Emergencies in epilepsy throughout life

17th Latin American Summer School on Epilepsy - LASSE XVII

São Paulo - Brazil

Program

09:00 – Welcome and Introduction to LASSE – Esper Cavalheiro (BR) 10:00 – 10:30 – Coffee-break

10:30 – Which are the “Emergencies in Epilepsy” – Yamile Calle-López (CO)

11:30 – Key steps for designing an epilepsy research project – Giuseppe Bertini (IT)

12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 – Translational epilepsy

Group 1 – Neuroscience for clinicians – Marco De Curtis (IT) Group 2 – Clinical epilepsy for neuroscientists – Katia Lin (BR)

16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee-break

16:30 – Meeting with the tutors

20:00 – Dinner

09:00 – Systematic interpretation of EEG: interictal and ictal abnormalities –
Sándor Beniczky (DK)
10:00 – How to critically appraise and use results of RCTs on epilepsy in clinical
practice – Francesco Brigo (IT)
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee-Break
11:30 – EEG source imaging – Sándor Beniczky (DK)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Basic Issues
GROUP A – EEG – (Neonates and Children) – Guilca Contreras (VE) &
(Adults and Seniors) – Alicia Bogacz (UY)
GROUP B – Imaging – Fernando Cendes (BR)
GROUP C – Classification and semiology – Nathália Figueiredo (BR) & Elza
Márcia Yacubian (BR)
GROUP D – Pharmacotherapy – Peter Wolf (DK) & Katia Lin (BR)
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee-break
16:00 – 17:30 – Basic issues
GROUP B – EEG – (Neonates and Children) – Guilca Contreras (VE) &
(Adults and Seniors) – Alicia Bogacz (UY)
GROUP C – Imaging – Fernando Cendes (BR)
GROUP D – Classification and semiology – Nathália Figueiredo (BR) & Elza
Márcia Yacubian (BR)
GROUP A – Pharmacotherapy – Peter Wolf (DK) & Katia Lin (BR)
17:30 – Group work
20:00 – Dinner

09:00 – Neuroplasticity in health and disease – Maria Elisa Calcagnotto (BR)
10:00 – Astrocytes in epilepsy: From homeostasis to neuroinflammation –
Alberto Javier Ramos (AR)
11:00 -11:30 – Coffee-break
11:30 – Ictogenesis and epileptogenesis – Marco De Curtis (IT)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Basic Issues
GROUP C – EEG – (Neonates and Children) – Guilca Contreras (VE) &
(Adults and Seniors) – Alicia Bogacz (UY)
GROUP D – Imaging – Fernando Cendes (BR)
GROUP A – Classification and semiology – Nathália Figueiredo (BR) & Elza
Márcia Yacubian (BR)
GROUP B – Pharmacotherapy – Peter Wolf (DK) & Katia Lin (BR)
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee-break
16:00 – 17:30 – Basic issues
GROUP D – EEG – (Neonates and Children) – Guilca Contreras (VE) &
(Adults and Seniors) – Alicia Bogacz (UY)
GROUP A – Imaging – Fernando Cendes (BR)
GROUP B – Classification and semiology – Nathália Figueiredo (BR) & Elza
Márcia Yacubian (BR)
GROUP C – Pharmacotherapy – Peter Wolf (DK) & Katia Lin (BR)
17:30 – Group work
20:00 – Dinner

09:00 – Status Epilepticus-induced brain lesions – Marco De Curtis (IT)
10:00 – Status epilepticus: definition and classification – Francesco Briggo (IT)
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee – Break
11:30 – Early intervention after status epilepticus: A new strategy to prevent
epileptogenesis – Alberto Javier Ramos (AR)
12:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Non-invasive neuromodulation as strategy to avoid epileptogenesis –
Luisa Rocha (MX)
15:00 – Preventing epileptogenesis with anticholinergic agents – Luiz E. A. M.
Mello (BR)
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee-Break
16:30 – MRI changes in status epilepticus and its relevance to etiology and
prognosis – Fernando Cendes (BR)
17:30 – Group work
20:00 – Dinner

09:00 – Management of Status Epilepticus – Lecio Figueira Pinto (BR)
10:00 – Rescue medications for home treatment of acute seizures – Ruta
Mameniskiene (LT)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – Refractory and Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus – Jorge G. Burneo
(CA)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 – Case Study
• Group 1 – Peter Wolf (DK)
• Group 2 – Rüta Mameniskiene (LT)
• Group 3 – Katia Lin (BR)
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee-break
16:30-18:30 – Case Study
• Group 2 – Peter Wolf (DK)
• Group 3 – Rüta Mameniskiene (LT)
• Group 1- Katia Lin (BR)
18:30 – Group work
20:00 – Dinner

09:00 – Status epilepticus in pregnancy: a therapeutic challenge – Maria del
Carmen Garcia (AR)
10:00 – Early and late developmental outcomes in children following convulsive
status epilepticus – Guilca Contreras (VE)
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee – Break
11:30 – Use of Dietary Therapy for Status Epilepticus – Rima Nabbout (FR)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – The urgent need to review the concept of emergencies in DEE: Time for
a change! – Kette Valente (BR)
15:00 – Acute psychosis and epilepsy – Marco Mula (UK)
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee – Break
16:30 – 18:30 Case Study
• Group 3 – Peter Wolf (DK)
• Group 1 – Rüta Mameniskiene (LT)
• Group 2 – Katia Lin (BR)
18:30 Group work
20:00 – Dinner

09:00 – Benzodiazepines in epilepsy: from anxiolytics to anticonvulsants –
Patricia Braga (UY)
10:00 – Neuromodulation in epilepsy – Philippe Ryvlin (CH)
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Corticosteroids: role and mechanism of action in epilepsy – Loreto Rios
(CL)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Emergency and management of febrile seizures – Jaime Carrizosa (CO)
15:00 – Epileptic Infantile Spasms Syndrome: The future is here – Solomon
Moshé (USA)
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee-break
16:30 – Emergency in epilepsy: when a neurosurgeon is needed? Enrico
Ghizoni (BR)
20:00 – Dinner

Finalization of the research projects with tutors


Coffee-breaks: 10:30h and 16:00h


Lunch: 13:00h
Dinner: 20:00h

Presentation of the research projects
Coffee-breaks: 10:30 and 16:00
Lunch: 13:00
Farewell dinner: 20:00

Luisa Rocha
Giuseppe Bertini
Jaime Carrizosa
Kette Valente
Guilca Contreras & Loreto Rios
Maria Del Carmen Garcia
Patricia Braga
Lecio Figueira