BALTIC CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGY
September 6-8, 2018 Kaunas, Lithuania
6TH SEPTEMBER/ THURSDAY ALFA HALL GAMMA HALL DELTA HALL ZETA HALL
Neurosonology practical teaching course (Hands-on)
Teaching course /Headache
Teaching course / ENMG
Teaching course / Assesment and treatment
of epilepsy / Sleep medicine
1000-1200
Uwe Walter
(DEU / UNI-ROSTOCK)
Transcranial brain sonography: applications in
neurology
Jean Shoenen
(BEL / ULIEGE)
What is the place of neurostimulation in chronic
headaches
Kai M. Rösler
(CHE / UNIBE)
Evaluation of myopathies
Margitta Seeck
(CHE / UNIGE)
EEG of complicated epilepsies
Galina Baltgaile
(LVA / RSU)
Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque
Aija Freimane
(LVA)
Nocturnal headaches.
Aušra Klimašauskiene
(LTU / VU)
Sensory and motor nerve conduction studies
Joerg Wellmer
(DEU / KK-BOCHUM)
Radiology epilepsy
Vaidas Matijošaitis
(LTU / LSMU)
Mark Braschinsky
(EST / UT)
Migraine chronification
Michel R. Magistris
(CHE / UNIGE)
Evaluation of nerve conduction blocks
Torbjörn Tomson
(SWE / KI)
Pharmacotherapy of epilepsy in special populations
The role of transcranial ultrasound in diagnostics of
patent foramen ovale
Kristina Ryliškienė
(LTU / VU)
Chronic daily headache
1200- 1300 Lunch break/ E-poster sessions
1300- 1500
Neurosonology practical teaching
course
(Hands-on)
Teaching course. Assessment and
treatment of stroke Teaching course/ENMG
Teaching course / Sleep medicine/ Assesment and
treatment of epilepsy
Uwe Walter
(DEU / UNI-ROSTOCK)
Neuromuscular ultrasound of neck and arm in
neurological practice
Daiva Rastenytė
(LTU / LSMU)
Standardized neurological evaluation in acute stroke
(NIHSS)
Miglė Ališauskienė
(LTU / LSMU)
Needle EMG: normal and abnormal findings.
Evelina Pajėdienė
(LTU / LSMU) Practical aspects of performing
and analyzing sleep studies André Truffert
(CHE / UNIGE)
Evaluation of carpal tunnel syndrome Givi Lingvenis
(LTU / VU)
Early CT score (ASPECTS) Jurgita Valaikienė
(LTU / VU)
Ocular color-coded sonography in neurological
practice
Jovita Švilpauskė-Laurynienė, Daiva Garšviene
(LTU / LSMU)
Evaluation of small fiber neuropathies
Katrin Põld
(EST / ESMA)
Clinical case from sleep studies. Discussion with the
audience. Aleksandras Vilionskis (LTU / VU)
Rational use of neuroimaging for selection of reperfusion
therapies?
Dalius Jatužis
(LTU / VU)
Assessment of superficial temporal artery
Robert Mikulik
(CZE / FNUSA-ICRC)
Improvement of stroke logistics: how to reduce
onset-to-door and door-to-needle time?
Discussion Janika Kõrv
(EST / UT)
Strategies of antithrombotic treatment in complicated
clinical situations?
1500 – 1530 Coffee break
1530 – 1630
Satellite symposium: Boerhinger Ingelheim
Fausto J. Pinto (PRT / ULISBOA)
Dalius Jatužis (LTU / VU)
Atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention
Satellite symposium: Berlin Chemie Menarini
Baltic
1630-1700
ALFA HALL
Invited lecture. Amos Korczyn (ISR / EMDA)
Chairman of the Scientific Medical Board of the Israeli Alzheimer's disease association (EMDA)
Why have we failed to find a cure for AD
1700-1730
ALFA HALL
Invited lecture. Philip Scheltens (NLD / VUmc)
Alzheimer center, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Current state of the art in diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (preliminary)
1730 – 1800 ALFA HALL
Opening ceremony
1800 ALFA HALL
Welcome Reception
7TH SEPTEMBER/ FRIDAY ALFA HALL GAMMA HALL
800 – 1000
Stroke and cerebrovascular disorders Epilepsy
800 – 820
Eivind Berge
(NOR / UiO)
2018 ESO guidelines on anticoagulation for stroke secondary prevention
800-820
Torbjörn Tomson
(SWE / KI)
Management of epilepsy in pregnancy
820-840
Robert Mikulik
(CZE / MUNI)
Stroke unit and quality of care in acute stroke
820-840
Margitta Seeck
(CHE / UNIGE)
Future of epilepsy surgery
840-900
Inga Slautaite
(LTU / VU)
Update on intracerebral hemorrhage
840-900
Sulev Haldre
(EST / TU)
Medical treatment of epilepsy: state of art
900-920
Antanas Vaitkus
(LTU / LSMU)
Stroke of nondominant hemisphere
900-920
Giedrė Gelžiniene
(LTU / LSMU)
Outcome of childhood- onset epilepsy: transition to adulthood
920-940
Janika Kõrv
(EST / UT)
Off-label thrombolysis for ischemic stroke: is it safe?
