| Thursday, October 5 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Opening: Roland Thijs (The Netherlands): The autonomic kaleidoscope |
| 15:00-16:00 |
Session 1: Autonomic prodromes in neurological
disorders Chairs: Alessandra Fanciulli (Austria) and Mario Habek (Croatia) |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Mario Habek (Croatia): Autonomic prodrome in MS |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Alessandra Fanciulli (Austria): When a soft sign harbors a major neurodegenerative disease |
| 15:40-15:50 |
Giannicola Carrozzo (Italy): Intrasubject reproducibility of supine norepinephrine level in patients with cardiovascular sympathetic failure |
| 15:50-16:00 |
Chiara Giuseppina Bonomi (Italy): Autonomic functions and dopaminergic correlates in Dementia with Lewy Body, a preliminary study |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30-18:00 |
Session 2: TLOC Chairs: Roland Thijs (The Netherlands) and Michele Brignole (Italy) |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Gert van Dijk (The Netherlands): EFAS legend lecture: Under pressure |
| 17:00-17:20 |
Jacques Olivier Fortrat (France): Vasovagal syncope as a witness of cardiovascular self-organized criticality |
| 17:20-17:40 |
Michele Brignole (Italy): Therapies in VVS: what is new in pharmacotherapy and cardiac modulation? |
| 17:40-17:50 |
Marta Maria Tangari (Italy): Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring as a reliable tool to predict disability and mortality in Parkinson's Disease |
| 17:50-18:00 |
Florence Rulquin (France): Emotional autonomic responses in temporal lobe epilepsy is affected in variable ways according to amygdala volume changes. |
| 18:00-18:10 |
Larisa Ungureanu (Romania): Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in vascular cognitive impairment |
| 18:10-19:10 |
EFAS school part 1 |
| 18:10-18:40 |
Walter Struhal (Austria): Anatomy and physiology of the ANS |
| 18:40-19:10 |
Anne Pavy-Le Traon (France): Fundamentals of cardiovascular and sudomotor tests |
| Friday, October 6 |
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| 08:00-09:00 |
Early bird poster tour chaired by Roland Thijs (The Netherlands) and Alessandra Fanciulli (Austria) |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Session 3: Interactive session: The autonomic case that taught me a lesson Chair: Mario Habek (Croatia) |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-12:10 |
Session 4: EFAS-AAS session: Hot topics in autonomic neuroscience Chairs: Roy Freeman (USA) and Artur Fedorowski (Sweden) |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Roy Freeman (USA): New biomarkers for autonomic dysfunction |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Satish R. Raj (USA): COVID-19 and orthostatic intolerance |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Artur Fedorowski (Sweden): Neurohumoral aspects of POTS |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Horacio Kaufmann (USA): New upcoming treatments for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension |
| 11:50-12:00 |
Jacquie Baker (Canada): Carbon dioxide as a novel hemotherapy for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension |
| 12:00-12:10 |
Amber van der Stam (Netherlands): The Impact of Head-up Tilt Sleeping on Orthostatic Tolerance: a Scoping Review |
| 12:10-13:50 |
Session 5: Autonomic dysfunction in neuroimmunological diseases Chairs: Jelena Drulović (Serbia) and Jalesh Panicker (UK) |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Łukasz Rzepiński (Poland): Autonomic dysfunction in myasthenia gravis |
| 12:30-12:50 |
Ivan Adamec (Croatia): Autonomic dysfunction in demyelinating diseases of the CNS |
| 12:50-13:10 |
Jelena Drulović (Serbia): Quality of life and autonomic nervous system abnormalities in people with NMOSD |
| 13:10-13:30 |
Jalesh Panicker (UK): New EFAS/INUS/EAN guidelines: Management of neurogenic lower urinary tract and sexual dysfunction for the practicing neurologist |
| 13:30-13:40 |
Ana Abičić (Croatia): Morphological and functional assessment of the vagus nerve in multiple sclerosis |
| 13:40-13:50 |
