WSC18 Scientific programme

Thursday, October 18, 2018

PRO & CON: PRO & CON 0107:00 - 08:30  HALL D 07:00 DEBATE 1: DOES ASPIRIN OFFER SUFFICIENT PREVENTION IN MOST PATIENTS

AFTER ACUTE TIA AND STROKE? 

07:00 INITIAL QUESTION AND VOTINGChair : Karen Furie (USA)

 

07:06 PROInvited Speaker: Peter Rothwell (United Kingdom)

 

07:14 CONInvited Speaker: Michael Hill (Canada)

 

07:22 PRO: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Peter Rothwell (United Kingdom)

 

07:27 CON: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Michael Hill (Canada)

 

07:32 DISCUSSIONChair : Karen Furie (USA)

 

07:40 FINAL VOTINGChair : Karen Furie (USA)

 

07:45 DEBATE 2: PERFUSION IMAGING ADDS VALUE FOR EARLY WINDOW THROMBECTOMY AND IS CRITICAL FOR SELECTION IN LATE WINDOWS

 

07:45 INITIAL QUESTION AND VOTINGChair : Ken Butcher (Canada)

 

07:51 PROInvited Speaker: Gregory W. Albers (USA)

 

07:59 CONInvited Speaker: Andrew Demchuk (Canada)

 

08:07 PRO: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Gregory W. Albers (USA)

 

08:12 CON: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Andrew Demchuk (Canada)

 

08:17 DISCUSSIONChair : Ken Butcher (Canada)

 

08:25 FINAL VOTINGChair : Ken Butcher (Canada)

 

 

CASES: CASE PRESENTATIONS - THE NEXT GENERATION 0107:00 - 08:30  HALL E   Chair : Jeffrey Minuk (Canada)    Chair : Kanjana Perera (Canada)  07:00 CASE 1

Ahmad Nehme (Canada)  

07:30 CASE 2Olena Bereznyakova (Canada)

 

08:00 CASE 3Aaron Kirschner (Canada)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF CARE 207:00 - 08:30  HALL F   Chair : Caleb Ademola Omuwa Gbiri (Nigeria)    Chair : Anastasia Rossouw (South Africa)  07:00 DETERMINANTS OF SEXUAL FUNCTION, QUALITY OF LIFE AND SOCIETAL  

REINTEGRATION IN NIGERIAN STROKE SURVIVORSC.A.O. Gbiri, U.A.C. Okafor, S.O. Olapade (Nigeria)

07:10 OUTCOME OF STROKE PATIENTS CO-PRESCRIBED CLOPIDOGREL WITH PROTON-PUMP INHIBITORS VS H2 BLOCKERS A SINGLE CENTER COHORT STUDYM. Almekhlafi, R.A. Alghamdi, A. Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

 

07:20 STROKE-RELATED PAIN IN THE ACUTE PHASE AND THREE MONTHS FOLLOWING STROKE – DATA FROM A NORWEGIAN MULTICENTRE STUDYM. Bovim (Norway)

 

07:30 THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF PARAMEDIC CARE AND CASE MANAGEMENT INDICATORS IN ISCHAEMIC STROKEB. Tunnage, R. Krishnamurthi, A. Swain, C. Frampton, V. Feigin (New Zealand)

 

07:40 COMPARISON OF RISK FACTORS, TREATMENT, AND OUTCOME OF INTRACRANIAL STENOSIS IN INDIA AND THE USU. Saraf, P.N. Sylaja, K. Arun, C. Kesavadas, A. Babiker, S. Prabhakaran (India)

 

07:50 DRIVING SAFETY AFTER STROKE AND TIA – DO RIGHT-SIDED EVENTS INCREASE THE RISK OF MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS?A.Y.X. Yu, M.K. Kapral, J. Fang, D.A. Redelmeier (Canada)

 

08:00 A REAL-WORLD PORTRAIT OF THROMBECTOMY FOR THE TREATMENT OF ISCHEMIC STROKE IN QUEBEC, CANADAL. Lambert, C. Odier, F. Moreau, R. Côté, L. Beaudet, H. Corriveau, J.M. Boulanger, C. Lehoux, G. Milot, L. Azzi, M. Vutcovici Nicolae, F. Desy, L. Boothroyd, M. Angle, L. Gagnon, P. Nault, E. Segal, D. Tampieri, M. De Guise (Canada)

 

08:10 USE AND OUTCOME OF THROMBOLYSIS IN YOUNG PATIENTS (16-29 YEARS) WITH ISCHAEMIC STROKE IN ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND DATA FROM UK NATIONAL STROKE REGISTRYG. Meredith, L. Paley, A. Hoffman, B. Bray, A. Rudd (United Kingdom)

 

08:20 ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM AS A COMPONENT OF AN INTEGRATED CARE PATHWAY, IMPROVES PATIENT OUTCOMES IN A SEVERELY UNDER RESOURCED SETTINGA. Rossouw, A. Nongogo (South Africa)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: STROKE CARE SYSTEMS AND STROKE IN THE REGION07:00 - 08:30  Hall G   Chair : TBA TBA ()    Chair : Wolfgang G. Kunz (Canada)  07:00 LIFETIME QUALITY OF LIFE AND COST CONSEQUENCES OF TREATMENT DELAYS

IN ENDOVASCULAR THROMBECTOMY FOR STROKE BASED ON HERMES DATAW.G. Kunz, M.A. Almekhlafi, B.K. Menon, J.L. Saver, D.D.W. Dippel, C.B.L.M. Majoie, T.G. Jovin, A. Davalos, S. Bracard, F. Guillemin, B.C.V. Campbell, P.J. Mitchell, P. White, K.W. Muir, S. Brown, A.M. Demchuk, M.D. Hill, M. Goyal (Canada)

 

07:10 DEFINING PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE SECONDARY TO CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE: A POPULATION-BASED STUDYA. Hassan, R. Benlamri, K. Darko, A. Alahmar, S. Jaspers, S. Brown, S. Littlefield, M. Drombolis (Canada)

 

07:20 DOES HOSPITAL-PATIENT VOLUME HAVE A REAL EFFECT FOR LONG-TERM MORTALITY IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTS?K.J. Lee, H.K. Park, J.Y. Kim, B.J. Kim, S.E. Kim, H. Oh, Y.J. Cho, J.M. Park, K.Y. Park, K.B. Lee, S.J. Lee, T.H. Park, P.W. Chung, M.U. Jang, J.S. Lee, J. Lee, H.J. Bae (Republic of Korea)

 

07:30 THE SOLUTION TO ALBERTA'S RURAL CHALLENGE – A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO ENDOVASCULAR CAREM. Rashead, S. Amlani, B. Mann, J. Snider, M. John, G. Vogelaar, J. Ruigrok, J. Bestard, T. Jeerakathil, A. Demchuk (Canada)

 

07:40 ZONE-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT LEADS TO DISTINCTIONS. Amlani, C. Taralson, M.L. Halabi, G. Elton-Smith, K. King, T. Wasylak, S. Hanna, T. Jeerakathil (Canada)

 

07:50 IMPROVE STROKE CARE: A REGIONAL STROKE SYSTEM APPROACH TO IMPROVING ACUTE ACCESS TO CARE OF AN UNDERSERVED POPULATION THROUGH TARGETED PATIENT EDUCATIONC. Graffagnino, B. Kolls, S. Shah, M. Ehrlich, L. Monk, M. Roettig (USA)

 

08:00 A BRAZILIAN NATIONAL SURVEY BASED ON THE WORLD STROKE ORGANIZATION  

ROADMAP: WHERE ARE WE NOW?S. Martins, O. Pontes-Neto, K. Martin, G.S. Silva, J.J.F.D. Carvalho, D. Bezerra, M. Miranda Alves, J. Oliveira Filho, L.C. Rebello, G.R. Freitas, N.L. Cabral (Brazil)

08:10 STROKE IN THE MIDDLE-EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: A 2-YEAR PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS TREATMENT IN THE REGION. RESULTS FROM THE SITS-MENA REGISTRYS. Al-Rukn, M. Mazya, N. Akhtar, H. Hashim, B. Mansouri, B. Faouzi, H. Aref, H. Abdulrahman, S. Kesraoui, F. Hentati, S. Gebelly, N. Ahmed, N. Wahlgren, F. Abd-Allah, M. Almekhlafi, T. Moreira (United Arab Emirates)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS07:00 - 08:30  Hall H   Chair : Natan Bornstein (Israel)    Chair : Jung-Hoon Han (Republic of Korea)  07:00 PHYSICAL FITNESS INTERVENTIONS FOR NON-AMBULATORY STROKE

SURVIVORS: A MIXED METHODS SYSTEMATIC REVIEWM. Lloyd, D.A. Skelton, G. Mead, B. Williams, F. Van Wijck (United Kingdom)

 

07:10 BLOOD BASED PROTEIN BIOMARKERS FOR THE DIFFERENTIATION OF ISCHEMIC STROKE FROM STROKE MIMICS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSISS. Misra, P. Talwar, A. Kumar, R. Sagar, P. Kumar, A.K. Pandit, D. Mohania, K. Prasad, D. Vibha (India)

 

07:20 IS DIFFERENT ANTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE FROM POSTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE IN RELATION TO OUTCOME AFTER THROMBOLYSIS? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSISM.H. Park, J.H. Han, J.M. Jung, S.H. Lee, I. Jung (Republic of Korea)

 

07:30 A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF STROKE, DRIVING, AND CRASH RISKE. Linkewich, S.C. Plonka, M. Bayley, H. Finestone, J. Dow, M. Rappoport (Canada)

 

07:40 SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER DETECTED PERI-PROCEDURAL SOLID AND GASEOUS EMBOLISATION ON CEREBRAL INJURY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.G. Grover, A. Perera, M. Hamady, A. Davies, R. Gibbs (United Kingdom)

 

07:50 SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF CEREBROLYSIN IN EARLY POST-STROKE RECOVERY: A META-ANALYSIS OF NINE RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALSN. Bornstein, A. Guekht, W.D. Heiss, D. Muresanu (Israel)

 

08:00 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BASELINE SERUM TROPONIN LEVEL AND MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH STROKE: A META-ANALYSISA. Kumar, K. Prasad, R. Sagar, S. Mishra (India)

 

08:10 DEVELOPMENT, SAFETY AND FEASIBILITY OF FITNESS INTERVENTIONS IN EARLY STROKE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS. Kramer, T. Kaffenberger, T. Cumming, J. Bernhardt, L. Johnson (Australia)

 

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 01: VLADIMIR HACHINSKI07:00 - 08:30  Hall J   Chair : Kelvin Ng (Canada)  07:00 ASSESSING TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKS

Invited Speaker: Vladimir Hachinski (Canada)  

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 02: AYRTON MASSARO07:00 - 08:30  Hall K   Chair : Sylvain Lanthier (Canada)  07:00 SIGNIFICANCE OF CASE REPORTS IN ADVANCING STROKE

KNOWLEDGEInvited Speaker: Ayrton Massaro (Brazil)

 

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 03: LIPING LIU07:00 - 08:30  Hall L

  Chair : Laura Gioia (Canada)  07:00 DISCUSSION

Invited Speaker: Liping Liu (China)  

 

Break: SHORT BREAK08:30 - 08:35  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 10: WSO-NIH JOINT SESSION: RESEARCH STROKE NETWORKS 108:35 - 10:05  HALL A   Convener: Joseph Broderick (USA)    Convener: Shelagh B. Coutts (Canada)  08:35 NIH STROKENET: PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT, FUNDING, AND IMPLEMENTATION

Invited Speaker: Joseph Broderick (USA)  

08:57 THE INDIAN STROKE NETWORK – GETTING A NETWORK STARTEDInvited Speaker: Padmavathy Sylaja (India)

 

09:19 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO FUND GLOBAL TRIALSInvited Speaker: Clinton Wright (USA)

 

09:41 PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RUNNING A GLOBAL TRIALInvited Speaker: Shelagh B. Coutts (Canada)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 11: WSO-WFITN-SVIN JOINT SESSION: ACUTE ENDOVASCULAR MANAGEMENT OF STROKE08:35 - 10:05  HALL B   Convener: Christophe Cognard (France)    Convener: Pooja Khatri (USA)  08:35 INDICATIONS FOR ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY: EVIDENCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR

CHALLENGING TREATMENT DECISIONSInvited Speaker: Urs Fischer (Switzerland)

 

08:57 IMAGING SELECTION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: PRACTICAL ADVICE AND CONSIDERATIONSInvited Speaker: Bruce Campbell (Australia)

 

09:19 MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY PROCEDURES: BEST PRACTICES AND AREAS OF DEBATEInvited Speaker: Christophe Cognard (France)

 

09:41 THE FUTURE OF ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY: EMERGING RESEARCH CONCEPTSInvited Speaker: Pooja Khatri (USA)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 12: THE COLLIDING WORLDS OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS: PUBLISHING DILEMMAS08:35 - 10:05  HALL C   Convener: Geoffrey Donnan (Australia)    Convener: Werner Hacke (Germany)  08:35 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Invited Speaker: Allan H. Ropper (USA)  

08:44 THE LANCETInvited Speaker: Helen Frankish (United Kingdom)

 

08:53 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKEInvited Speaker: Geoffrey Donnan (Australia)

 

09:02 STROKEInvited Speaker: Marc Fisher (USA)

 

09:11 THE LANCET NEUROLOGYInvited Speaker: Hans-Christoph Diener (Germany)

 

09:20 EUROPEAN STROKE JOURNALInvited Speaker: Bo Norrving (Sweden)

 

09:29 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION  

Invited Speaker: Jeff Saver (USA) 09:38 PANEL DISCUSSION  

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 13: NURSING SESSION 108:35 - 10:05  HALL D   Convener: Theresa Green (Australia)    Convener: Debbie Summers (USA)  08:35 USE OF A DECISION SUPPORT AID TO INCREASE CONFIDENCE IN ALTEPLASE

ADMINISTRATIONInvited Speaker: Debbie Summers (USA)

 

08:57 GUIDELINE ADHERENCE: IMPROVING OUTCOMES AND PATIENT CENTERED CAREInvited Speaker: Zeliha Tulek (Turkey)

 

09:19 COMPLEXITY AND STROKE PATIENT OUTCOMESInvited Speaker: Michelle Nelson (Canada)

 

09:41 EMPOWERING PATIENTS AND FAMILIES IN SHARED DECISION-MAKING: PREFERENCES AND VALUES ACROSS STROKE TRANSITIONSInvited Speaker: Theresa Green (Australia)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 04: POST-STROKE APHASIA IN A MULTILINGUAL WORLD08:35 - 10:05  Hall G   Chair : Alexander Thiel (Canada)    Chair : Erin Godecke (Australia)  08:35 IS THERE EVIDENCE FOR THE CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEECH AND

LANGUAGE THERAPY?Invited Speaker: Elizabeth Rochon (Canada)

 

09:05 APPROACH TO MULTILINGUAL APHASICS: DIAGNOSIS AND OUTCOME MEASURESInvited Speaker: Anna Zumbansen (Canada)

 

09:35 ARE THERE ADJUVANT THERAPIES WORTH EXPLORING?Invited Speaker: Alexander Thiel (Canada)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 05: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO STROKE IN THE YOUNGER PATIENT08:35 - 10:05  HALL F   Chair : Sylvain Lanthier (Canada)    Chair : Stéphanie Debette (France)  08:35 A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO MULTIPLE ETIOLOGIES

Invited Speaker: Sylvain Lanthier (Canada)  

09:05 CARDIAC DISEASES OTHER THAN PFOInvited Speaker: Hooman Kamel (USA)

 

09:35 EXTRACRANIAL CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTIONInvited Speaker: Stéphanie Debette (France)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 06: APPROACH TO MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC AND HEMORRHAGIC STROKE08:35 - 10:05  HALL E   Chair : Leanne Casaubon (Canada)    Chair : Larry Goldstein (USA)  08:35 HOW TO MANAGE PATIENTS WITH RELATIVE CONTRAINDICATIONS TO TPA

THROMBOLYSISInvited Speaker: Leanne Casaubon (Canada)

 

09:05 MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE IN THE HYPERACUTE AND ACUTE STAGEInvited Speaker: Michiyasu Suzuki (Japan)

 

09:35 ACUTE MANAGEMENT OF INTRACEREBELLAR HAEMORRHAGE: DIFFERENCES WITH INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE?Invited Speaker: Gabriel Rinkel (The Netherlands)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: LATE BREAKING TRIALS 108:35 - 10:05  Hall H   Chair : Philip M Bath (United Kingdom)    Chair : Ashfaq Shuaib (Canada)  08:35 SYSTEMIC THROMBOLYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH KNOWN AND UNKNOWN TIME

WINDOW. A PRESPECIFIED SUBGROUP ANALYSIS OF THE ECASS4-STUDYP.A. Ringleb, M. Bendszus, G. Donnan, W. Hacke, C. Molina, D. Leys, P. Schellinger, S. Schwab, D. Toni, N. Wahlgren (Germany)

 

08:50 TIME TO TREATMENT AND OUTCOME IN MRI-GUIDED INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS FOR STROKE WITH UNKNOWN TIME OF ONSETG. Thomalla, F. Boutitie, C.Z. Simonsen, B. Cheng, T.H. Cho, M. Ebinger, M. Endres, J.B. Fiebach, J. Fiehler, I. Ford, I. Galinovic, R. Lemmens, K. Muir, N. Nighoghossian, S. Pedraza, J. Puig, P. Roy, V. Thijs, C. Gerloff (Germany)

 

09:05 TRANEXAMIC ACID FOR PREVENTION OF HAEMATOMA EXPANSION IN INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT CT-ANGIOGRAPHY SPOT SIGN ON ADMISSION SCAN: A PRESPECIFIED TICH-2 TRIAL SUBSTUDYC. Ovesen, J.C. Jakobsen, C. Gluud, T. Steiner, Z. Law, K. Flaherty, R.A. Dineen, P.M. Bath, N. Sprigg, H. Christensen (Denmark)

 

09:20 PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL OF ENCEPHALODUROARTERIOSYNANGIOSIS (EDAS) REVASCULARIZATION FOR SYMPTOMATIC INTRACRANIAL ATHEROSCLEROTIC DISEASE (ICAD).N. Gonzalez, H. Jiang, P. Lyden, S. Song, K. Schlick, O. Dumitrascu, L. Restrepo, N. Rao, J. Hinman, D. Liebeskind, M. Alexander, W. Schievink, J. Toscano, R. Liou, S. Piantadosi, J. Saver (USA)

 

09:35 DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING-GUIDED CUBOID STEREOTACTIC CATHETER SURGERY FOR PATIENTS WITH LATERAL INTERNAL CAPSULE HEMORRHAGE: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALJ. Yang, W. Li, J. Liu, X. Hu, J. Liu, G. Xi (China)

 

09:50 THE IMPACT OF THE DWI-FLAIR-MISMATCH IN THE ECASS-4 TRIAL– A POST-HOC ANALYSISJ. Pfaff, M. Bendszus, G. Donnan, C. Molina, D. Leys, P. Ringleb, P. Schellinger, S. Schwab, D. Toni, N. Wahlgren, W. Hacke (Germany)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: UNCOMMON STROKE DISORDERS / DIFFICULT CASES08:35 - 10:05  Hall I   Chair : Malgorzata Wiszniewska (Poland)    Chair : Kalimullah Jan (Singapore)  08:35 A COMPLICATED CASE OF HERNS

Y. Yu, X. Qi (China)  

08:45 POSITIVE EFFECT OF COMBINED TREATMENT WITH THROMBOLYSIS AND NEUROSURGERY FOR SPINAL CERVICAL ISCHEMIA DUE TO ANTERIOR SPINAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS - PRESENTATION OF AN UNUSUAL CASE.M. Wiszniewska, M. Harat, A. Czlonkowska (Poland)

 

08:55 DOUBLE HIT THEORY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VASCULAR PARKINSONISMH. Manosalva Alzate (Canada)

 

09:05 INFECTIOUS ANEURYSM AND BRAIN ABSCESS IN LEMIERRE SYNDROMEM. Idei, S. Takamatsu, K. Nogami, H. Miyachi, J. Yamamoto, S. Nishizawa (Japan)

 

09:15 DRUG INTERACTION WITH ASA IN T-PA-INDUCED ANGIOEDEMA PATIENTH. Kao (Canada)

 

09:25 TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA AND FOCAL DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING LESIONS IN MESIOTEMPORAL REGION: A TEN YEAR EXPERIENCE.K. Jan, M. Saini, L.T. Boon, T.Y. Tan, G.K.Z. Sng, S.F. Leong (Singapore)

 

09:35 ABOUT A CASE OF THALAMIC ASTASIA AND FUNCTIONAL SIGNS: A REVIEW OF DISORDERS AND THE LITERATUREJ. Celis, S. Urrego (Colombia)

 

 

E-POSTER VIEWING - OCTOBER 17-19 - EXHIBITION HOURS: E-POSTER VIEWING

09:30 - 18:00  Exhibition Area

 

Break: COFFEE BREAK10:05 - 10:35  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 14: INNOVATION - NEW CONCEPTUAL DIRECTIONS IN STROKE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY10:35 - 12:05  HALL A   Convener: Natan Bornstein (Israel)    Convener: Geoffrey Donnan (Australia)  10:35 COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Invited Speaker: Sheila Martins (Brazil)  

10:57 VIRTUAL REALITY AND STROKE RECOVERYInvited Speaker: Gustavo Saposnik (Canada)

 

11:19 STIMULATING THE SPHENO PALATINE GANGLION TO INFLUENCE CBFInvited Speaker: Natan Bornstein (Israel)

 

11:41 HEALTH ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE BRAINInvited Speaker: Julie Bernhardt (Australia)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 15: WSO-WHF JOINT SESSION: HEART AND BRAIN10:35 - 12:05  HALL B   Convener: Jean-Louis Mas (France)    Convener: David Gladstone (Canada)  10:35 PFO CLOSURE - INTERPRETING THE EVIDENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

PRACTICE Invited Speaker: Jean-Louis Mas (France)

 

10:57 ATRIAL MYOPATHY AND STROKE PREVENTIONInvited Speaker: Hooman Kamel (USA)

 

11:19 THE CASE FOR SCREENING FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION INCLUDING THE WORLD HEART FEDERATION ROADMAP FOR NONVALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATIONInvited Speaker: Jeff Healey (Canada)

 

11:41 ANTICOAGULATION FOR AF IN PATIENTS WITH PRIOR INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGEInvited Speaker: Ashkan Shoamanesh (Canada)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 16: RECENT ADVANCES IN SECONDARY PREVENTION10:35 - 12:05  HALL C   Convener: Scott Kasner (USA)    Convener: Hans-Christoph Diener (Germany)  10:35 SMALL VESSEL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE: IS ANTIPLATELET THERAPY EFFECTIVE?