920-940
Suna Normunds
(LVA / RSU)
Alcohol-related Seizures
940-1000
Evija Miglane
(LVA / RSU)
Update on lacunar stroke
940-1000
Rūta Mameniškienė
(LTU / VU)
Epilepsy in elderly
1000 –1030 Coffee break
ALFA HALL GAMMA HALL DELTA HALL
1030 – 1230
Interventional neuroradiology Sleep medicine Nurse sessions
1030-1050
Adam Kobayashi
(POL / Interventional Stroke Treatment Centre)
Mechanical thrombectomy in elderly stroke patients
1030-1100
Claudio Bassetti
(CH / BENESCO)
Narcolepsy and other central disorders of hypersomnolence
1030-1045
Eglė Lendraitienė, Toma Petkutė
(LTU / LSMU)
Physiotherapy for the prevention and management of secondary complications in
patients with neurological conditions
(presentation in English)
1050-1110
Claus Ziegler Simonsen (DNK / AU)
General Or Local Anesthesia In Intra Arterial
Therapy (GOLIATH)
1100-1130
Birgit Högl
(AUT / I-MED)
Idiopathic RBD as a symptom of neurodegenerative
disorders. Updated diagnostic and treatment approach
1045-1100
Triinu Kurvits, Anneli Jaska
(EST / TU)
Stroke care: a team approach
(presentation in English)
1110-1130
Aleksandras Vilionskis / Dalius Jatužis
(LTU / VU)
Mechanical thrombectomy beyond 6 hours
1130-1150
Katrin Põld
(EST / TU)
Differential diagnosis of sleep-related movements in adults
1100-1115
Ester Vatsk
(EST / TU)
Nursing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(presentation in Russian)
1130-1150
Rytis Kaupas
(LTU / LSMU)
Lithuanian experience of mechanical thrombectomy
for stroke patients
1150-1210
Evelina Pajėdiene
(LTU / LSMU)
Sleep and stroke: not only sleep apnoea does matter
1115-1130
Inga Zopp
(EST / TU)
Nursing in multiple sclerosis
(presentation in Russian)
1130-1145 Regina Palatu, Valentina
Pjassetskaja
(EST / TU)
The role of nurses in Parkinson's disease
(presentation in Russian)
1145-1200
Daiva Borkienė (LTU / LSMU)
Nursing patients with epilepsy
(presentation in English)
1150-1210
Karlis Kupčs
(LVA / RSU)
Mechanical thrombectomy in the posterior circulation
area 1210-1230
Raminta Masaitienė, Dalia Matačiūnienė
(LTU / VU)
Sleepiness and driving
1200-1215
Marianne Elisabeth Klinke
(ISL / HI)
Nurses role in the management of stroke
patients with spatial neglect.
