ESC Barcelona 2010 Teaching Courses
1 - 5
Tuesday 25 May 2010
13:00 - 15:00
Preliminary Programme Overview

 1.Difficult decision making revisited

 Chairs: E. Jüttler, Germany and J. de Keyser, Belgium

Thrombolysis decisions in particular clinical situations
J. de Keyser, Belgium

Individual decision making in malignant MCA infarction and hemicraniectomy
E. Jüttler, Germany

When to restart anticoagulant therapy after warfarin-related intracerebral hemorrhage in patients
with major cardioembolic sources of emboli?
T. Steiner, Germany

Antithrombotic therapy decision making in patients with recent cerebral ischemia and a history of
intracerebral hemorrhage (or the reverse)
L. Csiba, Hungary
 

2.Stroke mimics and stroke-like episodes

Chairs: M. Giles, UK and T. Tatlisumak, Finland

Differential diagnoses of TIA and stroke
M. Giles, UK

Mitochondrial disorders mimicking stroke
T. Tatlisumak, Finland

Functional paralysis
A. Carson, UK

Stroke Mimics and Delayed Diagnosis of Cerebellar Infarcts
S. Savitz, USA

3.Current stroke prevention strategies

Chairs: P. Wester, Sweden and P. Amarenco, France

Long term prognosis after TIA and stroke: how much can be prevented?
P. Amarenco, France

BP lowering after stroke: when to start, what to start, how much?
B. Carlberg, Sweden

Stroke prevention strategies in patients with diabetes.
P. Wester, Sweden

Secondary stroke prevention principles: how to apply in the elderly?
B. Obviagele, USA

 

4.Stroke in young adults

Chairs: M.M. Brown, UK and J.-L. Mas, France

Dissection
Tobias Brandt, Germany

Pregnancy and stroke
C. Lamy, France    

Intracerebral haemorrhage in young adults
R. Al-Shahi Salman, UK

Obliterative intracranial disease
M.M. Brown, UK
 

5.Stroke and vision

Chairs: N. Bornstein, Israel and D. Kömpf, Germany

Acute transient loss of vision
N. Bornstein, Israel

Acute persistent loss of vision
A. Kessler, Israel

Oculomotor disturbances
D. Kömpf, Germany

Cortical aspects of visual disturbances
M. Husain, UK
 

ESC Barcelona 2010 Teaching Courses
6 - 10
Tuesday 25 May 2010
15:30 - 17:30
Preliminary Programme Overview

6.Stroke syndromes

Chairs: Rolf Kern, Germany and J.S. Kim, South Korea

Borderzone ischemia syndromes: hemodynamics, embolism, or both?
R. Kern, Germany

The classical brain-stem eponyms: which ones apply to current clinical practice?
F. Thömke, Germany

Misleading presentations of basilar - vertebral artery disease
J.S. Kim, South Korea

Cerebellar stroke syndromes
T. Moulin, France
 

7.Post-stroke complications

Chairs: P. Sandercock, UK and H. Klit, Denmark

Deep venous thrombosis
M. Dennis, UK

Pain and stroke
H. Klit, Denmark

Infections
P. Langhorne, UK

Epilepsy and seizures
K. Vonck, Belgium
 

8.What causes lacunar strokes?

Chairs: J. Wardlaw, UK and R. Lindley, Australia

Lacunar stroke causes
C. Sudlow, UK

Cerebral small vessel: insights from the retina
R. Lindley, Australia

Cerebral small vessels. Insights from neuropathology
C. Smith, UK

If not ischemic, then what? Insights from neuroimaging
J. Wardlaw, UK
 

 

9.Stroke and headache

Chairs: H.-C. Diener, Germany and M. Zuber, France

Headache in stroke
A. Verdelho, Portugal

Migraine and stroke
H.-C. Diener, Germany

Thunderclap headache – spectrum of causes and practical management
M. Zuber, France

Headache and cerebral venous thrombosis
J. Stam, The Netherlands
 

10. Hemorrhagic strokes

Chairs: C. Cordonnier, France and D. Hanley, USA

Is it a primary hemorrhage or secondary hemorrhagic transformation?
V. Caso, Italy

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and intracerebral hemorrhage
C. Cordonnier, France

Microbleeds – current concepts
D. Werring, UK

Management of hemorrhagic stroke
D. Hanley, USA