Invited Speaker: Ashkan Shoamanesh (Canada)  

10:57 CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE: VKAS OR NOACS?Invited Speaker: Hans-Christoph Diener (Germany)

 

11:19 LARGE ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROTIC DISEASE: IS ASPIRIN ENOUGH?Invited Speaker: Peter Sandercock (United Kingdom)

 

11:41 LESS COMMON CAUSES OF STROKE: ANTIPLATELETS OR ANTICOAGULANTS?Invited Speaker: Scott Kasner (USA)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 17: NURSING SESSION 2: NURSING AS A CATALYST FOR MOVING EVIDENCE INTO PRACTICE10:35 - 12:05  HALL D   Convener: Anne W. Alexandrov (USA)    Convener: Patrice Lindsay (Canada)  10:35 FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING EVIDENCE APPLICATION IN PRACTICE  

Invited Speaker: Anne W. Alexandrov (USA) 10:50 CASE STUDIES OF MOVING EVIDENCE INTO NURSING PRACTICE 1

Invited Speaker: Skye Coote (Australia)  

11:05 CASE STUDIES OF MOVING EVIDENCE INTO NURSING PRACTICE 2Invited Speaker: Dawn Aycock (USA)

 

11:20 CASE STUDIES OF MOVING EVIDENCE INTO NURSING PRACTICE 3Invited Speaker: Melanie Penn (Canada)

 

11:35 EDUCATION AND EVALUATION NEEDS TO SUPPORT UPTAKE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF BEST EVIDENCE INTO NURSING PRACTICEInvited Speaker: Patrice Lindsay (Canada)

 

11:50 PANEL DISCUSSION  

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 04: POST-STROKE APHASIA IN A MULTILINGUAL WORLD - Cont'd10:35 - 12:05  Hall G   Chair : Alexander Thiel (Canada)    Chair : Erin Godecke (Australia)  10:35 IS MUSIC THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE FOR APHASIA THERAPY?

Invited Speaker: Gottfried Schlaug (USA)  

11:05 APHASIA OR POST-STROKE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: WHAT ARE WE TREATING?Invited Speaker: Erin Godecke (Australia)

 

11:35 BILINGUAL APHASIA THERAPY AND GLOBALIZATION: CHALLENGES AND AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICEInvited Speaker: Ana Ines Ansaldo (Canada)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 05: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO STROKE IN THE YOUNGER PATIENT Cont'd10:35 - 12:05  HALL F   Chair : Sylvain Lanthier (Canada)    Chair : Stéphanie Debette (France)  10:35 HEMATOLOGICAL CAUSES: WHICH TEST AND WHEN?

Invited Speaker: Susan Solymoss (Canada)  

11:05 GENETIC CAUSESInvited Speaker: Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve (France)

 

11:35 OUTCOME AND PRACTICAL ISSUES OF DAILY LIVINGInvited Speaker: Deidre Anne De Silva (Singapore)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 06: APPROACH TO MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC AND HEMORRHAGIC STROKE Cont'd10:35 - 12:05  HALL E   Chair : Leanne Casaubon (Canada)    Chair : Larry Goldstein (USA)  10:35 BLOOD GLUCOSE TREATMENT PRE-/POST-ACUTE STROKE TREATMENT

Invited Speaker: Larry Goldstein (USA)  

11:05 LOCAL THROMBOLYSIS FOR IVH AND ICH – IS THERE A ROLE?Invited Speaker: Craig Anderson (Australia)

 

11:35 REPERFUSION INJURY AND MALIGNANT MCA SYNDROMInvited Speaker: Gisele Sampaio Silva (Brazil)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: LATE BREAKING TRIALS 210:35 - 12:05  Hall H   Chair : Patrik Michel (Switzerland)    Chair : Wolf-Dieter Heiss (Germany)  10:35 IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PATIENTS, A HISTORY OF STROKE

IS A BETTER PREDICTOR OF EVENTS THAN A HISTORY OF TIAW. Hacke, J.P. Bassand, A.J. Camm, D.A. Fitzmaurice, S.Z. Goldhaber, S. Virdone, S.

 

Goto, S. Haas, G. Kayani, L.G. Mantovani, K. Pieper, F. Misselwitz, M. Van Eickels, A.G.G. Turpie, F.W.A. Verheugt, A.K. Kakkar (Germany)

10:53 CAROTID REVASCULARIZATION AND MEDICAL MANAGEMENT FOR ASYMPTOMATIC CAROTID STENOSIS: CREST-2 UPDATES. Chaturvedi, J. Meschia, B. Lal, G. Howard, G. Roubin, R. Brown, K. Barrett, M. Chimowitz, B. Demaerschalk, V. Howard, J. Huston, R. Lazar, W. Moore, C. Moy, T. Turan, J. Voeks, T. Brott (USA)

 

11:11 KEY SUBGROUP ANALYSES FROM THE SELECT STUDYA. Sarraj, J. Grotta, A. Hassan, M. Abraham, D. Haussen, N. Vora, F. Hellinger, R. Edgell, R. Gupta, G. Albers (USA)

 

11:29 DOOR TO NEEDLE TIME FOR THROMBOLYSIS: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF THE THROMBOLYSIS IMPLEMENTATION IN STROKE (TIPS) CLUSTER RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.M. Hasnain, C. Paul, I. Hubbard, C. Levi (Australia)

 

11:47 THROMBOLYSIS IMPLEMENTATION INTERVENTION AND IMPROVED CLINICAL OUTCOME: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF THROMBOLYSIS IMPLEMENTATION IN STROKE (TIPS) CLUSTER RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.M. Hasnain, C. Paul, I. Hubbard, C. Levi (Australia)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS10:35 - 12:05  Hall I   Chair : Shinichiro Uchiyama (Japan)    Chair : Jesper Petersson (Sweden)  10:35 OPTIMAL ANALYSIS OF THE MODIFIED RANKIN SCALE (MRS)

Q. Pilard, R. Lindley, M. Woodward, C. Anderson, L. Billot (Australia)  

10:45 BRANCH ATHEROMATOUS DISEASE DIAGNOSED AS EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNDETERMINED SOURCE: A SUB-ANALYSIS OF NAVIGATE ESUSS. Uchiyama, K. Toyoda, Y. Okada, K. Kitagawa, S. Ameriso, T. Yamada, Y.Y. Liu, R. Hart (Japan)

 

10:55 DELIVERING POST-STROKE EDUCATION IN GHANA; A FEASIBILITY RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL (RCT) WITH QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONP. Amooba, L. East, P. Clissett, A. Drummond (Ghana)

 

11:05 REMOTE ISCHEMIC POST CONDITIONING (BAIPC) PLAYS A PROTECTIVE ROLE TO STROKE BY SUPRESSING PERIPHERAL IMMUNITYF. Liangshu, D. Ma, F. Jiachun (China)

 

11:15 TREATMENT FIDELITY IN THE VERY EARLY REHABILITATION IN SPEECH (VERSE) TRIALE. Riseley, N. Ciccone, E. Godecke (Australia)

 

11:25 COMBINING AEROBIC EXERCISE AND COGNITIVE TRAINING IN CHRONIC STROKE; ENHANCED COGNITION PREDICTED BY IGF-1M. Ploughman, G.A. Eskes, L.P. Kelly, M.C. Kirkland, A.J. Devasahayam, E.M. Wallack, B. Abraha, S.M.M. Hasan, M.B. Downer, G.C. Wilson, E. Skene, I. Sharma, A.R. Chaves, M.E. Curtis, G.S. Robertson, C. Moore, J. McCarthy, M. MacKay-Lyons (Canada)

 

11:35 COMPARATIVE EFFICACY OF EIGHT-WEEK CONTINUOUS, INTERVAL AND COMBINED AEROBIC TRAINING MODES ON SELECTED HAEMATOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL VARIABLES OF STROKE SURVIVORS – A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALN. Ekechukwu, I. Omotosho, T. Hamzat (Nigeria)

 

11:45 EUROHYP-1: EUROPEAN, MULTICENTRE, RANDOMISED, PHASE III CLINICAL TRIAL OF THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA PLUS BEST MEDICAL TREATMENT VS BEST MEDICAL TREATMENT ALONE FOR ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKEJ. Petersson, H.B. Van der Worp, M.R. Macleod, R. Kollmar, D.W. Krieger, D. Staykov, I. Szabo, B. Kallmünzer, S. Schwab (Sweden)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: CEREBROVASCULAR OCCLUSIVE DISEASE10:35 - 12:05  Hall J   Chair : Shinsuke Muraoka (Japan)  10:35 PREDICTION OF INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL STENOSIS PROGRESSION IN PATIENTS

WITH MOYAMOYA VASCULOPATHY: CONTRAST-ENHANCED HIGH-RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE VESSEL WALL IMAGINGS. Muraoka, Y. Araki, T. Taoka, H. Kawai, S. Okamoto, K. Uda, S. Ota, S. Naganawa, T.

 

Wakabayashi (Japan) 10:45 A GLOBAL SURVEY OF ANTITHROMBOTIC THERAPY USED FOR SECONDARY

PREVENTION IN ISCHEMIC STROKES SECONDARY TO INTRACRANIAL ATHEROSCLEROTIC DISEASE (ICAD)K. Perera (Canada)

 

10:55 QUANTITATIVE MRA SCREENING AND SUBMAXIMAL ANGIOPLASTY IS COST-EFFECTIVE FOR SYMPTOMATIC VERTEBROBASILAR OCCLUSIVE DISEASED.R. Esfahani, D.K. Pandey, X. Du, L. Rose-Finnell, F.T. Charbel, C.P. Derdeyn, S. Amin-Hanjani, F.T. VERiTAS Study Group (USA)

 

11:05 DEGREE OF SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITION OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND RISK OF ISCHEMIC STROKEA. Douros, S. Dell'Aniello, G. Dehghan, J.F. Boivin, C. Renoux (Canada)

 

11:15 LOW PREVALENCE OF INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL STENOSIS IN A CAUCASIAN POPULATION-BASED RANDOM SAMPLE DESPITE HIGH VASCULAR RISK FACTOR BURDENA. Angermaier, S. Langner, M. Kirsch, B. Von Sarnowski, U. Schminke, N. Hosten, A. Khaw (Canada)

 

11:25 COMPARING CEREBROVASCULAR REACTIVITY BETWEEN CANONICAL GROUP ATLASES OF MOYAMOYA DISEASE VS HEALTHY CONTROLST.C. Chen, C. Zhuang, L. McKetton, J. Poublanc, A. Crawley, J. Fisher, D. Mandell, D. Mikulis (Ireland)

 

11:35 THE IMPACT OF P/D-MISMATCHING IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH SOLITAIR STENT RETRIEVER.D.S. Yoo, E. Jin, H. Han-Young, A. Jae-Geun, P. Hae-Kwan, J. Cheol (Republic of Korea)

 

 

Break: BREAK12:05 - 12:35  Exhibition Area

 

SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM: SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM 0512:35 - 14:05  HALL B

 

SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM: SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM 0612:35 - 14:05  HALL D

 

SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM: SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM 0712:35 - 14:05  HALL E

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL REHABILITATION 214:05 - 15:05  Hall G   Chair : Marc Roig Pull (Canada)  14:05 BREAKFAST CLUB: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO ACHIEVING OCCUPATIONAL

THERAPY REHABILITATION INTENSITY GOALSN. Hayworth, S. Henderson, E. Palmer, B. Dorey (Canada)

 

14:10 EXPLORING THE PERCEIVED EFFECTIVENESS OF A NOVEL FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAMJ. Harris, N. Last, J. Bonneville, C. Flynn, S. Pettit (Canada)

 

14:15 TASK-ORIENTED CIRCUIT TRAINING FOR POST-STROKE FATIGUE, SLEEP-PATTERN, FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE AND SOCIETAL RE-INTEGRATION IN STROKE SURVIVORS WITH POST-STROKE FATIGUE: A CLINICAL CONTROLLED STUDYC.A.O. Gbiri, O.A. Olawale, O.T. Ogunmola (Nigeria)

 

14:20 DEVELOPMENT AND FEASIBILITY OF A CANINE ENDOVASCULAR REVERSIBLE MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION STROKE MODEL: A NOVEL ANTERIOR CIRCULATION APPROACHL. Guada, K. Ramdas, K. Atchaneeyasakul, M. Watanabe, D. Yavagal (USA)

 

14:25 COMPARING THE RESPONSIVENESS OF THE FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY  

MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (SMAF) WITH THAT OF THE FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE (FIM) IN POST-STROKE REHABILITATIONH. Corriveau, L. Trottier, G. Bravo, L. Clément, C.L. Richards (Canada)

14:30 THE COGNITIVE AUGMENTED MOBILITY PROGRAM (CAMP): FEASIBILITY AND PRELIMINARY EFFICACYK. Dittmann, K.A. Allen, A. Bergner, J. Chen, L. Elizabeth, E. Inness, S. Pacione, J. Shaffer, T. Ada, S. McEwen (Canada)

 

14:35 WHERE HAVE ALL THE PATIENTS GONE? UNDERSTANDING ACCESS TO COMMUNITY-BASED STROKE REHABILITATION SERVICESM.P. Lindsay, K. White, J. Harris (Canada)

 

14:40 ENGAGING THE HEALTH CARE TEAM TO PROMOTE PATIENT ACTIVATION FOR ENHANCED STROKE RECOVERYA. Venturini, R. Sourial, A.M. Cote (Canada)

 

14:45 THE IMPACT OF PAIN POST-STROKE IS NOT DIFFERENTIALLY ASSOCIATED WITH BODY REGION.B. Haslam, D. Butler, L. Carey (Australia)

 

14:50 DOES MATRIX-RHYTHM THERAPY IMPROVE BALANCE ABILITY AND GAIT VELOCITY IN STROKE SURVIVORS?A. Unal, F. Altug, G. Tikac, U. Cavlak, U. Randol (Turkey)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: ACUTE STROKE MANAGEMENT 214:05 - 15:05  Hall H   Chair : Alexander Poppe ()  14:05 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SERIAL GLUCOSE MEASUREMENTS IN ACUTE

ISCHEMIC STROKE TREATED WITH INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSISJ.T. Kim, S.H. Kim, M.S. Park, K.H. Choi (Republic of Korea)

 

14:10 THE FAST VAN TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION IN ACUTE STROKES. Wasyliw, R. Whelan, M. Kelly, K. Davy, G. Hunter (Canada)

 

14:15 EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF THE EDEMA SCORE FOR PREDICTING POTENTIALLY LETHAL MALIGNANT EDEMA AFTER MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION IN CHINESE STROKE PATIENTSY. Cheng, K. Ye, S. Zhang, S. Wu, R. Yuan, M. Liu (China)

 

14:20 ACUTE STROKE MANAGEMENT: A PLIGHT OF NEPALA. Chandra, B. Pant (Nepal)

 

14:25 PREHOSPITAL CT ANGIOGRAPHY IN ACUTE STROKE MANAGEMENTK. Fassbender, M. Kettner, S.A. Helwig, A. Ragoschke-Schumm, L. Schwindling, S. Roumia, J. Kulikovski, M. Lesmeister, S. Walter (Germany)

 

14:30 RESETTING THE DTN CLOCK: A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCEL. Macisaac, A. Maebrae-Waller (Canada)

 

14:35 THE EFFECT OF TRANSDERMAL GLYCERYL TRINITRATE ON IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS IN ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKE: DATA FROM THE EFFICACY OF NITRIC OXIDE IN STROKE TRIALC. Philbey, J. Appleton, L.J. Woodhouse, Z.K. Law, N. Sprigg, J.M. Wardlaw, P. Bath (United Kingdom)

 

14:40 DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A LIPOSOMAL FORMULATION OF ETHYLACETATE FRACTION FROM ALLIUM CEPA EXTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ISCHEMIA REPERFUSION INDUCED CEREBRAL INJURY IN MICEV. Singh, R. Shri, P. Krishan (India)

 

14:45 NICARDIPINE ASSOCIATED RISK OF SHORT-TERM MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKEH. Saber, M. Sadeghi, A. Desai, A. Singh, K. Suchdev, W. Mohamed (USA)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL REHABILITATION 314:05 - 15:05  Hall I   Chair : Joyce Fung (Canada)  14:05 ABNORMAL INTRINSIC BRAIN ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN LEUKOARAIOSIS PATIENTS

WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: A RESTING STATE FMRI STUDYY. Zhang, L. Xinxin, S. Qingli, W. Yongjun (China)

 

14:10 STRUCTURAL LEVEL AND LESIONED SIDE INTERACT AS DETERMINANTS OF  

UPPER-LIMB MOTOR IMPAIRMENT IN SUBACUTE STROKE PATIENTSD.G. Liebermann, S. Frenkel-Toledo, M. Meimoun, S. Berman, M.C. Baniña, J.M. Solomon, M. Levin, N. Soroker (Israel)

14:15 STROKE AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: A COGNITIVE STRATEGY-BASED APPROACH TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO INPATIENT STROKE REHABILITATIONE. Linkewich, J. Rios, M. Donald, A. Hunt, D. Dawson, S. Runions, S. Quant, M. Egan, S. McEwen (Canada)

 

14:20 HOW MUCH DOES THE HAND MOVE AFTER STROKE?H. Eshmann, M. Héroux, J. Cheetham, S. Potts, J. Diong (Australia)

 

14:25 INTEGRATING FRONT-LINE CLINICIANS TO DELIVER COMPLEX INTERVENTIONS IN MULTI-SITE, RANDOMIZED, STROKE REHABILITATION CLINICAL TRIALS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE DOSE STUDYT. Klassen, S. Dukelow, M. Bayley, M. Hill, M. Piitz, S. Pooyania, J. Yajure, J. Eng (Canada)

 

14:30 A PERSON-CENTERED INSTRUMENT TO GUIDE GOAL SETTING IN THE REHABILITATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY: THE CLIENT’S INTERVENTION PRIORITIES (CIP)© TOOLA. Moreno, E. Cisneros, G. Léveillé, M.C. Guerrette, M. McKerral (Canada)

 

14:35 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION TRIALS IN STROKE REHABILITATIONM.L. Bird, T. Miller, L.A. Connell, J.J. Eng (Canada)

 

14:40 THE REDUCING SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR AFTER STROKE STUDY (RECREATE): DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE OUTCOMESA. Forster, D. Clarke, C. Fitzsimons, K. Birch, A. Farrin, A. Patel, R. Lawton, G. Mead, I. Holloway, C. English, G. Carter (Australia)

 

14:45 DOES FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY VARY AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH UP TO ONE YEAR AFTER STROKE? AN ANALYSIS USING THE TUG-ABST. Ribeiro, E. Silva, I. Silva, M. Costa, R. Lindquist (Brazil)

 

14:50 ROLE OF SERUM GROWTH FACTORS (VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR AND BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR ) IN REPETITIVE TRANS CRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION ASSISTED RECOVERY IN SUBACUTE STROKEH. Sharma, V. Vishnu, R. Bhatia, N. Kumar, R. Sharma, R. Mohanty, S. Vishnu, V. Padma (India)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT/ VASCULAR DEMENTIA 14:05 - 15:05  Hall J   Chair : Alexander Khaw (Canada)  14:05 LATERALIZATION OF VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS

M. Shendyapina, B. Weekes (Hong Kong S.A.R.)  

14:10 PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS ON CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: PROTOCOL FOR A MULTICENTER, PROSPECTIVE, OBSERVATIONAL, LONGITUDINAL STUDYN. Saji, T. Sakurai, K. Ito, H. Tomimoto, K. Kitagawa, K. Miwa, Y. Tanaka, K. Kozaki, K. Kario, M. Eto, K. Suzuki, A. Shimizu, S. Niida, A. Hirakawa, K. Toba (Japan)

 

14:15 THE RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL PATTERN OF PARIETAL CORTEX IN PROGRESSIVE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT OF CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASEX. Chen, Y. Xu (China)

 

14:20 MRI LOAD OF CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASE AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CADASILY. Shi, C. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Zhou, H. Tang, Z. Zhang (China)

 

14:25 DISTINGUISHING CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASE FROM MS, THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES ARE IMPORTANTW. Li (China)

 

14:30 CHANGES IN COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AFTER CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY- ONE YEAR FOLOW UPD. Vaclavik, D. Skoloudik, G. Solna, T. Fadrna (Czech Republic)

 

14:35 TRAJECTORY AND PREDICTORS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE AFTER STROKEM.S. Oh, J.S. Lim, K.H. Yu, S.U. Kwon (Republic of Korea)

 

14:40 PREDICTORS OF EPISODIC MEMORY RECOVERY ONE YEAR AFTER STROKEP. Wright, M.J. O'Sullivan (United Kingdom)

 

14:45 THERAPIST’S MEDIATION DURING COGNITIVE TASKSR. Kizony, N. Katz, A. Bar-Haim Erez, R. Mansour (Israel)

 

14:50 EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS POST-STROKE; VALIDITY OF AN ECOLOGICALLY VALID ASSESSMENTR. Kizony, B. Marom, S. Osman (Israel)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: NURSING14:05 - 15:05  Hall K   Chair : Malgorzata Karna (Canada)  14:05 ACCESSING AND USING FORMAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES: EXPERIENCES

OF CAREGIVERS OF COMMUNITY-DWELLING STROKE SURVIVORSA. Garnett, J. Ploeg, M. Markle-Reid, P.H. Strachan (Canada)

 

14:10 DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE MULTIDISCIPLINARY SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNITY-DWELLING STROKE SURVIVORS AND CAREGIVERSS.K.Y. Lam, J.P.C. Chau, S.H.S. Lo, A.Y.L. Lau, V.W.Y. Lee, K.C. Choi, V.C.T. Mok, E.W.C. Shum, S.S. Hung, E.K.C. Siow, J.Y.L. Ching, J.H.M. Yeung, S.H. Li (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

 

