HYDROCEPHALUS 2013 ATHENS
The Fifth Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders 29 June - 2 July 2013 Athenaeum InterContinental Athens Hotel
Program Overview
Hydrocephalus2013 Athens
The Fifth Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders
Program Overview (Athenaeum Ballroom II) Saturday, 29 June 2013 08:00 - 18:30 15:00 - 18:00 20:00 - 22:00
Registrations ISHCSF Board Meeting (Delta Sygma Meeting Room) Official Opening Ceremony - Welcome Reception
Sunday, 30 June 2013 08:00 - 08:15
Opening Remarks Gunes A. Aygok, MD, PhD President of the 5th Meeting of International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders (ISHCSF)
Ioannis Patsalas, MD, PhD Vice President of the 5th Meeting of ISHCSF and President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society
Michael A. Williams, MD President of ISHCSF
Session I 08:15 - 10:00
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Chairs: Uwe Kehler & Masatsune Ishikawa Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool of inductive reasoning Harold Rekate, MD
50 years later: NPH revisited Daniele Rigamonti, MD
2005 NPH practice guidelines revisited: Lessons learned from the European prospective. NPH trial and status of normal pressure. Hydrocephalus management Petra Klinge, MD, PhD
Can we decrease over-drainage shunt complications in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus? Neill Graff-Radford, MD
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Hydrocephalus2013 Athens Program overview
Session II 10:30 - 12:00
Clinical Diagnosis: The Value of Supplemental Prognostic Tests for the Preoperative Assessment of NPH Chairs: John D. Pickard & Etsuro Mori
Oral Presentations 12:00 - 12:30
Lunch and Poster Viewing
12:30 - 13:00
ISHCSF Membership Meeting
Session III 13:00 - 13:50
CSF Dynamics Chairs: Thomas Brinker & Olivier BalĂŠdent Who needs a shunt? Who needs a revision? CSF dynamics perspective Marek Czosnyka, PhD
Low CSF pressure states Laurence D. Watkins, MD
13:50 - 14:30
CSF Dynamics: The Value of ICP and CSF Pulse Pressure Analysis
Oral Presentations 14:30 - 15:00
Coffee Break
Presidential Plenary Session 15:00 - 16:00 The Visual Impairment / Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) Syndrome Chairs: Petra Klinge & Michael A. Williams The Visual Impairment / Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) syndrome - A new challenge for human space flight Christian Otto, MD
Earth-based implications of VIIP for research and clinical care in IIH and hydrocephalus Michael A. Williams, MD
Expert Panel Session 16:00 - 17:00 Programmable Valves and Siphon Regulatory Devices: The Clinical and Engineering Aspects Chairs: Uwe Kehler & Daniele Rigamonti Daniele Rigamonti, MD Uwe Kehler, MD Cemil Kayis, PhD 17:00 - 18:00
Poster Viewing
Monday, 1 July 2013 Task Force Session 08:00 - 09:00 Task Force: Co-Morbidity & Outcome Assessment in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Chairs: Petra Klinge & Anders Eklund Diagnostic challenges of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus due to comorbidity Jan Malm, MD Session IV 09:00 - 10:00
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Where do we stand with our understanding of patient outcome? Mark Hamilton, MD
Neuroimaging Chairs: Harold Rekate & Eftychia Kapsalaki Imaging of adult hydrocephalus: Toward a consensus for classification Ari Blitz, MD Predictability of shunt effectiveness on MRI findings in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus Masatsune Ishikawa, MD, PhD
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Session V 10:30 - 12:00
Neuroimaging: The Value of Imaging Techniques in Hydrocephalus Chairs: Mitsuhito Mase & Ari Blitz
Oral Presentations 12:00 - 12:30
Lunch and Poster Viewing
Satellite Symposium 12:30 - 14:00
INPH: Are we making Progress? Carsten Wikkelsรถ, MD Etsuro Mori, MD, PhD Harold Rekate, MD Ville Leinonen, MD
Session VI 14:00 - 15:30
Surgical Management: Shunt Chairs: Daniele Rigamonti & Damianos Sakas
Oral Presentations 15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
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Session VII 16:00 - 17:00
Surgical Management: ETV Chairs: Mark Hamilton & Kostas Fountas
Oral Presentations 17:00 - 18:00
Poster Viewing
21.00 Gala Dinner
Tuesday, 2 July 2013 Session VIII 08:00 - 09:00
Pediatric Hydrocephalus Chairs: J. Gordon McComb & Ioannis Patsalas Magement of congenital hydrocephalus: Reviewing decision dilemmas in prenatal period, treatment options in neonates and infants Nikolaos Foroglou, MD, PhD
