Date: 4-6 October 2019 г.

Place: Sofia, Bulgaria

Purpose: The purpose of the event is to discuss current issues related to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of socially significant neurological diseases, progress in the field of ultrasound diagnostics of the nervous system, possibilities for evaluation of changes in cerebral hemodynamics, etc.

Main topics:
1. Neuroscience
2. Angiology
3. Neurorehabilitation
4. Brain Strokes

Expected audience: The Congress is multidisciplinary with the participation of various medical experts and scientists from Bulgaria and abroad.

Program: 

Friday, 4th October 2019:

16:00 – 20:00 – Registration.

17:00 – 17:30 - General Assembly of BSNCH (for members).

18:00 – 18:15 – Opening ceremony.

18:15 – 18:45 - A Multimodal Approach for the Determination of Carotid Stenoses.

18:45 – 19:30 - What should be Updated in the National Multidisciplinary Consensus for Diagnosis and Behavior in Extracranial Carotid Stenosis.

19:30 – 20:00 – Discussion

20:00 – 23:00 – Dinner

Sathurday, 5th October 2019:

09:30 – 09:50 - Stroke in Bulgaria – is Something New Happening?

09:50 – 10:10 - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Algorithm in Tandem Carotid Stenoses.

10:10 – 10:30 - Monitoring of the Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment Quality – Data from the Registries.

10:30 – 10:50 - Anticoagulation and Antiaggregation for Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention, and Endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms. Reversal strategies when neurosurgical treatment is needed.

10:50 – 11:00 – Coffee break.

11:00 – 11:20 - The use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in the Diagnostics of Optic Nerve Lesions.

11:20 – 11:40 - Interdisciplinary Application of Laser Doppler Flowmetry.

11:40 – 12:00 - Practical Workshop in Neurosonology. Practical Demonstration. Clinical Cases of Extra- and Intracranial Vascular Pathology and Acute Ischemic Stroke.

12:00 – 12:30 - Satellite Symposium of UCB. Neuroprotection – Myth or Reality. Piracetam in Neurootological Syndromes.

12:30 – 14:30 – Lunch.

14:30 - 16:00 – Poster Session.

14:30 – 16:00 - Art Therapy in Medicine – Exhibition.

16:00 – 16:20 - How to Identify and Treat High Risk Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis?

16:20 – 16:40 - PACNS and ABRA – a spectrum of small vessel disease.

16:40 – 17:00 -  Mechanical Thrombectomy in Neurology.

17:00 – 17:20 - Complex Kinesitherapeutic Approach in Chronic Supratentorial Unilateral Stroke.

17:20 – 17:30 – Discussion.

17:30 – 18:00 – Coffee break.

18:00 – 18:20 - Carotid and vertebral artery dissection.

18:20 – 18:40 - ARole of Ultrasound after Endovascular Treatment in Stroke patients.

18:40 – 19:00 - How Neurosonology Improves Clinical Decisions in Stroke Patients?

19:00 – 19:20 - When to close patent foramen ovale?

19:20 – 19:40 - Cognitive Impairment and Ultrasound.

19:40 – 20:00 – Discussion.

20:00 – 23:00 - Gala Dinner  (Hilton Hotel) Awards.