7th - 8th, February 2009

Scientific Program

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1.                   Endoscopic observations of blocked  ventriculoperitoneal shunts Saxena A, Singh D, Sinha S, Singh H, Tandon M.

2.                   Comparison of coiling v/s clipping in ruptured aneurysm an experience at  tertiary neurosurgical centre. D P Sharma, D Singh, S Sinha, A Jegetia.

3.                   Civilian Gun Shot Injuries - Experience In Level 1 Neuro-Trauma Unit (Prospective study). Shameem Ahmed, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Ashish Suri, B.S. Sharma .

4.                   Role of interspinous spacing device in  degenerative lumbar spine disease. Walia.B.S., Gupta Vikas.

5.                   Comparison of efficacy of percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizolysis (PRGR) and radiofrequency ablation (RF) techniques in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) Prasanna Bidkar, Dash HH, Chouhan RS.

6.                   Comparative Study of Thiopentone sodium and Propofol for Brain Protection during Temporary clipping in     intracranial aneurysm surgery: A preliminary trial Authors first name: Prasanna Bidkar, Dash HH, Chouhan RS, BS Sharma, AS Suri.

7.                   Stellate Ganglion Block as a Treatment Option for Refractory Cerebral Vasospasm In Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Vasudha Singhal, V Jain, H H. Dash, PK Bithal, A Suri.

8.                   Intraoperative pulse and blood pressure recordings from neurosurgeons during aneurysm clipping - navigating the frontiers of human cardiovascular performance Amit Thapa, Manish S Sharma, Sharat P Chandra, A Suri, M Singh, V K Bahl, B S Sharma.

9.                   Intra-arterial vasodilatation (IAVD) for SAH induced vasospasm- results in consecutive 157 patients - Gupta Vipul, Chugh Manish, Jha AN, Walia BS, Vaishya S.

10.               Prospective study of spontaneous supratentorial ICH D K Prajapati, A K Sinha, H N Agarwal.

11.               Intraoperative mri guided pituitary  surgery - our experience - D Chaturvedi, S  Kavita, AN Jha, BP Panigrahi.

A.                  Cysticidal drugs - A MUST for Neurocysticercosis – RS Reddy

B.                  Cysticidal drugs - NOT required for Neurocysticercosis – MV Padma.

  10:00 – 10:30 hrs                  COMBAT SESSION II (10+10+10 Minutes),  (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)
Chairpersons                           MV Padma, Kameshwar Prasad.

            A.         Endovascular Carotid stenting – treatment for secondary prevention of ischemic stroke – V K Dixit.

B.         Carotid endarterectomy – treatment for secondary prevention of ischemic stroke – A Suri.

  10:30  – 11:15 hrs                 PRESIDENTIAL ORATION        (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

  Introduction of orator       Garima Shukla
              Chairpersons                    GK Ahuja, PK Sethi
              Orator                               Prof Madhuri Behari
              Topic                                Stem Cells in Neurological disorders.

   11:15 – 12:00 hrs                A D SEHGAL’S ORATION            (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Introduction of Orator    Aditya Gupta
            Chairpersons                 AK Banerjee, Ravi Bhatia
            Orator                            Prof V S Mehta.
            Topic                             Surgery for intrinsic Brainstem Glioma.

  12:00 - 13:00  hrs     COMMON SESSION – NEUROSURGERY AND NEUROLOGY     (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons             PN Renjen, Chitra Sarkar

12:00 – 12:15  hrs            Craniovertebral Junction tuberculosis – S S     Kale.

12:15 – 12:30  hrs            Acute Ischemic stroke – controversies and innovations in thrombolysis –  K Prasad.

12:30 – 12:45  hrs            Medicolegal issues and Ethics in Neurosciences – AK Singh.

12:45 – 13:00  hrs            Assisted ventilation in a neuro ICU – when and how? – Dr Himanshu Prabhakar

13:00 – 14:00 hrs      LUNCH (BIOPHYSICS LAWNS)

13:00 – 13:30 hrs      Meeting – Executive Committee Delhi Neurological association

13:30 – 14:00 hrs      POSTER WALK (FOYER AUDITORIUM).