Critical observations on the role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of hydrocephalus Spyridon Sgouros, MD
Session IX 09:00 - 10:00
Surgical Management: Pediatric Hydrocephalus Chairs: Masaaki Hashimoto & Konstantinos Kouzelis
Oral Presentations 10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Session X 10:30:11:30
The Basic Science of Hydrocephalus Chairs: Zofia Czosnyka & James Pat McAllister
Oral Presentations 11:30 - 12:30
Closing Remarks Gunes A. Aygok, MD, PhD Ioannis Patsalas, MD, PhD Michael A. Williams, MD
Detailed Program
Hydrocephalus2013 Athens
The Fifth Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders
Detailed Program (Athenaeum Ballroom II) Saturday, 29 June 2013 08:00 - 18:30 15:00 - 18:00 20:00 - 22:00
Registrations ISHCSF Board Meeting (Delta Sygma Meeting Room) Official Opening Ceremony - Welcome Reception
Sunday, 30 June 2013 08:00 - 08:15
Opening Remarks Gunes A. Aygok, MD, PhD President of the 5th Meeting of International Society of Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders (ISHCSF)
Ioannis Patsalas, MD, PhD Vice President of the 5th Meeting of ISHCSF and President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society
Michael A. Williams, MD President of ISHCSF
Session I 08:15 - 10:00
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Chairs: Uwe Kehler & Masatsune Ishikawa Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool of inductive reasoning Harold Rekate, MD
50 years later: NPH revisited Daniele Rigamonti, MD
2005 NPH practice guidelines revisited: Lessons learned from the European prospective. NPH trial and status of normal pressure. Hydrocephalus management Petra Klinge, MD, PhD
Can we decrease over-drainage shunt complications in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus? Neill Graff-Radford, MD
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
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Session II 10:30 - 12:00
Clinical Diagnosis: The Value of Supplemental Prognostic Tests for the Preoperative Assessment of NPH Chairs: John D. Pickard & Etsuro Mori
Oral Presentations
O01. EVIDENCE FOR A RAPID, SUBSTANTIAL AND SUSTAINED INCREASE IN HOSPITAL INPATIENT SERVICES FOR HYDROCEPHALUS IN THE ELDERLY IN THE US, 2002-2009 J. Ney1, M.A. Williams2 (1) Comparative Effectiveness, Cost and Outcomes Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2) Adult Hydrocephalus Center, The Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute, Baltimore, USA O02. PRE- AND POST-OPERATIVE GAIT AND BALANCE ANALYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS N. Darras1, M. Tziomaki1, E. Liouta2, F. Liakos2, C. Koutsarnakis2, G. Stranjalis2 (1) ELEPAP Gait & Motion Analysis Center, Athens, Greece (2) Department of Neurosurgery, Evaggelismos Hospital, University of Athens, Greece O03. PRE- AND POST-OPERATIVE GAIT ANALYSIS OF: A) DBS-STN AND B) IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS PATIENTS N. Darras1, E. Liouta2, F. Liakos2, C. Koutsarnakis2, P. Stathis2, D. Sakas2, G. Stranjalis2 (1) ELEPAP Gait & Motion Analysis Center, Athens, Greece (2) Department of Neurosurgery, Evaggelismos Hospital, University of Athens, Greece O04. VERBAL FLUENCY AND FINGER TAPPING IMPROVEMENT AFTER LUMBAR TAP TEST PREDICTS GAIT OUTCOME IN IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS (ΙNPH) E. Liouta1,2, F. Liakos1, S. Gkatzonis1,2, D. Sakas1,2, G. Stranjalis1,2 (1) The Petros Kokkalis Center for Neurosurgery Research, Athens, Greece (2) Department of Neurosurgery, Evaggelismos Hospital, University of Athens, Greece O05. BRAIN’S CRITICAL CLOSING PRESSURE DURING INFUSION TESTS G.V. Varsos, Z. Czosnyka, M. Czosnyka, J.D. Pickard Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK O06. THE EXTENDED LUMBAR DRAINAGE TEST ALONE PREDICTS SHUNT REPONSE IN IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS: THE DEMISE OF THE DIAGNOSTIC CONSTANT RATE LUMBAR INFUSION TEST L. Nicolae, W.G.B. Singleton, R. Sivakumaran, R.J. Edwards Department of Neurosurgery, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK O07. IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS: PATOPHYSIOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS BY CSF BIOMARKERS A. Jeppsson1, H. Zetterberg2,3, K. Blennow2, C. Wikkelsö1 (1) Hydrocephalus Research Unit, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (3) UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK O08. COMORBIDITY AND RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HYDROCEPHALUS H. Israelsson1, B. Carlberg2, C. Wikkelsö3, K. Laurell1,4, B. Kahlon5, G. Leijon6, A. Eklund7, J. Malm1 (1) Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University Hospital, Sweden