Berislav Ruška (Croatia): Longitudinal assessment of sudomotor dysfunction in people with multiple sclerosis |
| 13:50-14:50 |
Lunch |
| 14:50-16:30 |
Session 6: Autonomic dysfunction in movement disorders and dementia Chairs: Gregor Wenning (Austria) and Valeria Iodice (UK) |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Anita Kamondi (Hungary): Autonomic nervous system abnormalities in Alzheimer’s disease |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Valeria Iodice (UK): Can autonomic dysfunction distinguish different alpha synucleopathies? |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Gregor Wenning (Austria): Are we ready to modify the natural history of MSA? |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Iva Stanković (Serbia): Autonomic dysfunction in genetic movement disorders |
| 16:10-16:20 |
Boriana Gagaouzova (Netherlands): Which haemodynamic parameters contribute to classical orthostatic hypotension |
| 16:20-16:30 |
Nicole Campese (Austria): Pain in people with multiple system atrophy: preliminary results from a web-based survey |
| 16:30-16:50 |
Coffee break |
| 16:50-17:50 |
Session 7: Autonomic dysfunction in extreme conditions Chairs: Zdravka Poljaković (Croatia) and Jens Jordan (Germany) |
| 16:50-17:10 |
Zdravka Poljaković (Croatia): Autonomic dysfunction in the intensive care unit |
| 17:10-17:30 |
Jens Jordan (Germany): ANS in space |
| 17:30-17:40 |
Rabeea Maqsood (United Kingdom): Comparative effect of paced and unpaced breathing on heart rate variability in individuals with combat injury |
| 17:40-17:50 |
Diogo Reis Carneiro (Portugal): Autonomic nervous system education in Europe - Survey on curricula and skills in autonomic medicine of European residents and neurologists |
| 17:50-19:00 |
Session 8: ANS and cerebrovascular function in acute and chronic conditions Chairs: Max J Hilz (Germany) and Nathalie Nasr (France) |
| 17:50-18:10 |
Nathalie Nasr (France): Can BRS, as a time-trend, predict the prognosis of acute cerebrovascular disease? |
| 18:10-18:30 |
Magdalena Kasprowicz (Poland): Novel temporal approaches to capture the impact of ANS on the cerebral vessel |
| 18:30-18:50 |
Max J Hilz (Germany): Altered cerebral autoregulation and its relationship to autonomic neuropathy in diabetes |
| 18:50-19:00 |
Ruihao Wang (Germany): Autonomic challenge maneuvers reveal recovery of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction three and six months after stroke-onset |
| Saturday, October 7 |
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| 09:00-10:40 |
Session 9: The autonomic “elephant in the room” Chairs: Giovanna Calandra Buonaura (Italy) and Astrid Juhl Terkelsen (Denmark) |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Giovanna Calandra Buonaura (Italy): ANS and sleep in Alpha-synucleinopathies |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Ellen Merete Hagen (Denmark): Autonomic dysreflexia in the spinal cord injury |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Astrid Juhl Terkelsen (Denmark): Complex regional pain syndrome |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Pietro Guaraldi (Italy): Update on diagnosis and treatment of genetic amyloid neuropathies |
| 10:20-10:30 |
Giacomo Chiaro (United Kingdom): Natural history of pure autonomic failure, the Queen Square experience |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Nadine Almeida (United Kingdom): Ross, Holmes-Adie, and Harlequin syndrome - different sides of the same coin... |
| 10:40-10:50 |
Elisabeth Olbert (Austria): Trends of autonomic dysregulation after acute neurological disorders |
| 10:50-11:30 |
Satellite symposium: Effect of S1P receptor modulators on cardiovascular autonomic function in multiple sclerosis |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Max J. Hilz (Germany): Autonomic nervous system abnormalities and fingolimod in RRMS |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Mario Habek (Croatia): Autonomic nervous system abnormalities and siponimod in SPMS |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Coffee break |
| 12:00-14:00 |
EFAS school part 2 |
Hands-on:
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Closing ceremony |