Programme | 24th EMN Conference

17:00

Registration
Staszic Palace (Main Hall)

18:30

EMN Presidium Meeting
Staszic Palace, Kołątaj Room

19:15

Opening Ceremony (Mirror Room)

Opening Lecture:
The Future of Artificial Intelligence - prof. Jarosław Arabas
Director of Institute of Computer Science, Head of Research Group on Applied Artificial Intelligence,
Warsaw University of Technology

20:00

Welcome Reception
Staszic Palace

9:00-9:45

WFNS Lecture

Civilian Cranial and Spinal Injuries - Muhammad Tariq Khan
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)
Coordinator for Neurotraumatology

9:45-10:30

Klaus von Wild Lecture

Targeted therapies for intracranial brain crisis after severe TBI: where we are?
– Jürgen Meixensberger

Session 1

10:45-12:50

Traumatic Brain Injury – change of treatment paradigms

Chair: Alexander David Mendelow, Peter Winkler

Keynote lecture: Traumatic Brain Injury. Change of Management Paradigms: From Fixed Tresholds to Individual Targets - Marek Czosnyka

TBI Surgery in the Elderly - Corrado Iaccarino

TBI treatment. Change of Paradigms – Rimantas Vilcinis

Is there an indication for pre-hospital trepanation in patients having a TBI? - Gregor Freude

Neurotrauma Register: Concept of a nationwide continuous improvement of management of TBI - Wolf Ingo Steudel

Session 2

13:50-15:30

Cranial, Spinal and Peripheral Nerves Injuries

Chair: Aleksander Vlad Ciurea, Tomasz Trojanowski

Keynote lecture: Treatment of Injuries to the Craniospinal Junction. Tricks and Tips in Pursuit of Motion Preservation. Present limits of practice – Waldemar Koszewski

Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Repairment of Injuries to the Orbit – Tomasz Łysoń

Treatment of traumatic fractures of vertebral bodies with percutaneous vertebral augmentation system SpineJack - Mateusz Maciej Węclewicz

Reevaluation of penetrating midface injury after removal of metallic foreign body - Eduard Kruchten

Complications related to peripheral nerve surgery – Lukas Rasulic

8.15 – 9.00

Press Conference-Panel Discussion

Injuries to the Central Nervous System. Progress in Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation.

Prof. Khan, Prof. Florian, Prof. Meixensberger, Prof. Mendelow, Prof. Ciurea, Prof. Czernicki, Prof. Koszewski, Prof. Trojanowski, Prof Roszkowski, Prof. Ciurea

9.00 – 9.50

Keynote lecture

A new meta-analysis of the STICH trials: identifying those patients who would benefit from craniotomy – prof. Alexander David Mendelow

Session 1

10.00-11.00

Decompressive craniotomy – An Update

Chair: Jürgen Meixensberger, Zbigniew Czernicki

Decompressive Craniectomy - Update on Surgical Indication – Corrado Iaccarino

Talking heads: What the mouse model of Traumatic Brain Injury can say about the size of craniectomy? – Jacek Szczygielski

How does early decompressive craniectomy influence the intracranial volume relationship in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients? – Michał Głuski

Session 2

11.15-12.45

Intracranial Haematoma – Surgical Treatment

Chair: Wolf Ingo Steudel, Waldemar Koszewski

Сhronic subdural hematomas: pathogenesis and concept of minimally invasive surgery – Leonid Likhterman

Assessment of conservative and operative treatment of supratentorial haematomas in Neurosurgery Department, Copernicus Hospital, Gdansk between 2006 and 2018 - Mateusz Węclewicz

The Kernohan's phenomenon revisited: what does it mean in MRI era – Jacek Stankowski

Session 3

14.00-16.00

Rehabilitation and re-integration of TBI victims

Chair: Oleg Zaitsev, Ewa Pragłowska

Keynote lecture: Psychological Rehabilitation of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – Ewa Pragłowska

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Recovery. Experience - Treatment – Recommendations – Agnieszka Popiel

TBI trigger or aggravating factor in alzheimer's disease? - Alexandru Vlad Ciurea

Mental recovery in patients with severe traumatic brain injury – Oleg Zaitsev

Ethical dilemmas in neurotraumatology – Boleslav Lichterman

Session 4

16.30-17.40

Regenerative Medicine in CNS injuries

Chair: Klaus von Wild, Ewa Koźniewska

Keynote lecture: Somatic stem cells in regeneration of CNS injuries – Anna Sarnowska

Effect of facilitation of endogenous revascularization on secondary injury development and promotion of neural regeneration following traumatic spinal cord injury – Vanessa Hubertus

The reorganization of functional connectivity under transcranial magnetic stimulation in unconscious patients with severe brain injury – Lyubov Oknina

Stochastic Resonance Stimulation as a Mean to Improve Proprioception – Verena Klamroth-Marganska

17.50 – 18.30

EMN Members Meeting
Staszic Palace, Mirror Room

9.00-9.40

Keynote lecture
Biomarkers of TBI – Current Knowledge. State of the Art – Stefania Mondello

9.00-9.40

Global-Neuro Lecture
Post Traumatic Hydrocephalus - An Overview - Ioan Stefan Florian

Session 1

10.30-12.00

TBI sequelae and their prevention

Chair: Joan Stefan Florian, Yaroslav Latyshev

Differential diagnosis of post-traumatic ventriculomegaly in patients with severe disorders of consciousness - Yaroslav Latyshev

Post-Traumatic Non-Acute Hydrocephalus: Profile of CSF dynamics – Zofia Czosnyka

The role of purinergic signaling in synaptic dysfunction, inflammation and neuronal death in CNS disorders: a novel direction of therapeutic strategy – Anna Wilkaniec

Neuroprotective role of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors agonists and modulators in neurodegenerative disorders - Przemysław Wencel

12.00-12.30

Poster Session

Chair: Zbigniew Czernicki, Waldemar Koszewski

Vasopressin-associated acute hyponatremia impairs the regulation of intraparenchymal cerebral arterioles of the rat
Marta Aleksandrowicz, Ewa Kozniewska

Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrom after Traumatic Brain Injury – Borys Kwinta

Bone Flap Storage Procedure after Decompressive Craniectomy – Laura Maryńczak

Unilateral Fracture of the Superior Articular Process of C7. Minimally Invasive Transpedicular Screw Fixation at C6 and C7. Case Report – Katarzyna Aleksandrowicz

12.30

Closing