(2) Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Sweden (3) Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (4) Department of Neuroscience, Neurology, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden (5) Department of Neurosurgery, Lund University Hospital, Sweden (6) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE), Division of Neuroscience, Linköping University, Sweden (7) Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden O09. A NOVEL CASE OF FAMILIAL IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS E. Liouta1,2, F. Liakos1, D. Sakas1,2, G. Stranjalis1,2 (1) The Petros Kokkalis Center for Neurosurgery Research, Athens, Greece (2) Department of Neurosurgery, Evaggelismos Hospital, University of Athens, Greece 12:00 - 12:30
Lunch and Poster Viewing
12:30 - 13:00
ISHCSF Membership Meeting
Session III 13:00 - 13:50
CSF Dynamics Chairs: Thomas Brinker & Olivier Balédent Who needs a shunt? Who needs a revision? CSF dynamics perspective Marek Czosnyka, PhD
Low CSF pressure states Laurence D. Watkins, MD
13:50 - 14:30
CSF Dynamics: The Value of ICP and CSF Pulse Pressure Analysis
Oral Presentations
O10. 200 LONGITUDINAL ICP ANALYSES AT QUEEN SQUARE J.D. Shand Smith1,2, S. Thompson1, A.K. Toma1, A. Khan1, N.D. Kitchen1,2, L.D. Watkins1,2 (1) Victor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK (2) Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK O11. THE INTRACRANIAL PULSE PRESSURE AMPLITUDE AND COGNITIVE IMPROVEMENT AFTER CSF TAP TEST IN ΙNPH A. Behrens1,2, S. Qvarlander3, A. Eklund3, J. Malm1 (1) Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Sweden (2) Blekinge Centre of Competence, Karlskrona, Sweden (3) Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden O12. CSF PULSE PRESSURE IS CORRELATED WITH A MARKER OF VASCULAR DISORDER E.A. Schmidt1, E. Caussé2 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Toulouse, France (2) Department of Biochemistry, Toulouse, France O13. POST TRAUMATIC NON-ACUTE HYDROCEPHALUS: PROFILE OF CSF DYNAMICS Z. Czosnyka, M. Czosnyka, J.D. Pickard Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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14:30 - 15:00
Coffee Break
Presidential Plenary Session 15:00 - 16:00 The Visual Impairment / Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) Syndrome Chairs: Petra Klinge & Michael A. Williams The Visual Impairment / Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) syndrome - A new challenge for human space flight Christian Otto, MD
Earth-based implications of VIIP for research and clinical care in IIH and hydrocephalus Michael A. Williams, MD
Expert Panel Session 16:00 - 17:00 Programmable Valves and Siphon Regulatory Devices: The Clinical and Engineering Aspects Chairs: Uwe Kehler & Daniele Rigamonti Daniele Rigamonti, MD Uwe Kehler, MD Cemil Kayis, PhD 17:00 - 18:00
Poster Viewing
Monday, 1 July 2013 Task Force Session 08:00 - 09:00 Task Force: Co-Morbidity & Outcome Assessment in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Chairs: Petra Klinge & Anders Eklund Diagnostic challenges of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus due to comorbidity Jan Malm, MD Session IV 09:00 - 10:00
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Where do we stand with our understanding of patient outcome? Mark Hamilton, MD Neuroimaging Chairs: Harold Rekate & Eftychia Kapsalaki Imaging of adult hydrocephalus: Toward a consensus for classification Ari Blitz, MD Predictability of shunt effectiveness on MRI findings in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus Masatsune Ishikawa, MD, PhD
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Session V 10:30 - 12:00
Neuroimaging: The Value of Imaging Techniques in Hydrocephalus Chairs: Mitsuhito Mase & Ari Blitz
Oral Presentations
