NEUROMODULATION IN EUROPE IN 2009
Germany – Italy – South Eastern Europe
Spain - France
Florence (Italy) – June 12-13-14, 2009
FRIDAY – June 12, 2009
17.00
Opening Remarks
President Italian Chapter of INS– P. Poli
President German Chapter of INS – V. Vadokas
President South Eastern Europe Chapter of INS – D. Sakas
President Spanish Chapter of INS – D. Abejon
President French Chapter of INS – J.P. Nguyen
President of European Federation of IASP Chapters – EFIC– G. Varrassi
President of Federdolore – W. Raffaeli
President of Società Italiana Clinici del Dolore – SICD – G. Orlandini
President of A.I.S.D. - ......
17.30
Main Lecture
Title to be defined
G.C. Barolat
18.00
Free Oral Communications
Chairmen:
-Post herpetic pain: two cases treated with subcutaneous stimulation –
F.Ciliberto (Italy)
-Transforaminal nerve route stimulation – G. Babbolin (Italy)
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20.00
Happy hour Cocktail (during the Cocktail)
SATURDAY – June 13, 2009
09.00
Breakfast SeminaR
Spasticity
Chairmen: M. Meglio (Italy) – I. Dones (Italy)
09.30The basic neurophysiological principles of spasticity
I. Panourias (Greece)
09.40Intrathecal baclofen for spasticity – B. Cioni (Italy)
09.50Long-term follow-up of spastic patients under intrathecal baclofen
M. Schmutzler(Germany)
10.00 Discussion
10.20Coffee Break – Video Poster Session
PAIN
Chairmen: V. Vadokas (Germany) – C. Bonezzi (Italy)
10.40Spinal Cord stimulation in the treatment of pain - E. Reig (Spain)
10.50Deep and cortex brain stimulation for the treatment of pain
M. Meglio (Italy)
11.00Intrathecal drug infusion for the treatment of pain – W. Raffaeli (Italy)
11.10Occipital neurostimulation for the treatment of intractable headache
J. Pérez Cajaraville (Spain)
11.20Discussion
SUBCUTANEOUS STIMULATION
Chairmen:J. De Andrés (Spain) – N. Monachese (Italy)
11.40Title to be defined – G. Colini Baldeschi (Italy)
11.50Subcutaneaous Stimulation on occipital N.– A. Cesaroni (Italy)
12.00Treatment of occipital neuralgia : C2 infiltration, C2 radicotomy or Occipital nerve stimulation ? - S Raoul (France)
12.10Case records – G. Pinato (Italy)
12.20Postsurgical neuropatic pain– B. Piva (Italy)
12.30Discussion
13.00Lunch Seminary
PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION
Chairmen:H. Harke (Germany) – S. Korfias (Greece)
14.30Peripheral nerve Stimulation - D. Klase (Germany)
14.40PNS: percutaneous techniques– C. Reverberi (Italy)
14.50Discussion
SACRAL STIMULATION
Chairmen:K. Matzel (Germany) – C. Ratta (Italy)
15.10Techniques of implant – G. Naldini (Italy)
15.20Applications and results in colonrectal field – A. Munoz (Spain)
15.30Applications and results in urological field – G. Del Popolo (Italy)
15.40Experience with sacral nerve stimulation - F. Hertel (Germany)
15.50Discussion
16.00Coffee Break
OTHER MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Chairmen:A. Costantini –S.Mameli
16.20Technical considerations on deep brain stimulation – M. Meglio (Italy)
16.30Motor cortex stimulation for Parkinson’s disease – A. Lavano (Italy)
16.40Motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders other than Parkinson's disease - JP Nguyen, P Mertens (France)
16.50Deep brain stimulation in dystonia –D. Sakas (Greece)
1700Neuromodulation in Dystonia – A. Leonardos (Greece)
17.10Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease - F. Hertel (Germany)
17.20Discussion
POINT OF VIEW ABOUT ZICONOTIDE
Chairmen:F.Berlinghieri –F.Paoletti
17.40Title to be defined - Italy
17.50Title to be defined - Greece
18.00Title to be defined – Spain
18.10French experience with the use of Ziconotide – X. Menegalli(France)
18.20Title to be defined - Germany
18.30Discussion
18.50 - 19.50General Assembles (Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Southern East Europe)
GALA DINNER(During the Cocktail)
SUNDAY, June 14, 2009
09.00
Breakfast seminar
Reserved for Companies
DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF NEUROMODULATION
Chairmen: S. Korfias – I. Panourias (Greece)
09.30Vagal nerve stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy – S. Korfias (Greece)
09.40Neuromodulation and psychiatric disorders -V. Sturm (Germany)
09.50Deep brain stimultion for algic syndromes and OCT – A. Franzini (Italy)
10.00Deep brain stimulation for dyskinesia secondary to neuroleptic treatment S Blond, P Mertens (France)
10.10Neuromodulation for angina pectoris -S. Eckert (Germany)
10.20Discussion
11.00 – 12.30 - Coffee Break – Video Poster Session