14:15 NURSE-FACILITATED RTPA ADMINISTRATION IN REDUCING DOOR TO NEEDLE TIMES.P. Goh, C. Chen, J. De Leon, C. Tham, H.Y. Xu, J. Ng, C.L. Tio, J.L. Pan (Singapore)

 

14:20 SYSTEM-LEVEL CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE COMPASS MODEL: A STATEWIDE COMPREHENSIVE POST-ACUTE CARE INTERVENTION FOR STROKE SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILY CAREGIVERSB. Lutz, S. Gesell, A. Reimold, A. Guzik, S. Coleman, L. Mettam, C. Bushnell, W. Rosamond, P. Duncan, For the COMPASS Investigative Team, (3)[msissine@wakehealth.edu] (USA)

 

14:25 FREQUENCY OF PRESSURE ULCERS IN A STROKE UNIT: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDYH. Incekara, A. Cavusoglu, A. Acun, K. Yeni, C. Polat, Z. Tulek (Turkey)

 

14:30 EVALUATION OF NURSING PRACTICE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STROKE PATIENTS IN RELATION TO CANADIAN RECOMMENDATIONSA. Bélanger, L. Cloutier (Canada)

 

14:35 NURSES’ KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE ON PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTIONC. Polat, I. Ozkan, Z. Tulek, R.E. Togrol (Turkey)

 

14:40 FAST VAN LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION STROKE SCREENK.R. Whelan, S. Wasyliw, K. Davy, G. Hunter (Canada)

 

14:45 A PALLIATIVE CARE PHILOSOPHY FOR STROKE PATIENTSK.R. Whelan, S. Jolly, D. Kim, E. Bravo, G. Hunter (Canada)

 

14:50 IMPACT OF STROKE NURSE IN EARLY MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE STROKE PATIENTS IN RESOURCE LIMITED SETTINGA. Dhaliwal, P. Sharma, D. Munjal, A. Kumar, A. Kumar, D. Khurana (India)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF CARE, METAANALYSES14:05 - 15:05  Hall L   Chair : Thalia Field (Canada)  14:05 DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC TRENDS IN STROKE PATIENTS WITH CAROTID

FREE FLOATING THROMBUS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW.S. Fridman, S.P. Lownie, J. Mandzia (Canada)

 

14:10 STROKE REHABILITATION OUTCOME IN PALESTINEA. Amro, A. Rhoda (Palestinian Authority)

 

14:15 DIFFERENCES IN STROKE CARE AND OUTCOMES BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN IN CANADAT. Field, N. Kamal, P. Lindsay (Canada)

 

14:20 INTERVENTIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF COVERT STROKE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEWL. Strasser, M. Sharma (Canada)

 

14:25 ACCREDITATION CANADA STROKE DISTINCTION PROGRAM: A GLOBAL PROGRAM FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF STROKE SERVICESC. Louise, A. Gregus (Canada)

 

14:30 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN LDL-C/HDL-C RATIO AND HEMORRHAGIC TRANSFORMATION IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE

 

Y. Wang, C. Wei, Q. Song, M. Liu (China) 14:35 CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC BURDEN OF ORAL ANTICOAGULATION (OAC) IN

PATIENTS WITH EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNKNOWN SOURCE (ESUS) WITHOUT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF) IN THE UNITED STATESK. Witte, V. Thijs, S. Tsintzos, P. Ziegler, R. Buckner, E. Ismyrloglou, K. Weeks, C. Wolff, D. Vinup (United Kingdom)

 

14:40 EFFICACY OF COMPREHENSIVE STROKE UNIT IN REDUCING DOOR TO NEEDLE TIME; AN EXPERIENCE FROM SOUTH INDIAA. Raina, M. Trivedi, L. Kumar, S.E. Sreedharan, P.N. Sylaja (India)

 

14:45 THE ORTHOTIC & THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF DROPPED FOOT STIMULATION IN STROKE GAIT.M. Whittaker, A. Sabbaghan, P. Taylor (Canada)

 

14:50 USING QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY FOR PREDICTION OF LETHAL OUTCOME OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC SUPRATENTORIAL STROKEA. Kuznietsov (Ukraine)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: HEART AND BRAIN & DIFFICULT CASES14:05 - 15:05  Hall M   Chair : Jodi Edwards (Canada)  14:05 MANAGEMENT OF ISCHAEMIC STROKE IN TAKAYASU ARTERITIS.

F. Johandi, T. Sein, S.P. Goh, J. De Leon, T.C. Lim, C.H. Tham (Singapore)  

14:10 3D-CTA IS USEFUL TO IDENTIFY UNDERLYING CAUSE OF EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNDETERMINED SOURCEM. Saito, R. Suzuki, T. Hirano, H. Kawano (Japan)

 

14:15 ISCHEMIC STROKE AS A NEUROVASCULAR COMPLICATION IN A YOUNG INDIVIDUAL WITH MARFAN SYNDROME: A RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION CHALLENGEN. Hussein, A. Nordin, N.N. Zainal Abidin, M.W. Ng, M. Menon, M.S. Mohd Yusof, Y. Ishak, I.Z. Zainal Abidin, H. Sawaluddin (Malaysia)

 

14:20 CALCIUM SCORING TO QUANTIFY AORTIC ARCH DISEASE IN ESUSJ. Wang, H. Yim, S. Kumaran, R. Rajalingam, S. Jalini, D. Mandell, A. Pikula (Canada)

 

14:25 STROKE ASSOCIATED WITH POST-OPERATIVE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER NON-CARDIAC SURGERY: A META-ANALYSISM. Marafi, A. AlTurki, L. Vieira, R. Proietti, D. Cardinale, R. Blackwell, A. Bessissow, V. Essebag, J.S. Healey, T. Huynh (Canada)

 

14:30 RECURRENT THROMBOLYSIS IN A PATIENT WITH FACTITIOUS DISORDERA. Mcdonough, J. Harbison (Ireland)

 

14:35 SUBCLINICAL CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN SUBJECTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE CAUSED BY CERVICOCEPHALIC ATHEROTHROMBOSIS - PRELIMINARY RESULTSA.S. Bossoni, A.L. Araujo, R. Dantas, C. Nomura, R. Santos, E. Shu, M. Oliveira, M. Maria, O. Carlos, M. Miranda, S. Gisele, V. Silva, C. Leite, A. Conforto (Brazil)

 

14:40 LEFT ATRIAL ENLARGEMENT PREDICTS LONG-TERM CLINICAL OUTCOME IN EMBOLIC STROKES. Kim, Y. Yang, S.W. Ha, J.H. Han (Republic of Korea)

 

14:45 THE ROLE OF ADIPOCYTE ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-1 (AEBP1) IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKEA. Majdalawieh, O. Bogachev, X. Pan, L. Zhang, H.S. Ro (United Arab Emirates)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: PREVENTION OF STROKE 14:05 - 15:05  Hall N   Chair : Aimen Moussaddy (Canada)  14:05 RISK OF RECURRENT ISCHEMIC STROKE IN YOUNG PATIENTS: A COMPARISON

OF CRYPTOGENIC AND IDENTIFIED CAUSED. Sanak, P. Divisova, M. Hutyra, M. Kral, A. Bartkova, J. Latal, T. Veverka, J. Zapletalova, M. Spacek, D. Franc, T. Dornak, M. Taborsky, P. Kanosky (Czech Republic)

 

14:10 SITTING TIME AND STROKE RISK: AN AUSDIAB DATA ANALYSIST. Cumming, E. Holliday, D. Dunstan, C. English (Australia)

 

14:15 INFLUENCE OF SMOKING ON THE EFFECT OF CLOPIDOGREL MAY BE DEPENDENT ON CYP2C19 POLYMORPHISMS

 

S.W. Han, J.H. Park, K. Kim, K.Y. Lee (Republic of Korea) 14:20 STROKE KNOWLEDGE AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PRACTICES OF STROKE

PATIENTSB. Parappilly, T. Field, W. Mortenson, J. Eng (Canada)

 

14:25 SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF DABIGATRAN IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION WITH AND WITHOUT PRIOR STROKE: DATA FROM THE GLORIA-AF REGISTRY PROGRAMH.C. Diener, C. Teutsch, M.V. Huisman, S.J. Dubner, C.S. Ma, K.J. Rothman, S. Lu, M. Paquette, K. Zint, L.R. França, J.L. Halperin, G.Y.H. Lip (Germany)

 

14:30 KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTION AND VULNERABILITY TO STROKE AMONG MIDDLE-AGED NIGERIANS RESIDENT IN SOUTH-EASTERN NIGERIAT.H. Hamzat, I. Onwukaba (Nigeria)

 

14:35 FEASIBILITY OF A SOCIAL NETWORK BASED VASCULAR RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM FOR MILD STROKE SURVIVORSN. Appleton, J. Birkemeier, C. McMurry, R. Chunara, N.S. Parikh, E. Goldmann, B. Boden-Albala (USA)

 

14:40 ASPIRIN RESISTANCE IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN INDIAN POPULATION.P. Sisodia, R. Bhatia, R. Saxena, M.V. Padma, K. Prasad, M.B. Singh, V. Sreenivas, G. Sharma, S. Vivekanandan (India)

 

14:45 THE KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION OF KYRGYZSTAN ABOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET AS A PREVENTIVE FACTOR AGAINST STROKE AND HEART DISEASESI. Lutsenko, A. Ismailova (Kyrgyzstan )

 

14:50 SECONDARY PREVENTION BY STRUCTURED SEMI-INTERACTIVE STROKE PREVENTION PACKAGE IN INDIA (SPRINT INDIA) STUDY: FORMATIVE, ACCEPTABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION STAGES OF THE STUDYD. Arora, M.P. Kate, S.J. Verma, P.N. Sylaja, M.V. Padma, R. Bhatia, D. Khurana, S. Aaron, M. Sadiq, S. Kaul, S.A. Jabeen, P. Ojha, G.B. Kulkarni, A. Sharma, B.K. Ray, N.C. Borah, M. Ghosh, M. Sharma, I. INSTRuCT, J.D. Pandian (India)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: MISCELLANEOUS 214:05 - 15:05  Hall O   Chair : Dylan Blacquiere (Canada)  14:05 STROKE SEVERITY VERSUS TIME TO DYSPHAGIA SCREEN AS RISK FACTOR FOR

POST-STROKE PNEUMONIAH. Ma, C. Matley, T. Kooblal, A. Thrift, V. Srikanth, T. Phan (Australia)

 

14:10 MIND THE HEART: CARDIAC CT-ANGIOGRAPHY IN THE ACUTE PHASE OF ISCHEMIC STROKEV. Guglielmi, L.F.M. Beenen, H.A. Marquering, S.M. Boekholdt, D.M. Mandell, F.L. Silver, C.B.L.M. Majoie, Y.B.W.E.M. Roos, R.N. Planken, J.M. Coutinho (The Netherlands)

 

14:15 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (MTHFR) GENE POLYMORPHISM AND RISK OF INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE (ICH) IN NORTH INDIAN POPULATION: A CASE CONTROL STUDYR. Sagar, A. Kumar, A.K. Yadav, R. Raj, S. Misra, G. Shukla, D. Dash, A.K. Srivastava, D. Vibha, S. Vivekanandhan, A. Gulati, G. Gupta, K. Prasad (India)

 

14:20 ADHESION MOLECULES: AN IMPORTANT INDICATOR OF STROKE DURING INFECTIOUS DISEASESS. Sinha (India)

 

14:25 MIR149 MAY EXPLAIN THE INCREASED RISK OF STROKE IN MIGRAINE PATIENTSR. Mirfakhraie, A. Abedin, M. Salehi (Iran)

 

14:30 TISSUE PROTRUSION WITH ATTENUATION ASSESSED BY OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN IMAGING WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ISCHEMIC BRAIN LESIONS IN THE CAROTID ARTERY STENTINGN. Funatsu, Y. Enomoto, Y. Egashira, K. Yayamauchi, N. Nakayama, M. Kawasaki, T. Iwama (Japan)

 

14:35 EFFECT OF HEPARINE DURING CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY ON RISK OF NEW ISCHEMIC LESION DETECTED USING MAGNETIC RESOSNANCET. Hrbac, D. Skoloudik, D. Netuka, V. Benes, V. Benes jr., J. Havelka, T. Belsan, J. Fiedler, V. Priban, R. Herzig (Czech Republic)

 

14:40 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FASTING TRIGLYCERIDE LEVELS AND THE PREVALENCE OF ASYMPTOMATIC INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL STENOSIS IN A CHINESE

 

COMMUNITY-BASED STUDYJ. Wu, Y. Wang, A. Wang, J. Xie, X. Zhao (China)

14:45 EFFECT OF CILOSTAZOL ON PREVENTION OF RETINAL ARTERY STENOSIS AND CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASE IN ACUTE LACUNAR INFARCTION PATIENTSJ.B. Lee (Republic of Korea)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: STROKE SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS14:05 - 15:05  Hall P   Chair : Juliet Bouverie (United Kingdom)  14:05 CAREGIVERS' PREPAREDNESS FOR MANAGING TRANSITION TO THE COMMUNITY

OF PERSONS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT POST-STROKEA. Jean, V. Poulin, C. Viscogliosi (Canada)

 

14:10 BRINGING THE PATIENT VOICE TO LIFE IN STROKE BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINESJ. Harris, M. Teed, N. Gierman, G. Arthur, G. Gubitz, P. Lindsay (Canada)

 

14:15 ESTABLISHING, SUPPORTING AND STRENGTHENING A GLOBAL NETWORK OF STROKE SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS (SSO).S. Belson (Switzerland)

 

14:20 CREATING AN EDUCATIONAL SPACE TO RAISE AWARENESS OF POST STROKE SPASTICITY TREATMENT OPTIONS THROUGH A STROKE SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AND HEALTHCARE COMPANY COLLABORATIONS. Belson, N. Robinson-Edwards, J. Barrick (United Kingdom)

 

14:25 AN APPLIED HEALTH RESEARCH COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF STROKE SUPPORT SERVICES IN THE UKA. Bowen, K. Rothwell, E. Patchick, K. Woodward-Nutt, R. Kislov, S. Knowles, K. Holmes, E. Roberts, K. Staley (United Kingdom)

 

14:30 A NEW ERA FOR STROKE: THE STROKE ASSOCIATION’S CAMPAIGN SECURING A NATIONAL STROKE PLAN – IMPROVING THE LIVES OF STROKE SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIESM. MacDonald, J. Rich, A. Kolodziej, E. Russell, D. Brand, J. Bouverie (United Kingdom)

 

14:35 THE ACTIVITY FOR ENACTING THE STROKE COUNTERMEASURES ACT BY THE JAPAN STROKE ASSOCIATIONA. Ishigami, H. Yamamoto, H. Nakayama, H. Takekawa, K. Minematsu, T. Yamaguchi (Japan)

 

14:40 ANATOMICAL CORRELATES OF VIEWER-CENTERED AND STIMULUS-CENTERED HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT AFTER RIGHT HEMISPHERE ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEA. Suarez, S. Saxena, K. Kim, L. Keator, S. Sheppard, A. Wright, A. Hillis (USA)

 

14:45 STROKE ALLIANCE FOR EUROPE COMMISSIONED A NEW RESEARCH PROJECT: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF STROKE IN EUROPEJ. Barrick, S. Jackson, M. Jelena (United Kingdom)

 

 

Break: REFRESHMENT BREAK15:05 - 15:20  Exhibition Area

 

PLENARY SESSION: PRESIDENT'S SYMPOSIUM: WSO AWARDS, JEOPARDY15:20 - 17:20  HALL A   Chair : Mike Sharma (Canada)    Chair : Werner Hacke (Germany)  15:20 WSO PRESIDENT'S AWARD: INTRODUCTION

Invited Speaker: Werner Hacke (Germany)  

15:25 AWARD LECTURE: VISTA - A CLOSER LOOKInvited Speaker: Kennedy R. Lees (United Kingdom)

 

15:40 WSO AWARD FOR STROKE SERVICES: INTRODUCTIONInvited Speaker: Michael Brainin (Austria)

 

15:45 AWARD LECTURE: BUILDING STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF STROKE IN MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIESInvited Speaker: Sheila Martins (Brazil)

 

16:00 WSO AWARD FOR STROKE RESEARCH: INTRODUCTIONChair : Marc Fisher (USA)

 

16:05 AWARD LECTURE: TEMPUS CEREBRUM EST: USHERING IN THE THERAPEUTIC ERA IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE CARE, AND THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COMEInvited Speaker: Jeff Saver (USA)

 

16:20 CAMPAIGN AWARDS  16:30 JEOPARDY - THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

Chair : Gordon Gubitz (Canada)  

 

Break: COFFEE BREAK17:20 - 17:50  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 18: FRANK YATSU SYMPOSIUM: STROKE GENETICS – CURRENT ADVANCES AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS17:50 - 19:20  HALL A   Convener: Guillaume Pare (Canada)    Convener: Martin Dichgans (Germany)  17:50 TURNING DISCOVERIES ON COMMON GENETIC VARIANTS INTO MECHANISTIC

INSIGHTSInvited Speaker: Martin Dichgans (Germany)

 

18:12 MENDELIAN STROKE: HOW TO APPROACH THE PATIENT WITH SUSPECTED MONOGENIC STROKE?Invited Speaker: Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve (France)

 

18:34 UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: PHARMACOGENETICS AND STROKEInvited Speaker: Guillaume Pare (Canada)

 

18:56 EXPLORING CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS BY MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATIONInvited Speaker: Jemma Hopewell (United Kingdom)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 19: WSO-CNSS JOINT SESSION: MANAGEMENT OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE17:50 - 19:20  HALL B   Convener: Michiyasu Suzuki (Japan)    Convener: Stephen P. Lownie (Canada)  17:50 NEUROINTENSIVE CARE MANAGEMENT OF THE POOR-GRADE SUBARACHNOID

HEMORRHAGE PATIENT: VASOSPASM AND CORTICAL SPREADING DEPOLARIZATIONInvited Speaker: Michiyasu Suzuki (Japan)

 

18:10 DELAYED CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA FOLLOWING SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE: PREVENTION, MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMEInvited Speaker: Michel Torbey (USA)

 

18:30 DISCUSSION  18:35 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR THE ENDOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE AND DELAYED CEREBRAL ISCHEMIAInvited Speaker: Bernard Yan (Australia)

 

18:55 TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN THE ENDOVASCULAR AND SURGICAL PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE AND DELAYED CEREBRAL ISCHEMIAInvited Speaker: Melfort R. Boulton (Canada)

 

18:55 TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN THE ENDOVASCULAR AND SURGICAL PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE AND DELAYED CEREBRAL ISCHEMIAInvited Speaker: Stephen P. Lownie (Canada)

 

19:15 DISCUSSION  

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 20: SMALL VESSEL DISEASES & CEREBRAL MICROBLEEDS17:50 - 19:20  HALL C   Convener: Charlotte Cordonnier (France)  

  Convener: Vincent Mok (Hong Kong S.A.R.)  17:50 QUANTIFICATION OF WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY AND MICROBLEEDS

Invited Speaker: Vincent Mok (Hong Kong S.A.R.)  

