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Sunday, 6 January 2008
Level B1, Conference Room 1
Tri-Service General H., Taipei, Taiwan

09:30-09:35  Opening - Professor Chiu-Chin Huang & Professor Yu-Feng Lin

09:35-10:15  Physiology and physiopathology of mineral metabolism in normal
                           individuals and in patients with different degrees of renal 
                           failure  - Professor Marc De Broe/ Professor Pauling Chu

10:30-12:45  Treatment of abnormal mineral metabolism in patients with 
                           different degrees of renal failure:
                           Calciminetics - cinacalcet
                           Calcium and non-calcium containing phophate binders
                           Vitamin D and vitamin D analogues
                           Vascular calcification, PTH and bone metabolism in 
                              patients  with different degrees of renal failure -  
                              Prof Pauling Chu/ Prof Marc De Broe/  Patrick D'Haese

13:30-14:30  Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of abnomral mineral 
                          metabolism in patients with different degrees of renal 
                             failure  - Professor Patrick D'Haese

14:30-16:00  Bone biopsies in patients with abnomral mineral metabolism 
                          -  Dr Geert Behets

16:20-17:20  Discussion of illustrative case reports combining clinical data, 
                          medical history, laboratory results and the relevance of 
                          the bone  biopsy - Prof Pauling Chu/ Profe Marc De Broe/ 
                              Prof Patrick D'Haese/ Dr Geert Behets

17:20-17:30  Closing -  Professor Wu-Chang Yang