Neurology Updates

Neurology Updates

Here you will find regular scientific news from our Scientific Panels. We cover all areas of neurology, including rare diseases. The most recent news are displayed below. You will find all news of different areas sorted into the subsections of the respective scientific panel. Enjoy reading!

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Bedside screening for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension

Evaluating blood pressure and heart rate changes upon standing helps screening for nOH at bedside.

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Created by Prof. Mario Habek MD Co-Chair of the EAN SP for ANS Disorders Referral Center for Autonomic Nervous System Department of Neurology, University Hospital Center Zagreb

| Palliative Care  

Palliative Care Specialty Panel

A paper has just been published – Collaboration between palliative care and neurology: a survey of clinicians in Europe.

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Created by Professor David Oliver, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Management Group member of Palliative Care Specialty Panel.

| Neurocritical care  

Guidelines for the Acute Treatment of Cerebral Edema in Neurocritical Care Patients

Guidelines for the Acute Treatment of Cerebral Edema in Neurocritical Care Patients, recommendations for patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Acute…

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Created by Raquel Rocha (Hospital Pedro Hispano, Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos) Raimund Helbok (Medical University of Innsbruck)

| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

New-onset seizures in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection

This neurology update summarises additional case reports on seizures and status epilepticus associated with COVID-19 in patients without a history of…

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Created by Dr. Alexandra Balatskaya (National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov, Moscow, Russia) and Ronan McGinty

| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Epilepsy care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Telemedicine can help to deliver epilepsy care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Careful planning is needed to protect patients and healthcare workers…

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Created by Bruna NUCERA (Franz Tappeiner Hospital, Merano, Italy) and Ronan McGinty

| Neurorehabilitation  

Disability through COVID-19 pandemic: Neurorehabilitation cannot wait

Why we need neurorehabiliation now more than ever, and how to deal with this.

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Created by Letizia Leocani, Karin Diserens, Marcello Moccia, and Carlo Caltagirone

| Palliative Care  

Palliative care in neurology

An e book has just been published by Frontiers Research Topics entitled” Palliative care in neurology” - Oliver D, de Visser M and Voltz R (2020)…

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Created by Professor David Oliver, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Management Group member of Palliative Care Specialty Panel.

| Stroke  

DIRECT-MT: Should stroke patients selected for mechanical thrombectomy also receive intravenous thrombolysis?

The first randomized controlled trial investigating treatment with thrombolysis before mechanical thrombectomy was recently published.

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Created by Dr. Simon Fandler-Höfler Medical University of Graz, Department of Neurology

| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Acute symptomatic seizures and SARS-CoV-2 encephalitis in COVID-19

Acute symptomatic seizures have been reported with SARS-CoV-2-positive meningoencephalitis but, overall, seizures seem uncommon with SARS-CoV-2…

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Created by Guillermo Delgado-García (Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México) and Ronan McGinty

| COVID-19 | Neuroscience/ Translational neurology  

COVID Breaking news: CNS injury biomarkers elevated in COVID patients

Kanberg et al., 2020: Neurochemical evidence of astrocytic and neuronal injury commonly found in COVID-19.

In this paper, the authors investigated…

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Created by Magda Mroczek on behalf of the EAN Neuroscience/Translational Neurology Panel

| Epilepsy  

New randomised control trial evidence for treatment of status epilepticus

Status epilepticus (SE) remains life thereatening condition with limited therepautic options. Benzodiazepine-refractory, or established, SE is thought…

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Created by Prof. Konrad Rejdak; Department of Neurology; Medical University of Lublin, Poland

| Palliative Care  

Palliative Care Specialty Panel

A new guideline on the palliative care for people with severe multiple sclerosis has been produced by EAN, in collaboration with the European…

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Created by Professor David Oliver, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Management Group member of Palliative Care Specialty Panel.