18:12 NATURAL HISTORY OF WHITE MATTER DISEASE OF AGEINGInvited Speaker: Leonardo Pantoni (Italy)

 

18:34 INFLUENCE OF WHITE-MATTER DYSFUNCTION ON THE OUTCOME OF STROKE PATIENTSInvited Speaker: Natalia Rost (USA)

 

18:56 BRAIN MICROBLEEDS AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTInvited Speaker: Charlotte Cordonnier (France)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 21: LANCET-IJS SYMPOSIUM17:50 - 19:20  HALL D   Convener: Helen Frankish (United Kingdom)    Convener: Michael Hill (Canada)  17:50 ACUTE TREATMENT

Invited Speaker: Götz Thomalla (Germany)  

18:12 INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGEInvited Speaker: Craig Anderson (Australia)

 

18:34 STROKE PREVENTIONInvited Speaker: Jeyaraj Pandian (India)

 

18:56 STROKE REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIESInvited Speaker: Julie Bernhardt (Australia)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF STROKE 117:50 - 19:20  HALL E   Chair : Ramon Luengo-Fernandez (United Kingdom)    Chair : Hoang Phan (Australia)  17:50 IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AFTER ACUTE STROKE OVER 19 YEARS IN A CANADIAN

TEACHING HOSPITALJ. Shankar, R. Merdad, S. Phillips (Canada)

 

18:00 TEMPORAL TRENDS (2002-2012) IN LONG-TERM OUTCOME AND QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE-EXPECTANCY AFTER INCIDENT STROKE IN OXFORDSHIRE, UK: EVIDENCE OF IMPACT OF ACUTE STROKE CARE AT THE POPULATION-LEVELR. Luengo-Fernandez, L. Linxin, P. Rothwell (United Kingdom)

 

18:10 SURVIVAL RATE AFTER FIRST EVER STROKE IN A GENERAL POPULATION OF 1.4 MILLION JAPANESE： SHIGA STROKE REGISTRYN. Takashima, H. Arima, Y. Kita, T. Fujii, N. Miyamatsu, M. Komori, Y. Sugimoto, S. Nagata, K. Miura, K. Nozaki (Japan)

 

18:20 CHANGES OVER 10 YEARS IN STROKE INCIDENCE BY MAJOR PATHOLOGICAL TYPES AND ISCHEMIC SUBTYPES- FINDINGS FROM THE AUCKLAND REGIONAL COMMUNITY STROKE STUDIES (2002-2011)R. Krishnamurthi, R. Bhattacharjee (New Zealand)

 

18:30 SEX DIFFERENCE IN SPECIFIC-CAUSE OF EXCESS DEATH RATES AFTER STROKE: THE AUSTRALIAN STROKE CLINICAL REGISTRY (AUSCR)H. Phan, S. Gall, L. Blizzard, N. Lannin, A. Thrift, C. Anderson, J. Kim, R. Grimley, H. Castley, D. Cadilhac (Australia)

 

18:40 ACUTE STROKE MANAGEMENT IN KOREA BETWEEN 2013 AND 2014: A NATIONWIDE REPORT BASED ON 19,608 PATIENTS TREATED IN 216 HOSPITALSJ.Y. Kim, K.J. Lee, B.J. Kim, S.E. Kim, H. Oh, H.K. Park, Y.J. Cho, J.M. Park, K.Y. Park, K.B. Lee, S.J. Lee, J.S. Lee, J. Lee, H.J. Bae (Republic of Korea)

 

18:50 AGE AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN PROCESSES OF ACUTE STROKE CARE IN CANADA 2014-2016A. Kapoor, P. Lindsay, C. Goia, A. Yu, R. Swartz (Canada)

 

19:00 PRE-HOSPITAL BEHAVIOR AND AMBULANCE UTILIZATION IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH STROKE SYMPTOMS: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE 2003-2016.M.P. Lindsay, A. Kapoor, A.Y. Yu, C. Goia, R.H. Swartz (Canada)

 

19:10 TREND IN THE INCIDENCE OF STROKE IN PEOPLE UNDER 65 YEARS OF AGE FROM 2002 TO 2015: ANALYSIS OF 57,713 CASES.D. Anderlini, G. Wallis (Australia)

 

 

WORKSHOP: POLYPILL FOR STROKE PREVENTION (INVITATION ONLY)17:50 - 19:20  HALL F 17:50 WELCOME AND CUT STROKE IN HALF

Chair : Michael Brainin (Austria)  

17:55 CRITICAL REVIEW OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE FOR POLYPILL Invited Speaker: Yvonne Teuschl (Austria)

 

18:07 THE HYPERTENSION ISSUEInvited Speaker: Philip M Bath (United Kingdom)

 

18:19 COMORBIDITIES AND ENDPOINTSInvited Speaker: Jaakko Tuomilehto (Finland)

 

18:31 E-HEALTH AND HEALTH APPSInvited Speaker: Valery Feigin (New Zealand)

 

18:43 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONRalph Sacco (USA)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: HEART AND BRAIN17:50 - 19:20  Hall G   Chair : Arun Garg (India)    Chair : Patrizia Fiori (Italy)  17:50 ISCHEMIC STROKE AND THE ECHO "BUBBLE STUDY": ARE WE SCREENING THE

RIGHT PATIENTS? A MULTI-CENTRE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE.P. Maggiore, J. Bellinge, D. Chieng, D. White, N.S.R. Lan, B. Jaltotage, U. Ali, M. Gordon, K. Chung, P. Stobie, J. Ng, G.J. Hankey, B. McQuillan (Australia)

 

18:00 A PROSPECTIVE STUDY DEMONSTRATING NEUROLOGIC SAFETY OF COMBINING CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY WITH CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT SURGERYK.N. Sanariya, N. Saproo, S. Chougule, A. More, R. Goyal, A. Muniem, A. Garg (India)

 

18:10 PINK PUFFER AND BLUE BLOATER PROFILE IN ACUTE STROKEP. Fiori, A. Corbo, L. Iorillo, C. Pelosi, P. Savino, G. Bellizzi, C. Dragonetti, A. Morella, V. Pellecchia, M. Alberico, G. Benigni, M. De Caro, B. Guerriero, S. Landi, E. Pace, M. Raffa, L.M. Giannetti, E. Mazza, C. Tammaro, A. Monaco (Italy)

 

18:20 CORTICAL CEREBRAL MICROBLEEDS ARE COMMON FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY, ESPECIALLY VALVE REPLACEMENT, HOWEVER DISTRIBUTION RATIO DISTINGUISHES FROM CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHYM. De Sciscio, T. Kleinig, J. Jannes, P. De Sciscio (Australia)

 

18:30 THE EFFECT OF PATIENT POSITION ON DETECTION OF PATENT FORAMENT OVALE BY SIMULTANEOUSLY PERFORMED TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER AND TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHYS. Sabetay, D.S. Blondheim (Israel)

 

18:40 PREVALENCE OF SYMPTOMATIC AND ASYMPTOMATIC CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH STROKE AND TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKR. Bhatia, G. Sharma, A. Garg, A. Roy, C. Patel, V. Sreenivas, N. Singh, M.V. Padma, K. Prasad, P. Bali, P. Sisodia (India)

 

18:50 LEFT ATRIAL ABNORMALITIES WITHOUT KNOWN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER RISK OF ISCHEMIC STROKE, DEATH, AF, AND CHF: RESULTS FROM THE ONTARIO ECHO/HOLTER DATABASE PROJECTJ. Edwards, J. Fang, K. Yip, J.S. Healey, D. Gladstone (Canada)

 

19:00 EARLY DABIGATRAN TREATMENT AFTER ISCHEMIC STROKE DOES NOT RESULT IN HEMORRHAGIC TRANSFORMATIONA. Alrohimi, M. Sharma, K. Ng, D. Dowlatshahi, B. Buck, G. Stotts, S. Thirunavukkarasu, M. Shamy, H. Kalashyan, L. Sivakumar, A. Shuaib, K. Butcher (Canada)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: LATE BREAKING TRIALS 317:50 - 19:20  Hall H   Chair : Lawrence Wong (Hong Kong S.A.R.)    Chair : Sandra Black (Canada)  17:50 TELEREHABILITATION CAN IMPROVE OUTCOMES AFTER STROKE; BUT ONLY IF

YOU DO IT. 

D. Taylor, N. Saywell, S. Mudge, L. Hale, P. Brown, V. Feigin, C. Hanger, A. Vandal (New Zealand)

18:08 TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR POST-STROKE APHASIA RECOVERY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEWM. Bort-Fernandez, E. Muñoz-Marron, R. Viejo-Sobera (Spain)

 

18:26 DO THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHOULDER PAIN ALIGNMENT MOBILIZATIONS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE POST-STROKE SHOULDER PAIN? - A PHASE 2 RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALL. Pain, R. Baker, Q.Z. Sohail, D. Hebert, K. Zabjek, D. Richardson, A. Agur (Canada)

 

18:44 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND PATIENT OUTCOMES IN LOW AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES IN THE INTERSTROKE STUDYG. Urimubenshi, P. Langhorne, M.J. O’Donnell, S.L. Chin, S. Yusuf, T. INTERSTROKE Collaborators (Rwanda)

 

19:02 IS MORE BETTER? THE SENTINEL STROKE NATIONAL AUDIT PROGRAMME: INVESTIGATING AND EVALUATING STROKE THERAPY (SSNAPIEST)M. Gittins, A. Vail, B. Audrey, D. Lugo palacios, B. Bray, L. Paley, B. Gannon, S. Tyson (United Kingdom)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: ACUTE STROKE MANAGEMENT 217:50 - 19:20  Hall I   Chair : Chi-Hung Liu (Taiwan R.O.C.)    Chair : Senta Frol (Slovenia)  17:50 TREATMENT RESPONSE TIMES IN THE FRONTIER PRE-HOSPITAL STROKE TRIAL

C. Harris, M. Hill, M. Tymianski, J. Christenson (Canada)  

18:00 DOSE OF RECOMBINANT TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTS RECEIVING MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY: STANDARD OR LOW ?C.H. Liu, C.H. Lin, C.H. Chang (Taiwan R.O.C.)

 

18:10 PREHOSPITAL CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE IN A MOBILE STROKE TREATMENT UNITD. Shimbo, D. Vela-Duarte, J. Mathew, A.P. Reimer, F.M. Hustey, J.W. Schrock, A.N. Russman, M.S. Hussain, K. Uchino (USA)

 

18:20 ARE THERE ANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ANTICOAGULANT EFFECT AT PEAK CONCENTRATION OF DOAC AND THAT AT TROUGH IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH DOAC ?M. Tomoda, Y. Masahiro, N. Yasuyuki, N. Asako, G. Seiji, K. Takahiro, O. Yasushi (Japan)

 

18:30 INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS COMBINED WITH EARLY REMOTE ISCHEMIC POST-CONDITIONING CAN IMPROVE THE NEUROLOGICAL DEFECTS AND PROGNOSIS IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEJ. An, G. Li, J. Liu, X. Liu, X. Yuan, K. Huo, Y. Cheng, C. Mu, M. Wei, G. Luo (China)

 

18:40 EFFECT OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT CHOICE ON BLOOD PRESSURE RESPONSE AND OUTCOME IN ACUTE INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGEY. Ng, W. Qi, N.K. Hashmi, T. Christianson, N.K.K. Kon, D. Woo, M. Flaherty, E. Coleman, M.L. James (Singapore)

 

18:50 EFFECT OF STATIN USE DURING HOSPITALIZATION ON SHORT-TERM STROKE RECURRENCE IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASEX. Zhang, J. Jing, X. Meng, X. Zhao, L. Liu, Y. Pan, Y. Wang, Y. Wang (China)

 

19:00 FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES IN THE VERY OLD FOLLOWING THROMBECTOMY FOR ACUTE STROKE: A MULTI-CENTER ANALYSISF. Karkri, L. Gioia, B. Marie-Claude, M. Patrik, C. Odier (Canada)

 

19:10 SAFE AND VERY EFFECTIVE INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS AFTER IDARUCIZUMAB APPLICATION IN STROKE PATIENTS RECEIVING DABIGATRAN THERAPY: A CASE SERIESS. Frol, J. Pretnar Oblak (Slovenia)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL REHABILITATION 317:50 - 19:20  Hall J   Chair : Mindy F. Levin (Canada)    Chair : Karen Borschmann (Australia)  

17:50 MAXIMIZING THE INTENSITY OF INPATIENT STROKE REHABILITATION IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO, CANADA: TIME IS FUNCTIONE. French, M. Adams, K. Duhaime, D. Lee, M. Lukie, B. Ross, M. Termaat, S. Dubois (Canada)

 

18:00 ARM ACTIVITY IS LOWER ON WEEKENDS DURING SUBACUTE IN-PATIENT REHABILITATION AFTER STROKEM. Alt Murphy, S. Andersson, F. Ohlsson, J. Wipenmyr, A. Danielsson (Sweden)

 

18:10 A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF UPPER LIMB MOTOR CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS POST-STROKE: IT IS NOT ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALLK. Borschmann, K. Hayward (Australia)

 

18:20 A NEW CLINICAL MEASURE OF SPASTICITY BASED ON THE TONIC STRETCH REFLEX THRESHOLDM.F. Levin, D. Chan-Viquez, J.M. Solomon, S. Berman, M.C. Banina, S. Frenkel-Toledo, N. Soroker, D.G. Liebermann (Canada)

 

18:30 THE CANADIAN STROKE BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REHABILITATION: IMPROVING GUIDANCE FOR CLIENT-CENTRED POST DISCHARGE SERVICESM. Egan, D. Laliberté-Rudman, M. Lanoix, M. Meyer, S. McEwen, C. Margo, E. Linkewich, P. Montgomery, S. Quant, B. Donnelly (Canada)

 

18:40 DEVELOPING REHABILITATION SPECIFIC TRAINING FOR ORGANIZED STROKE CARE IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES: WHAT IS NEEDED AND HOW TO IMPLEMENTC. Morinello, M. Bewick, N. Koch, J. Bosch, P. Langhorne, G. Urimubenshi, L. Katsoulis, V. DePaul, S. Carroll, L. Hamilton (Canada)

 

18:50 MOTOR-COGNITIVE DUAL TASKING DURING REACHING IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC STROKEA. Mullick, M.C. Baniña, Y. Tomita, J. Fung, M.F. Levin (Canada)

 

19:00 REHABILITATION THROUGH CAREGIVER-DELIVERED NURSE-ORGANIZED SERVICE PROGRAMS FOR DISABLED STROKE PATIENTS IN RURAL CHINA (THE RECOVER TRIAL): A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALB. Zhou, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, X. Li, B. Xie, N. Wang, Y. Zhang, X. Tang, J. Prvu Bettger, S. Chen, W. Gu, R. Luo, Q. Zhao, X. Li, Z. Sun, R. Lindley, C. Anderson, Y. Wu, J. Shi, L. Yan (China)

 

 

                                                                                                                           

WSC18 Scientific programme

Friday, October 19, 2018

PRO & CON: PRO & CON 0207:00 - 08:30  HALL D 07:00 DEBATE 1: SHOULD PATIENTS WITH CRYPTOGENIC ISCHEMIC STROKE AND 30

SECONDS OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DETECTED 2 MONTHS LATER BE ANTICOAGULATED?

 

07:00 INITIAL QUESTION AND VOTINGChair : Gordon Gubitz (Canada)

 

07:06 PROInvited Speaker: Richard Bernstein (USA)

 

07:14 CONInvited Speaker: Roland Veltkamp (United Kingdom)

 

07:22 PRO: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Richard Bernstein (USA)

 

07:27 CON: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Roland Veltkamp (United Kingdom)

 

07:32 DISCUSSIONChair : Gordon Gubitz (Canada)

 

07:40 FINAL VOTINGChair : Gordon Gubitz (Canada)

 

07:45 DEBATE 2: IS IT TIME TO STOP REVASCULARIZING ASYMPTOMATIC CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS (OUTSIDE OF CLINICAL TRIALS)?

 

07:45 INITIAL QUESTION AND VOTINGChair : László Csiba (Hungary)

 

07:51 PROInvited Speaker: Pascale Lavoie (Canada)

 

07:59 CONInvited Speaker: Peter Arthur Ringleb (Germany)

 

08:07 PRO: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Pascale Lavoie (Canada)

 

08:12 CON: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Peter Arthur Ringleb (Germany)

 

08:17 DISCUSSIONChair : László Csiba (Hungary)

 

08:25 FINAL VOTINGChair : László Csiba (Hungary)

 

 

CASES: CASE PRESENTATIONS - THE NEXT GENERATION 0207:00 - 08:30  HALL E   Chair : Sylvain Lanthier (Canada)    Chair : Kelvin Ng (Canada)  07:00 CASE 1

Atlantic D'souza (Canada)  

07:30 CASE 2Gordon Jewett (Canada)

 

08:00 CASE 3Marilyn Labrie (Canada)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF STROKE 207:00 - 08:30  HALL F   Chair : Kent Simmonds (USA)  

  Chair : Junfeng Liu (China)  07:00 AN UPDATED DISTRIBUTION OF UPPER LIMB WEAKNESS POST STROKE: ARE

FEWER PEOPLE EXPERIENCING ARM WEAKNESS TODAY?L. Simpson, K. Hayward, M. McPeake, J. Eng (Canada)

 

07:10 TRENDS IN TREATMENT AND OUTCOMES AFTER ISCHEMIC STROKE OVER A DECADE IN CHINA: INSIGHTS FROM CHENGDU STROKE REGISTRY DATABASEJ. Liu (China)

 

07:20 A COMPARISON OF STROKE RISK FACTORS AND ESTIMATED 10-YEAR CARDIOVASCULAR RISK AMONG SOUTH ASIANS, WHITES, BLACKS, AND HISPANICS IN THE UNITED STATESM. Dhamoon, V. Singh, N. Kandula, A. Kanaya, S. Prabhakaran (USA)

 

07:30 DOES STROKE TYPE INFLUENCE DEGREE OF RACIAL DISPARITIES FOR CHANGE IN FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE AMONG ACUTE STROKE PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT INPATIENT REHABILITATION?K. Simmonds, M. Reeves (USA)

 

07:40 TRENDS IN STROKE PREVALENCE, STROKE-RELATED HOSPITAL STAY, AND HOSPITAL CHARGES AMONG RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA USERS: A 5-YEAR NATIONWIDE STUDY IN THE UNITED STATESR. Desai, K. Patel, D. Zahid, T. Siddiqui, S. Shamim, W. Siddiq, N. Siddiqi, H. Zubair, S. Patel, Z. Mahuwala (USA)

 

07:50 DISABILITY AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AFTER STROKE: A POPULATION-BASED STUDY IN RURAL GADCHIROLI, INDIAY. Kalkonde, M. Deshmukh, P. Mandava, A. Bang (India)

 

08:00 IMPROVING PREDICTION OF 30-DAY READMISSION AFTER STROKE USING MACHINE LEARNINGR. Garg, E. Oh, A. Naidech, J. Holl, S. Prabhakaran (USA)

 

08:10 RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY FROM STROKE IN PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA: A POPULATION-BASED ANALYSISM. Elfaituri, S. Morsy, H.A. Faraj, A.E. El-Qushayri, M.D. Nguyen Tran, A. Ebied, M.E. Morra, N.N. Trinh, N. Tien Huy (Canada)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: EXPERIMENTAL AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE07:00 - 08:30  Hall G   Chair : Mehdi Farhoudi (Iran)    Chair : Steven Zeiler (USA)  07:00 MMP-9 RELATED MIRNAS AS PROGNOSTIC MARKERS FOR HEMORRHAGIC

TRANSFORMATION IN CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE PATIENTSY. Xiong, L. Zheng, J. Liu, L. Wang, M. Liu, D. Wang (China)

 

07:10 CEREBROLYSIN IMPROVES EPISODIC AND SPATIAL MEMORIES IN MICE MODEL OF MPFC STROKE: POSSIBLE ROLE OF SYNAPTIC STRUCTURES. Sadigh-Eteghad, M.H. Geranmayeh, A. Majdi, F. Salehpour, J. Mahmoudi, M. Farhoudi (Iran)

 

07:20 FLUOXETINE-INDUCED BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE RECOVERY FROM UNILATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTICAL STROKE INVOLVES REDUCED GLUTAMATERGIC HYPER-ACTIVATION AND ENHANCED GABA-ERGIC ACTIVITYF. Vahid-Ansari, P. Albert (Canada)

 

07:30 CHANGES IN COMPLEX LOCOMOTOR CONTROL IN CHRONIC STROKET. Mitchell, F. Starrs, A. Thiel, C. Paquette (Canada)

 

07:40 CEREBROLYSIN AFTER STROKE LEADS TO SPONTANEOUS MOTOR RECOVERY IN THE ABSENCE OF REDUCED STROKE VOLUME IN A MOUSE MODEL OF STROKES. Zeiler, R. Hubbard, M. Mersha, G. Pinilla-Monsalve, S. Winter, S. DeBoer (USA)

 

07:50 HISTOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THROMBO-EMBOLI FROM ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTSV. Meher, J. Pushie, N. Sylvain, S. Weese Maley, H. Hou, L. Peeling, M. Kelly, R. Auer (Canada)

 

08:00 THE ROLE OF NEURONAL SIRT1 IN ISCHEMIC STROKEX.J. Ren, W. Zhong, X. Xue, J. Wen, S.I. Cho, J. Bae, J. Qian, D.N. Atochin, C. Ayata, H.H. Kim (USA)

 

08:10 EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUALIZED TDCS ON RESTING-STATE MEG DYNAMICS IN CHRONIC POST-STROKE APHASIAP. Shah-Basak, G. Sivaratnam, T. Selina, A. Francois-Nienaber, T. Deschamps, J. Meltzer (Canada)

 

08:20 THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE MLC901 INHIBITS INFLAMMATION PROCESSES AFTER FOCAL CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA IN MICEC. Heurteaux, C. Widmann, C. Gandin, A. Petit-Paitel, M. Lazdunski (France)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL REHABILITATION 407:00 - 08:30  Hall H   Chair : Roberta Bardelli (Italy)    Chair : Nachum Soroker (Israel)  07:00 ASSOCIATION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL CAREGIVING WITH STROKE PATIENT

OUTCOMES: FINDINGS FROM THE CARING FOR ADULTS RECOVERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF STROKE (CARES) STUDYC. Liu, J. Prvu Bettger, O. C. Sheehan, J. Huang, D. L. Roth (USA)

 

07:10 WHAT REHABILITATION CLINICIANS CAN TEACH US ABOUT EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE IN STROKE REHABILITATION: RESULTS FROM TWO QUALITATIVE STUDIES OF CLINICIAN EXPERTSA. Thomas, B. Vachon, F. Amari, M.C. Halle, A. Menon, A. McCluskey, A. Rochette (Canada)

 

07:20 EQUATIONS TO CONVERT FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (SMAF) SCORES OF PATIENTS POST-STROKE TO FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE (FIM) SCORESG. Bravo, C.L. Richards, H. Corriveau, L. Trottier (Canada)

 

07:30 FEASIBILITY OF THE COMBINED PHYSICAL AND SOMATOSENSORY (COMPOSE) TRAINING TO IMPROVE ARM FUNCTION AFTER STROKE: A SINGLE-CASE EXPERIMENTAL STUDYU. Gopaul, L. Carey, R. Callister, M. Nilsson, P. Van Vliet (Australia)

 

07:40 THERAPEUTIC PATIENT EDUCATION (TPE) FOR STROKE SURVIVORS: LAY – LOOK AFTER YOURSELF - SELF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMR. Bardelli, S. Fugazzaro, M.A. Accogli, M. Denti, E. Cavalli, D. Pagliacci, L. Dallolio, S. Cavazza, C. Tedeschi, M. Taricco (Italy)

 

07:50 INTERPROFESSIONAL STROKE CARE SIMULATIONS: FACILITATING BEST PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COLLABORATIOND. Mackenzie, G. Creaser, K. Sponagle, G. Gubitz, D. Blacquiere, S. Miller, K. Hebert, E. Hickey (Canada)

 

08:00 STROKE LOCATION IMPACT ON EARLY AND LATE MOTOR RECOVERYN. Soroker, G. Friedberg, S. Frenkel-Toledo (Israel)

 

08:10 PATIENT-LEVEL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ATTENDANCE AT THE COMPREHENSIVE POST-ACUTE STROKE SERVICES (COMPASS) CARE VISIT, DATA FROM THE VANGUARD SITEJ. Halladay, M.A. Psioda, C.D. Bushnell, S.B. Jones, A.M. Johnson, M.D. Gwynne, S.B. Gessel, B.J. Lutz, W.D. Rosamond, P.W. Duncan (USA)

 

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 04: PETER ROTHWELL07:00 - 08:30  Hall J   Chair : Thalia Field (Canada)  07:00 DISCUSSION

Invited Speaker: Peter Rothwell (United Kingdom)  

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 05: HANS CHRISTOPH DIENER07:00 - 08:30  Hall K   Chair : Alexandre Poppe (Canada)  07:00 DISCUSSION

Invited Speaker: Hans-Christoph Diener (Germany)  

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 06: ALLAN ROPPER07:00 - 08:30  Hall L   Chair : Jeanne Teitelbaum (Canada)  07:00 NEUROLOGICAL ERRORS  

Invited Speaker: Allan H. Ropper (USA) 07:40 DISCUSSION

Invited Speaker: Allan H. Ropper (USA)  

 

