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| 07:00 – 08:00 | Old-New ISPN Executive Board Meeting (members of ISPN Executive Board) |
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Flash sessions 8: Hydrocephalus Chair: Mihoko Kato, Essam Al Shail, Arthur Di Patri |
Flash sessions 9: Hydrocephalus Chair: Takafumi Wataya, Matthieu Vinchon, NK Venkataramana |
| 08:00 – 08:40 FL-107 Harvey Cushing’s Early Treatment of Congenital Hydrocephalus. Cortney Pendleton (USA) FL-108 Shunt-assistants with fixed versus adjustable opening pressures: Comparison of clinical parameters in the course of the treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus. Wolfgang Wagner (GERMANY) FL-109 Standardized protocol for perio perative managements of CSF shunting in hydrocephalic infants decreases infectious complications: single-center study. Naoki Kagawa (JAPAN) FL-110 Age as a Novel Risk Factor for Revision of Ventriculopleural Shunt in Pediatric Patients. J. Gordon McComb (USA) FL-111 Ventriculoperitoneal vs percutanously-placed Ventriculoatrial Shunts: Which is better? A Single Institution’s 13-Year Experience. |
08:00 – 08:20 FL-122 Differences in cerebrospinal fluid motion in the ventricle and subarachnoid space. Takuya Akai (JAPAN) FL-123 Clinical and radiological analysis of macrocrania. Atsuko Harada (JAPAN) FL-124 Temporal arachnoidal cysts-15 years of neuroendoscopic experience. Sergio R Valenzuela (CHILE) FL-125 Midline Intracranial Arachnoid Cyst in Children. What is the best treatment? Essam A. Elgamal (UAE) FL-126 Sport-related structural brain injury associated with arachnoid cysts in the pediatric population: a systematic review and quantitative analysis. Christopher Bonfield (USA) Discussion |
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| 08:20 – 08:40 FL-112 Impact of CSF parameters on decision making in the management of bacterial shunt infection: results from a global online survey. Adrian Caceres (COSTA RICA) FL-113 Ventriculo-subgaleal shunt using an antibiotic-impregnated catheter: A retrospective analysis of our institutional experience. Paolo Frassanito (ITALY) FL-114 Ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications and scoliosis surgery. Hisashi Hatano (JAPAN) FL-115 Late Paediatric Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Failures: An Institution’s Experience. Wan Tew Seow (SINGAPORE) FL-116 Long-term Outcome of Shunted Pediatric Patients in Eastern Finnish Population 2003-2013. |
08:20 – 08:40 FL-127 Efficacy and safety of endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization for hydrocephalus: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Alexander G. Weil (CANADA) FL-128 External Ventricular Drainage; indications and outcome among Sudanese Children. Mohammed Awad Elzain Ahmed (SUDAN) FL-129 Surgical Site Infection and Intra-operative Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Single-centre experience. Santosh Mohan Rao Kanangi (UK) FL-130 Single dose versus multiple dose perioperative prophylactic antibiotics in post-operative wound infection in pediatric cranial procedures with implanted skull materials: A single center clinical trial. Zohreh Habibi (IRAN) FL-131 Acute Cerebellitis – What a Paediatric Neurosurgeon should know. Discussion |
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| 08:40 – 09:00 FL-117 ShuntScope in Pediatric Neurosurgery: ventricle catheter positioning into the third ventricle. Alexandra Huthmann (GERMANY) FL-118 Endoscopic third ventriculostomy and shunt removal for pediatric hydrocephalus previously treated by ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Masahiro Nonaka (JAPAN) FL-119 Endoscopic Management Of Intraventricular shunt Related Cystic Compartment In Pediatric Patients. Ahmed Awad Zaher (EGYPT) FL-120 Endoscopic treatment of posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus in preterm infants. Eun Kyung Park (KOREA) FL-121 Efficacy of ETV in the treatment of hydrocephalus after removal of posterior fossa tumor in children. |
08:40 – 09:00 FL-132 How Evolution Informs the Fate of Ancient Inhibitory Interneurons, in Relationship to the Cerebral Spinal Fluid Contacting Neurons, in the Human Neocortex. Alexandra R. Kunz (USA) FL-133 Pattern of Congenital Craniospinal anomalies among Neurosurgical Patients in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital. Hammed Abiola Oshola (NIGERIA) FL-134 Gamma knife for Paediatric patients less than 12 years- The AIIMS experience.Deepak Agrawal (INDIA) FL-135 The use of Custombone for repair of cranial defects in children. Carmine Mottolese (FRANCE)FL-136 Should I Spend My Summer Doing Research? A Quantitative and Qualitative Study Evaluating Student Achievement in a Surgical Summer Research Program. Ash Singhal (CANADA) Discussion |
