AFAN & PAUNS JOINT CONFERENCE Thursday Morning, MARCH 16th, 2017

08:00-08:50 Teaching course: Epilepsy Abdullah AL ASMI (OMAN) / Mohamed FREDJ (TUNISIA)

09:00-10:30 Epilepsy – ILAE – CAA/CEMA 09:00-09:20 Epilepsy in Africa: realities and challenges

Amadou GALLO DIOP (SENEGAL)

09:20-09:40 Epidemiology of epilepsy in Africa

Charles NEWTON (TANZANIA)

09:40-10:00 Remission in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies

Hassan HOSNY (EGYPT)

10:00-10:20 Depression and Epilepsy: Is there a link?

Taoufik AL SAADI (UAE)

10:20-10:30 Discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

                 

Thursday Morning, MARCH 16th, 2017

11:00-12:30 Movement Disorders with EAN 11:00-11:20 Heavy metals and parkinsonism

Pille TABA (ESTONIA)

11:20-11:40 Tremors and their differential diagnosis

Günther DEUSCHL (GERMANY)

11:40-12:00 Update on dystonias

Saeed BOHLEGA (KSA)

12:00-12:20 Movement Disorders in Emergencies

Neziha GOUIDER KHOUJA (TUNISIA)

12:20-12:30 Discussion

12:30-13:15 Satellite Symposia - Genpharm

13:15-15:00 Lunch

                 

Thursday Afternoon, MARCH 16th, 2017 Parallel Session

15:00-16:30 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and related disorders 15:00-15:15 Management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- an update

Senda AJROUD-DRISS (TUNISIA/USA)

15:15-15:30 Clinical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Algerian patients

M. SADIBELOUIZ (ALGERIA)

15:30-15:45 Epidemiology, clinical and electroneuromyographic features of

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Senegal

D. Gams Massi, J. Nyassinde, M. Ndiaye, A. Gallo Diop, M.M. Ndiaye,

K. Touré (SENEGAL)

15:45-16:00 Study of the nerve conduction of the phrenic nerve in 6 patients with

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and review of the literature

B. MAIGA, N. BIROUK, L. ERRGUIG, L. Tamaoui, F.H. DJIBO, L.

SEMLIL, B. KABLY, H. BELAIDI, R. OUAZZANI (MOROCCO)

16:00-16:15 Clinical and genetic study of Algerian patients with spinal muscular

atrophy

Y. SIFI, A. BOULEFHKAD, S. LEMAI, N. ABADI, J.P. WONNEFONT,

K. SIFI (ALGERIA)

16:15-16:30 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

                 

Thursday Afternoon, MARCH 16th, 2017 Parallel Session

15:00-16:30 Neurogenetics 15:00-15:20 Genomic Medicine & Neurology

Adnan AWADA (LEBANON)

15:20-15:40 Classification of hereditary myopathies: an increasingly complex

problem

Meriem TAZIR (ALGERIA)

15:40-16:00 Review on genomic studies in stroke

Albert AKPALU (GHANA)

16:00-16:20 Genetics of Parkinson’s disease in Tunisia

Mouna BEN DJEBARA (TUNISIA)

16:20-16:30 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

                 

Thursday Afternoon, MARCH 16th, 2017

17:00-18:00 Updates in Neurology 17:00-17:20 Multifocal Neuropathies

Jean-Marc LEGER (FRANCE)

17:20-17:40 Peripheral paraneoplastic syndromes

Wolfgang GRISOLD (AUSTRIA)

17:40-18:00 Parkinson’s disease: new insights into pathogenesis and treatment

Günther DEUSCHL (GERMANY)

18:00-19:00 TOURNAMENT of MIND

19:00 AFAN Closure - PAUNS Opening Ceremony

                 

Friday MARCH 17th, 2017 Main Theme: Inflammatory diseases

08:00-08:50 Teaching Course: Botulinum Toxin in dystonia

Mohamed Soliman El-TAMAWY (EGYPT) / Mohamed ABDO-RAFAI (MOROCCO)

09:00-10:00 Neuromyelitis optica 09:00 -09:20 Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders

Ilham SLASSI (MOROCCO) 09:20 -09:40 Women issues in Neuromyelitis optica Eslam SHOSHA (USA) 09:40 -10:00 Late Onset biotinidase deficiency simulating NMO