Break: SHORT BREAK08:30 - 08:35  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 22: ADVANCES IN STROKE IMAGING08:35 - 10:05  HALL A   Convener: Ken Butcher (Canada)    Convener: Gregory W. Albers (USA)  08:35 MULTIMODAL CT IN EVERYDAY STROKE ASSESSMENT: BEYOND THE PENUMBRA

Invited Speaker: Ken Butcher (Canada)  

09:05 MODERN BRAIN IMAGING FOR PATIENT SELECTION FOR ACUTE REPERFUSION THERAPY: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE RECENT TRIALS?Invited Speaker: Gregory W. Albers (USA)

 

09:35 THE ROLE OF BRAIN IMAGING FOR EVALUATION OF ICH ETIOLOGYInvited Speaker: Chitra Venkatasubramanian (USA)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 23: WSO-NCS JOINT SESSION: CRITICAL CARE MANAGEMENT IN STROKE08:35 - 10:05  HALL B   Convener: Michel Torbey (USA)    Convener: Silvia Schönenberger (Germany)  08:35 AIRWAY MANAGEMENT IN STROKE

Invited Speaker: Julian Boesel (Germany)  

08:57 PERI-INTERVENTIONAL MANAGEMENT OF STROKE PATIENTSInvited Speaker: Silvia Schönenberger (Germany)

 

09:19 MANAGEMENT OF HEMORRHAGIC TRANSFORMATIONInvited Speaker: Michel Torbey (USA)

 

09:41 AUTOREGULATION AND CEREBRAL VASOSPASM IN SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGEInvited Speaker: Gisele Sampaio Silva (Brazil)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 24: SMALL VESSEL DISEASE 2: VASCULAR COGNITION DECLINE08:35 - 10:05  HALL C   Convener: Sandra Black (Canada)    Convener: Amy Brodtmann (Australia)  08:35 CALL TO ARMS: NEW HORIZONS IN VASCULAR DEMENTIA

Invited Speaker: Vladimir Hachinski (Canada)  

08:53 PROTECTING AND PRUNING: AMYLOID AND TAU AS THE YING-YANG OF NEUROVASCULAR TOXICITY IN AGING AND DEMENTIAInvited Speaker: Sandra Black (Canada)

 

09:11 STROKE AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AS MANIFESTATIONS OF VASCULAR NEURODEGENERATIONInvited Speaker: Amy Brodtmann (Australia)

 

09:29 HARMONIZING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURESInvited Speaker: Adrian Wong (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

 

09:47 UNDERSTANDING WHITE MATTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO POST-STROKE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT USING DIFFUSION IMAGINGInvited Speaker: Marco Duering (Germany)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 07: NEUROIMAGING OF ACUTE STROKE08:35 - 10:05  HALL D   Chair : Patrik Michel (Switzerland)  

  Chair : Donatella Tampieri (Canada)  08:35 IS IT AN ACUTE STROKE? CLUES AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS ON CT AND MRI

Invited Speaker: Patrik Michel (Switzerland)  

09:05 IDENTIFY RADIOLOGICAL CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR THROMBOLYSISInvited Speaker: Donatella Tampieri (Canada)

 

09:35 CORE, CLOTS, COLLATERALS: BASICS AND ADAVANCED METHODSInvited Speaker: Andrew Demchuk (Canada)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 25: WSO-WFNR JOINT SESSION: REHABILITATION: GROWING THE EVIDENCE BASE08:35 - 10:05  HALL E   Convener: Julie Bernhardt (Australia)    Convener: Stephanie Clarke (Switzerland)  08:35 EARLY MOBILISATION: PROGRESS TOWARDS EVIDENCE GUIDED TREATMENT

PROTOCOLSInvited Speaker: Julie Bernhardt (Australia)

 

08:57 BRIEF THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS IN STROKE REHABILITATION: FROM COGNITIVE MODELS TO PATIENT SPECIFIC REHABILITATIONInvited Speaker: Stephanie Clarke (Switzerland)

 

09:19 IMPROVING LANGUAGE RECOVERY POST STROKE: ARE WE THERE YET?Invited Speaker: Erin Godecke (Australia)

 

09:41 WORKING TOWARDS UPPER LIMB RECOVERY AFTER STROKE: WHAT’S NEW?Invited Speaker: Tomoko Kitago (USA)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 09: E-HEALTH: AN OPTION FOR IMPROVING GLOBAL STROKE OUTCOMES?08:35 - 10:05  HALL F   Chair : Nancy Mayo (Canada)    Chair : Atte Meretoja (Finland)  08:35 TELESTROKE IN THE AGE OF ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY: THE NEXT STEPS

Invited Speaker: Atte Meretoja (Finland)  

09:05 CARE PATHWAYS ON ACUTE STROKE UNITS: MONITORING OUTCOMES IN REAL-TIMEInvited Speaker: Nancy Mayo (Canada)

 

09:35 E-HEALTH APPS FOR STROKE REHABILITATIONInvited Speaker: Mark Bayley (Canada)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 08A: MONITORING WITH ULTRASOUND IN STROKE08:35 - 10:05  Hall G   Chair : László Csiba (Hungary)    Chair : Natan Bornstein (Israel)  08:35 ULTRASOUND AND DYNAMIC FUNCTIONAL IMAGING IN VASCULAR COGNITIVE

IMPAIRMENTInvited Speaker: Branko Malojcic (Croatia)

 

08:50 ULTRASOUND AS A TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING VASCULAR HIGH-RISK PATIENTInvited Speaker: Natan Bornstein (Israel)

 

09:05 ULTRASOUND EVALUATION OF PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTION ON STROKE AND STROKE RISK PATIENTSInvited Speaker: László Csiba (Hungary)

 

09:20 THE USEFULNESS OF DOPPLER-ULTRASOUND IN ICU AND STROKE UNITInvited Speaker: Andrei Alexandrov (USA)

 

09:35 PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS  

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: LATE BREAKING TRIALS 408:35 - 10:05  Hall H   Chair : Claudio Sacks (Chile)  

  Chair : David Gladstone (Canada)  08:35 NATIONWIDE IMPLEMENTATION OF MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY IN GERMANY

C. Weimar, R. Weber, D. Bartig, M. Kitzrow, W. Hacke, J. Eyding, C. Krogias (Germany)  

08:53 RIVAROXABAN COMPARED WITH ASPIRIN IN ESUS PATIENTS WITH LEFT ATRIAL ENLARGEMENT OR OTHER RISK FACTORS FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: SUBGROUP ANALYSIS OF THE NAVIGATE ESUS TRIALD. Gladstone, J.S. Healey, B. Swaminathan, S.J. Connolly, R.G. Hart, &. NAVIGATE ESUS Steering Committee and Investigators (Canada)

 

09:11 SCREENING FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN STROKE AND TIA PATIENTS USING A HOME SLEEP APNEA TEST VERSUS IN-LABORATORY POLYSOMNOGRAPHY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALM. Boulos, M. Kamra, N. Kirolos, D. Colelli, D. Gladstone, J. Hopyan, A. Sundaram, K. Boyle, K. Thorpe, B. Murray, R. Swartz (Canada)

 

09:29 EMS UTILIZATION BY PATIENTS ENROLLED IN THE FIELD RANDOMIZATION OF NA-1 THERAPY IN EARLY RESPONDERS (FRONTIER) CLINICAL TRIALM. Leroux, C. Harris, W. Dick, J. Christenson, M. Tymianski (Canada)

 

09:47 RISK FOR MAJOR HEMORRHAGES IN PATIENTS RECEIVING CLOPIDOGREL AND ASPIRIN COMPARED WITH ASPIRIN ALONE AFTER TIA OR MINOR ISCHEMIC STROKE IN THE POINT TRIALH. Tillman, S.C. Johnston, M. Farrant, A.S. Kim, W.G. Barsan, G.J. Del Zoppo, J.J. Elm, A.S. Lindblad, Y.Y. Palesch, J.D. Easton (USA)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: PREVENTION OF STROKE 208:35 - 10:05  Hall I   Chair : Aline Bourgoin (Canada)    Chair : Karolina Skagen (Norway)  08:35 PREDOMINANT PERIODONTAL BACTERIA AUGMENTS ISCHEMIC STROKE

OUTCOMESA. Ahmad, L. Kesavalu, S. Dore (USA)

 

08:45 THE USE OF ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTH. Hua, N. Sur, L. Lee, S. Chaturvedi (USA)

 

08:55 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION OF STROKE AND SYSTEMIC EMBOLISM WITH RIVAROXABAN IN PATIENTS WITH NON-VALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: SUB-ANALYSIS OF THE EXPAND STUDYS. Uchiyama, H. Atarashi, H. Inoue, T. Kitazono, T. Yamashita, W. Shimizu, T. Ikeda, M. Kamouchi, K. Kaikita, K. Fukuda, H. Origasa, H. Shimokawa (Japan)

 

09:05 LONG TERM EFFECT OF PRAVASTATIN ON CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA COMPLEX THICKNESS ACCORDING TO BASELINE ISCHEMIC STROKE SUBTYPE: THE J-STARS ECHO STUDYM. Koga, K. Toyoda, K. Minematsu, R. Suzuki, S. Wada, T. Kagimura, N. Hosomi, H. Maruyama, M. Matsumoto (Japan)

 

09:15 STANDARDIZED APPROACH FOR ONTARIO’S SECONDARY STROKE PREVENTION CLINICST. Tebbutt, G. Stevenson, A. Bourgoin, L. Fronzi, J. McKellar, K. Godfrey, K. Yearwood, C. Murphy, E. Edwards (Canada)

 

09:25 COMMUNITY LEADER SUPPORT FOR ADULTS WITH HYPERTENSION IN ACCRA, GHANAJ. Birkemeier, N. Appleton, T. Ojo, I. Ampomah, S. Soghoian, B. Boden-Albala (USA)

 

09:35 FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF AN INSTITUTIONAL REDUCTION IN MEDIAN TIME TO CAROTID REVASCULARIZATION TO SIX DAYS IN PATIENTS WITH SYMPTOMATIC CAROTID ARTERY DISEASED. Sahlas, L. Gould, S. Pagliuso, L. Fronzi, B. Kubilius, L. MacRae, K. Howe, D. Szalay, A. Algird, C. Hawkes, B. Van Adel, R. Larrazabal, W. Oczkowski (Canada)

 

09:45 PREMATURE CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH JUVENILE-ONSET MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASEK. Skagen, S. Hetlevik, Z. Mahtab, V. Lilleby, M. Skjelland (Norway)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS IN STROKE08:35 - 10:05  Hall J   Chair : Lucyana Cortes Torres (Brazil)  

  Chair : Helena Fordell (Sweden)  08:35 COMPREHENSIVE TELEMEDICINE SUPPORT OF TERTIARY HOSPITAL AND

STROKE CENTRE DURING ACUTE NEUROLOGIST SHORTAGEJ. Falconer, A. Tkach (Canada)

 

08:45 ROBOT GLOVE FOR FUNCTIONAL TASK ASSISTANCE AFTER STROKE: DEVICE DESIGN AND PILOT STROKE TRIALA. Yurkewich, D. Hebert, A. Mihailidis (Canada)

 

08:55 PILOT RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF AN E-HEALTH DISCHARGE SUPPORT INTERVENTION FOR STROKED. Cadilhac, N. Andrew, D. Busingye, J. Cameron, A. Thrift, I. Kneebone, V. Thijs, M. Hackett, N. Lannin, M. Kilkenny (Australia)

 

09:05 TELEREHABILITATION USING A GAME-ASSISTED REPETITIVE TASK PRACTICE PLATFORM TO IMPROVE UPPER EXTREMITY FUNCTION AFTER STROKE: FEASIBILITY STUDYT. Szturm, Z. Imran, D.B.C. Gandhi, A. Kanitkar, J. Pandian, S. Pooyania (Canada)

 

09:15 RAPID PROTOTYPING OF 3-D BIOMODELS AS ADJUVANT IN INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM CLIPPINGA.G. Leal, L.C. Torres, M.A.D. Souza, P. Nohama (Brazil)

 

09:25 DEFINING THE FEASIBILITY AND ROLE OF A STROKE AMBULANCE TREATING RURAL STROKE PATIENTSL. Morrison, S. Amlani, H. Kalashyan, T. Jeerakathil, A. Shuaib (Canada)

 

09:35 REHABILITATION IN CHRONIC NEGLECT USING VR STRENGTHENS CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN NODES OF THE DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORKH. Fordell, A. Wåhlin, U. Ekman, N. Lenfeldt, J. Malm (Sweden)

 

09:45 THE EFFECTS OF A ROBOTIC HAPTIC LEASH COMPARED TO AN INSTRUMENTED CANE ON GAIT KINEMATICS IN AN ELDER POST-STROKE POPULATIONG.U. Sorrento, P.S. Archambault, J. Fung (Canada)

 

09:55 INTEGRATING PRE, INTER AND INTRA-HOSPITAL STROKE TEAM TO QUALIFY THE STROKE NETWORK: A PILOT STUDYS. Martins, L.A. Carbonera, A.C. Souza, K. Martin, C. Batista, G. Weiss, D.L.M. Cuervo, R. Brondani, A.G. Almeida, M. Portal, L.A. Nasi (Brazil)

 

 

E-POSTER VIEWING - OCTOBER 17-19 - EXHIBITION HOURS: E-POSTER VIEWING09:30 - 17:30  Exhibition Area

 

Break: COFFEE BREAK10:05 - 10:35  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 26: GAINS STROKE RESEARCH NETWORKS10:35 - 12:05  HALL A   Convener: Andrew Demchuk (Canada)    Convener: Gary Ford (United Kingdom)  10:35 GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT NETWORKS IN STROKE (GAINS) OVERVIEW

Invited Speaker: Andrew Demchuk (Canada)  

10:57 FUNDING AND COORDINATING GLOBAL STROKE TRIALS: MODELS FOR SUCCESSInvited Speaker: Gary Ford (United Kingdom)

 

11:19 ESO TRIALS NETWORKInvited Speaker: Eivind Berge (Norway)

 

11:41 COHESIVE: A MODEL TO CONSIDER FOR A STROKE SUBTYPE BASED MULTI-COUNTRY NETWORKInvited Speaker: Ashkan Shoamanesh (Canada)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 27: WSO-IASO JOINT SESSION: STROKE BURDEN AND RESOURCES IN LATIN AMERICA10:35 - 12:05  HALL B   Convener: Sheila Martins (Brazil)    Convener: Claudio Sacks (Chile)  

10:35 THE BURDEN OF STROKE IN LATIN AMERICAInvited Speaker: Claudio Sacks (Chile)

 

10:57 BARRIERS AND GAPS IN STROKE CARE IN LATIN AMERICA AND ALLIANCES TO IMPROVEInvited Speaker: Fernando Góngora-Rivera (Mexico)

 

11:19 LOW COST TECHNOLOGY TO INTEGRATE PRE, INTER AND INTRA HOSPITAL STROKE TEAMInvited Speaker: Sheila Martins (Brazil)

 

11:41 RESEARCH TO IMPROVE STROKE CARE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESInvited Speaker: Maria Alonso de Leciñana (Spain)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 28: CEREBROVASCULAR ARTERIOSCLEROSIS10:35 - 12:05  HALL C   Convener: Colin P. Derdeyn (USA)    Convener: Liping Liu (China)  10:35 HR MRI OF EXTRA/INTRA CRANIAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Invited Speaker: Navneet Singh (Canada)  

10:57 SEX, ETHNICITY, AND RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CEREBROVASCULAR ATHEROSCLEROSISInvited Speaker: Ylong Wang (China)

 

11:19 TREATMENT APPROACH TO INTRACRANIAL AND CEREBROVASCULAR ATHEROSCLEROSISInvited Speaker: Colin P. Derdeyn (USA)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 07: NEUROIMAGING OF ACUTE STROKE Cont'd10:35 - 12:05  HALL D   Chair : Patrik Michel (Switzerland)    Chair : Donatella Tampieri (Canada)  10:35 RADIOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE LATE THROMBECTOMY CANDIDATE

Invited Speaker: Bernard Yan (Australia)  

11:05 IMAGING AFTER THROMBECTOMY: WHAT, WHEN, WHY?Invited Speaker: Bruce Campbell (Australia)

 

11:35 IMAGING OF ACUTE INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE - WHEN TO GO BEYOND CT/CTAInvited Speaker: Chitra Venkatasubramanian (USA)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 29: REHABILITATION & RECOVERY10:35 - 12:05  HALL E   Convener: Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen (Sweden)    Convener: Dale Corbett (Canada)  10:35 POST-STROKE FATIGUE AND PHYSICAL INACTIVITY

Invited Speaker: Gillian Mead (United Kingdom)  

10:57 AEROBIC AND RESISTANCE TRAINING IN COMBINATION WITH EXERCISE MIMETICS- A NEW APPROACH TO POST-STROKE DE-CONDITIONING AND RECOVERYInvited Speaker: Dale Corbett (Canada)

 

11:19 LONG TERM MOTOR OUTCOME AND ACTIVITY LEVELS FOLLOWING STROKEInvited Speaker: Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen (Sweden)

 

11:41 KINEMATICS, MOTOR CONTROL AND POST-STROKE RECOVERYInvited Speaker: Mindy F. Levin (Canada)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 09: E-HEALTH: AN OPTION FOR IMPROVING GLOBAL STROKE OUTCOMES? Cont'd 10:35 - 12:05  HALL F   Chair : Nancy Mayo (Canada)    Chair : Atte Meretoja (Finland)  

10:35 E-HEALTH APPS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION - PART 1Invited Speaker: Rohit Bhattacharjee (New Zealand)

 

10:50 E-HEALTH APPS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION - PART 2Invited Speaker: Valery Feigin (New Zealand)

 

11:05 ROBOTICS FOR MOTOR RECOVERYInvited Speaker: Sean Dukelow (Canada)

 

11:35 VIRTUAL REALITY BASED REHABILITATIONInvited Speaker: Joyce Fung (Canada)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: TEACHING COURSE 08B: MONITORING WITH ULTRASOUND IN STROKE10:35 - 12:05  Hall G   Chair : László Csiba (Hungary)    Chair : Natan Bornstein (Israel)  10:35 ULTRASOUND AND DYNAMIC FUNCTIONAL IMAGING IN VASCULAR COGNITIVE

IMPAIRMENTInvited Speaker: Branko Malojcic (Croatia)

 

10:50 ULTRASOUND AS A TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING VASCULAR HIGH-RISK PATIENTInvited Speaker: Natan Bornstein (Israel)

 

11:05 ULTRASOUND EVALUATION OF PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTION ON STROKE AND STROKE RISK PATIENTSInvited Speaker: László Csiba (Hungary)

 

11:20 THE USEFULNESS OF DOPPLER-ULTRASOUND IN ICU AND STROKE UNITInvited Speaker: Andrei Alexandrov (USA)

 

11:35 PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS  

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: VENOUS DISEASES 10:35 - 12:05  Hall H   Chair : Rajesh Iyer (India)    Chair : Antonio Arauz (Mexico)  10:35 IS IT SAFE TO TREAT CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS WITH ORAL

RIVAROXABAN WITHOUT THE INITIAL HEPARIN THERAPY? OUR EXPERIENCE FROM 20 PATIENTSR. Iyer, R. Ranalingam (India)

 

10:45 CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS: FIVE YEAR EXPERIENCE FROM A TERTIARY CARE CENTER IN SINGAPOREW.T. Wang, S. John, M. Saini (Singapore)

 

10:55 CHANGING TRENDS IN CEREBRAL SINUS VENOUS THROMBOSIS- A PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN SOUTH INDIAN RURAL POPULATIONS.K. Natuva Sai (India)

 

11:05 PREDICTORS OF EARLY, DELAYED AND EXPANDED INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE IN PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL VENOUS SINUS THROMBOSISB. Shakibajahromi, A. Borhani-haghighi, M. Ghaedian, F. Feiz, H. Molavi, A. Mowla (Iran)

 

11:15 PROGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH SEVERE CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS TREATED WITH DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY. LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDY.A. Arauz, M. Barboza, L.C. Quintero, C. Cantu, E. Chiquete, F.E. Serrano Arias (Mexico)

 

11:25 VENOUS TERRITORIES IN THE BRAIN: EVIDENCE FROM LESION TOMOGRAPHYR.J. Singh, A. Lockey, V.V. Holla, G.B. Kulkarni, J. Saini (Canada)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: ACUTE IMAGING AND STROKE MANAGEMENT10:35 - 12:05  Hall I   Chair : Simon Nagel (Germany)    Chair : Catherine Legault (USA)  10:35 THROMBUS COMPOSITION MATTERS: RESULTS OF THE ASTER TRIAL

ACCORDING TO SUSCEPTIBILITY VESSEL SIGN STATUS ON MRI.R. BOURCIER, M. Mazighi, J. Labreuche, R. Fahed, R. Blanc, B. Gory, A. Duhamel, G. Marnat, S. Saleme, V. Costalat, S. Bracard, H. Desal, A. Consoli, M. Piotin, B. Lapergue (France)

 

10:45 PATIENT SELECTION FOR MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY IN UNKNOWN OR LONGER TIME WINDOWS – BEYOND PERFUSION IMAGINGS. Nagel, C. Herweh, J. Pfaff, S. Schieber, S. Schönenberger, M. Möhlenbruch, M. Bendszus, P. Ringleb (Germany)

 

10:55 E-ASPECTS DERIVED ACUTE INFARCT VOLUMES CORRELATE WITH E-ASPECTS SCORES, BASELINE CLINICAL SEVERITY AND CLINICAL OUTCOME IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTSS. Nagel, O. Joly, J. Pfaff, P. Papanagiotou, K. Fassbender, R. Wolfgang, C. Herweh, G. Iris Q. (Germany)

 

11:05 INTRACRANIAL COLLATERALS EVALUATED BY A FULLY AUTOMATED COMPUTER-BASED ALGORITHM COMPARED TO HUMAN READERSJ. Pfaff, F. Seker, S. Nagel, P.A. Ringleb, M. Bendszus, C. Herweh (Germany)

 

11:15 ARTERIAL ISCHEMIC STROKE OUTCOME IN CHILDRENT. Aprasidze, N. Tatishvili (Georgia)

 

11:25 TEAM PRENOTIFICATION REDUCES PROCEDURE TIMES FOR PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE DUE TO LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION WHO ARE TRANSFERRED FOR ENDOVASCULAR THERAPYV. Puetz, J.C. Gerber, H. Theilen, A. Prakapenia, A. Abramyuk, K. Hädrich, K. Barlinn, T. Siepmann, L.P. Pallesen, M. Kuhn, J. Linn, J. Barlinn (Germany)

