22nd Advanced Course in Diagnostic Neuroradiology
“EMERGENCIES AND SUBACUTE NEUROIMAGING”
PARTENOPE ROOM (Excelsior Hotel)
08:45-10.15 Session 1
Chairs: Andrea Falini (Italy), Paul M. Parizel (Belgium)
8.45-9.15 Update on hemodynamics of cerebral ischemia and indications for IV treatment - Arturo Consoli (Italy)
9.15-9.45 Current trends on diagnosis and management of brain hemorrahage - Mauricio Castillo (USA)
9.45-10.15 Pediatric emergencies - Nadine Girard (France)
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-13.00 Session 2
Chairs: Nuria Bargallò (Spain), Rolf Jaeger (UK)
10.45-11.05 PRES, IRIS and RCVS - Zulejha Merhemic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
11.05-11.25 Acute white matter autoimmune diseases - Pia Maly Sundgren (Sweden)
11.25-11.45 Drug related emergencies - Luc van den Hauwe (Belgium)
11.45-12.05 Acute and subacute visual disturbances: how to image - Andrea Falini (Italy)
12:05-12:25 Acute hydrocephalus - Cesare Colosimo (Italy)
12:30-13.00 Question Time
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session 3
Chairs: Gianni Pellicanò, Marek Sasiadek
14.00-14.20 Oncologic emergencies - Rolf Jäger (UK)
14.20-14.40 Advanced multimodal imaging for brain tumors - Marion Smits (The Netherlands)
14.40-15.00 Brain trauma: an advanced neuroimaging approach - Paul M. Parizel (Belgium)
15.00-15.20 Abusive head and abusive spinal trauma - Giulio Zuccoli (USA)
15.20-15.40 How to image epileptic patients and conventional imaging - Nuria Bargallo (Spain)
15.40-16.00 fMRI and morphometric MRI analysis of cortical malformations - Horst Urbach (Germany)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Session 4
Chairs: Zulejha Merhemic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Marion Smits (The Netherlands)
16.30-16.50 Emergencies in brain and spine infection - E. Turgut Tali (Turkey)
16.50-17.10 Acute myelopathy - Majda M. Thurnher (Austria)
17.10-17.30 Tractography of the spinal cord - Marek Sasiadek (Poland)
17.30-17.50 Advanced imaging of the brachial plexus - Roberto Gasparotti (Italy)
17:50-18:00 Question Time
“UPDATE ON AVMs”
MIRABILIS ROOM (Royal Continental Hotel)
8:45-10.15 Session 1
Chairs: Serge Bracard (France), Giuseppe Russo (Italy)
8.45-9.15 Origin and growth of AVMs - Mike Lawton (USA)
9.15-9.45 The practical relevance of the concept of histogenetic unit - Anton Valavanis (Switzerland)
9.45-10.15 Functional and time resolved MRA in AVMs - Marco Essig (Canada)
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-13.00 Session 2
Chairs: Salvatore Mangiafico (Italy), Howard A. Riina (USA)
10.45-11.15 The arterial feeders and nidus evaluation - Martino Cellerini (Italy)
11.15-11.45 The topography of the venous drainage - Serge Bracard (France)
11.45-12.15 Perinidal vessels evaluation - Charbel Mounayer (France)
12.15-12.45 AVM, ARUBA and related matters: what has really changed - Alberto Pasqualin (Italy)
12.45-13.00 Question Time
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session 3
Chairs: Charles Romanowski (UK), Renato Scienza (Italy)
14.00-14.30 Endovascular treatment: venous approach - Salvatore Mangiafico (Italy)
14.30-15.00 Surgical treatment - Howard A. Riina (USA)
15.00-15.30 Endovascular treatment: arterial approach - René Chapot (Germany)
15.30-16.00 Stereotactic radiosurgery of brain AVMs - Michael Soederman (Sweden)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Session 4
Chairs: Alberto Beltramello (Italy), Charbel Mounayer (France)
16.30-16.50 Pathophysiology of spinal dural AVMs - Daniel Ruefenacht (Switzerland)
16.50-17.10 Classification of spinal vascular malformations - Georges Rodesch (France)
