Treatment Response As A Predictor Of Long-Term Remission

695 - Nazlı Pelin KIRKAYAK /
Vaccination rate with pneumococcal vaccine in risky patient group in internal medicine outpatient clinics

Rapid-Fire Session 7

Chair:
Olga Boeva (Russia)Abstracts :

846 - Ana María Aldea Gamarra /
Evolution in the diagnosis of amyloidosis in recent years

912 - Víctor Urbaneja Zumaquero /
Exploring the Heterogeneity of Common Variable Immunodeficiency in Clinical Practice

1819 - Cristina Bayon González /
30 Years of Treating ATTR Amyloidosis: A Single-Center Experience from Mallorca, Spain

2532 - Mariana Mihaila /
The multiple facets of Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia - The Experience from a Liver Transplant Center in Romania

2680 - Achille Aouba /
A20 haploinsufficiency diagnosis beyond systematic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review of the literature

693 - Kevin Chevalier /
French multicenter retrospective study of patients with cocaine- and/or levamisole-induced vasculitis and vasculopathy

1112 - Rodrigo Miranda Godoy /
Early diagnosis of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) using tenosynovial membrane biopsies from patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: The AMILOCARPO project

2396 - Nuray Yılmaz Çakmak /
Impact of celiac disease in Behçet’s syndrome patients: a study based on the database of Türkiye

2627 - Julija Genri Voicehovska /
Incidence of polypharmacy and related adverse health outcomes in elderly multimorbid latvian patients with chronic kidney disease

282 - Kim Dahan /
Vascular Alterations in Systemic Sclerosis: Advanced Imaging Insights towards Precision Medicine

Parallel Session 30

Perioperative management of

Chair :
Nandini Chatterjee (India)
Sebastijan Bevc (Slovenia) Antiplatinent treatment
George Ntaios (Greece)

Anticoagulants
Murat Arsava (Turkiye)


Abstract :
1964 - Pablo Rosales Garcia /
Shared Care In Patients With Hip Fracture: The Importance Of Frailty

Parallel Session 31

Preventive Medicine: Screening Programs for Early Disease Detection

Chair:
Marco Bernardi (Italy)
Prasad Katulanda (Sri Lanka)(TBC) Speaker:
Philippe Autier (France)


Abstracts :
2609 - Maria Cristina Vedovati /
Long-term course of acute pulmonary embolism: a prospective cohort study

1641 - Alice Vianello /
Red blood cell distribution width and blood transfusions are associated with 2-year mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in males only: a gender perspective

Parallel Session 32

Core competencies for the use of AI in Internal Medicine.

Chair:
Filomena Pietrantonio (Italy)The role of the Scientific Societies in training and implementation of AI in the clinical field.
Javier Garcia Alegria (Spain)

Building data and digital literacy among the clinical workforce from University.
Henrique Martins (Portugal)

Abstracts :
2111 - Leslie Naesens /
Implementation of machine learning-based multiplex cytokine analysis for resolving FUO/IUO (fever and inflammation of unknown origin): a tertiary hospital experience

2488 - Snezhana Brovkina /
The use of artificial intelligence as a way to optimize telemedicine counseling and reduce burnout

COFFEE BREAK / YOUNG INTERNISTS CORNER SESSIONS

Q&A with John Kellet Moderation: Young Internists

COFFEE BREAK / YOUNG INTERNISTS CORNER SESSIONS

COFFEE BREAK / YOUNG INTERNISTS CORNER SESSIONS

Plenary Session 5

Cardiovasculer Kidney Metabolic Syndrome

Chairs:
Radovan Hojs (Slovenia)
Jan Duława (Poland)Speaker:
Jose R Gonzalez-Juanatey (Spain)

Choosing Wisely Working Group Meeting
by Invitation only

Parallel Session 33

Preparing for the Unpredictable: The Power of Collaboration in Crisis Management

Chair :
Miguel Romano (Portugal)Preparing for the Unseen
Filomena Pietrantonio (Italy)

Navigating Chaos
Nihat Müjdat Hökenek (Turkiye)

MSF experience in crisis management
Chiara Montaldo- Filomena (Italy)

Parallel Session 34

Point of Care Ultrasound

Chair:
Joao Neves (Portugal)
Juan Torres Macho (Spain)Role of Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in shock management
Nicola Parenti (Italy)

Innovation in Internal Medicine : Beyond the Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Yale Tung-Chen (Spain)

POCUS in Internal Medicine – where we are and how to set up a national programme
Nick Smallwood (UK)


Abstract :
1521 - Andrea Boccatonda /
Role of ultrasound and color-Doppler examination in Dunbar syndrome: the Bologna Center experience

Parallel Session 35

Choosing wisely : Empowering medical students (STARS program)

Chair:
Omar Kherad (Switzerland) Speakers:
William Silverstein (Canada)
Christopher Moriates (US)

LUNCH BREAK / POSTER DISCUSSION

LUNCH BREAK / POSTER DISCUSSION

LUNCH BREAK / POSTER DISCUSSION

Special Session 3

EJIM Best Papers: educational session on how to write a successful article

Chair :
Giancarlo Agnelli (Italy)
Marcel Levi (The Netherlands)Discussants:
Enrico Fabris (Italy)
Andres Muñoz Martín (Spain)
Athanasios Manolis (Greece)



Iron deficiency and all-cause mortality after myocardial infarction
Dominik Jenča (Czech Republic)


Incidence and predisposing factors of extra-articular manifestations in contemporary rheumatoid arthritis
Lotta Ljung (Sweden)


Relation of plasma neuropeptide-Y with myocardial function and infarct severity in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Christina Tiller (Austria)

Special Session 4

"Celebrating Joy in Internal Medicine Award: Finalists oral presentations" (organised by the Early Career Group)

Chairs:
Frauke Weidanz (UK)
Friederike Bennett (Germany) Abstracts:

2403 - Mario Stabile /
Communic-art workshop: an artistic activity during the 8th Mountain Medical School

2487 - Christel Gerardin /
AI for medicine: from magic to enlightened use

1659 - Ornella Flores /
No Resident Left Behind: Building Confidence Through Peer-Powered Learning in Internal Medicine

1351 - Umesh Sharma /
Usage and attitudes toward social media amongst residents of an Internal Medicine residency program- a pilot project

0590 - Munir Mohamed Mimun
Leveling Healthcare Professional Training: How Serious Games Enhance Knowledge Acquisition and Application of Clinical Guidelines in Internal Medicine and Emergency

2564 - Enes Erul /
A Cross-Sectional Study on Physicians’ Knowledge Levels, Attitudes, and Anxiety Related to Climate Change in Turkey

2516 - Lucia Ordieres Ortega /
Gender equality in Internal Medicine: a Spanish survey

Awards Ceremony

Closing Ceremony