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| 09:00 – 10:20 | Plenary session 8: Nursing and Hydrocephalus Chair: Masato Nagasaka, Sandip Chatterjee, Gordon McComb |
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| 09:00-09:20 Pediatric Neurosurgery Nursing, Cathy Cartwright (USA) |
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| 09:20-09:35 Assessing outcome in hydrocephalus, Peter Ssenyonga (UGANDA) |
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| 09:35-09:50 Hydrocephalus State-of-the-art 2016, Abhaya Kulkarni (CANADA) |
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| 09:50-10:00 Discussion |
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| 10:00-10:20 Past President: Case discussion, Chandrashekhar Deopujari (INDIA) |
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| 10:20 – 10:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:50 – 12:50 | Platform presentations 10: Hydrocephalus Chair: Masakazu Miyajima, Todd Hankinson, Peter Ssenyonga |
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| 10:50-10:58 PF-064 Viewing on hydrocephalus from bottom to top – What can we learn from Real-Time MRI? Hans Christoph Ludwig (GERMANY) |
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| 10:58-11:06 PF-065 Using MRI to Establish Patency between Adjacent CSF compartments. J. Gordon McComb (USA) |
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| 11:06-11:14 PF-066 Prediction of shunt failure facilitated by rapid (<40 sec) and accurate volumetric analysis. Robert Keating (USA) |
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| 11:14-11:22 PF-067 Differences in intracranial pressure seen in children and adults could be caused by age differences. Sarah Hornshøj Pedersen (DENMARK) |
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| 11:22-11:30 PF-068 Cerebrospinal fluid leakage in childhood and adolescence. Koichi Takahashi (JAPAN) |
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| 11:30-11:38 PF-069 Altered Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics in Neurofibromatosis l: Severe arachnoid thickening, which can also be caused by asymmetrical CSF pressure through sphenoid defect, may cause abnormal CSF dynamic in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1. Young Sill Kang (GERMANY) |
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| 11:38-11:46 PF-070 Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in infants younger than 6 months old: rate of success and prognostic factors. Carlos Bennett (CHILE) |
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| 11:46-11:54 PF-071 Effective Timing for Myelomeningocele Repair and Simultaneous Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunting. Shinya Ishiko (JAPAN) |
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| 11:54-12:02 PF-072 Rate of shunt revision as a function of age in a population of myelomeningocele patients with shunted hydrocephalus. Brandon G. Rocque (USA) |
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| 12:02-12:10 PF-073 Incidence of VP Shunt Failure in Children less than One Year Age. Observational Review of Prospectively Collected Data. Ahmed Abdullah (EGYPT) |
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| 12:10-12:18 PF-074 A Classification Proposal for “Ventriclostoma Reclosure Pattern” Based on Experience in 50 Pediatric Cases with Repeat ETV Procedure. Volkan Etus (TURKEY) |
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| 12:18-12:26 PF-075 The Role of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Previously Shunted Children Admitted with Shunt Malfunction. Farideh Nejat (IRAN) |
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| 12:26-12:34 PF-076 Triclosan-coated sutures in preventing surgical site infection in children- a randomized controlled series. Willy Serlo (FINLAND) |
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| 12:42-12:50 PF-078 The Role of Mixed Reality Simulation in Neurosurgical Education. Giselle Coelho Caselato (BRAZIL) |
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| 12:50-12:58 PF-079 Publication rate of oral presentations at the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) annual meetings. Christopher Bonfield (USA) |
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| 12:50 – 13:05 | Closing ceremony | |
| Flag hand-over to Denver | ||
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Post-Congress Course | |
| OMICs Masterclass for Pediatric Neurosurgeons Max Muenke (USA) Stefan Pfister (GERMANY) |
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