17.10-17.30 Endovascular treatment of paraspinal AVFs and spinal DAVFs - Hans Henkes (Germany)
17.30-17.50 Endovascular treatment of peri- and intramedullary AVFs and AVMs - Alfredo Casasco (Spain)
17.50-18.00 Question Time
AUDITORIUM (Royal Continental Hotel)
8:30-11.30 Advanced Tumor Imaging
Chairs: Didier Dormont (France), Pia Maly Sundgren (Sweden)
8.30-8.50 Genetics of brain tumors - Zoltan Patay (USA)
8.50-9.10 State of the art in glioma: MR imaging in clinical practice - Tarek Yousry (UK)
9.10-9.30 Molecular imaging and phenotypes of brain tumors - Marion Smits (The Netherlands)
9.30-9.50 Oncometabolomics MR in brain glioma - Alberto Beltramello (Italy)
9.50-10.10 Understanding radiation- and chemotherapy-induced changes after treatment of brain tumors Yelda Ozsunar (Turkey)
10.10-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-10.50 Advanced treatment for brain tumors - Alessandro Olivi (USA)
10.50-11.10 PET-MR : the role of hybrid imaging in neuroradiology - Giuseppe Chiaravalloti (Italy)
11.10-11.30 Diagnostic fusion imaging for RT planning - Vincenzo Ravo (Italy)
11.30- 12.30 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address
11.30-11.45 Mario Muto (President of the ESNR Meeting)
11.45-12.00 Majda M. Thurnher (President of the ESNR)
12.00-12.30 Honorary Membership Ceremony
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 ESNR Founders Award and Diploma Ceremony
14.30-14.40 Springer Award
14.40-16.00 Joint Session ASNR - ESNR
Chair: Majda M. Thurnher (Austria), Gordon Sze (USA)
14.40-15.00 European future view of Neuroradiology: where are we going? - Majda M. Thurnher (Austria)
15.00-15.40 Case interpretation session - Mauricio Castillo (Usa), Majda M. Thurnher (Austria)
15.40-16.00 Neuroradiology in USA: old problems, new solutions? - Gordon Sze (USA)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.30 Oral Communications: Diagnostic 1
Chairs: Alessandro Bozzao (Italy), Maria Vargas (Switzerland)
PARTENOPE ROOM (Excelsior Hotel)
8.30-11.30 Intracranial Aneurysms
Chairs: Naci Kocer (Turkey), Giuseppe Russo (Italy)
8.30-8.50 Coiling aneurysms. Different strategy, same results? - Michel E. Mawad (USA)
8.50-9.10 Coiling vs. clipping: long-term-efficacy. Why still a debate? - Howard A. Riina (USA)
9.10-9.30 Endovascular treatment of ruptured anterior circulation aneurysms - Lucio Castellan (Italy)
9.30-9.50 Endovascular treatment of ruptured posterior circulation aneurysms - Maurizio Resta (Italy)
9.50-10.10 How to define "complex" aneurysms - Saruhan Cekirge (Turkey)
10.10-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-10.50 Bifurcation aneurysms: how to change treatment strategy - Salvatore Mangiafico (Italy)
10.50-11.10 Surgical approach to complex aneurysms - Mike F. Lawton (USA)
11.10-11.30 Flow diversion: multidevice experience - Hans Henkes (Germany)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Spinal Tumors and Metastasis
Chairs: Allan Brook (USA), Salvatore Masala (Italy)
14.00-14.15 Multimodality diagnostic approach to spinal metastasis - Johan Van Goethem (Belgium)
14.15-14.30 Diagnostic approach and staging of multipel myeloma - Marc-André Weber (Germany)
14.30-14.45 Advanced radiotherapy of spinal metastasis - Vincenzo Ravo (Italy)
14.45-15.00 Spine metastasis and sacroplasty - Allan L. Brook (USA)
15.00-15.15 Surgical approach to spinal metastasis - Stefano Boriani (Italy)
15.15-15.30 Aneurysmal bone cyst treatment - Alexis Kelekis (Greece)
15.30-15.45 Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma treatment - Marc-André Weber (Germany)
15.45-16.00 Question Time
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Oral Communications: Interventional 1
