Day 2: Tuesday August 22

Tuesday August 22

 Minna-hall (streaming) Parallel 1Maria-hall Parallel 2 
8:00RegistrationRegistration
8:30
Acute stroke management
Christina Kruuse/Teresa Ullberg


Potential and challenges of telerehabilitation
Sinikka Hiekkala/Iveta Haritoņčenko
Optimizing prehospital transportation, Anne-Mari Kantanen (Kuopio)

Erika G. Spaich, Gistrup, Denmark
Rehabilitation technologies from the laboratory to the clinic and to home
Current status of tenecteplase in stroke thrombolysis, Vojtech Novotny (Bergen)VR for upper limb motor function and neclect, Iris Brunner (Aarhus)
Wake-up stroke: Characteristics and treatment options, Ellisiv Mathiesen (Tromsø)Telerehabilitation in post-stroke aphasia, Hege Prag Øra (Nesoddtangen)
 Management of blood pressure in acute stroke, Iveta Haritoncenko (Riga)Telerehabilitation services for stroke, Kate Laver, (Adelaine, Australia, online)
10:00Coffee/ExhibitionCoffee/Exhibition
10:30
Stroke and beyond – 9th Kuopio Stroke Symposium session
Reetta Kälviäinen/Daiva Rastenytė


Short oral communications I
Mikko Airavaara/Anders Sode West
(8 min + 2 min discussion)
Stroke and pregnancy, Karoliina Aarnio (Helsinki)
Stroke and migraine, Rashid Giniatullin (Kuopio)
Stroke and epilepsy, Reetta Kälviäinen (Kuopio)
The myriad of medical and neurovascular conditions underlying intracerebral hemorrhage in young adults, Turgut Tatlisumak (Gothenburg)
12:00 Teaching course III: How to write a paper to
the Stroke Journal
– Johannes Boltze (Warwick)
Lunch/Exhibition
13:00
Stroke prevention
Sidsel Hastrup/Brörn Logi Þórarinsson

Translational stroke
Tarja Malm/Thomas Christensen
Nationwide primary stroke prevention programs, Atte Meretoja (Helsinki)Improving translational research,
Johannes Boltze (Warwick)
Are new antidiabetic medications good for stroke prevention? Thomas Truelsen (Copenhagen)Advances in stroke biomarker discovery,
Tarja Malm (Kuopio)
New insights into lipid lowering medication in stroke prevention,
Petra Ijäs (Helsinki)

Preclinical strategies to improve stroke recovery in diabetes,
Cesare Patrone (Stockholm)
Adherence to secondary prevention medications after stroke – Can we do better?
Riina Vibo (Tartu)
ER resident protein MANF with neurorestorative and immunomodulatory effects,
Mikko Airavaara (Helsinki)
14:30Coffee/ExhibitionCoffee/Exhibition
15:00
Embolic stroke
Jukka Putaala/Kristaps Jurjans

Short Communications II Aleksandra Ekkert/Atte Meretoja (8 min + 2 min dicussion)
Cryptogenic stroke – matter of heart and age, Nicolas Martinez-Majander (Helsinki)
Advanced imaging in identifying cardioembolic sources, Marja Hedman (Kuopio)
When to start oral anticoagulants after acute ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation? Per Wester (Stockholm/Umeå)
Current status of left atrial appendage closure in stroke prevention among patients with atrial fibrillation, Dorte Damgaard (Aarhus)
16:45NORDIC STROKE SOCIETY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
19:00Dinner