PRE-CONGRESS COURSE
The 12th WMS Pre-Congress Course will be held from Monday 6 October 2014 through Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
Maximum number of attendees: 45
Registration Deadline: 30 September 2014
Registration fee: EUR 300 (includes coffee/lunch breaks and course materials)
Teaching objective
To improve the diagnostic competence of professionals dealing with patients with neuromuscular diseases
Target audience
Medical specialists (paediatricians, neurologists, paediatric neurologists, geneticists, neuropathologists) and medical specialists in training, and also other attendees of the WMS congress
Course description
The emphasis of this course will be on the clinical approach of patients who present with symptoms of weakness and the interpretation of the muscle biopsy. The course will be entirely practical and case reports will be presented to highlight key clinical concepts. There will be the opportunity to discuss the integrated diagnostic approach to patients shown on video, and to look at muscle biopsies. Techniques for the performance of conduction studies on commonly examined individual upper and lower limb nerves will be illustrated with interpretation of the results.
Generous time will be allowed for questions from the audience, and for discussion of difficult topics.
For this purpose, each participant will be asked to bring one neuromuscular case to be presented and discussed.
For every case each participant should prepare 2 powerpoint slides:
Slide 1 should contain a clinical picture/clinical video demonstrating major clinical characteristics (onset; clinical course; CK; NCV; heredity; other)
Slide 2 should contain one pertinent piece of information (e.g. muscle or brain imaging; a family tree; immunofluorescence or Western blot data)
Please bring a maximum of 5 Powerpoint slides on a memory stick showing the most salient muscle biopsy findings. Slides should be loaded onto the main course computer prior to the beginning of the course or during breaks.
The presentation should not take longer than 3 minutes.
Upon completion
Participants should be able to better recognize a number of important neuromuscular presentations; incorporate up-to-date diagnostic approaches to the patient suspected of a neuromuscular disease; consider the differential diagnosis; apply appropriate tests.