Chairpersons            Geeta Khwaja,  Mukul Verma, Daljit Singh, Jawahar Dhar

1.                   Cervical Ribs presenting as Neurovascular Thoracic Outlet Syndrome -A case report - D Chowdhury, S Raghuvansi, ATrivedi, M Gupta, G Khwaja - Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi

2.                   Brainstem bleed with Pregnancy - Mukesh Kumar1, M Behari, Sumit Singh, Garima Shukla, Vinay Goyal, Department of Neurology, AIIMS.

3.                   Giant dorsal subcutaneous lipoma with intercanalicular extension without spinal dysraphism. Agarwal V, Sharma K C, Siddhiqui M S Department of Neurosurgery, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.

4.                   Intramedullary conus cysticercous cyst – a rare case. Agarwal V, Sharma K C, Siddhiqui M S.

5.                   Axillary Skin Biopsy in Lafora Body Disease. P. Malla, KS Anand, J.Garg, BK Bajaj, Department of Neurology, RML Hospital, New Delhi.

6.                   A giant calvarial metastasis as an initial and only clinical presentation of renal cell carcinoma - Dr.I.C.Premsagar, Dr.Manish Bummerkar, Dr.Chandra Shekhar.

7.                   Evaluation of critical care ventilator - S Bharati, GP Rath,  H Prabhakar., HH Dash. , P Bithalc-cDepartment of Neuroanasthesia, AIIMS New Delhi.

8.                   SCA12 with coexisting normal pressure hydrocephalus: A case report - F Mohammed, ISingh, MMukerji, M V Padma, M Behari, A K Srivastava – Department of Neurology, AIIMS New Delhi.

9.                   Effect of bone marrow derived mononuclear cells on nerve regeneration in rat sciatic nerve transection model A Srivastava, V Suri, RK Goel , S Mohanty, A Suri, BS Sharma, C Sarkar – Department of Neuropathology, AIIMS.

10.               Genome wide structural variations and copy number analysis in malignant glioma samples using high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays Prerana Jha,  Jha P, Pathak P, Scaria V, Suri V, Sharma MC,  Chosdol K, Sinha S, Kale S, Suri A, Gupta D, Sharma BS, Mukerji M , Sarkar C – Department of Neuropathology, AIIMS.

11.               Role of histochemistry and electron microscopy in the diagnosis of mitochondrial myopathies - A Jain, M.C. Sharma, V Suri, S Singh, R Bhatia, C Sarkar – Department of Neuropathology, AIIMS.

12.               Dysferlin protein analysis in LGMD2B, a universal approach for diagnosis: First report from India P Pathak, M C Sharma, V Suri, S Singh, R Bhatia, C Sarkar – Department of Neuroapthology, AIIMS New Delhi.

13.               Glioblastoma multiforme with long term survival – P Das, T Puri, P Jha, V Suri, M C Sharma, BS Sharma, A Gupta, C Sarkar – Department of Neuropathology AIIMS New Delhi.

14.               An Unusual case of Sjogren’s Syndrome with ganglionopathy - Priya Gupta, Sumit Singh, Parveen Gupta, Garima Shukla, Vinay Goyal, Madhuri Behari – Department of Neurology AIIMS New Delhi.

15.               Pyocephalus In A Newborn - Ozair,  Siddiqui,  Ejaz, Wajid. IC premsagar - Dr. RML Hospital & PGIMER New Delhi

16.               Primary Fibrosarcoma Brain In An Eight Year Old Boy - Ozair, Siddiqui, Ejaz, Wajid, IC Premsagar – Dr RML Hospital, New Delhi

17.               Rosai Dorfman disease (RDD) as rare cause of headache: a case report and brief review. M. S Siddiqui, N  K Agarwal, W Nazeer, IC premsagar - Dr. RML Hospital & PGIMER, New Delhi.

18.               Head injury In bomb blast victims - Wajid Nazir, Siddiqui Mohammad, L.N.Gupta – RML Hospital New Delhi.