Chairs: Gianluigi Guarnieri (Italy), Gregg Zoarski (USA)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Special focus: Spondylodiscitis Update
Chairs: Luc van den Hauwe (Belgium), Alberto Signore (Italy)
14.00-14.20 Epidemiology, etiology and clinical diagnostic management - Adriana Cataldo (Italy)
14.20-14.40 Neuroradiological diagnostic approach - Cosma Andreula (Italy)
14.40-15.00 The role of nuclear medicine - Elena Lazzeri (Italy)
15.00-15.20 Results of multidisciplinary approach on spinal infection - Mario Muto (Italy)
15.20-16.00 Question Time
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Oral Communications: Diagnostic 2
Chairs: Yelda Ozsunar (Turkey), Guy Wilms (Belgium)
VESUVIO ROOM (Royal Continental Hotel)
16.30-18.00 Oral Communications: Interventional 2
Chairs: Zsolt Kulczar (Switzerland), Elisa Francesca Maria Ciceri (Italy)
POSILLIPO ROOM (Royal Continental Hotel)
16.30-18.30 ESNR meets South Mediterranean Countries
Chairs: Mohamed Ben Hamouda (Tunisia), Mario Muto (Italy), E. Turgut Tali (Turkey)
16.30-16.50 Neuroradiology in Tunesia (1st part: Neuroradiology and interventional neuroradiology practice inTunesia, 2nd part : Advanced MRI techniques of pediatric cerebellar tumors) - Mohamed Ben Hamouda (Tunisia)
16.50-17.10 How did King Tutankhamen die? - Hamdi Rashad (Egypt)
17.10-17.30 Neuroradiology in Morocco - Moulay Rachid Elhassani (Morocco)
AUDITORIUM (Royal Continental Hotel)
8:00-10.00 Dementia and Movement Disorders
Chairs: Arturo Brunetti (Italy), Athanasios Gouliamos (Greece)
8.00-8.20 Cerebral microbleeds and cerebral amyloid angiopathy - Rolf Jäger (UK)
8.20-8.40 MR contribution to diagnosis and differential diagnosis in dementia - Frederik Barkhof (The Netherlands)
8.40-9.00 Imaging in Parkinsonism and other extrapyramidal disorders - Tatjana Stošić Opinćall (Serbia)
9.00-9.20 Role of PET in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of MD - Marco Pagani (Italy)
9.20-9.40 MRI guided focused ultrasound for tremor in Parkinson's disease and Essential Tremor patients - Dorith Goldsher (Israel)
9.40-10.00 Clinical case discussion - Beatriz Gomez Anson (Spain)
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10:30-12.00 Intracranial Vessel Evaluation Beyond Morphology
Chairs: Igor Pronin (Russia), Dora Zlatareva (Bulgaria)
10:30-10.50 Vessel wall MR evaluation - Timo Krings (Canada)
10.50-11.10 Optical Flow measurement for in-vivo aneurysmal Flow characterization - Timo Krings (Canada)
11.10-11.30 ASL principles and application - Pedro Vilela (Portugal)
11.30-11.50 Update on hemodynamics of intracranial aneurysms - Zsolt Kulcsár (Switzerland)
11.50-12.10 Question Time
12.00-13.00 Diagnostic Special Focus in MS ESNR MAGNIMS Joint Session
Chairs: Frederik Barkhof (The Netherlands), Alex Rovira (Spain)
12.00-12.20 Update on MR imaging features in multiple sclerosis - Alex Rovira (Spain)
12.20-12.40 Pediatric MS: which are the distinguishing characteristic? - Mike Wattjes (The Netherlands)
12.40-13.00 Clinical relevance of brain atrophy in MS - Frederik Barkhof (The Netherlands)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14:00-15.00 ESNR General Assembly
15:00-16.30 Oral Communications : Diagnostic 4
Chairs: Pierre Guedin (France), Peter Cowley (UK)
16:30-18.30 Pediatrics - Joint Session on Pediatric Neuroradiology with the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology
Chairs: Chen Hoffmann (Israel), Thierry Huisman (USA)
16.30-16.50 Advanced imaging of the spinal cord translating "new" sequences into clinical practice - Thierry Huisman (USA)