Mohammed SAADAH (UAE)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break / e-posters

10:30-11:30 Multiple Sclerosis (I) MENACTRIMS 10:30-10:50 Multiple sclerosis differential diagnosis and mimickers

Bassem YAMOUT (LEBANON) 10:50-11:10 Overview in MS treatment William CARROLL (AUSTRALIA) 11:10-11:30 Monitoring of MS patients receiving DMT

Mohammad Ali SAHRAIAN (IRAN)

11:30-12:15 Satellite Symposia – Biologix

12:30-15:00 Friday prayer / Lunch

15:00-16:30 Multiple Sclerosis (II) 15:00-15:20 Pregnancy and DMT    

Raed Al Roughani (KUWAIT) 15:20-15:40 Multiple Sclerosis: Insights from Epidemiology

Riadh GOUIDER (TUNISIA) 15:40-16:00 Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis

Aymen TOURBAH (FRANCE) 16:00-16:20 Role of B-cells in multiple sclerosis

Hany AREF (EGYPT) 16:20-16:30 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break / e-Posters

17:00-17:45 Satellite Symposia: Bayer

                 

Friday Morning, MARCH 17th, 2017 Parallel Sessions

09:00 -10:00 Muscle Disorders 09:00 -09:20 HyperCKemia

Antonio TOSCANO (ITALY)

09:20 -09:40 Myasthenia Gravis

Mohammed AL JUMAH (KSA)

09:40 -10:00 Genetics of LGMD2 in Tunisia

Chokri MHIRI (TUNISIA)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break / e-posters

09:00-10:30 PAUNS Business meeting

                 

Friday Afternoon, MARCH 17th, 2017 Parallel Sessions

17:45-19:05 Free communications 17:45-17:55 Cognitive impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy

N Amara, N Bouzidi, O Hdiji, M Meziou, M Damak, C Mhiri (TUNISIA)

17:55-18:05 Intravenous thrombolysis: experience of the Neurology Department of

CHU Hassan II.

I. Najmi, M. Toudou, H. Benjebara, I. Mrich, F. Benbrahim, M. Jilla, S.

Obenda, S. Bouchal, Z. Souirti, A. Midaoui, M.F. Belahsen

(MOROCCO)

18:05-18:15 Parkinson’s disease patients with comorbid major depressive disorder

are selectively impaired at processing positive feedback in a

probabilistic category-learning task

Taha Ahmad B., Y. Khdour Hussain Y., Elmashala Amjad, Ghanim

Zaid, Misk Adel J., Sehwail Mahmoud M., Herzallah Mohammad M.

(PALESTINE)

18:15-18:25 Predictor factors of disability in patients with multiple sclerosis in Oran

N. Oudrer, M. Raiah (ALGERIA)

18:25-18:35 Traumatisme crânien et thrombophlébite cérébrale.

I. Omri, L. Rzigui, M. Zouari (TUNISIA)

18:35-18:45 Sleep generalized tonic clonic seizures in generalized genetic

epilepsies

A. Ashmawi, H. Hosny (EGYPT)

18:45-18:55 Mitochondrial Neuro-Gastro-Intestinal Encephalopathy (MNGIE)

disease: about two cases in the same family

W. Amer El Khedoud, F. Ferrat, A. Benhadadi, A.Saadi, A.Slama, A.

Munnich, A. Chaouch, L. Moussa, M. Abada-Bendib (ALGERIA)

18:55-19:05 Epilepsy and developmental brain malformation: Clinical and

neuroimaging findings.

M. Hadri, M. Aissi, Z. Brahem, N. Mokni, M. Frih (TUNISIA)

                 

Friday Afternoon, MARCH 17th, 2017 Parallel Sessions

17:45-19:00 Dementia 17:45-18:05 The transient amnesias

Steven LEWIS (USA)

18:05-18:25 Fronto-temporal Lobar Degeneration

Maria BENABDELJELIL (MOROCCO)

18:25-18:45  An overview on research in the field of normal aging and dementia in

Kasr al-Ainy medical school Cairo University.