19.               Tumefactive Multiple sclerosis; Response to plasmapheresis - A Lamba, S Singh, V Goyal, G Shukla, M Behari - Department of Neurology, AIIMS.

20.        Outcome of hemi craniotomy in patients of acute stroke. Khanna L, Mishra BK, Anand I Department of neurology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

21.        t-PA in patients of acute Ischemic stroke, Experience in a tertiary care hospital set-up Mishra BK, Khanna L, Anand I Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

22.        Changing trend in CNS fungal infection Gupta A, Mishra BK, Anand I.- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

23.        Meningioma with metastasis from follicular carcinoma thyroid. Sujata Chaturvedi, Sanjeev Gupta, Rima Kumari – Department of Neurosurgery IHBAS, New Delhi.

24.        Remote site intracranial haemorrhage : A Clinical series of 4 patients – S A Borkar, Ashish Suri, Bhavani Shankar Sharma - Departments of Neurosurgery , All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.

25.        Use of domiciliary ventilator therapy for rehabilitation of a patient with cv junction anomaly – S Juneja, MS Tondon  , P Ganjoo , S Singh. G B Pant hospital, New Delhi.

26.        Outcome predictors in moderate to severe traumatic brain - injury in children:A prospective study - D Satti, RDua, S Gupta,  AChaudhary, Gomber S.

27.        Cognitive deficits in working memory in Parkinson’s disease M. Saxena,. S kumaran2, S. Singh1, and M. Behari1 Departments of Neurology, AIIMS.

28.        A case of seropositive myasthenia gravis patient and MuSK-antibody positivity - H Suhail, V Subbiah, S Singh, M Behari.  Department of Neurology - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.

14:00 - 15:00 hrs   COMMON SESSION – NEUROSURGERY AND NEUROLOGY Contd.    (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

             Chairpersons             VS Madaan, Pramod Bithal

14:00 – 14:15 hrs              Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts – complications and avoidance – Ajay Sharma

14:15 – 14:30 hrs              Fungal meningitis – Diagnosis and Management –     CS Narayanan.

14:30 – 14:45  hrs             Teamwork in Neurosciences effect on prognosis –      AN Jha.

14:45 – 15:00 hrs              Fluid and electrolyte abnormalities in Neuro ICU –     Girija Rath

15:00 – 15:30 hrs       DNA Quiz Prelims -Conducted by Sumit Singh, Mamta Bhushan Singh (LT 1)

15:00 – 16:30 hrs       CONCURRENT SESSIONS – Neurosurgery    (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons             Karam Chand, LN Gupta.

15:00 – 15:15 hrs             360 Degree fusion for 3 column dorsal spine instability – P Sharat Chandra

15:15 – 15:30 hrs             Second Cervical Vertebra-Rituals in Indian Thentology -  Daljeet Singh

15:30 – 15:45 hrs             Intratumor therapies in high grade gliomas: current status Deepak Gupta.

15:45 - 16:00 hrs              C1-C2 fixation procedures - Dr. Rana Patir.

16:00 – 16:15 hrs             Complication avoidance in posterior fossa Aneurysm – VP Singh.

16:15 - 16:30 hrs              Importance of intraoperative monitoring – Sandeep Vaish.   

15:00 – 16:30 hrs      CONCURRENT SESSION – Neurology   (CONFERENCE HALL)

Chairpersons            CS Agarwal, KS Anand

15:00 – 15:15 hrs            Emerging therapies in Multiple Sclerosis – Rohit Bhatia.

15:15 – 15:30 hrs            Osmotic demyelination in Neurology – S Johri.

15:30 – 15:45 hrs            Complicated migraine – issues in diagnosis and management – Debashish chaudhary.

15:45 - 16:00 hrs             Deep Brain Stimulation surgery – beyond Parkinsons Disease – Vinay Goyal.

16:00 - 16:15 hrs             Neurocysticercosis – complications of the disease and its management – Neera Chaudhary.

