24th Annual Meeting 2024 of the EURLSSG

24 Annual Meeting 2024 of the EURLSSG

Friday, December 13th, 2024 and (whole day)
Saturday, December 14th, 2024 (half day)

Location:
Auditorium "Pavillon", Technical University of Munich, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Street 22, Munich, Germany

Registration:

Registration fee for members / applicants: 0,- â‚¬
Registration fee for non-members: 50,- â‚¬ / students 20,- â‚¬

Deadline for registration is 31. October 2024.
If you want to register, please send an email to Sabine Panier, office@eurlssg.org

For members please note:
We would like to remind you that hotel and travel expenses can no longer be reimbursed.

Downloads:

Agenda Friday, 13th December and Saturday, 14th December (will follow - download)
Directions Pavillon (will follow - download)
Airport-Bus Schedule (will follow - download)
How to get to the Hotel Motel One, Deutsches Museum (will follow - download)
Public car garages located near the hotel (will follow - download)

EURLSSG e.V. Session:

13th December 2024 - General Meeting of the EURLSSG (EURLSSG members only)

Hotel for participants:

Motel One München-Deutsches Museum
Rablstraße 2
81669 München, Germany

phone: +49 (89) 444 555 8-0
muenchen-deutschesmuseum@motel-one.com

Dinner after the EURLSSG Meeting, 13th December 2024:

Restaurant "Zum Franziskaner"
Residenzstraße 9
80333 Munich

Phone: +49 89 231812-0
http://www.zum-franziskaner.de

Map of Munich:
http://www.stadtplan.net/bayern/reg-bez-oberbayern/munchen-landeshauptstadt/munchen

Presentations:

Friday 13th December 2024, 9:00 - 17:30 h

Welcome:

Literature Overview - Impact of RLS (Wolfgang Oertel, President, Germany)

Epidemiology

Chairperson: Claudia Trenkwalder, Germany

How to assess RLS in large population studies - Expert examination versus classification from questionnaires (Klaus Berger, Germany)

Genetics

Chairperson: Juliane Winkelmann, Germany

Update on the genetics of RLS (Barbara Schormair, Germany)

RLS and comorbidity

Chairpersons: Samson Khachatryan, Armenia and Giorgos Sakkas, Greece

RLS and other sleep disorders among young people of Georgia (Ketevan Mamasakhlisi, Georgia)
Restless legs syndrome in traumatic injury (Cristian Falup-Pecurariu, Romania)
Prevalance of RLS in patients with multiple sclerosis (Laura L. Triguero, Spain)
RLS in stroke - case control study (Iulia Murasan, Romania)
RLS as a surrogate of generalized dysautonomia (Olli Polo, Finland)
Effect of Restless Leges Syndrome medication on depression - prevalance in patients with RLS: A systemic review and meta-analysis (Yukiyoshi Sumi, Japan)
RLS and and peritoneal dialysis - update on a cohort study (Thomas MItterling, Austria)
RLS and the COVID pandemic (Markku Partinen, Finland)

Neurophysiology (and Imaging)

Chairperson: Federica Proini, Italy

Periodic leg movements (PLM) and large muscle group movements (LMM) during sleep along the lifespan in normal controls (Raffaele Ferri, Italy)
EEG for brain connectivity analysis in RLS - preliminary results (Doris Schuller-Götzburg, Austria)

Common projects of the EURLSSG

Chairperson: Wolfgang Oertel, Germany

Preview for Saturday - Summary slides

Case Reports

Chairperson: Lucia Muntean, Germany

High periodic leg movements persist after weight loss surgery and obstructive sleep apnea improvement (Galia Anguelova, The Netherlands)
Restless Back Syndrome (Evi Holzknecht, Austria)

Therapy

Chairpersons: Roselyne Rjisman, The Netherlands and Ambra Stefani, Austria

Physical exercise in restless legs syndrome (Evi Holzknecht, Austria)
Treatment response to Tramadol treatment in Japanese patients with restless legs syndrome and its associated factors (Yuichi Inoue, Japan)
Treatment of restless legs syndrome with Sativex (2,7 mg Delta-9-tetra-hydrocannabinol / 2,5 mg cannabidiol) (Laura L. Triguero, Spain)

Industrial Session

Chairpersons: Federica Provini, Italy and Wolfgang Oertel, Germany

Tonic motor activation (TOMAC) - a wearable neurostimulation therapy for Restless Legs Syndrome (Shri Raghunathan, Noctrix, USA)

Basic Science

Chairperson: Barbara Schormair, Germany

Dopamine receptors in restless legs syndrome and augmentation: An update on D3 and D1 receptor hypotheses (Stefan Clemens, USA)

EARLS

Chairpersons: Katharina Glanz, Germany and Stefan Clemens, USA

Making the invisible visible - 15 years EARLS RLS Patient Advocacy (Katharina Glanz, EARLS President, Germany)
How far have we succeded in our ambition to make primary care doctors updated on basic facts on RLS treatment (Sö¶ren Berg, Sweden)

Saturday 14th December 2024, 9:00 - 13:30 h

Welcome Wolfgang Oertel, President, Germany

Common Projects of the EURLSSG