Azza Helmy ABBAS (EGYPT)

18:45-19:00   Discussion

                 

Saturday Morning, MARCH 18th, 2017 Main Theme: Cerebrovascular Diseases

08:00-08:50 Teaching Course: Stroke Sana BEN AMOR (TUNISIA) / Faouzi BELAHSEN (MOROCCO)

09:00 -10:30 Stroke (session I) 09:00-09:20 From thrombolysis to thrombectomy  

Selma KESRAOUI (ALGERIA)

09:20-09:40 TB and stroke

Mohammad WASAY (PARKISTAN)

09:40-10:00 Stroke in the young

Meriem DAMAK (TUNISIA)

10:00-10:20 Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation

Ammar AL KAWI (KSA)

10:20-10:30 Discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break / e-posters

11:00-12:30 Stroke (session II) 11:00-11:20 Acute ischemic stroke treatment-2 years PSMMC experience

Waleed KHOJA (KSA)

11:20-11:40 Stroke management in Ain Shams

Mohamed Ossama ABDULGHANI (EGYPT)

11:40-12:00 Cryptogenic stroke

Meriem MSELMANI (TUNISIA)

12:00-12:20 Update in Management of stroke in Dubai

Suhail Abdulla AL RUKN (UAE)

12:20-12:30 Discussion

12:30-13:15 Satellite Symposia –Genzyme

13:15-15:00 Lunch

                 

Saturday Morning, MARCH 18th, 2017 Parallel Sessions

09:00 -10:30 Neuropediatrics 09:00-09:20 Genetics of Idiopathic Generelized Epilepsies

Eric LEGUERN (FRANCE)

09:20-09:40 Ataxia with vitamine E deficiency: a curable neurogenetic disorder

Lamia ALI PACHA (ALGERIA)

09:40-10:00 Diagnostic approach of leucodystrophies

Ichraf KRAOUA (TUNISIA)

10:00-10:20 Epileptic encephalopathies

Raidah AL BARADIE (KSA)

10:20-10:30 Discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break / e-posters

                 

Saturday Afternoon, MARCH 18th, 2017 Parallel Sessions

15:00-16:30 Young Neurologists session 15:00-15:15 Preliminary experience in mechanical thrombectomy in acute

cerebrovascular stroke A. El Bassiouny (EGYPT)

15:15-15:30 Unemployment among patients with multiple sclerosis: a Tunisian cohort A. Hassine, S. Ben Amor, A. Khefifi, S. Naija, S. Benammou, S. Harbi, F. Dabbabi (TUNISIA)

15:30-15:45 Optimising the control of the triggered epileptic attacks R. M. Zaidan (KSA)

15:45-16:00 Acute stroke management Kefi M, Mrabet H, Ktari M, Megdiche H, Dakhlaoui MJ, Dridi N, Manai

R (TUNISIA) 16:00-16:15 Evaluation of fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis

S. Khellaf, A. Benhamada, A. Boulefkhad, M. Bourezg, R. Nemer, Y. Sifi, A. Mzahem, A. Hamri (ALGERIA)

16:15-16:30 Anti VGKC antibody mediated limbic encephalitis in a sudanese patient: rarity in subsaharan africa M. Seidi, L. Mohamed, O. Seidi (SUDAN)

15:00-16:30 Neurophysiology & Peripheral nerve 15:00-15:20 Pitfalls in pediatric EEG

Fatma Kamoun (TUNISIA) 15:20-15:40 Microelectrodes recording in deep brain stimulation

A. MOKEEM (KSA) 15:40-16:00 Neuropathy complicating Kalazar, Malaria Ahmed AMMAR AL TAHIR (SUDAN) 16:00-16:20 Needle EMG Nazha BIROUK (MOROCCO) 16:20-16:30 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break / e-posters

                 

Saturday Afternoon, MARCH 18th, 2017 17:00-18:00 Headache with NOVARTIS 17:00-17:20 Headache & Pregnancy

Jasem AL HASHEL (KUWAIT) 17:20-17:40 Drug overuse headache

Abubakr AL MADANI (UAE)

17:40-18:00 Cluster headache management

Ahlam MUSTAFA (SYRIA)

18:00-18:20 Update on migraine Jasem AL HASHEL (KUWAIT)

18:20-18:30 Discussion 18:00 Closing Ceremony / Departure