Agenda EURLSSG-Meeting

Friday 12th December 2014, 8:30 - 18:00 h

Sleep PSG studies in RLS

Chairpersons:
Birgit Högl, Innsbruck, Austria
Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Larissa, Greece


Periodic limb movements during REM sleep in multiple sclerosis [no abstract, unpublished data]
Christian Veauthier, Berlin, Germany

Leg movement activity during sleep in untreated and treated Parkinson´s disease [ABSTRACT]
Raffaele Ferri, Troina, Italy

The impact of acute administration of sodium oxybate on leg movement activity during sleep in narcolepsy with cataplexy [ABSTRACT]
Giuseppe Plazzi, Bologna, Italy

The effect of muscle fatigue in neuromuscular activity during sleep [ABSTRACT]
Christoforos Giannaki, Nicosia, Cyprus

PSG characteristics in iron-deficient RLS [no abstract, unpublished data]
Anna Heidbreder, Innsbruck, Austria

EEG high frequencies are increased at sleep onset in patients with RLS [ABSTRACT]
Raffaele Ferri, Troina, Italy

How strong is the evidence for circadian rhythmicity in PLMS? [no abstract, unpublished data]
Al de Weerd, Zwolle, Netherlands

 

 

Other clinical aspects

Chairpersons:    
Marco Zucconi, Milan, Italy
Claudia Trenkwalder, Kassel, Germany


Natural course of RLS - analysis of long-term patients since 1994 [no abstract, unpublished data]
Thomas Mitterling, Innsbruck / Linz, Austria

Preliminary findings on the RLS and sleep difficulties in Georgian students: A questionnaire-based study [no abstract, unpublished data]
Lia Maisuradze, Tbilisi, Georgia

RLS does not affect 3-year mortality in hemodialysis patients in Greece  [ABSTRACT]
Giorgos Sakkas, Larissa, Greece

Is obesitiy associated with an increased risk of RLS? [no abstract, unpublished data]
Maria Turchese Caletti, Bologna, Italy

Early and late onset RLS in Parkinson´s disease. Effect of RLS on quality of life - a study on 577 patients with Parkinson´s disease [no abstract, unpublished data]
Ari Ylikoski, Espoo, Finland

Preliminary data on RLS in pregnancy in a Sicilian cohort: maternal/fetal outcome [no abstract, unpublished data]
Rosalia Silvestri, Gazzi, Messina, Italy

RLS in Czech pregnant women: an epidemiological and genetic study [ABSTRACT]
David Kemlink, Prague, Czech. Republic

Pediatric RLS Registry [no abstract, unpublished data]
Sofia Kasradze, Tbilisi, Georgia

 

 

Therapy

 

Chairpersons:    
Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Milano, Italy
Heike Benes, Schwerin, Germany

Neurocognitive function in patients with idiopathic RLS before and after treatment with a dopamine-agonist [ABSTRACT]
Marco Zucconi, Milano, Italy

IV iron treatment of RLS with iron deficiency anemia [ABSTRACT]
Richard Allen, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Associated factors for the presence of augmentation in Japanese patients receiving pramipexole monotherapy [no abstract, unpublished data]
Yuichi Inoue, Tokyo, Japan

Efficacy and tolerability of rotigotine in patients with RLS and end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis [ABSTRACT]
Birgit Högl, Innsbruck, Austria

Treatment of augmentation with rotigotine patch: teh AURORA study [ABSTRACT]
Claudia Trenkwalder, Kassel, Germany

 

 

Neurobiology / Models

Chairpersons:   
Juliane Winkelmann, Munich, Germany
Yves Dauvilliers, Montpellier, France


Sleep study from animal model of RLS [no abstract, unpublished data]
Kazuhiro Muramatsu, Gunma, Japan

The spinal dopamine D1/D3 receptor system controls morphine responses in a RLS animal model [ABSTRACT]
Stefan Clemens, Greenville, USA

Local and general hypoxia and its role in RLS/WED [ABSTRACT]
Jan Ulfberg, Örebro, Sweden

Relationships between RLS, narcolepsy and symptoms of ADHA. Does H1N1 vaccination have any role in the symptomatology [ABSTRACT]
Tomi Sarkanen, Espoo, Finland

Time structure of physiological hind-limb movements during sleep in rats and mice: toward rodent models of periodic limb movements (PLM) and RLS  [ABSTRACT]
Mauro Manconi, Lugano, Switzerland

 

 

 

Agenda Saturday Workshop

Saturday 13th December 2014, 9:00 - 13:00 h

Chairpersons:
Richard Allen, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Claudia Trenkwalder, Kassel, Germany

 

RLS and co-morbid / secondary conditions
Significant medical conditions associated with RLS

 

Introduction
Significance for RLS biology, treatment and medical education
Richard Allen, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Brief Overview: RLS and other medical conditions
Claudia Trenkwalder, Kassel, Germany

Anemia and RLS / blood donors
Richard Allen, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Friedriechs ataxia - phenotype, severity
Birgit Högl, Innsbruck, Austria

Genetic factors - PLMS, end-stage renal disease, blood donations?
Barbara Schormair, Munich, Germany

Uremia
Giorgos Sakkas, Larissa, Greece

Multiple Slcerosis
David Kemlink, Prague, Czech. Republic

"RLS in the chronic fatigue syndrome" - intestinal bacterial overgrowth
Olli Polo, Turku, Finland

Pregnancy
Mauro Manconi, Lugano, Switzerland

Hypoxia and RLS - CNS, muscle and peripheral
Aaro Salminen, Tampere, Finland

Cardiovascular disease - PLMS / RLS as result vs. cause vs. both
John Winkelman, Massachusetts, USA

What defines - co-morbid vs. secondary vs. medical complications with RLS?
Klaus Berger, Münster, Germany

General discussion