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Course on
Epilepsy Surgery
March
18 – 23, 2008
Brno,
Czech Republic
Working
Group of Epilepsy Surgery (WGES)
Commission
on European Affairs (CEA)
International
League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
EUROPEAN PROJECT ON DEVELOPMENT OF EPILEPSY
SURGERY PROGRAM (EPODES)
Organizing Committee – Partners – Basic
Information – Faculty – PRESENTATIONS for download
– Venue, Transport – Contacts
Organizing Committee
Christoph Baumgartner
Walter van Emde Boas
Peter Halasz
Kristina Malmgren
Çiğdem Özkara (chair)
Ivan Rektor (local organizer)
Hermann Stefan
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Basic Information
Background
The course is organised as part of the European Project of Development
of Epilepsy Surgery Programs (Epodes).
Epodes was initiated in 2006 by Prof. Cigdem Özkara in order to
stimulate the development of epilepsy surgery in central and eastern Europe.
The program is organised under the aegis of- and with funding from the
Commission of European Affairs (CEA) from the International League Against
Epilepsy (ILAE) and in liaison with the Commissions for Education and for
Therapeutic Strategies of the ILAE.
The program will include courses, visiting professorships and fellowships.
The present course is not only the first course of the program but also
represents the first practical educational activity.
Course description
The course will consist of an intensive 4 day program with alternating
face to face lectures, video-demonstrations and case presentations by students
as well as tutors.
One half day will be devoted to visits to the Epilepsy Monitoring and
Neurosurgical units of Brno University Hospital.
Students will be neurologists or neurosurgeons from centres where there
is interest to develop a full epilepsy surgery program but where at this moment
there still is lack of adequate expertise, technology and/or resources. Tutors,
representing all relevant professional fields, are invited from representative
epilepsy surgery programs throughout Europe.
The course program will offer a basic introduction to epilepsy surgery
for surgically remediable epilepsies, notably antero-mesial temporal lobe
epilepsy (MTLE) but also extratemporal lobe epilepsies, notably frontal lobe
epilepsies in adults and children. Students will learn about the presurgical
evaluation with scalp and intracranial video EEG, imaging and neuropsychology,
the surgical procedures and the psychosocial and psychiatric issues of surgical
patients, before and after surgery.
Although the course can not substitute for practical experience, great
emphasis will be put on practical aspects relating to the identification of
suitable patients, the possibilities of performing surgery with only a limited
(non-invasive video-EEG, MRI, neuropsychology) evaluation the recognition of potential red flags, the
indications for additional studies, including intracranial studies and
functional neuroimaging.
For this reason these subjects will not only be dealt with in plenary
theme lectures but notably during group discussions where students will present
and discuss patients from their own practice for surgical options and where
tutors will present representative cases in a stepwise format, allowing the
students to follow the decision-making process.
Both the student and tutor presentations should be interactive with all
group members actively participating in the clinical discussion, the tutor
acting as moderator.
Interaction is also to be stimulated during the plenary lectures and
during breaks and meals when students and faculty will sit together and
students may discuss clinical problems with the faculty or amongst themselves.
Course language will be exclusively English.
No reader will be provided but the students will receive a handout of
all plenary lectures.
Students who finish the full course will receive a certificate of
participation. The course has been accredited by EUREPA with 55 credit points
for the elective “Epilepsy Surgery”.