(presentation in English)
1210-1230
Riina Vibo
(EST / UT)
Estonian experience of mechanical thrombectomy
for stroke patients
1215-1230
Marianne Elisabeth Klinke, (ISL / HI)
Nursing issues on Myasthenia gravis: common sympyoms, surveillance and alliviating
actions
(presentation in English)
1230 – 1330 Lunch break/E-poster session
1330 – 1530
Headache/pain Movement disorders Satellite symposiums
1330-1350
Jean Shoenen
(BEL / ULIEGE)
Pathophysiology- based migraine treatment
1330-1400
Zbigniew Wszolek
(USA / MAYO CLINIC)
Alpha-synucleinopathies and tauopathies, clinical, genetic
and pathological aspects
1330-1430
Satellite symposium: Bayer
Birutė Petrauskienė
(LTU / VU)
Rivaroxaban in clinical practice 1350-1410
Rigmor Jensen
(DNK / KU)
1400-1430
Kallol Ray Chaudhuri
(GBR / KCL)
Typical and atypical Cluster headache
Nonmotor complications of levodopa: phenomenology,
risk factors, and imaging features
1410-1430
Aija Freimane
(LVA)
Headache in the elderly
1430-1445
Toomas Toomsoo
(EST / TU)
Neuroimaging in pre-motor Parkinson’s disease
1430-1450
Mark Brashinsky
(EST / ELITE KLIINIK)
Trauma and headache
1445-1500
Evelina Pajėdienė
(LTU / LSMU)
Sleep disturbances in movement disorders
1430-1530
Satellite symposium: Roche
Renata Balnytė, Dalia Mickevičienė
(LTU / LSMU)
Rasa Kizlaitienė
(LTU / VU)
Transforming the multiple sclerosis treatment paradigm
1450-1510
Diana Obelienienė
(LTU / LSMU)
Overview of IHS Classification ICHD-3
1500-1515
Ligita Smeltere
(LVA / LU)
Essential tremor in Latvia
1510-1530
Arūnas Ščiupokas
(LTU / LSMU)
Pain medicine: chalenges for neurologist
1515-1530
Rūta Kaladytė Lokominienė
(LTU / VU)
Rhythmic auditory-motor entrainment in movement
disorders
1530- 1600 Coffee break
1600 -1800
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias Short presentations Education in neurology
(round table discussion)
1600-1620
Vilmantė Borutaitė
(LTU / LSMU)
Protein aggregation and neuronal loss in
experimental models of
1600-1615
Donatas Zailskas
(LTU / VU)
Unresolved questions of essential tremor: an etiological, pathogenetic and
phenotypical approach
TBC
neurodegenerative disorders
1620-1640 Gintaras Kaubrys (LTU / VU)
Apolipoprotein E: Alzheimer’s disease
genetic risk factor, course modifier, determiner of
distinct AD types, or target for the future treatment
1615-1630
Raminta Macaitytė (LTU / LSMU)
Challenges of diagnosing sleep disorders (case report)
TBC
1640-1700
Pille Taba
(EST / TU)
Dementias with parkinsonism
1630-1645
Sandra Ütt
(EST)
Case presentation: myopathies, rational diagnostic pathway
TBC
1700-1720
Greta Pšemeneckienė
(LTU / LSMU)
Challenges and advanced strategies in treatment of
Alzheimer's disease
1645-1700
George Chakhava
(GEO)
Approaches in the Management of Autoimmune Encephalitis
Discussion
1720-1740
Zanda Priede, M.Kalniņa
(LVA / RSU)
Changing perspectives on frontotemporal dementia
1700-1715 TBA
1740-1800
Eglė Audronytė
(LTU / VU)
Olfactory perception and memory as a biomarker for
the early diagnosis of Alzheimers’s disease
1715-1730
Ravita Gailane
(LVA / RSU)
Analysis of hyperacute ishemic stroke management at the Clinic of
Emergency at Riga East University hospital
1730-1745 Tatjana Liakina
(LTU / VU)
Demonstration of seizure elements - a possible complimentary seizure
semiology diagnostic tool?
1745-1800
Sintija Locane
(LVA / RSU)
Women with progressive myoclonus - ataxia syndrome and gait instability
1900 Gala dinner at “Raudondvaris Mannor Castle”
Busses from Conference venue will take you to the Gala dinner venue. Please be present at the main entrance of the Park Inn hotel no later than 18:30
8TH SEPTEMBER/ SATURDAY ALFA HALL GAMMA HALL
800 – 1000
Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases Peripheral neuropathies/ Miscellaneous
800-820
Eva Hubala Havrdova
(CZE / CUNI)
Aggressive multiple sclerosis in the context of reaching NEDA as treatment goal
800-820
Kęstutis Petrikonis
(LTU / LSMU)
Metabolic and toxic polyneuropathy
820-840
Luca Prosperini
(ITA / UNIROMA)
Pharmacological treatment of highly active RR multiple sclerosis: the role of monoclonal
antibodies
820-840
Pascal Proot
(BEL / UGENT)
EMG approach to polyneuropathy
840-900
Katrin Gross- Paju
(ESN / TU)
Does benign multiple sclerosis exist?
840-900
Ervina Bilič
(HRV / UNIZG)
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)
900-920
Dalia Mickevičienė
(LTU / LSMU)
Comorbidity in multiple sclerosis: implications for disease management
900-920
Elīna Millere, Signe Šetlere, Viktorija Kēniņa
(LVA / RSU) Coexistence of Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and
chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy - Latvian experience
920-940
Rasa Kizlaitienė, Nataša Giedraitienė.
