Sunday, April 8, 2001
Pre-congress Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis
Chairs: Ettore Beghi (Milan, Italy) & Fayçal Hentati (Tunisi, Tunisie)
Lecture: Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis
Michel Clanet (Toulouse, France)
Round Table:
T. Chkili - Multiple Sclerosis in Morocco
M. B. Chaouch - Multiple Sclerosis in Algeria
M. Pugliatti - Multiple Sclerosis in Sardinia
A. Etribi - Multiple Sclerosis in Egypt
R. Karabudak - Multiple Sclerosis in Turkey
I. Milonas - Multiple Sclerosis in Northern Greece
F. Hentati - Multiple Sclerosis in Tunisia
Congress Program
Opening Remarks
Chairs:
Giovanni Savettieri, President
Giuseppe Silvestri, Dean, University of Palermo
Vincenzo Bonavita, President, Italian Society of Neurology
Georges Serratrice, President, Association Neuroméditerranée
Inaugural Lecture: Genetics and languages in European and Mediterranean populations
Alberto Piazza (Torino, Italy)
Monday, April 9, 2001
Theme 1: Genetic Epidemiology
Chairs: Carlo Loeb (Genoa, Italy), Georges Serratrice (Marseille, France), Gustavo Roman (San Antonio, TX, USA)
Walter A. Rocca (Rochester, MN, USA)
Epidemiology of Parkinson’s Disease
Annick Alperovitch (Paris, France)
Prion diseases in the Mediterranean area
Werner Hacke (Heidelberg, Germany)
Guidelines for Acute Ischemic Stroke (Diagnosis and Treatment): What is really essential?
Patrick Henry (Bordeaux, France)
Epidemiology of Migraine in Mediterranean Countries
Platform presentations:
Chairs: Mongi Ben-Hamida (Tunis, Tunisie) & Cesare Fieschi (Rome, Italy)
M. D'Amelio (New York, NY, USA)
Risk of Cancer in Patients with Epilepsy. A Population-based Case-control Study Using Claims from Medicare
R. D'Alessandro (Bologna, Italy)
Sleep and sleepiness in the city of Bologna, Italy
M. Leone (Novara, Italy)
Establishment of a Register of Hereditary Neurologic Diseases in Piedmont, Italy
S. Sfar (Tunis, Tunisie)
Clinical and genetic analysis of familial autosomal recessive Parksinsonism not linked to Parkin Gene
Georges Serratrice (Marseille, France)
Mitochondrial encephalopathies
Theme 2: Descriptive and analytic studies
Chairs: Annick Alperovitch (Paris, France) & Federico Piccoli (Palermo, Italy)
Jean-François Dartigues (Bordeaux, France)
Dementing diseases in the Mediterranean areas
Valery Feigin (Auckland, New Zealand)
Update on stroke epidemiology worldwide
Mahmoud R. Kandil (Assiut, Egypt)
Prevalence of epilepsy in Upper Egypt (Assiut)
Platform presentations
Chairs: Patrick Henry (Bordeaux, France) & Rosolino Camarda (Palermo, Italy)
H.N.A. El-Tallawy (Assiut, Egypt)
Prevalence of Migraine among school children
N. Hattab (Monastir, Tunisie)
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
C. Colosimo (Rome, Italy)
A Case-control Study in Multiple System Atrophy and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
M.R. Kandil (Assiut, Egypt)
Incidence and prevalence of non-fatal cerebrovascular stroke and TIA in South Egypt
Günay Gül (Istanbul, Turkey)
Prognosis in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
C. Gandolfo (Genoa, Italy)
R.I.L. The Hospital-based Register of Stroke in Liguria
L. Grimaldi (Caltanissetta, Italy)
The prion protein gene polymorphism and Alzeimer disease: one modulary trait of cognitive decline?
C. Marini (L'Aquila, Italy)
Combination of vascular risk factors may affect prognosis after a first stroke
A. Citterio (Pavia, Italy)
An Italian Survey of Spinal Cord Injury: the G.I.S.E.M. Study
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
Theme 3: Registries and data banks
Chairs: Jean-Marc Léger (Paris, France) & Ettore Beghi (Milan, Italy)
Giancarlo Logroscino (Bari, Italy)
Registries and data banks in rare neurological disorders: an example from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Mongi Ben-Hamida (Tunis, Tunisie)
Neurological disorders in developing countries
Platform presentations
Chairs: Hamdi Nageeb A. El-Tallawy (Assiut, Egypt) & Dursun Kirbas (Istanbul, Turkey)
R. Amouri (Tunis, Tunisie)
Clinical Muscle biopsy and genetic findings of an autosomal recessive IBM not linked to the 9pl-q1 locus, in a Tunisian family
R. D'Alessandro (Bologna, Italy)
Headache and menopause: a longitudinal study in the Republic of San Marino
D.Y. Kuscu (Istanbul, Turkey)
Clinical and laboratory aspects, treatment protocols and the outcome in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; analysis of twelve cases
A. Ünal (Istanbul, Turkey)
Intradural extramedullary tuberculoma of the spinal cord five years after appropriate treatment of tubercolosis menengitis: a case report
Round Table I: MND and other neuromuscular disorders
Chairs: Georges Serratrice (Marseille, France) & Aldo Quattrone (Catanzaro, Italy)
Adriano Chiò (Turin, Italy)
Clinical and outcome of ALS El Escorial diagnostic criteria: a population based study
Discussants: Lefkos T. Middleton (Nicosia, Cyprus), Michel Dumas (Limoges, France), Jean-Marc Léger (Paris, France), Hamdi Nageeb A. El-Tallawy (Assiut, Egypt)
Theme 4: Epidemiological approach for the assessment of treatment
Chairs:Valery Feign (Auckland, New Zealand) & Mahmoud R. Kandil (Assiut, Egypt)
Ettore Beghi (Milan, Italy)
Epilepsy: is drug resistance genetically based?
Jacques Touchon (Montpellier, France)
Brain aging, Environmental Factors
Concetta Maria Vaccaro (Rome, Italy)
Social Impact of Alzheimer Diseas
Round Table II: Guidelines and Evidence-Based Medicine are the beginning not the end. How do they apply in the Mediterranean area?
Chairs: Luigi Pagliaro (Palermo, Italy) & Antonietta Citterio (Milan, Italy)
Discussants: Dursun Kirba (Istanbul, Turkey), D. Vassilopoulos (Athens, Greece), and All Participants
Closure
Georges Serratrice and Cesare Fieschi