Faculty
Christoph Baumgartner (Austria)
Sally Baxendale (UK)
Milan Brazdil (Czech Republic)
Jan Chrastina (Czech Republic)
Alois Ebner
(Germany)
Walter van Emde
Boas (Netherlands)
Stefano Francione (Italy)
Jan Hadac (Czech Republic)
Peter Halasz (Hungary)
Philippe Kahane (France)
Steffi Koch-Stoecker (Germany)
Viladimir Komarek (Czech Republic)
Robert Kuba (Czech Republic)
Kristina Malmgren (Sweden)
Zdenek Novak (Czech Republic)
Çiğdem Özkara (Turkey)
Ivan Rektor (Czech Republic)
Bertil Rydenhag (Sweden)
Roberto Spreafico (Italy)
Hermann Stefan (Germany)
Downloads
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Course Programme
& Handouts
Presentations:
Brázdil
M.: When to stop (3,5 MB, pdf)
Brázdil M.: Functional imaging in
epilepsy surgery (4 MB, pdf)
Ebner A.: Epileptogenic Lesions (7
MB, pdf)
van Emde Boas W.: Epilepsy
Surgery: a general approach (300 kB, pdf)
van Emde Boas W.: Epilepsy
Surgery: how often and how (200 kB, pdf)
Appendices:
1. Practice
parameter: Temporal lobe and localized neocortical resections for epilepsy (100
kB, pdf)
2. Pre-surgical evaluation for
epilepsy surgery – European Standards
(100 kB, pdf)
Halász P.: Surgicaly amenable
epilepsies in adults (1 MB, pdf)
Halász P.: Foramen ovale electrodes in presurgical evaluation of TLE
Koch-Stoecker S.: Psychiatric
problems related to epilepsy surgery (800 kB, pdf)
Komárek V.: Surgically amenable
epilepsies in children (5,5 MB, pdf)
Kršek P.: Specific aspects of pediatric epilepsy surgery (400 kB, pdf)
Kuba R.: Sphenoidal electrodes
(2,5 MB, pdf)
Kuba R.: VNS therapy in epilepsy
(800 kB, pdf)
Malmgren K.: Outcomes of epilepsy
surgery (200 kB, pdf)
Özkara Ç.: Presurgical
noninvasive evaluation of epilepsy surgery (300 kB, pdf)
Özkara Ç.: Mesial temporal
lobe epilepsy (2 MB, pdf)
Pataraia E.: Temporal lobe
epilepsies: Current concepts (1
MB, pdf)
Rektor I.: Frontal lobe
epilepsies (4,5 MB, pdf)
Rektor I.: Epilepsy
surgery: Intracranial invasive EEG (12,5 MB, pdf)
Rydenhag B.: Epilepsy
Surgery: Surgical techniques
(500 kB, pdf)
Rydenhag B.: Epilepsy
Surgery: Pediatric aspects (400
kB, pdf)
Spreafico
R Cortical Dyspasia (1,5 MB, pdf)
Stefan H.: Clinical Magnetoencephalography in Epilepsy Diagnosis (700 kB, pdf)
ILEA – VIREPA
Distance Education (100 kB, pdf)
Handouts - Supplement
Presentations:
Kahane P.: Invasive evaluation:
when? (5,5 MB, pdf)
Kahane P.: Temporal plus
epilepsies: myth or reality? (1,5 MB, pdf)
Kahane P.: Brain Stimulation in
epilepsy: where are we? (1 MB, pdf)
Spreafico R.: Cortical
Dysplasia (6 MB, pdf)
Stefan H.: Imaging (12 MB,
pdf)
Handouts – Supplement B (not in printed version)
Pataraia E.: Scalp Video-EEG
Monitoring (4,3 MB, pdf) new
Pauli E.: Wada Test;
Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure (IAP) (1,5 MB, pdf)
Pauli E.: Neuropsychology in
Epilepsy Surgery (2 MB, pdf)
Venue, Transport
Address of the Course venue
Menza Vinařská
Vinařská 5, CZ - 603 00 Brno
1st floor – Canteen (lunches)
2nd floor – Congress hall, Meeting room (lectures, groups I
& II, registraton, coffee breaks)
Work groups – groups III & IV
NCO NZO Brno
Vinařská 6, CZ – 603 00 Brno
Group III – 2nd floor, room 212 A
Group IV – 4th floor, room 412 A
Accommodation of students
Koleje Vinařská – Garni hotel Vinařská (Dormitory Vinařská)
Builing no. A3
Vinařská 5, CZ – 603 00 Brno
Accommodation of lectures
Hotel Voroněž I
Křížkovského 47, CZ – 603 00 Brno
Detailed map of the venue with description (pdf)
Overall maps of Brno S (jpeg)
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XL (jpeg)
XXL (jpeg)
XXXL (jpeg)
Transport information:
Traveling to Brno (pdf)
Public Transport in Brno
(pdf)
Contacts
Chair of Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Özkara
Cerrahpasa Medical School
Department of Neurology
Istanbul, Turkey
tel./fax: 00 90 212 6330176
e-mail: cigdemoz@istanbul.edu.tr
Local Organizer
Prof. Dr. Ivan Rektor
First Department of Neurology
Masaryk University, St. Anne's Hospital
Brno, Czech Republic
tel.: 00 420 543 182 623
fax: 00 420 543 182 624
e-mail: irektor@med.muni.cz
Secretariat
TA-SERVICE s.r.o. (congress agency)
Hlinky 48, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
contact person: Martin Nesrsta
tel./fax: 00 420 543 211 134
e-mail: nesrsta@ta-service.cz