 

11:35 IMPLEMENTATION OF ACUTE STROKE CODE FOR IN THE EXTENDED WINDOW OF ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENTC. Legault, D. Sherali, B. Eric, C. Patrice, W. Alexei M., S. Sam H., A. Greg, V. Nirali (USA)

 

11:45 THE ASSESSMENT OF INFARCT CORE ON NON CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY VERSUS COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY PERFUSION IMAGING USING RAPID SOFTWARE IN PATIENTS WITH LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSIONC.O.A. Tsang, S. Lenck, T. Krings, V.M. Pereira, F.L. Silver, J. Schaafasma (Canada)

 

 

Break: BREAK12:05 - 12:35  Exhibition Area

 

SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM: SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM 0812:35 - 14:05  HALL C

 

SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM: SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM 0912:35 - 14:05  HALL D

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: ON-GOING CLINICAL TRIALS14:05 - 15:05  Hall G   Chair : Catherine Legault (USA)  14:05 SHUXUETONG FOR PREVENTION OF RECURRENCE IN ACUTE

CEREBROVASCULAR EVENTS WITH EMBOLISM (SPACE TRIAL)Y. Wang, X. Meng, X. Xuewei, J. Jing, H. Gu, X. Jie, L. Hao, Z. Xingquan, L. Liping, W. Yongjun (China)

 

14:10 THE EFFECT OF A COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMME FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR CONTROL ON STROKE MORTALITY IN RURAL GADCHIROLI, INDIA: A CLUSTER RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALY. Kalkonde, M. Deshmukh, S. Jadhao, S. Nila, A. Bang (India)

 

14:15 ENDOVASCULAR ACUTE STROKE INTERVENTION – TANDEM OCCLUSION TRIAL (EASI-TOC): A TRIAL OF ACUTE CERVICAL INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY STENTING DURING ENDOVASCULAR THROMBECTOMY FOR ANTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKEA. Poppe, A. Weill, G. Jacquin, J. Raymond, Y. Deschaintre, C. Stapf, D. Roy, L. Gioia, C. Odier, N. Daneault (Canada)

 

14:20 CEREBRAL EMBOLIC PROTECTION IN THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR TO REDUCE BRAIN INJURY.G. Grover (United Kingdom)

 

14:25 ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN CRYPTOGENIC STROKE THE NORDIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND STROKE STUDY (NOR-FIB)

 

A. Tancin Lambert, X. Yi Kong, B. Ratajczak-Tretel, B.E. Halvorsen, M. Skjelland, D. Russell, V. Bjerkeli, H. Ihle-Hansen, S.B. Krogseth, H. Ihle-Hansen, S. Rafiq, H. Lerstad, M. Kurz, J. Sømark, M. Johnsen, E. Schordan, G.A. Høie, D. Atar, A.H. Aamodt (Norway)

14:30 CITICOLINE IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE- A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL (CTRI/2018/02/011900)A. Agarwal, V.Y. Vishnu, R. Bhatia, V. Goyal, M.B. Singh, L. Joseph, A. Garg, M.V.P. Srivastava (India)

 

14:35 RAPID INTERVENTION WITH GLYCERYL TRINITRATE IN HYPERTENSIVE STROKE TRIAL-2 (RIGHT-2): SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF TRANSDERMAL GLYCERYL TRINITRATE, A NITRIC OXIDE DONORP. Bath, M. Dixon, J.P. Appleton, P. Scutt, T. England, D. Havard, H. Howard, M. Jarvis, A. Montgomery, S. Pocock, J. Potter, C. Price, T. Robinson, C. Roffe, N. Siriwardena, N. Sprigg, J. Wardlaw (United Kingdom)

 

14:40 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INDIAN STROKE CLINICAL TRIAL NETWORK (INSTRUCT)S. Jain Verma, M. Kate, D. Arora, S. P.n, V. Padma, R. Bhatia, D. Khurana, Y.M. Reddy, S.P. Gorthi, S. Dr Aaron , S. Sarma , J. Roy , B.K. Madhusudhan, S. Kumaravelu , S. Nagarjunakonda , T. Mathew , V. Huded, M. Sharma, I. INSTRuCT, J.D. Pandian (India)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: ACUTE REPERFUSION AND NEW TREATMENT CONCEPTS14:05 - 15:05  Hall H   Chair : Rick Swartz (Canada)  14:05 ROLE OF THE SOLUBLE TLR4 DECOY RECEPTOR ON ICH OUTCOMES

J. Leclerc, S. Dore (USA)  

14:10 THE NUMBER OF THROMBECTOMY ATTEMPT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CLINICAL RESULTS IN PATIENTS WITH THE ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE CAUSED BY LARGE ARTERY OCCLUSIONJ.H. Seo (Republic of Korea)

 

14:15 NEUROAID EARLY POST STROKE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A MULTICENTRE STUDYJ. Opara, J. Szczygieł, A. Tomasova, D. Ballayova (Poland)

 

14:20 PRIMARY CAROTID STUNTING AFTER MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE WITH STENO-OCCLUSIVE LESIONS , CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL OUTCOME AT 6 MONTHS.O. Mansour (Egypt)

 

14:25 ACUTE THROMBECTOMY IN THE AGEING POPULATION: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF RADIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN ACUTE THROMBECTOMIES PERFORMED IN PATIENTS OVER 80 YEARSE.A. Cora, V. Demetriou, F. Essbaiheen, H. AlQahtani, D. Brian, H. Lesiuk, P. White, D. Iancu (Canada)

 

14:30 DISCREPANCY BETWEEN DIAGNOSIS OF CONCOMITANT DISEASE AND REAL PRACTICE IN NEUROLOGICAL OUTPATIENT TREATMENTY. Kim, Y.W. Kim, Y. Sunmin (Republic of Korea)

 

14:35 VALIDATION OF THE SIMPLIFIED STROKE-THROMBOLYTIC PREDICTIVE INSTRUMENT AMONG CHINESE PATIENTS WITH REPERFUSION THERAPYC. Wang, Y. Yang, Y. Pan, X. Liao, X. Huo, Z. Miao, Y. Wang, Y. Wang (China)

 

14:40 DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO PROVIDE TIMELY AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO HYPERACUTE STROKE CARE IN A COMMUNITY HOSPITALV. Bailey, J. Dennis, L. Shoots, M. Kinsman (Canada)

 

14:45 ENDOVASCULAR THROMBECTOMY FOR OCCLUSIONS DUE TO INTRACRANIAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS: CORRELATION WITH INTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERY CALCIFICATION AND TREATMENT IMPLICATIONSC.O.A. Tsang, K.K. Lau, F.C.P. Tsang, M.M.Y. Tse, W.M. Lui (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

 

14:50 INTRA-ARTERIAL TPA ADMINISTRATION DURING MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE.V. Saini, P. Khandelwal, J. Lukas, K. Atchaneeyasakul, R. Starke, E. Peterson, D. Yavagal (USA)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: STROKE CARE SYSTEMS 214:05 - 15:05  Hall I   Chair : Amy Y. X. Yu (Canada)  14:05 HIGH CINCLNNATI PREHOSPITAL STROKE SCALE SCORE (3/3) AS A TOOL TO  

DETECT LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION STROKE IN THE PREHOSPITAL SETTINGA. Nehme, Y. Deschaintre, A.Y. Poppe, C. Odier, N. Daneault, C. Stapf, G. Jacquin, L. Gioia (Canada)

14:10 EMS DIVERSION OF SUSPECTED LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION STROKE IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT TIMES AND OUTCOMESA. Nehme, Y. Deschaintre, A.Y. Poppe, C. Odier, N. Daneault, C. Stapf, G. Jacquin, L. Gioia (Canada)

 

14:15 A COMPARISON OF HOME-BASED AND HOSPITAL-BASED OUTPATIENT REHABILITATION SERVICES IN ONTARIO, CANADAS. Janzen, A. McIntyre, J. Chow, S. Mehta, R. Teasell (Canada)

 

14:20 OUTCOMES IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE IN ONTARIOA. Pikula, J. Jia, M. Kapral (Canada)

 

14:25 COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH EMS TO ENHANCE THE STROKE SYSTEM IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO.K. Cristofaro, M. Listenmaa, A. Hassan (Canada)

 

14:30 FACTORS AFFECTING QUALIFICATION FOR THROMBECTOMY AT A COMPREHENSIVE STROKE CENTER FOLLOWING INTER FACILITY TRANSFERK.R. Whelan, L. Peeling, G. Hunter, K. Davy, B. Graham, M. Kelly (Canada)

 

14:35 PROCESS AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INPATIENT STROKE NAVIGATOR AT A HIGH-VOLUME REGIONAL REFERRAL CENTREJ. Mastrangelo, J. Robinson, M. Sharma (Canada)

 

14:40 EFFECTIVENESS OF STROKE UNIT CARE IN A REMOTE HOSPITAL IN EASTERN INDIAJ. Pandian, L. John, A. Andrias, C. Mochahari, H. Khatter, P. Langhorne, P. Milton (India)

 

14:45 FEASIBILITY OF REHABILITATION SYSTEM FOR COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION IN PATIENTS WITH STROKE AND BRAIN INJURIESD.A. Kim, M.J. Koo, K.H. Park, J.A. Yoon, D.M. Kim, S.H. Ho, J.H. Shin (Republic of Korea)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: STROKE IN THE REGION14:05 - 15:05  Hall J   Chair : Tom Jeerakathil ()  14:05 QUALITY OF CARE FOR ISCHEMIC STROKE IN QUEBEC’S COMPREHENSIVE

STROKE CENTERS BEFORE AND AFTER INITIATION OF A PROVINCIAL ACTION PLANL. Lambert, C. Odier, L. Azzi, E. Segal, R. Côté, C. Lehoux, G. Milot, F. Moreau, D. Tampieri, F. Desy, L. Boothroyd, M. Vutcovici Nicolae, M. Angle, L. Beaudet, J.M. Boulanger, H. Corriveau, L. Gagnon, P. Nault, M. De Guise (Canada)

 

14:10 RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH STROKE IN THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATESD. ILUNGA TSHISWAKA (USA)

 

14:15 TEN-YEAR EVALUATION OF THE TOYOTA PREHOSPITAL STROKE SCALE FOR TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INTRAVENOUS THERAPY (TOPSPIN) IN THE REAL WORLDJ. Suzuki, N. Nakai, N. Kondo, H. Tsuji, R. Inagaki, S. Furukawa, M. Iwata, S. Nishida, Y. Ito (Japan)

 

14:20 THE CHANGE OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE AT BASELINE AND DISCHARGE AND ITS PREDICTION ON PROGNOSISJ. Zhang, L. Zhang, G. You (China)

 

14:25 APPLICABILITY OF SIMPLIFIED ASCOD CLASSIFICATION IN ISCHEMIC STROKE SUBTYPES: STUDY FROM SUDANT. Obeid, M. El Fadul, M. Idriss, M. Obeid, W. Madani (Sudan)

 

14:30 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THE YOUNG STROKE WORK-UP IN A SOUTHEAST ASIAN POPULATIONT. Chew, W.Q. Lim, C. Tham (Singapore)

 

14:35 ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS CONTRIBUTING RISK FACTORS IN YOUNG STROKE AND THEIR INCIDENCE – A PROSPECTIVE ANALYSISJ. Jayavelu, I. Sheikh, J. Sehgal, A. Garg (India)

 

14:40 THE EFFECT OF LOSS TO FOLLOW-UP ON ESTIMATING POST-STROKE FUNCTION AND MORTALITY IN LOW AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: LESSONS FROM THE OSCAIL STUDY

 

L. Hamilton, J. Bosch, P. Bidulka, P. Langhorne, V. DePaul, L. Katsoulis, G. Urimubenshi, D. Dusaberurema, J. Munyantore, S. Human, J. Pandian, M. O'Donnell (Canada)

14:45 THE VARIATION OF ISCHEMIC STROKE RISK FACTORS IN ASIAN AND WHITE POPULATION IN KYRGYZSTAN : A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDYI. Lutsenko (Kyrgyzstan )

 

14:50 RATE AND RELEVANCE OF VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES IN THE CERVICO-CEPHALIC ARTERIES DETECTED ON CT ANGIOGRAPHY AMONG INDIAN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ISCHEMIC STROKER.J. Singh, S. Jabeen, V.V. Holla, V.H. Ganaraja, S. Varadharajan, J. Saini (Canada)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: TIA AND MINOR STROKE14:05 - 15:05  Hall K   Chair : Aimen Moussaddy (Canada)  14:05 EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW EVIDENCE BASED TRIAGE TOOLKIT FOR TRANSIENT

ISCHEMIC ATTACK AND MILD NON-DISABLING STROKE IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO, CANADAM.E. Sweet, E. Edwards RN HBScN, S. Jaspers HBScN NP PHC, S. Littlefield MSc, S. Dubois MPH (Canada)

 

14:10 SHORT TERM AND LONG-TERM OUTCOME AND PREDICTORS OF RECURRENCE OF VASCULAR EVENTS FOLLOWING EARLY TREATMENT OF TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK(TIA) AND MINOR STROKEH. Dhing, P.N. Sylaja, P.S. Sarma (India)

 

14:15 THE OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH A MINOR STROKE IN LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION IS NOT AFFECTED BY MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMYM. Schnieder, I. Maier, A. Hesse, M. Bähr, M.N. Psychogios, A. Kastrup, J. Liman (Germany)

 

14:25 CONTEMPORARY SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK HOSPITALIZATIONS AND IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN UPDATE ON THE EXISTING LITERATURER. Desai, K. Patel, D. Zalavadia, S. Patel, T. Siddiqui, D. Zahid, K. Agarwal, N. Patel, Z. Mahuwala (USA)

 

14:20 THE APPLICATION OF P300 IN COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ASSESSMENT AFTER A TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK OR MINOR STROKEY. Zhang, X. Hao ming, Y. JIngfan, L. Xinxin (China)

 

14:30 EFFECT OF SMOKING STATUS ON PLATELET REACTIVITY AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TICAGRELOR VERSUS CLOPIDOGREL AMONG PATIENTS WITH MINOR STROKE OR TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKY. Yang, Y. Pan, W. Chen, X. Meng, L. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. Wang (China)

 

14:35 TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK VERSUS MIMICS IN THE MCGILL STROKE PREVENTION CLINIC: CHARACTERISTICS, MANAGEMENT AND PROGNOSISM. Marafi, A. AlTurki, H. Perkins, R. Cote, T. Wein, J. Minuk, E. Erhensperger, L. Durcan, A. Moussaddy, L. Vieira (Canada)

 

14:40 IS A MINOR ISCHEMIC STROKE REALLY MILD? A CASE-CONTROL STUDYB. Vitturi, R. Gagliardi (Brazil)

 

14:45 RECURRENCE OF ISCHEMIC STROKE IN PATIENTS WITH PREVIOUS TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKP. Amaya, C. Arteaga, F. Serrano, F. Lopez, F. Espinosa, A. Arauz (Mexico)

 

14:50 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VERTEBRAL ARTERY HYPOPLASIA AND TIA IN YOUNG PATIENTSV. Gaigalaite, A. Vilimas, J. Dementaviciene (Lithuania)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL REHABILITATION 414:05 - 15:05  Hall L   Chair : Caroline Paquette (Canada)  14:05 WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY VOLUME AND RELATION TO QUALITY OF LIFE

AND FUNCTION AFTER ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEC. Lin, J. Higgins, C. Ingo, A. Kurani, T. Parrish, S. Prabhakaran (USA)

 

14:10 AN INDIVIDUALIZED APPROACH FOR UPPER EXTREMITY TRAINING POST-STROKE BASED ON NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MARKERS: PROCEDURES AND PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONSM.H. Boudrias, M.H. Milot, H. Corriveau, F. Tremblay (Canada)

 

14:15 ADVANCEMENT OF A REHAB MODEL OF CARE: THE DESIGNATED STROKE PODC. Pollard, D. Ceglie (Canada)

 

14:20 SUSTAINING STROKE REHABILITATION INTENSITY: EVALUATING CLINICIAN KNOWLEDGE ACROSS ONTARIOD. Sooley, B. Donnelly, J. Fearn, S. Huffman, B. Linkewich, S. Quant, D. Venditti (Canada)

 

14:25 REVOLUTIONIZING NEURO REHABILITATION AND IMPROVING PATIENT OUTCOMES THROUGH ACTIVE MOBILITYP. Vavougios (Canada)

 

14:30 MOBILITY-RELATED CARE AFTER STROKE IN THE RWANDAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT: IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT THROUGH THE ORGANIZED STROKE CARE ACROSS INCOME LEVELS (OSCAIL) STUDYV. DePaul, G. Urimubenshi, J. Bosch, P. Langhorne, L. Katsoulis, M. O'Donnell, J. Pandian, L. Hamilton, P. Bidulka, S. Carroll, M. Kaddumukasa, K. Perera (Canada)

 

14:35 THE INITIAL SEVERITY OF STROKE PREDICTS MOTOR IMPROVEMENT INDUCED BY TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATIONK. Monte-Silva, A. Baltar, L. Shirahige, D. Marques (Brazil)

 

14:40 IMPACT OF ANTERIOR ANKLE-FOOT-ORTHOSIS ON BAREFOOT WALKING AND BALANCE PERFORMANCE IN SUBJECTS WITH HEMIPLEGIC STROKEJ.W. Hung, Y.W. Hsieh, M.Y. Yu, P.C. Chen (Taiwan R.O.C.)

 

14:45 CHARACTERISTICS AND DETERMINANTS OF APHASIA AMONG PERSIAN SPEAKING STROKE PATIENTSS. Heidary, A. Rahimi Jaberi, R. Nilipour, J. Rahimian, S.K. Saraj-Zadehfard, A. Borhani Haghighi (Iran)

 

14:50 MUSCLE STRENGTH LOSS IN STROKE SURVIVORSA. Dengiz, E. Baskan, U. Cavlak (Turkey)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: MISCELLANEOUS 314:05 - 15:05  Hall M   Chair : Laura Gioia (Canada)  14:05 THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST TELEPHONE MONITORING WITH THE MEDICAL

STUDENTS-LED TELEPHONE SUPPORT IN PATIENTS WITH STROKE ACCORDING TO DATA OF SITS-KYRGYZSTANI. Lutsenko, N. Asylbek Kyzy, S. Aishoola (Kyrgyzstan )

 

14:10 INTRALUMINAL NON-OCCLUSIVE THROMBI IN CERVICO-CEPHALIC ARTERIESR.J. Singh, D. Chakraborty, S. Dey, M. Eesa, M. Najm, A. Ganesh, A.S. Al Sultan, M. Almekhlafi, J. Wong, M.D. Hill, B.K. Menon (Canada)

 

14:15 A MOBILE APP BASED STRATEGY TO REDUCE DOOR TO NEEDLE TIME IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEM. Noone, F. Moideen, R.B. Krishna, V.G.P. Kumar, U. Karadan, J. Chellenton, K.A. Salam (India)

 

14:20 SPACE-2: COMPLIANCE TO BEST MEDICAL TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH ASYMPTOMATIC CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS.T. Reiff, H.H. Eckstein, U. Mansmann, O. Jansen, G. Fraedrich, H. Mudra, D. Böckler, M. Böhm, H. Brückmann, E.S. Debus, J. Fiehler, K. Mathias, E.B. Ringelstein, J. Schmidli, R. Stingele, R. Zahn, W. Hacke, P.A. Ringleb (Germany)

 

14:25 A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PLASMA PROTEOMIC EXPRESSION IN STROKE SURVIVORSV. Nguyen, S. Crewther, D. Howells, P. Faou, N. Riddell, G. Hankey, H. Ma, T. Wijeratne, S. Davis, G. Donnan, L. Carey (Australia)

 

14:30 LUNG CANCER: AN UNUSUAL MECHANISM FOR STROKE IN YOUNG PATIENTS.E. Basaez, F. Al-Eisa (Canada)

 

14:35 UNUSUAL CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF STROKE IN A PATIENT WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA: CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATUREJ.Y. Hsu, A.B. Liu (Taiwan R.O.C.)