16:30 - 17:00             TEA (FOYER AUDITORIUM)

17:00 – 18:00 hrs GUEST LECTURE INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY  ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES
(JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM) –
ANTON WALAVANIS – Director Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Zurich

Chairpersons – NK Misra, Shakir Hussain.

18:00 – 19:00 hrs       GENERAL BODY MEETING

19:00 - 20:00 hrs        INAUGURATION – JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM AIIMS.

20:00 hrs onwards    ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM AND DINNER (COMMUNITY CENTRE AIIMS)

08:00 – 09:15 hrs           FREE PAPER SESSION – PODIUM (5+1 Min)         (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons –       Monika Thomas, MC Sharma

Judges -                   Subimal Roy, S Raghavan, DC Jain     

           1)       Serum Copper in Alzheimer’s Disease & Vascular Dementia Agarwal Rachna, Khushwaha Suman, Tripathi CB, Singh Neeraj, Chhillar Neelam.

2)       Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension - Factors predicting quality of life – K Agarwal, Singh S Shukla G, Goyal V, Behari M.

3)       To evaluate the clinical spectrum of primary headaches and prescription patterns   for  their management at a tertiary referral center - Padhy   U.P.,. Singh S , Goyal.V , Shukla.G. ,Srivastava A,  Behari,M

4)       Phenotype to Genotype correlations in spinocerebellar ataxias in Indian population: SCA2 as a case study - Srivastava A, Mohammed F,Gupta R, Natt B, Singh I, Mukerji M, Padma M V, Behari M.

5)       Utility of In-vitro Proton M R Spectroscopy in differentiating Mitochondrial Myopathy & Muscular Dystrophy. Jain N., Chaturbhuj Rathore, Singh S. ,Goyal V., Shukla G., Srivastava A.K., Behari M Uma Sharma,Chitra Sarkar, N Jagannathan.

6)       Is Intracranial Atherosclerosis is more prevalent in Indian Ischemic stroke patients? - D Chowdhury, ATrivedi, M Gupta, GKhwaja, S Puri.

7)       Autologus bone Marrow derived Stem cells as a therapeutic modality for management of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis M Kumar, Rajesh P, Singh S, Shukla G, Goyal V, Behari M.

8)       Respiratory care of myasthenic crisis in neuro-intensive care unit: evaluation of outcome and adverse events - VSinghal, D Sharma, P.K.Bithal, S Singh.

9)       MRI of the Muscles vs USG of Muscles or conventional method for site selection for muscle Biopsy in Patients with Inflammatory muscle disease. N K Rai, K Aurangabadkar, Singh S, Goyal V, Shukla G, Garg A, Behari M.

10)   Effect of bone marrow derived mononuclear cells on nerve regeneration in rat sciatic nerve transection model A Srivastava, Suri V, Goel RK*, Mohanty S, Suri A, Sharma BS, Sarkar C.

11)   Assessment of 1p & 19q deletion status by interphase Fluorescence in-situ hybridization assay & correlation with p53 andEGFR expression: A comparative study in oligodendroglial, mixed oligoastrocytic and astrocytic tumors. S Agarwal, B Shukla, V Suri, P Pathak, MC Sharma, D Gupta, BS Sharma, ASuri, AHalder, C Sarkar.

 
 09:15 – 09:45 hrs         Combat session III (10+10+10 min)

Chairpersons              VS Mehta, NK Misra.

                                                A.      Clipping is better for intracranial aneurysms – BS Sharma

B.      Coiling is Better for Intracranial Aneurysms – Vipul Gupta.

09:45 - 10:00 hrs                    TEA (FOYER AUDITORIUM).

10:00 - 10:45 hrs                GUEST LECTURE – “ Decision Making in Pediatric Epilepsy Therapeutics ”
Dr Raman Shankar
University of California,  Los Angles – USA.  (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons                      Manjari Tripathi, Anshu Rohtagi.

