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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| Epilepsy  

Factors influencing long term outcome after surgical treatment in pharmacoresistant epilepsy patients

Around 20-30% epileptic patients do not achieve seizure freedom despite well selected and tolerated pharmacological treatment. Surgery is a widely…

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Created by Prof. Konrad Rejdak

| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Transient orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson’s Disease

Transient orthostatic hypotension is as common as classic orthostatic hypotension in people with Parkinson’s disease. Short-lived falls in blood…

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Created by Prof. Mario Habek MD

| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Research criteria for the diagnosis of prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies

Dementia Lewy bodies (DLB) may present in the prodromal stage as mild cognitive impairment, delirium-onset or psychiatric-onset and authors proposed…

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Created by Svetlana Tomic1,2, Zvonimir Popovic1,2, Francesco Di Lorenzo3,4

| Stroke  

Aspirin plus Ticagrelor for mild stroke or TIA?

The THALES study investigated dual antiplatelet therapy with Aspirin plus Ticagrelor in patients with mild non-cardioembolic stroke or high-risk TIA.

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

| 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