(LTU / VU)
Comprehensive and uninterruptible patient monitoring using Multiple sclerosis registry
in Lithuania
920-940
Michel R. Magistris (CHE / UNIGE)
Contraction response to muscle percussion in neurology
940-1000
Daina Pastare
(LVA / RSU)
940-1000
Discussion
Anti-MOG antibodies in adult patients with demyelinating disorders of central nervous
system
1000 – 1030 Coffee break
1030 – 1230
Young stroke Experimental neurology and technological innovations in neurology
1030-1050
Jukka Putaala
(FIN / HELSINKI)
Cryptogenic ischemic stroke among young people
1030-1050
Vilmantė Borutaitė
(LTU / LSMU)
New molecular targets for neuroprotection in ischemic stroke
1050-1110
Annette Fromm
(NOR / UIB)
Generalized arterial disease in young and middle-aged ischemic stroke. The
Norwegian Stroke in the Young Study (NOR-SYS)
1050-1110
Dietger W. Niederwieser
(DEU / UNI-LEIPZIG)
Stem cell therapy in neurology
1110-1130
Grzegorz Kozera
(POL / UMK)
Carotid dissections
1110-1130
Sarmite Dzelzite
(LVA / RSU)
Clinical usefulness of arterial spin labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance imaging in neurology
1130-1150
Kristina Ryliškienė
(LTU / VU)
Update on thrombophilias in young stroke
1130-1150
Regimantas Jurkus
(LTU)
Combining interdisciplinary in vivo and in silico approaches to investigate fear memory
neurocircuitry
1150- 1210
Siim Schneider
(EST / TU)
Outcome of young ischemic stroke
1150- 1210
Ülle Krikmann
(EST / TU)
Infusion pump therapies for Parkinson’s disease
1210-1230
Krista Svilāne, Ainārs Rudzītis, Kristaps Jurjāns, Artūrs Balodis
(LVA / RSU) 1210-1230
John Vissing
(DNK / KU)
Long-term outcome after patent foramen ovale occlusion in young patients with
stroke. Nationwide register data
Next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for muscle diseases
1230- 1330 Lunch break / Poster sessions
1330 -1530
Neurosurgery in neurological diseases Oral communications
1330-1400
Volodymyr Smolanka
(UKR / UZHNU)
The role of surgical treatment in management of trigeminal neuralgia
1330-1350
Sigitas Čižinauskas
(LTU / AISTI)
Dog with Guillain-Barre syndrome and cat with Tourette syndrome, does it exist?
1400-1430
Andrius Radžiūnas
(LTU / LSMU)
Brain MRI voxel based morphometry – tool for Parkinson‘s disease research and use in
clinical settings
1350-1400
Jānis Mednieks
(LVA / RSU)
Status epilepticus treatment – CUH experience from Latvia. Is there a necessity for improvements?
1430-1450
Saulius Ročka
(LTU / VU)
. Experience and challenges of epilepsy surgery
1400-1410
Laura Šinkūnaitė
(LTU / LSMU)
Changes of cutaneous and cortical silent responses in a random sample of Lithuania patients with Parkinson
disease
1450-1510
Antanas Gvazdaitis
(LTU / KUL)
Cardiac manifestation of subarachnoid haemorrhage
1410-1420
Marit Laos
(EST / TU)
Analysis of oral anticoagulant treatment in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: a population-based
study in Estonia 2010 - 2016
1510-1530
Karolis Bareikis, Paulius Čikotas
(LTU / LSMU)
Ethical controversies and decision making in surgery of cerebral ischemia
1420-1430
Liis Kadastik-Eerme
(EST / TU)
Baclofen pump treatment for spasticity
1430-1440 Kristaps Jurjans
(LVA / RSU)
Cardioembolic stroke in Latvia: frequency, prevention and long-term outcome
1440-1450
Andrejs Kostiks
(LVA / RSU)
Cognitive deficit and its causes for patients in early midlife
1450-1500
Daiva Valadkevičienė, Dalius Jatužis, Rasa Kizlaitienė
(LTU / VU)
Work capability level of patients with multiple sclerosis in Lithuania: it’s dynamics and relationship
with employment status and lethal outcomes
1500-1510
Mari Muldmaa
(EST / TU)
Impulsive disorders in Parkinson’s disease
1510-1520 TBA
1530 Closing and farewell