O14. MRI TIME-SPATIAL LABELING INVERSION PULSE (TIME-SLIP) FINDINGS TO SUPPORT POSSIBLE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF) OLFACTORY DRAINAGE IN HUMANS S. Yamada1, M. Miyazaki2, C. Ouyang2, R. Anderson2, W.G. Bradley3, J.G. McComb4 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Oiso Hospital, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan (2) Toshiba Medical Research Institute, Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA (3) Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA (4) Division of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, USA Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA O15. MR IMAGING OF CSF AND BLOOD FLOW IN HYDROCEPHALUS O. Balédent1, C. Gondry-Jouet2, C. Capel3, S.E. Sankari4, A. Fichten2, R. Bouzerar1 (1) Image Processing, University Hospital, Amiens, France (2) Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Amiens, France (3) Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Amiens, France (4) Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium O16. CSF FLOW MEASUREMENTS WITH PC-MRI IN HYDROCEPHALUS DEPEND ON MRI CONSTRUCTORS S.E. Sankari1, I. Bogdan2, N. Michoux2, C. Grandin2, T. Duprez2 (1) Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium (2) Department of Neuroradiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium O17. PREDICTABILITY OF SHUNT EFFECTIVENESS ON MRI FINDINGS IN IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS M. Ishikawa Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Center, Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan O18. WATER MOLECULAR FLUCTUATION IN VENTRICULES AND BRAIN TISSUE IN NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS M. Mase1, T. Miyati2, N. Ohno2, H. Kan3, H. Kasai3, K. Yamada1 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan (2) Faculty of Health Science, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Japan (3) Department of Radiology, Nagoya City University Hospital, Japan O19. DISPROPORTIONATELY ENLARGED SUB-ARACHNOID-SPACE HYDROCEPHALUS (DESH) IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SHUNT-REPONSIVE IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS (ΙNPH) L. Nicolae1, W.G.B. Singleton1, R. Sivakumaran1, A. Mortimer2, R.J. Edwards1 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK (2) Department of Neuroradiology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK O20. Evaluation of Cerebral Atrophy in INPH via CSF Infusion Test G. Aygok, D. Hidlay, C. Kayis Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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O21. POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY WITH [18F]FLUTEMETAMOL AND [11C]PIB FOR DETECTION OF CEREBRAL CORTICAL AMYLOID IN NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS PATIENTS V. Leinonen1, J.O. Rinne2,3, K.A. Virtanen2, O. Eskola2, J. Rummukainen4, J. Huttunen1, M. von und zu Fraunberg1, O. Nerg5, A.M. Koivisto5, J. Rinne1, J.E. Jääskeläinen1, C. Buckley6, A. Smith6, P.A. Jones6, P. Sherwin7, G. Farrar6, R. McLain8, M. Kailajärvi9, K. Heurling10, I.D. Grachev7 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, KUH NeuroCenter, Kuopio University Hospital and Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland (2) Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland (3) Department of Neurology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland (4) Department of Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland (5) Department of Neurology, KUH NeuroCenter, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland and Unit of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland (6) Medical Diagnostics, GE Healthcare, Amersham, UK (7) Medical Diagnostics, GE Healthcare, Princeton, NJ, USA (8) PFP Statistical Consulting, LLC, Livonia, MI, USA (9) Medical Diagnostics, GE Healthcare, Turku, Finland (10) Medical Diagnostics, GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden O22. CEREBRAL PERFUSION MEASURED BY DSC MRI IS REDUCED IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS D. Ziegelitz1, G. Starck2,3, D. Kristiansen4, M. Jakobsson4, M. Hultenmo2,3, I.K. Mikkelsen5, P. Hellström4, M. Tullberg4, C. Wikkelsö4 Departments of (1) Neuroradiology and (2) Radiation Physics at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, (4) Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (3) Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden (5) Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Århus University Hospital, Denmark 12:00 - 12:30
Lunch and Poster Viewing
Satellite Symposium 12:30 - 14:00
INPH: Are we making Progress? Carsten Wikkelsö, MD Etsuro Mori, MD, PhD Harold Rekate, MD Ville Leinonen, MD
Session VI 14:00 - 15:30
Surgical Management: Shunt Chairs: Daniele Rigamonti & Damianos Sakas
Oral Presentations
023. INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE DYNAMICS AT DIFFERENT OPENING PRESSURES AND BODY POSITIONS IN SHUNT TREATMENT OF COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS D. Farahmand1, S. Qvarlander2, J. Malm3, C. Wikkelsö1, A. Eklund2,3, M. Tisell1 (1) Hydrocephalus Research Unit, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden (3) Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Sweden O24. CHANGES OF INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE AND THE IMPACT ON VALVE SELECTION FOR VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNTS U. Kehler, Y. Chehade Department of Neurosurgery, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Hamburg, Germany O25. FINAL REPORT OF JAPAN SHUNT REGISTRY (JSR): ESPECIALLY ON SHUNT ROUTE AND PRESSURE SETTING OF PROGRAMMABLE VALVE M. Hashimoto1, M. Miyajima2, H. Arai2, H. Origasa3, I. Date4, M. Matumae5, JSR Group (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Noto General Hospital, Japan (2) Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan (3) Department of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Toyama, Japan (4) Department of Neurosurgery, Okayama University, Japan (5) Department of Neurosurgery, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan O26. SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS WITH THE USE OF THE PROGRAMMABLE VALVES OF SHUNT SYSTEM M. Legzdain, G. Gavrilov, D. Svistov Department of Neurosurgery, Military Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia O27. INDICATIONS FOR VALVE-PRESSURE ADJUSTMENTS OF GRAVITATIONAL ASSISTED VALVES IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS L. Gölz, J. Lemcke, U. Meier Department of Neurosurgery, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Germany O28. SOCIAL IMPACT OF SHUNT SURGERY IN PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS J. Petersen, C. Wikkelsö, P. Hellström, Å. Lundgren-Nilsson Hydrocephalus Research Unit, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden O29. Cognitive and functional improvement after shunt placement. Five year outcome analysis in 49 patients suffered idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus S. Sfikas, K. Kasapas, D. Katsianis, V. Valadakis, G. Orfanides Department of Neurosurgery, “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital of Athens, Greece O30. INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION CAUSED BY DURAL AVF INVOLVING SSS WITHOUT VENTRICULOMEGALY N. Aihara, M. Mase, K. Yamada Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan 15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
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Session VII 16:00 - 17:00
Surgical Management: ETV Chairs: Mark Hamilton & Kostas Fountas
Oral Presentations
O31. ETV VERSUS VENTRICULAR TAP TEST B.D. Elder, C.R. Goodwin, T.A. Kosztowski, J. Pindrik, D. Moran, I. Jusue-Torres, J. Hoffberger, D. Rigamonti Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA O32. VENTRICULAR AND CORTICAL SUBARACHNOID SPACE DIMENSIONS IN ADULT HYDROCEPHALUS BEFORE AND AFTER ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY IN CORRELATION TO THE CLINICAL OUTCOME N. Paidakakos1, M. Sklavounou1, M. Krommida2, N. Gkekas1, P.E. Valkimadi2, K. Kouzounias1, D.D. Mitsikostas2, D. Bouramas1 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Athens Naval Hospital, Greece (2) Department of Neurology, Athens Naval Hospital, Greece O33. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOME AFTER ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY FOR OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS M. Hamilton, B. Brooks, L. Partlo, W. Hader Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Canada O34. ENDOSCOPIC APPEARANCES OF RARE CAUSES OF OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS K. Barkas, A. Bartoli, G. Samandouras Victor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK O35. PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF BODY MASS INDEX IN GENDER IN THE PREDICTION OF HYDROCEPHALUS AFTER SURGERY IN CHIARI I MALFORMATION F.S. Almotairi, M. Tisell Department of Neurosurgery, Sahlgrenska IC, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 17:00 - 18:00
Poster Viewing
21.00 Gala Dinner
Tuesday, 2 July 2013 Session VIII 08:00 - 09:00
Pediatric Hydrocephalus Chairs: J. Gordon McComb & Ioannis Patsalas Magement of congenital hydrocephalus: Reviewing decision dilemmas in prenatal period, treatment options in neonates and infants Nikolaos Foroglou, MD, PhD
Critical observations on the role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of hydrocephalus Spyridon Sgouros, MD