 

14:40 TELEMEDICINE: NOT ONLY A TOOL FOR STROKE – ESTABLISHING A SPECIALIST IN CURRICULUM IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BY THE HELP OF TELEMEDICINE -U. Meyding-Lamadé, E.M. Craemer, B. Bassa, C. Chan, A. Masri, A. Aziz, W. Hacke (Germany)

 

14:45 RELIGIOUS SUBLIMATION OF PHARMACOLOGY: USE OR ABUSE?A. Ghoreishi, A. Niksirat, M. Maghbooli (Iran)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: LATE BREAKING14:05 - 15:05  Hall N   Chair : Mark Boulos (Canada)  14:05 COMPARING THE HEALTHCARE COST OF STROKE AND TIAS: EVIDENCE FROM

THE ARCOSA. Nunez, B. Te Ao, P. Brown, R. Krishnamurthi, R. Bhattacharjee, S. Barker-Collo, K. McPherson, A. Barber, V. Parag, B. Arroll, D. Bennett, M. Abbott, A. Theadom, Y. Rathnasabapathy, V. Feigin (New Zealand)

 

14:10 DOES TICI 2C/3 MECHANICAL RECANALIZATION INFLUENCE FUNCTIONAL PROGNOSIS IN STROKE COMPARED TO TICI 2B?M.E. Ramos-Araque, F. Hernandez-Fernandez, J. Garcia-Garcia, O. Ayo-Martin, J. Molina-Nuevo, E. Julia-Moya, M.J. Pedrosa-Jimenez, T. Segura (Spain)

 

14:15 STROKE AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PERCEPTIONS AMONG ADULT SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS IN TAIWAN, FROM 2014 TO 2017E. Chuluunbaatar, W. Gao (Mongolia)

 

14:20 SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT FOR ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE IN YOUNG PATIENTSR.V. Narayana, S. Dalai, S.K. Korada, R. Pati, S. Golivi, S. Panda, N. Chaudhary (India)

 

14:25 STROKE CHALLENGE: DETECTING GAPS BETWEEN PROTOCOL AND PRACTICEL.A. Carbonera, S.C.O. Martins, A.C. De Souza, T. Álvarez, D.L.M. Cuervo, N.F. Titton, M.C.O. Martins, M.D.C. Klu, D.G.Z. Zãn (Brazil)

 

14:30 AUTOANTIBODIES AGAINST OXIDIZED LDL AND LIPID PEROXIDATION IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE.B. Menon, K. Ramalingam (India)

 

14:35 DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF EXOSOMAL MICRORNA (E-MIRNA) INDICATES SUPPRESSION OF PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN ENDOTHELIAL PROLIFERATION AND MIGRATION IN PATIENTS WITH INTRACRANIAL ATHEROSCLEROSTIC DISEASE (ICAD)N. Gonzalez, H. Jiang, J. Toscano, J. Van Eyk (USA)

 

14:40 FALL-RISK REDUCTION IN CHRONIC STROKE SURVIVORS: MIXED SLIP-TRIP PERTURBATION TRAINING TO ENHANCE REACTIVE RECOVERY RESPONSESS. Dusane, T. Bhatt (USA)

 

14:45 ASSOCIATION OF ACE GENE INSERTION/DELETION POLYMORPHISM AND ISCHEMIC STROKE IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATIONB. Menon, R. Krishnan (India)

 

14:50 FEASIBILITY OF A RANDOMIZED TRIAL EVALUATING A GROUP, TASK-ORIENTED COMMUNITY EXERCISE PROGRAM INCORPORATING A HEALTHCARE-RECREATION PARTNERSHIP FOR PEOPLE WITH MOBILITY LIMITATIONS POST-STROKEN. Salbach, M. Bayley, S. Jaglal, W. Wodchis, S. Hunter, J.A. Howe, J. Cameron, R. Teasell, K. Bashir, G. Aravind (Canada)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF CARE14:05 - 15:05  Hall O   Chair : Thalia Field ()  14:05 USING A KNOWLEDGE-TO-ACTION CYCLE TO HELP IMPROVE ADHERENCE TO

CANADIAN STROKE BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REHABILITATION AND INCREASE REHABILITATION INTENSITYK. Mallet, B. Donnelly, A. Mantha, C. Yang, L. Zitouni, S. Gehring, I. Graham (Canada)

 

14:10 CIRCADIAN VARIATION OF EFFICACY OF INTRAVENOUS RECOMBINANT TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKES. Lee, J.H. Kim (Republic of Korea)

 

14:15 PRODUCTIVITY LOSSES OF ISCHEMIC STROKE SURVIVORS: A CROSS SECTIONAL SURVEY ALONGSIDE POPULATION-BASED COHORT STUDY IN RHONE AREA, FRANCEM. Viprey, M. Barral, A. Termoz, E. Bravant, J. Amiot, N. Perreton, M. Chakir, J. Haesebaert, L. Derex, A.M. Schott (France)

 

14:20 OPINIONS ON POST STROKE COMPLICATIONS FROM ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS AT 3-MONTHS POST STROKEF.P. Woon, W.M. Ng, S.R. Rahmat, S.C. Ng, S.Y. Goh, P.K. Lim, D. De Silva (Singapore)

 

14:25 QUICR-ALBERTA STROKE PROGRAM: TARGETING INPATIENT STROKE OUTCOMESM. Siddiqui, N. Kamal, O. Imoukhuede, S. Amlani, T. Colleen, P. Tammy, G. Brown, E. Shand, J. Throndson, M. Solverson, D. Norton, M. Balraj, T. Jeerakathil, A. Shuaib, A. Demchuk (Canada)

 

14:30 COMBINED HEART AND STROKE SERVICES OPTIMIZES, ENHANCES AND ENABLES SUSTAINABILITY OF CARE IN A RURAL SETTINGC. Tritten, J. Throndson, J. Kupka, D. Norton, C. King, (Canada)

 

14:35 PRE-STROKE CIGARETTE SMOKING ARE ASSOCIATED WITH STROKE SEVERITY AND POST-STROKE DISABILITYM.S. Sheikh Andalibi, M.R. Azarpazhooh, M.T. Farzadfard, N. Morovatdar, N. Mokhber, A. Amiri (Iran)

 

14:40 IMPROVING ADHERENCE TO HOME-BASED EXERCISES AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING STROKE SURVIVORS IN A LOW-RESOURCE SETTING - A STEP FORWARDA. Mahmood, P. Nayak, N. Manikandan, J. Solomon M (India)

 

14:45 OPTIMIZING THE INPATIENT STROKE ALERT PROCESSK.R. Whelan, K. Davy, J. Molder, G. Hunter (Canada)

 

14:50 EARLIER BRAIN MRI IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES AFTER ISCHEMIC STROKES. Mendelson, I. Ruff, E. Oh, K.J. Liu, C. Corado, M. Maas, A. Naidech, S. Prabhakaran (USA)

 

 

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS SESSION: ACUTE IMAGING AND STROKE MANAGEMENT14:05 - 15:05  Hall P   Chair : Wolf-Dieter Heiss ()  14:05 IS MECANICAL THROMBECTOMY AS SAFE FOR TRANSFERRED AS FOR DIRECTLY

ADMITTED PATIENTS?M.A. Hamel, O. Bereznyakova, M.E. Audet, G. Milot, S. Verreault, S. Carrondo Cottin, D. Simonyan (Canada)

 

14:10 PATIENTS WITH MILD AS WELL AS WITH SEVERE ACUTE STROKES BENEFIT FROM SYSTEMATIC DYSPHAGIA SCREENING AND DIETARY MODIFICATION TO PREVENT PNEUMONIA: A REGISTRY STUDYY. Teuschl, M. Trapl-Grundschober, P. Ratajczak, K. Matz, A. Dachenhausen, A. Schwarz, M. Brainin (Austria)

 

14:15 MALNUTRITION IN ACUTE STROKE PATIENTS STRATIFIED BY STROKE SEVERITYK. Chang, D.Y. Hsieh, H.M. Chen (Taiwan R.O.C.)

 

14:20 RADIATION EXPOSURE OF BRAIN IS WITHIN ACCEPTABLE RANGE EVEN WITH EXTENSIVE CT-BASED NEUROIMAGING FOR ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEV. Sharma, S. Kapur, J. Kapur, A. Sinha (Singapore)

 

14:25 A SIMPLE PREDICTION SCORE SYSTEM FOR MALIGNANT BRAIN EDEMA PROGRESSION AFTER PHARMACOMECHANICAL THROMBOLYSISK. Jo, H. Kim (Republic of Korea)

 

14:30 EMERGENT MRI BRAIN DURING A STROKE ALERT: A COST EFFECTIVE APPROACHR. Sharma, N. Kapoor, K. Chaudhari, C. Iser, E. Haxton, D. Thompson, E. Sidorov (India)

 

14:35 EARLY CLINICAL COURSE AND OUTCOME OF ACUTE LARGE-VESSEL OCCLUSIVE STROKE WITH MILD SYMPTOMSY.H. Hwang, Y.W. Kim, D.H. Kang, Y.S. Kimg (Republic of Korea)

 

14:40 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BASILAR ARTERY PLAQUES IN PONTINE INFARCTION: A HIGH-RESOLUTION MRI STUDYS.M. Sung, J.Y. Shin, H.J. Son, K.H. Kim, Y.J. Kang, H.J. Cho (Republic of Korea)

 

14:45 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CT PERFUSION IMAGING AND HEMORRHAGIC TRANSFORMATION AFTER ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEJ. Zhang, H. Xie (China)

 

 

Break: SHORT BREAK15:05 - 15:10  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 30: WSO-ESO JOINT SESSION: STROKE AND PREGNANCY

15:10 - 16:40  HALL A   Convener: Valeria Caso (Italy)    Convener: Moira Kapral (Canada)  15:10 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED STROKE

Invited Speaker: Moira Kapral (Canada)  

15:28 ETIOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES OF STROKE DURING PREGNANCYInvited Speaker: Christine Kremer (Sweden)

 

15:46 PREGNANCY IN WOMEN WITH PREVIOUS STROKEInvited Speaker: Valeria Caso (Italy)

 

16:04 OVERVIEW OF CURRENT CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR STROKE IN PREGNANCYInvited Speaker: Zuzana Gdovinová (Slovak Republic)

 

16:22 CONTRACEPTIVE OPTIONS IN WOMEN WITH A HISTORY OF STROKEInvited Speaker: Cheryl Bushnell (USA)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 31: ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT: SYSTEMS & PROCESS15:10 - 16:40  HALL B   Convener: Istvan Szikora (Hungary)    Convener: James Grotta (USA)  15:10 DIRECT TRANSFER VS DRIP AND SHIP

Invited Speaker: Mayank Goyal (Canada)  

15:32 PRE-HOSPITAL MANAGEMENTInvited Speaker: Jeff Saver (USA)

 

15:54 WHO SHOULD BE DOING THROMBECTOMY? CRITERIA FROM DIFFERENT US AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIESInvited Speaker: Marc Ribo (Spain)

 

16:16 WHERE SHOULD THROMBECTOMY BE DONE?Invited Speaker: Istvan Szikora (Hungary)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 32: TROPICAL STROKE15:10 - 16:40  HALL C   Convener: Antonio Arauz (Mexico)    Convener: Uta Meyding-Lamadé (Germany)  15:10 NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS AS A CAUSE OF STROKE - MECHANISMS AND

TREATMENTInvited Speaker: Fernando Barinagarrementeria (Mexico)

 

15:28 CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES - CHARACTERISTICS COMPARED TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIESInvited Speaker: Antonio Arauz (Mexico)

 

15:46 TROPICAL STROKE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA - CHARACTERISTICS COMPARED TO EUROPEAN COMMUNITYInvited Speaker: Uta Meyding-Lamadé (Germany)

 

16:04 TROPICAL STROKE - ETIOLOGY IN TROPICAL STROKE - PITFALLS AND CHARACTERISTICS IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IN A SHOWCASE OF SET UP OF A STROKE SERVICE IN TROPICAL ASIAN COMMUNITYInvited Speaker: Uta Meyding-Lamadé (Germany)

 

16:22 AIDS AND STROKEInvited Speaker: Abayomi Ogun (Nigeria)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 33: WOUNDED BRAIN, AILING HEART: CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS OF STROKE15:10 - 16:40  HALL D   Convener: Matthias Endres (Germany)    Convener: Vladimir Hachinski (Canada)  15:10 AUTONOMICAL-PHYSIOLOGICAL BASES OF CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS AFTER

STROKEInvited Speaker: Max Hilz (Germany)

 

15:28 INSULAR INFARCTS: CARDIAC AND MORTALITY COMPLICATIONS  

Invited Speaker: Matthias Endres (Germany) 15:46 POST-STROKE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Invited Speaker: Luciano Sposato (Canada)  

16:04 CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS OF INTRACEREBRAL AND SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGEInvited Speaker: Jeanne Teitelbaum (Canada)

 

16:22 PANEL DISCUSSION  16:35 BRAIN-HEART RELATIONSHIPS: RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Invited Speaker: Vladimir Hachinski (Canada)  

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: ANEURYSMS AND BRAIN HEMORRHAGE15:10 - 16:40  HALL E   Chair : TBA TBA ()    Chair : Adnan I. Qureshi (USA)  15:10 APOLIPOPROTEIN E GENOTYPE PREDICTS ANTICOAGULATION-ASSOCIATED

INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE RECURRENCES. Urday, A. Rodriguez-Torres, C. Kourkoulis, K. Schwab, S.M. Greenberg, A. Viswanathan, C.D. Anderson, K.N. Sheth, J. Rosand, A. Biffi (USA)

 

15:20 REBLEEDING RATE IN TWO COMPREHENSIVE STROKE UNITS USING DIFFERENT BLOOD PRESSURE MANAGEMENT.L. Calviere, C. Gathier, M. Rafk, I. Koopman, V. Rousseau, J.F. Albucher, T. Geeraerts, G.J.E. Rinkel, J.M. Olivot, M.D.I. Vergouwen (France)

 

15:30 INTENSIVE BLOOD PRESSURE LOWERING IN PATIENTS WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE GRADE ACUTE CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE: POST-HOC ANALYSIS OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE TREATMENT OF ACUTE CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE (ATACH)-2 TRIALA.I. Qureshi, L.D. Foster, Y.Y. Palesch, M.H. Qureshi (USA)

 

15:40 RELATIONSHIP OF CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASE MARKERS TO HEMATOMA VOLUME, HEMATOMA EXPANSION AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME IN SPONTANEOUS SUPRATENTORIAL HYPERTENSIVE HEMORRHAGEA.R. Warrier, R. Bhatia, P. M Vasantha, K. Prasad, M. Tripathi, A. Garg, D. Dash, V. Singh, S. Vishnubhatla, P. S Bala (India)

 

15:50 NIHSS IS A BETTER PREDICTOR OF OUTCOMES IN INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGES COMPARED TO OTHER BASELINE FACTORS. INFORMATION THEORY APPROACHES APPLIED TO DATABASES FROM INDIA AND USAP. Mandava, A. Hegde, Z. King, C. Ormseth, G. Falcone, L. Sansing, D. Hwang, P. Litvak, A. Doddamane, G. Menon, K. Sheth (USA)

 

16:00 FACTORS RELATED TO EPILEPSY IN PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONSG. Gonzalez-Calderon, J.M. Calleja-Castillo (Mexico)

 

16:10 NON-ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE(NASAH). NEW CLASSIFICATIONA. Aladi, S. Jabbar, C. Roffe (United Kingdom)

 

16:20 MICROHEMORRHAGIC TRANSFORMATION OF ISCHEMIC LESIONS ON T2*-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AFTER PIPELINE EMBOLIZATION DEVICE TREATMENTR. Nakae, T. Takigawa, Y. Kawamura, Y. Tanaka, M. Nagaishi, A. Hyodo, K. Suzuki, H. Yokota (Japan)

 

 

WORKSHOP: EDUCATIONAL NEEDS WORKSHOP15:10 - 16:40  HALL F

 

WORKSHOP: SSO WORKSHOP 01: SSO WORKSHOP ON INNOVATIONS, STROKE CARE IMPROVEMENTS AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE15:10 - 16:40  Hall G

 

Break: COFFEE BREAK

16:40 - 17:10  Exhibition Area

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 34: PEDIATRIC & YOUNG STROKE17:10 - 18:40  HALL A   Convener: Adam Kirton (Canada)    Convener: Maja Steinlin (Switzerland)  17:10 VASCULAR EFFECTS OF INFECTION IN PEDIATRIC AND YOUNG ADULT STROKE

Invited Speaker: Heather Fullerton (USA)  

17:28 NON-INFECTIOUS VASCULITISInvited Speaker: Laura Gioia (Canada)

 

17:46 THE TIME HAS COME FOR RANDOMIZED TRIALS IN PEDIATRIC STROKE: TARGETING ARTERIOPATHYInvited Speaker: Maja Steinlin (Switzerland)

 

18:04 MECHANISMS OF STROKE IN YOUNG ADULTS: LESSONS FROM CHILDHOOD STROKEInvited Speaker: Frank-Erik De Leeuw (The Netherlands)

 

18:22 HARNESSING DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY FOR STROKE REHAB: LESSONS FROM PERINATAL STROKEInvited Speaker: Adam Kirton (Canada)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 35: SUBCLINICAL BRAIN INFARCTS17:10 - 18:40  HALL B   Convener: Graeme J. Hankey (Australia)    Convener: Eric E. Smith (Canada)  17:10 PREVALENCE AND DIAGNOSIS OF SILENT CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE

Invited Speaker: Stéphanie Debette (France)  

17:32 PROGNOSIS AND PROSPECTS FOR TREATMENT AND PREVENTIONInvited Speaker: Mike Sharma (Canada)

 

17:54 DEBATE PRO: SCREENING MRI WILL BECOME A USEFUL RISK STRATIFYING TOOL FOR STROKE PREVENTIONInvited Speaker: Graeme J. Hankey (Australia)

 

18:16 DEBATE CON: SCREENING MRI HAS TOO MANY LIMITATIONS AND UNCERTAINTIES TO BECOME A USEFUL RISK STRATIFYING TOOLInvited Speaker: Eric E. Smith (Canada)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 36: SMALL VESSEL IMAGING17:10 - 18:40  HALL C   Convener: Joanna Wardlaw (United Kingdom)    Convener: Meike Vernooij (The Netherlands)  17:10 AD, SVD, NPH – COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENTIATION, IMAGING AND

SYMPTOMATOLOGYInvited Speaker: Gustavo Román (USA)

 

17:32 CORTICAL SUPERFICIAL SIDEROSIS: IMAGING PRESENTATION AND IMPLICATIONSInvited Speaker: Andreas Charidimou (USA)

 

17:54 DOES ISCHAEMIA PLAY A ROLE IN SVD LESION DEVELOPMENT?Invited Speaker: Joanna Wardlaw (United Kingdom)

 

18:16 MICROSTRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND DISCONNECTIVITY IN SMALL VESSEL DISEASEInvited Speaker: Meike Vernooij (The Netherlands)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 37: HOT TOPICS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ICH AND SAH17:10 - 18:40  HALL D   Convener: Gabriel Rinkel (The Netherlands)    Convener: Stefan Schwab (Germany)  17:10 NEW ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS AND ICH – RESULTS FROM THE GERMAN-WIDE  

MULTICENTER COHORT STUDY (RETRACE-II)Invited Speaker: Stefan Schwab (Germany)

17:28 EARLY BLOOD PRESSURE MANAGEMENT IN SAH: IMPACT ON REBLEEDING AND VASOSPASMInvited Speaker: Gabriel Rinkel (The Netherlands)

 

17:46 MECHANICAL HEART VALVES AND ICH – THROMBOEMBOLIC VERSUS HEMORRHAGIC COMPLICATIONSInvited Speaker: Claude Hemphill (USA)

 

18:04 HEMATOMA EVACUATION SURGERY IN INFRATENTORIAL ICH – META-ANALYSIS AND VALIDATION COHORT STUDYInvited Speaker: Hagen B. Huttner (Germany)

 

18:22 EMERGING CONSERVATIVE AND INTERVENTIONAL TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR VASOSPASMS AFTER SAHInvited Speaker: Gisele Sampaio Silva (Brazil)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: TIA AND VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT17:10 - 18:40  HALL E   Chair : Christopher Chen (Singapore)  17:10 PREDICTORS FOR DELAYED ONSET DEMENTIA AFTER STROKE OR TRANSIENT

ISCHEMIC ATTACK – A 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDYM. Ismail, B.Y.K. Lam, A. Wong, J.M. Abrigo, W.C.W. Chu, A.Y.L. Lau, Y.O.Y. Soo, T.W.H. Leung, V.C.T. Mok (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

 

17:20 RECURRENT STROKE IN MINOR ISCHEMIC STROKE OR TIA WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME AND/OR DIABETES MELLITUSW. Chen, Y. Pan, J. Jing, Z. Xingquan, L. Liping, M. Xia, W. Yilong, W. Yongjun (China)

 

17:30 THE NEUROAID II (MLC901) IN VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT STUDY (NEURITES): BASELINE RESULTSC. Chen, N.T. Hung, S. Marasigan, C.F. Lee, N. Kandiah, D. De Silva, N. Venketasubramanian (Singapore)

 

17:40 EFFECT OF TADALAFIL ON CEREBROVASCULAR RESPONSE IN PATIENTS WITH SMALL VESSEL DISEASE (ETLAS-STUDY)J. Ölmestig, I.R. Marlet, R.H. Hansen, S. Rehman, R.S. Krawcyk, E. Rostrup, K.L. Lambertsen, C. Kruuse (Denmark)

 

17:50 THROMBOLYSIS ADMINISTRATION AFTER MINOR ISCHEMIC STROKE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SUBSEQUENT DEMENTIA INCIDENCEJ. Cerasuolo, L. Cipriano, M. Kapral, J. Fang, V. Hachinski, L. Sposato, J. Mandzia (Canada)

 

18:00 LACUNAR INFARCT BURDEN WITHIN WHITE MATTER TRACTS AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONT. Evans, M. O'Sullivan, W. Niessen, M.A. Ikram, M. Vernooij (United Kingdom)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: STROKE CARE SYSTEMS AND AUDITS17:10 - 18:40  HALL F   Chair : Patrice Lindsay (Canada)    Chair : Henry Zhao (Australia)  17:10 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY WITHIN 6 HOURS OF

ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKE IN CHINAY. Pan, L. Liu, Y. Wang, W. Yilong, Z. Miao (China)

 

17:20 THE AMBULANCE CLINICAL TRIAGE-FOR ACUTE STROKE TREATMENT (ACT-FAST) ALGORITHMIC PRE-HOSPITAL TRIAGE TOOL FOR ENDOVASCULAR THROMBECTOMYH. Zhao, L. Pesavento, E. Rodrigues, P. Salvaris, K. Smith, S. Bernard, M. Stephenson, M. Parsons, N. Yassi, S. Davis, B. Campbell (Australia)

 

17:30 PROFILE, RISK FACTORS AND ACUTE OUTCOME OF OVER 1100 STROKE PATIENTS FROM A SINGLE TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL REGISTRY IN EASTERN INDIAJ. Roy, S. Dey, D. Chakraborty, A. Das (India)

 

17:40 PUTTING STROKE SERVICES ON THE MAP – USING GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR STROKE SYSTEM PLANNING.M.P. Lindsay, L. Jewitt, H. Michael D, R.H. Swartz, N. Kamal (Canada)

 

17:50 A NOVEL CROSS-EVALUATION APPROACH TO COMPARING HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE ON STROKE OUTCOMES: EXAMPLE USING DATA FROM THE AUSTRALIAN STROKE CLINICAL REGISTRYL. Churilov, M. Kilkenny, G. Donnan, D. Cadilhac (Australia)

 

18:00 DOES GENDER IMPACT THE QUALITY OF STROKE CARE RECEIVED? A NATIONAL STROKE REGISTRY STUDYG. Dunn, A. Rudd, B. Bray, M. James, A. Hoffman, L. Paley, K. Stanley, V. McCurran (United Kingdom)

 

18:10 COMPARISON OF FOUR REGIONAL NETWORKS OF STROKE CARE AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THROMBECTOMY IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBECL. Lambert, R. Côté, E. Segal, L. Beaudet, G. Milot, C. Odier, C. Lehoux, M. Angle, L. Gagnon, P. Nault, L. Azzi, L. Boothroyd, M. Vutcovici Nicolae, F. Desy, J.M. Boulanger, H. Corriveau, F. Moreau, D. Tampieri, M. De Guise (Canada)