10:45 – 12:30 hrs     VIDEO SESSION (Cases, procedures, investigation records, Imaging), (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons          SK Chaudhary, SP Agarwal, Sanjiv Dua

1.                   Interhemispheric Approach - B.S.Sharma.

2.                   Spasmodic Dysphonia – botulinum toxin injection technique – Vinay Goyal.

3.                   CV J : Transoral decompression and posterior fixation   - - - S.S.Kale

4.                   Interesting Cases – Epilepsy – Garima Shukla.

5.                   Keyhole surgery for aneurysms - P.Sarat Chandra.

6.                   Scope-in Scope - Ashish Suri.

7.                   Signature syndrome  – NK Misra.

8.                   Surgery for spinal lipoma with tethered cord – Ajay Sharma.

9.                   Giant MCA Aneurysm - V.P Singh.

10.               Trigeminal Neuralgia – injection technique – HH Dash.

11.               New Device for endoscopic disc surgery - Satnam Singh Chabbra.

12.               Supracerebellar – infratentorial approach – AK Singh.

13.               Interhemispheric – transcallosal approach – A Srivastava.

14.               Molecular diagnostic techniques in Neurosciences – Vaishali Suri.

15.               Intraoperative rupture of ACA Aneurysm – precautions and management – Rahul Gupta.

             12:30 – 13:15 hrs     Mrs Dhamija’s Oration    (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons            Vinod Puri, Atul Prasad

Introduction                 Sumit Singh.

Orator  Prof                  Sunil Pradhan.

Topic                           New dimensions in the diagnosis of muscular Dystrophies.

                        13:15 – 14:15 hrs       LUNCH.

14:15 – 15:45 hrs      COMMON SESSION  Neurology and Neurosurgery.  (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons            Parvin Gulati, Laxman Das, HH Dash

14:15 – 14:30 hrs Radiosurgery : Techniques and innovations – Aditya Gupta.

14:30 – 14:45 hrs           Normal pressure hydrocephalus – an update – Achal Srivastava.

14:45 – 15:00 hrs           Cervical Spondylotic  Mylopathy: Anterior versus  Posterior approach - Sanjeev Sinha.

15:00 – 15:15 hrs           Innovations in imaging in Neurosciences – Harsh Mahajan.

15:15 – 15:30 hrs           Glial Neoplasms – New entities and variants - Chitra Sarkar.

15:30 – 15:45 hrs           Effect of risk stratified peri-operative  chemopholylaxis  in nosocomial infection rate in a series of 31,799 Neurosurgical  
 procedures (1994-2006) – Manish Sharma.

15:45 – 16:30 hrs    NEURO QUIZ FOR RESIDENTS – FINALS.  (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Conducted by -       Sumit Singh, Rohit Bhatia.

Observers                Madhuri Behari, BS Sharma, HH Dash, Chitra Sarkar.

16:30 – 17:30 hrs    CONCURRENT SESSION NEUROSURGERY (JAWAHARLAL AUDITORIUM)

Chairpersons            Sushil Kumar, AK Verma

16:30 – 16:45 hrs            Coiling of  posterior circulation aneurysm - Dr.Anita Jagetia.

16:45 – 17:00 hrs            Pineal Region Tumors – Manmohan Singh.   

17:00 – 17:15 hrs            Image guidance in Neurosurgery towards improved quality and consistency in patient care – Deepak Agarwal.

17:15 – 17:30 hrs            Giant pituitary   adenomas : proposal for a novel surgical classification – Sumit Sinha.

17:30 – 17:45 hrs            Complications avoidance in Spinal surgery – B S Walia.

17:45 – 18:00 hrs            Anterior cervical spinal surgical procdure using single X-ray exposure during intrao-perative period: Feasibility study – GD
  Satyarthi.

1630 – 17:30 hrs       CONCURRENT SESSION NEUROLOGY  (CONFERENCE HALL)

Chairpersons            M Bhatia, LK Malhotra

 16:30 – 16:50                 Management of Resistant Myasthenia Gravis – Sumit Singh

16:50 – 17:10                  Excessive daytime sleepiness – issues in diagnosis and management – Mamta Bhushan Singh.

17:10 – 17:30                  Evoked Responses in Neurology – a critical appraisal – Sanjay Pandey

18:00 hrs onwards - HIGH TEA AND CLOSING CEREMONY