Session IX 09:00 - 10:00
Surgical Management: Pediatric Hydrocephalus Chairs: Masaaki Hashimoto & Konstantinos Kouzelis
Oral Presentations
O36. ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY IN CHILDREN: ANALYSIS OF PROGNOSTIC FACTORS R.S. de Oliveira, L.L. Furlanetti, M. Volpon, H.R. Machado Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery and Anatomy, University Hospital of Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil O37. RESULTS OF ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT IN CHILDREN UNDER 2 YEARS WITH HYDROCEPHALUS A. Sufianov, G. Sufianova, Y. Yakimov, R. Sufianov Federal State Budget Institution “Federal Centre of Neurosurgery”, Department of Health of Russia, Tyumen, Russia O38. NEUROENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF HYDROCEPHALUS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE A.H.G.B. Da Cunha Hospital da Restauracao, Recife, Brazil O39. Blood and CSF flows in pediatric hydrocephalus as precocious shunt placement decision tool C. Capel1,2, C. Gondry-Jouet1,3, A. Fichten1,2, J. Peltier1,2, O. Balédent1 (1) BioFlow Image, Hospital University Center Nord, Amiens, France (2) Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital University Center Nord, Amiens, France (3) Department of Radiology, Hospital University Center Nord, Amiens, France O40. CEREBROSPINAL FLUID HYDROTHORAX, AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT E.A. Elgamal1, F.S. Almotairi1, A.M. Abdullah2, M.A.M. Salih2 (1) Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2) Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Session X 10:30:11:30
The Basic Science of Hydrocephalus Chairs: Zofia Czosnyka & James Pat McAllister
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O41. ABERRANT ACTIVATION OF WNT/Β-CATENIN SIGNAL IN RATS WITH COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS H. Xu, Z.X. Wang, S.L. Zhang, G.W. Tan, H.W. Zhu, F. Liu Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliate Hospital of Xiamen University, China O42. LEUCINE-RICH Α2-GLYCOPROTEIN (LRG) IS A NOVEL BIOMARKER OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE IN HUMAN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND CAUSES NEURODEGENERATION IN MOUSE CEREBRAL CORTEX M. Miyajima1, M. Nakajima1, I. Ogino1, H. Arai1, Y. Motoi2, N. Tada3 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (2) Department of Neurology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (3) Laboratory of Genome Research, Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan O43. MONOAMINE NEUROTRANSMITTER METABOLITES CONCENTRATION AS A MARKER OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF) VOLUME CHANGES J. Marakovic1, D. Chudy1, M. Klarica2, D. Oreskovic3 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia (2) Department of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia (3) Department of Molecular Biology, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia O44. HYDROCEPHALIC CEREBROSPINAL FLUID IS A FRIENDLY HOST FOR NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION J.P. McAllister1, C. González2, M.C. Jara2, K. Vío2, R. González2, M. Guerra2, E. Ortega3, J. Jaque3, S. Rodríguez2, P. Salazar2, C.E. Johanson4, E.M. Rodríguez2 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (2) Instituto de Anatomía, Histología y Patología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (3) Instituto de Neurociencias Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (4) Department of Neurosurgery, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA O45. NEURAL STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS COLLECTED FROM THE HYDROCEPHALIC CSF FORM NEUROSPHERES THAT EXHIBIT THE SAME JUNCTION PATHOLOGY AS THE DISRUPTED VENTRICULAR ZONE M. Guerra1, N. Lichtin1, M.C. Jara1, R. González1, K. Vío1, C. González1, E. Ortega2, J. Jaque2, S. Rodríguez1, A. Ortloff3, P. Salazar1, C.E. Johanson5, E.M. Rodríguez1, J.P. McAllister4 (1) Instituto de Anatomía, Histología y Patología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (2) Instituto de Neurociencias Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (3) Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile (4) Department of Neurosurgery, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (5) Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA 11:30 - 12:30
Closing Remarks Gunes A. Aygok, MD, PhD Ioannis Patsalas, MD, PhD Michael A. Williams, MD