 

18:20 ADAPTIVE SYSTEM CHANGE – THE PROCESS OF EDUCATIONM. Rashead, S. Amlani, B. Mann, J. Snider, J. Montpetit, V. Gregory, R. Vilneff, J. Bestard, A. Demchuk, J. Thomas (Canada)

 

18:30 SERVICES FOR STROKE CARE ACROSS AUSTRALIA FROM 1999 TO 2017: ARE WE THERE YET?D. Cadilhac, S. McGowan, T. Purvis, K. Hill, M. Kilkenny, T. Aslett (Australia)

 

 

WORKSHOP: SSO WORKSHOP 01 Cont'd: SSO WORKSHOP ON INNOVATIONS, STROKE CARE IMPROVEMENTS AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE17:10 - 18:40  Hall G

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: CEREBROVASCULAR OCCLUSIVE DISEASE AND CRITICAL CARE17:10 - 18:40  Hall H   Chair : David Skoloudik (Czech Republic)    Chair : Adnan I. Qureshi (USA)  17:10 OPIUM ADDICTION AND ISCHEMIC STROKE IN ISFAHAN, IRAN: A CASE-CONTROL

STUDYM. Saadatnia, H. Ebrahimi, S. Haghjoo javanmard, S. Asgari, L. Dehghani, M. Amiri (Iran)

 

17:20 INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE IN SYMPTOMATIC AND ASYMPTOMATIC PROGRESSIVE CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS – PILOT STUDYD. Skoloudik, M. Roubec, R. Herzig, J. Havelka (Czech Republic)

 

17:30 SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE CIRCULATING ADIPOKINE, LIPID, AND IMMUNE PROFILES OF MEN AND WOMEN WITH SEVERE CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSISK. Gasbarrino, H. Zheng, J. Veinot, S. Daskalopoulou (Canada)

 

17:40 DISTAL VERSUS PROXIMAL MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION: DIFFERENT MECHANISM AND PROGNOSISB. Kim, S.H. Heo, D.I. Chang (Republic of Korea)

 

17:50 ONE-YEAR RISK OF RECURRENT STROKE ASSOCIATED WITH VERTEBRAL/BASILAR ARTERY STENOSIS IN A COHORT OF 10,515 ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTSA.I. Qureshi, M.H. Qureshi, C.Y. Hsu, J.S. Jeng, L.M. Lien, C.J. Hu, J.T. Lee, T.C. Lai, C.H. Liu, C.H. Chen, P.L. Chen, T.S. Chen, J.Y. Li, C.L. Lin (USA)

 

18:00 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PREOPERATIVE MIDLINE SHIFT RATE AND FAILURE OF DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTIONR. Yuan, Y. Cheng, S. Wu, S. Zhang, Y. Liu, M. Liu (China)

 

18:10 COMPARE THE INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE TREND AFTER THE DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY BETWEEN MASSIVE INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGIC AND MAJOR ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTS.D.S. Yoo, E. Jin, H. Han-Young, A. Jae-Geun, P. Hae-Kwan, J. Cheol (Republic of Korea)

 

18:20 DETERMINING THE LOWER LIMIT OF CEREBRAL PERFUSION PRESSURE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.D.S. Yoo, E. Jin, H. Han-Young, A. Jae-Geun, P. Hae-Kwan, J. Cheol (Republic of Korea)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF CARE, METAANALYSES

17:10 - 18:40  Hall I   Chair : Noreen Kamal (Canada)    Chair : Ahmed Abdelkarim (Egypt)  17:10 IMPROVING ACCESS TO ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY BY DRIP AND SHIP: THE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISTANCE, TRANSFER SPEED, AND DOOR-IN-DOOR-OUT TIMEN. Kamal, T. Jeerakathil, A. Demchuk, E. Smith, J. Holodinsky, B. Mann, B. Buck, M. Hill (Canada)

 

17:20 DESIGNING DESTINE (DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT)J. Holodinsky, M. Francis, L. Zhu, M. Goyal, M. Hill, N. Kamal (Canada)

 

17:30 NON-LINGUISTIC COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH LANGUAGE RECOVERY POST APHASIA REHABILITATION: A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND FMRI STUDYH. Kaur, S. Kumaran, R. Bhatia, R.M. Pandey, S. Chopra, A. Nehra (India)

 

17:40 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE FAMILY GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND RISK OF ISCHEMIC STROKE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSISP. Talwar, S. Misra, A.K. Pandit, A. Kumar, P. Kumar, R. Sagar, K. Prasad (India)

 

17:50 YOUNG STROKE SURVIVORS WITH NO EARLY COMPLICATIONS AT HIGH LONG-TERM RISK OF ADVERSE OUTCOMESJ. Edwards, M. Kapral, P. Lindsay, J. Fang, R.H. Swartz (Canada)

 

18:00 EXPLORING CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE FOLLOWING A DOOR-TO-NEEDLE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. Alcock, J. Sawatzky, T. Strome, K. Doerksen (Canada)

 

18:10 A TEAM APPROACH TO QUALITY IMPROVEMENT FOR AN URBAN IN-HOME STROKE REHABILITATION PROGRAMM.L. Halabi, J. Roberts, J. MacQueen, S. Amlani, S. Hanna (Canada)

 

18:20 INFORMED DECISION MAKING IN THE TREATMENT OF ISCHEMIC STROKE WITH IV-TPAM. Guhwe, S. Napier, J. Dodds, S. Chancy, S. Chioffi, C. Graffagnino, N. Patel, H. Forrest (USA)

 

18:30 THE EFFECTS OF PREOPERATIVE STATINS USE ON THE PERIOPERATIVE OUTCOMES FOLLOWING CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY: A META-ANALYSISA. Abdelkarim, A. Abdalla, Y. Yahia, A. Abushouk, M. Abdelkader, A. Gadallah, M. Ebada, M. Osman, A. Negida (Egypt)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF STROKE 317:10 - 18:40  Hall K   Chair : Hoang Phan (Australia)    Chair : Rick Swartz (Canada)  17:10 INTRACRANIAL VESSEL WALL IMAGING AND ETIOLOGIC CLASSIFICATION OF

ISCHEMIC STROKE: ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST 200 PATIENTS AT THE TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITALJ. Schaafsma, D. Mikulis, J. Coutinho, C. Jaigobin, F. Silver, D. Mandell (Canada)

 

17:20 THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PRE-STROKE CHRONIC DISEASE BURDEN AND DIFFERENT DOMAINS OF FUNCTIONING ONE YEAR FOLLOWING STROKEP. Agrawal, N. Appleton, E. Goldmann, N.S. Parikh, B. Boden-Albala (USA)

 

17:30 FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNITY AMBULATION AND SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AFTER STROKE – DATA FROM THE CANADIAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGINGR. Barclay, S. Webber, J. Ripat, R. Tate (Canada)

 

17:40 IMPROVEMENTS IN STROKE MORTALITY BY AGE GROUP AND SEX, OVER TIME: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE 2003-2016R. Swartz, A. Kapoor, A. Yu, C. Goia, P. Lindsay (Canada)

 

17:50 POOR OUTCOMES AMONG FEMALE PATIENTS WITH STROKE AT 3 MONTHS IN VIET NAMT. Pham, L. Blizzard, H. Phan, H. Vo, V. Srikanth, A. Thrift, T. Nguyen, L. Nguyen, S. Gall (Vietnam)

 

18:00 SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STROKE: THE INTERNATIONAL STROKE OUTCOMES STUDY (INSTRUCT)H. Phan, L. Blizzard, M. Reeves, A. Thrift, D. Cadilhac, J. Sturm, P. Otahal, S. Gall, O.

 

INSTRUCT investigators (Australia)

                           

WSC18 Scientific programme

Saturday, October 20, 2018

PRO & CON: PRO & CON 0307:00 - 08:30  HALL E 07:00 DEBATE 1: SHOULD THROMBECTOMY BE USED IN MILD STROKE?  07:00 INITIAL QUESTION AND VOTING

Chair : Urs Fischer (Switzerland)  

07:06 PROInvited Speaker: Pooja Khatri (USA)

 

07:14 CONInvited Speaker: Shelagh B. Coutts (Canada)

 

07:22 PRO: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Pooja Khatri (USA)

 

07:27 CON: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Shelagh B. Coutts (Canada)

 

07:32 DISCUSSIONChair : Urs Fischer (Switzerland)

 

07:40 FINAL VOTINGChair : Urs Fischer (Switzerland)

 

07:45 DEBATE 2: DOES THE PRESENCE OF MICROBLEEDS INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF ANTITHROMBOTIC TREATMENTS?

 

07:45 INITIAL QUESTION AND VOTINGChair : Julian Boesel (Germany)

 

07:51 PROInvited Speaker: Charlotte Cordonnier (France)

 

07:59 CONInvited Speaker: Roland Veltkamp (United Kingdom)

 

08:07 PRO: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Charlotte Cordonnier (France)

 

08:12 CON: REBUTTALInvited Speaker: Roland Veltkamp (United Kingdom)

 

08:17 DISCUSSIONChair : Julian Boesel (Germany)

 

08:25 FINAL VOTINGChair : Julian Boesel (Germany)

 

 

CASES: CASE PRESENTATIONS - THE NEXT GENERATION 0307:00 - 08:30  HALL F   Chair : Gordon Gubitz (Canada)    Chair : Veronique Dubuc (Canada)  07:00 CASE 1

Ronda Lun (Canada)  

07:30 CASE 2Ericka Teleg (Canada)

 

08:00 CASE 3Marie-Andree Panzini (Canada)

 

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 07: LOU CAPLAN07:00 - 08:30  Hall J   Chair : Alexandre Poppe (Canada)  07:00 DISCUSSION

Invited Speaker: Lou Caplan (USA)  

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 08: ALLA GUEKHT07:00 - 08:30  Hall K   Chair : Kelvin Ng (Canada)  07:00 STROKE AND SEIZURES: RISK FACTORS AND MECHANISMS

Invited Speaker: Alla Guekht (Russia)  

07:30 DISCUSSION  

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR: MEET THE PROFESSOR 09: LAWRENCE WONG07:00 - 08:30  Hall L   Chair : Sylvain Lanthier (Canada)  07:00 DISCUSSION

Invited Speaker: Lawrence Wong (Hong Kong S.A.R.)  

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 38: WSO-APSO JOINT SESSION: STROKE UNITS AROUND THE WORLD08:30 - 10:00  HALL B   Convener: Nijasri Suwanwela (Thailand)    Convener: Peter Langhorne (United Kingdom)    Chair : Byung-Woo Yoon (Republic of Korea)  08:30 A GLOBAL PICTURE OF STROKE UNIT SERVICES

Invited Speaker: Nijasri Suwanwela (Thailand)  

08:48 POTENTIAL IMPACT OF STROKE UNIT CARE IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES (LMICS)Invited Speaker: Peter Langhorne (United Kingdom)

 

09:06 EXPERIENCE FROM A STROKE UNIT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTInvited Speaker: Gerard Urimubenshi (Rwanda)

 

09:24 SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF STROKE UNITS IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES (LMICS)Invited Speaker: Thang Nguyen (Vietnam)

 

09:42 STROKE UNIT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IN KOREAInvited Speaker: Joung-Ho Rha (Republic of Korea)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 39: WSO-ASA JOINT SESSION: TELEMEDICINE, PREHOSPITAL CARE AND ER-MANAGEMENT08:30 - 10:00  HALL C   Convener: Jeff Saver (USA)    Convener: Heinrich. J Audebert (Germany)  08:30 LVO/ICH RECOGNITION IN THE FIELD AND MULTI-TIER ROUTING IN REGIONAL

STROKE SYSTEMS OF CAREInvited Speaker: Jeff Saver (USA)

 

08:48 OPTIMAL STROKE MANAGEMENT, TRIAGE, AND IMAGING IN THE EMERGENCY ROOMInvited Speaker: Pooja Khatri (USA)

 

09:06 TIME TO TREATMENT: CENTRALIZED SYSTEMS VERSUS DECENTRALIZED TELESTROKE NETWORKSInvited Speaker: Atte Meretoja (Finland)

 

09:24 MOBILE STROKE UNITS IN A NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRYInvited Speaker: Napasri Chaisinanunkul (Thailand)

 

09:42 START OF SPECIFIC STROKE TREATMENT ON NORMAL AMBULANCES? POTENTIALS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIESInvited Speaker: Heinrich. J Audebert (Germany)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 40: REDUCING GLOBAL BURDEN OF STROKE08:30 - 10:00  HALL D   Convener: Stephen Davis (Australia)  

  Convener: Bo Norrving (Sweden)  08:30 HOW DO THE SDGS RELATE TO STROKE?

Invited Speaker: Bo Norrving (Sweden)  

08:52 RISK FACTORS AND STROKE - WHICH ARE THE CURRENT KEY MESSAGES?Invited Speaker: Martin O’Donnell (Ireland)

 

09:14 THE LANCET NEUROLOGY COMMISSION ON STROKE IN LOW AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESInvited Speaker: Mayowa Owolabi (Nigeria)

 

09:36 THE BURDEN OF HEMORRHAGIC STROKES - A NEGLECTED CHALLENGEInvited Speaker: Stephen Davis (Australia)

 

 

MAIN THEME: MAIN THEME 41: BUILDING MOMENTUM TO ADDRESS SEX DIFFERENCES IN STROKE08:30 - 10:00  HALL E   Convener: Aleksandra Pikula (Canada)    Convener: Virginia Howard (USA)  08:30 AN INTERNATIONAL UPDATE ON STROKE EPIDEMIOLOGY IN MEN AND WOMEN:

INCIDENCE AND MORTALITYInvited Speaker: Amanda G. Thrift (Australia)

 

08:55 IMPACT OF TRADITIONAL RISK FACTORS ON STROKE IN WOMEN VS. MENInvited Speaker: Mark Woodward (United Kingdom)

 

09:20 CARE TRANSITIONS, REHABILITATION AND RECOVERYInvited Speaker: Mathew Reeves (USA)

 

09:45 BUILDING SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIONS TO ADDRESS STROKE IN WOMEN: EXAMPLES AND DISCUSSION

 

09:45 INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP: WISE – WOMEN INITIATIVE FOR STROKE IN EUROPEInvited Speaker: Christine Kremer (Sweden)

 

09:45 INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUPS: PROWESS – PREVENTION AND OUTCOMES IN WOMEN ENHANCING STROKE SUPPORT (NORTH AMERICA)Invited Speaker: Cheryl Bushnell (USA)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: HEART, ESUS AND PREVENTION08:30 - 10:00  HALL F   Chair : Patrizia Fiori (Italy)    Chair : Kanjana Perera (Canada)  08:30 A TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING: UNMASKING FACTORS

ASSOCIATED WITH A FINAL DIAGNOSIS OF TIA/STROKES. Gocan, T. Fitzpatrick, C.Q. Wang, M. Taljaard, W. Cheng, A. Bourgoin, D. Dowlatshahi, G. Stotts, M. Shamy (Canada)

 

08:40 NON–VITAMIN K ANTAGONIST ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS AND RISK OF SERIOUS LIVER INJURYA. Douros, L. Azoulay, H. Yin, S. Suissa, C. Renoux (Canada)

 

08:50 CARDIAC BIOMARKERS AND CEREBRAL ISCHAEMIAP. Fiori, A. Corbo, L. Iorillo, C. Pelosi, P. Savino, G. Bellizzi, C. Dragonetti, A. Morella, V. Pellecchia, M. Alberico, G. Benigni, M. De Caro, B. Guerriero, S. Landi, E. Pace, M. Raffa, L.M. Giannetti, E. Mazza, C. Tammaro, A. Monaco (Italy)

 

09:00 BEAT INDEX IN CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASESP. Fiori, A. Corbo, L. Iorillo, C. Pelosi, P. Savino, G. Bellizzi, C. Dragonetti, A. Morella, V. Pellecchia, M. Alberico, G. Benigni, M. De Caro, B. Guerriero, S. Landi, E. Pace, M. Raffa, L.M. Giannetti, E. Mazza, C. Tammaro, A. Monaco (Italy)

 

09:10 RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER DEFECTS AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF STROKED. Wang, X. Zhao (China)

 

09:20 LONG-TERM STROKE INCIDENCE IN PROXIMAL THORACIC AORTA DISSECTION SURVIVORS: A NATIONWIDE POPULATION-BASED COHORT STUDYJ.Y. Hsu, A.B. Liu, Y.C. Su, B.L. Tee (Taiwan R.O.C.)

 

09:30 HIGH-INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING AFTER STROKE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY, CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH AND NEUROPLASTICITY: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVEJ. Crozier, M. Roig, J. Eng, M. MacKay-Lyons, M. Ploughman, J. Fung, D. Bailey, S. Sweet, N. Giacomoantonio, A. Thiel, M. Trivino, A. Tang (Canada)

 

09:40 CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES FOR PEOPLE USING ANTICOAGULATION STRATEGIES (COMPASS) ISCHEMIC STROKE SUBTYPE PROJECT (CISSP)K. Perera, K. Ng, S. Nayar, L. Catanese, R. Hart (Canada)

 

09:50 APIXABAN FOR TREATMENT OF EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNDETERMINED SOURCE (ATTICUS RANDOMIZED TRIAL) - UPDATE ON RATIONALE, STUDY DESIGN AND RECRUITMENT STATUST. Geisler, S. Poli, T. Keller, C. Meisner, A. Mengel, W. Jung, J. Brachmann, E. Schmid, F. Hillenbrand, M. Schabet, G.C. Petzold, A. Lindner, D. Lewis, C. Hobohm, J. Liman, R. Huber, H. Kimmig, F. Schön, M. Gawaz, U. Ziemann (Germany)

 

 

FREE COMMUNICATIONS: MISCELLANEOUS 08:30 - 10:00  Hall G   Chair : Alla Guekht (Russia)    Chair : Lou Caplan (USA)  08:30 ABCB1 POLYMORPHISM AND EFFICACY OF CLOPIDOGREL AMONG PATIENTS

WITH MINOR STROKE OR TIAY. Pan, W. Chen, H. Li, X. Meng, Y. Wang, Y. Wang (China)

 

08:40 HIGH FREQUENCY OF FABRY DISEASE IN NORTH-WEST IRANIAN YOUNG ADULT STROKE PATIENTSM. Farhoudi, M. Aboutalebi, B. Shalbafan, K. Mehrvar, N. Parniyanfard, M. Zamanlu (Iran)

 

08:50 ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY FOR INFECTIOUS INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM: SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY.O. Mansour, M. Zaiton, F. Hassen (Egypt)

 

09:00 ROLE OF NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE INTERVENTIONS INVOLVING MINDFULNESS-BASED YOGA INTERVENTIONS FOR POST-STROKE APHASIAHarsimarpreet Kaur (India)

 

09:10 NEURONAL DEPOPULATION, NOT SILENT CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE, MEDIATE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN CHAGAS DISEASEJ. Oliveira-Filho, P.J.R. Muinos, C.B. Pereira, L.M. Porto, B.M.M. Gonçalves, A.L. Andrade, P.R.S.P. Sousa, L.S.B. Santos, M.B. Catto, R.M. Maia, T.C. Silva, C.J. Serrano, K.O. Garcia, T. Reis, J.C. Alvarenga, P.A.P. Jesus, A.L.P. Ribeiro, M.C.P. Nunes, K.L. Furie (Brazil)

 

09:20 EFFICACY OF LOW FREQUENCY REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (RTMS) IN ISCHEMIC STROKE- A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALH. Sharma, V. Venugopalan, R. Bhatia, N. Kumar, S. Vishnubhatla, R. Mohanty, R. Sharma, V. Padma (India)

 

 

TEACHING COURSE: WSO CAMPAIGN WORKSHOP (INVITATION ONLY)08:30 - 10:00  Hall J

 

Break: COFFEE BREAK10:00 - 10:30  Foyer

 

PLENARY SESSION: AWARD LECTURES & LATE BREAKING TRIALS10:30 - 12:40  HALL B   Chair : Michael Brainin (Austria)    Chair : Jesse Dawson (United Kingdom)  10:30 RECOGNITION OF BARBRO B. JOHANSSON

Invited Speaker: Bo Norrving (Sweden)  

10:33 BARBRO B. JOHANSSON AWARD: INTRODUCTIONInvited Speaker: Ralph Sacco (USA)

 

10:36 AWARD LECTURE: BRAIN REPAIR AFTER STROKEInvited Speaker: Steve Cramer (USA)

 

10:50 WSO LEADERSHIP AWARD: INTRODUCTIONInvited Speaker: Werner Hacke (Germany)

 

10:55 AWARD LECTURE: SAVING BRAIN WITH REPERFUSION – THE NEXT DECADEInvited Speaker: Stephen Davis (Australia)

 

11:10 BASILAR ARTERY OCCLUSION ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTION VERSUS STANDARD MEDICAL TREATMENT (BEST) TRIAL: PRIMARY RESULTS OF A MULTICENTER RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL - PRESENTED BY R. NOGUEIRA AND X. LIUX. Liu, G. Xu, W. Zi, W. Liu, Z. Zhou, Z. Shi, D. Zheng, R.G. Nogueira (USA)

 

11:30 RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF DABIGATRAN ETEXILATE VS. DOSE-ADJUSTED WARFARIN IN PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS (RE-SPECT CVT)J. Férro, F. Dentali, J.M. Coutinho, A. Kobayashi, J. Caria, P.A. Reilly, M. Fraessdorf, H. Huisman, H.C. Diener (Portugal)

 

11:50 EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THOMBOLYSIS IN EMERGENCY NEUROLOGICAL DEFICITS - EXTENDH. Ma, M. Parsons, B. Campbell, C. Levi, B. Yan, L. Churilov, C. Hsu, V. Thijs, P. Mitchell, A. Meretoja, S. Davis, G. Donnan (Australia)

 

12:10 SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION STIMULATION TO AUGMENT COLLATERAL PERFUSION PRIMARY IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE: PRIMARY RESULTS OF THE IMPACT-24B PIVOTAL TRIALJ. Saver, N. Bornstein, H.C. Diener, P. Gorelick, C. Molina, A. Shuaib, F. The IMPACT-24B Investigators (USA)

 

12:30 INVITATION TO VIENNA