16.50-17.10 The fetal spine: how to study and what to look for - Nadine Girard (France)
17.10-17.30 Spinal malformations: pattern recognition - Andrea Rossi (Italy)
17.30-18.00 The hyperintense spinal cord: pattern recognition - Chen Hoffmann (Israel)
18.00-18.20 Pitfalls, variants and non-patological findings - Thierry Huisman (USA)
18.20-18.30 Question Time
PARTENOPE ROOM (Excelsior Hotel)
8:00-13.00 Update on Aneurysm Treatment and DAVF
Chairs: Olav Jansen (Germany), Pedro Vilela (Portugal)
8.00-8.20 Remodelling technique: still useful? - René Chapot (Germany)
8.20-8.40 New devices for aneurysm treatment - Alessandra Biondi (France)
8.40-9.00 Giant aneurysms: EVT - Istvan Szikora (Hungary)
9.00-9.20 Giant aneurysms: surgical treatment - Bart van der Zwan (The Netherlands)
9.20-9.40 Actual concept in diagnosis and treatment DAVF - Christophe Cognard (France)
9.40-10.00 Alternative techniques to improve the endovascular treatment of brain AVMs - Saruhan Cekirge (Turkey)
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-10.50 How can I reduce complications rate? - Cyvan Islak (Turkey)
10.50-11.10 Has Onyx changed the approach to DAVFs? - Francesco Causin (Italy)
11.10-11.30 SWOT Analysis of interventional aneurysm therapy - Michael Forsting (Germany)
11.30-11.50 Radiation dose in neuro-intervention - Michael Soederman (Sweden)
11.50-12.10 RCT in interventional neuroradiology. Has it been always a revolution? - Naci Kocer (Turkey)
12.10-12.30 Anesthesiology and endovascular treatment - Alfredo Del Gaudio (Italy)
12.30-13.00 Question Time
13.00-14.00 Lunch
15.00-16.30 Oral Communications : Diagnostic 5
Chairs: Stefano Marcia (Italy), Matteo Bonetti (Italy)
MIRABILIS ROOM (Royal Continental Hotel)
8:00-10.00 Publishing a Paper and Ideas
Chairs: Mario Muto (Italy), Gianni Pellicanò (Italy)
8.00-8.20 Ethics, citation index and manuscript preparation - Johan G. Hans Blickman (USA)
8.20-8.40 How to write a paper - Giuseppe Guglielmi (Italy)
8.40-9.00 RCT - Mauricio Castillo (USA)
9.00-9.20 How to review a paper - Andrea Giovagnoni (Italy)
9.20-9.40 How to patent an idea - Kieran J. Murphy (USA)
9.40-10.00 How to get European grant - Giuseppe Martini (Italy)
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.00 Oral Communications: Diagnostic 3
Chairs: Giovanni Morana (Italy), Bernhard Schuknecht (Switzerland)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
15.00-16.30 Oral Communications: Interventional 3
Chairs: Giusepep Bonaldi (Italy), Maria Luisa Biscoito (Portugal)
16.30-18.30 Extracerebral Lesions: a Survival kit for Neuroradiologist
Chairs: Bernhard Schuknecht (Switzerland), Katarina Surlan-Popovic (Slovenia)
16.30-16.50 Orbital tumors pseudotumors and infections - Martin Mack (Germany)
16.50-17.10 Temporal bone infection and inflammation - Christian Czerny (Austria)
17.10-17.30 Temporal bone tumors - Jan Casselman (Belgium)
17.30-17.50 Paranasal sinus tumors - Roberto Maroldi (Italy)
17.50-18.10 The suprahyoid neck: a compartimental approach - Sotiros Bisdas (Germany)
18.10-18.30 Paranasal sinus: infection and inflammatory disease - Minerva Becker (Switzerland)
VESUVIO ROOM (Royal Continental Hotel)
10.30-11.30 WFNRS SESSION “Ethics in Neuroradiology”
Ethics in Neuroradiology: Round Table
Nick Bryan (USA), Michael Huckman (USA), Marco Leonardi (Italy), Luc Picard (France), E. Turgut Tali (Turkey)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
15:00-16.30 Pain and Sleep Disturbances
Chairs: Cosma Andreula (Italy), Vincenzo Muto (Italy)
15.00-15.20 Deconstructing the “pain matrix” - Giandomenico Iannetti (UK)
15.20-15.40 Ethiopathogenesis of spine pain - Roberto Izzo (Italy)
15.40-16.00 Why image patients in sleep medicine - Thien Thanh Dang Vu (Canada)
16.00-16.30 Question Time
16:30-18.30 Spine Treatment
Chairs: Giancarlo Anselmetti (Italy), Gregg Zoarski (USA)
16.30-16.50 Vertebral porotic fracture: EBM of percutaneous treatment - Charles Cho (USA)
16.50-17.10 Percutaneous intradiscal treatments - Alessandro Cianfoni (Switzerland)
17.10-17.30 New devices in treatment of spine pain - Gianni Pellicanò (Italy)
17.30-17.50 Spine intervention in spinal metastasis - Bassem Georgy (USA)
17.50-18.30 Question Time
POSILLIPO ROOM (Royal Continental Hotel)
15.00-16.30 Oral Communications : Diagnostic 6
Chairs: Zulejha Merhemic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Simonetta Gerevini (Italy)
16.30-17.30 Workshop Brain Tumor Imaging
Chair: Marion Smits (The Netherlands)
16.30-16.35 Introduction - Marion Smits (The Netherlands)
16.35-17.15 Interactive case discussion with expert panel - Claudia Godi (Italy), Stefanie Catherine Thust (UK), Adam Waldman (UK)
17.15-17.30 Recommendations for brain tumor imaging - Marion Smits (The Netherlands)
AUDITORIUM (Royal Continental)
8.00-10.30 Neuroradiological Treatment of CSF Syndrome and an Open Window in Neuroscience
Chairs: Nadia Colombo (Italy), Tatjana Stošić Opinćal (Serbia)
8.00-8.20 CSF: Anatomy and Physiology - Massimo Caulo (Italy)
8.20-8.40 Pseudotumor cerebri: principles and imaging - Olav Jansen (Germany)
8.40-9.00 Diagnosis and Treatment of CSF low pressure syndromes - Jan Gralla (Switzerland)
9.00-9.20 Next generation neurogenetics - Vincenzo Nigro (Italy)
9.20-9.40 Drug discovery in neurosciences: challenges and opportunities - Elias A. Zerhouni (France)
9.40-10.00 Neural network - Gioacchino Tedeschi (Italy)
10.00-10.20 Mirror neurons - Giovanni Buccino (Italy)
10.20-10.30 Question Time
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Advanced Diagnosis and Pediatric Pathology
Chair: Bard Nedregaard (Norway), Fabio Triulzi (Italy)
11.00-11.20 Diffusion Tractography: research advancements and clinical applications - Marco Catani (UK)
11.20-11.40 Infratentorial brain tumors-whats new - Pia Maly Sundgren (Sweden)
11.40-12.00 Supratentorial brain tumors-whats new - Philippe Demaerel (Belgium)
12.00-12.20 Advanced imaging in brain tumors - Giovanni Morana (Italy)
12.20-12.40 Multimodal imaging planning for the surgical treatment of epilepsy - Laura Castana (Italy)
12.40-13.00 Update on SWI in Neuroradiology - Giulio Zuccoli (USA)
13.00-13.30 Closing Ceremony
MIRABILIS ROOM (Royal Continental)
8.00-10.30 Special Focus Interventional: Stroke Treatment
Chairs: Olav Jansen (Germany), Mario Muto (Italy)
8.00-8.20 Imaging for patient selection (MRI, CT) - Alessandro Bozzao (Italy)
8.20-8.40 Update medical treatment (news from thrombolysis) - Dario Giobbe (Italy)
8.40-9.00 Update thrombectomy studies - Alain Bonafé (France)
9.00-9.20 The clot - Olav Jansen (Germany)
9.20-9.40 Principles of mechanical thrombectomy and how I do it - Michael Soderman (Sweden)
9.40-10.00 Periprocedural management (neuroanasthesia) - Jan Gralla (Switzerland)
10.00-10.20 Thrombo-aspiration when and how - Gyula Gal (Denmark)
10.20-10.30 Question Time
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Advanced Imaging
Chairs: Alain Bonafé (France), Gyula Gal (Denmark)
11.00-11.30 Pediatric vascular malformation: Endovascular treatment - Alex Berenstein (USA)
11.30-12.00 Endovascular treatment of retinoblastoma - Sandra Bracco (Italy)
12.00-12.30 Endovascular treatment and surgery of AVM's and venous maxilo-facial malformations - Leopoldo Guimaraens (Spain)
12.30-13.00 Endovascular treatment of head and neck vascular lesions - Alex Berenstein (USA)