The 23rd Annual Meeting of Infantile Seizure Society

Program

Day 1 2024/5/30 Thur.

9:00-

1. Introduction

Jun Natsume(Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)

9:10–10:20

2. Basic Mechanism of Febrile Seizures

Chair: Mitsumasa Fukuda (Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)

9:10-10:00

Tallie Z. Baram (University of California, Irvine, CA, USA)

10:00-10:20

Ryuta Koyama (National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan)
Non-apoptotic caspase-3 activation drives microglial synaptic phagocytosis after experimental febrile seizures

10:30-11:50

3. Genetics

Chair: Masanori Takeoka (Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA)

10:30-11:20

Ingrid Scheffer (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)

11:20-11:50

Norimichi Higurashi (Department of Pediatrics, Jikei University School of Medicine, Musashi-Kosugi Pediatrics & Epilepsy Clinic, Tokyo, Japan)
Dravet syndrome pathogenesisーnovel insights from Scn1a knockout rat research

12:00-13:00

Luncheon Seminar 1

Chair: Toru Okanishi (Tottori University, Tottori, Japan)

Hiroki Nariai (UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA USA)

13:10-14:30

4. General Managements and Clinical Aspects of Febrile Seizures

Chair: Masaya Kubota (Shimada Ryoiku Medical Center for Challenged Children, Tokyo, Japan)

13:10-13:30

Mitsuru Kashiwagi (Department of Pediatrics, Hirakata City Hospital, Osaka, Japan)
Clinical characteristics associated with febrile seizure incidence in COVID-19

13:30-13:50

Masanori Takeoka (Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA)

13:50-14:10

Sanem Yılmaz (Ege University Medical faculty, İzmir, Turkey)

14:10-14:30

Indra Sahri (Department of Child Health, Medical School, Padjadjaran University, Dr Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia)
Descriptive study of febrile seizure in focal epilepsy patient in Hasan Sadkin Hospital

14:40-15:40

5. Clinical aspects of Dravet Syndrome and PCDH19 Clustering Epilepsy

Chair: Hideaki Shiraishi (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

14:40-15:00

Takeshi Suzuki (Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)
Effect of levodopa on pathological gait in Dravet syndrome: A randomized crossover trial using three-dimensional gait analysis

15:00-15:20

ByungChan Lim (Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, Seoul, Korea)
Differential diagnosis of Dravet syndrome at its seizure onset

15:20-15:40

Kenneth Myers (Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada)
Ictal Asystole in PCDH19-Related Epilepsy

17:30-19:00

Poster Session

19:00-20:00

6. Special lecture

Chair: Jun Natsume (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)

Charlotte Dravet (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy) (Web lecture)

Day 2 2024/5/31 Fri.

8:00-9:30

7. Febrile Illness and Neurometabolic Disorders

Chair: Masakazu Mimaki (Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan)
Tokiko Fukuda (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan)

8:00-8:50

Phillip L. Pearl, M.D. (Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA)
Metabolic Epilepsy: New Diagnosis and Treatment in the Genetic Era

8:50-9:10

Shyi-Jou Chen (Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan)

9:10-9:30

Asuri Narayan Prasad (Western University, Ontario, Canada)
Linking Febrile and Afebrile Seizures to Pyridoxine Responsiveness: A Treatable Epilepsy or a Hydra-headed Beast.

9:35-10:15

8. EEG for febrile seizures: Debate

Chair: Katsuhiro Kobayashi (Okayama University, Okayama, Japan)

9:35-9:55

Noboru Yoshida (Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)
Is interictal EEG helpful for febrile seizures? - cons: not really indicates sequalae

9:55-10:15

Hideaki Kanemura (Department of Pediatrics, Toho University Medical Center Sakura Hospital, Chiba, Japan)
Is interictal EEG helpful for febrile seizures? -pros: prediction about subsequent epilepsy

10:20-12:00

9. Febrile Status Epilepticus

Chair: Kenjiro Kikuchi (Saitama Children’s Medical Center, Saitama, Japan)
Kuriko Shimono (Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan)

10:20-10:50

Raman Sankar (University of California, Los Angeles, CA USA)
Pathophysiology of Self-Sustaining Seizures with Emphasis on Febrile Status Epilepticus

10:50-11:40

Douglas Nordli (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA)(Web lecture)
Development of epilepsy and the associated EEG findings from the FEBSAT study

11:40-12:00

Jun Natsume (Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)
A hippocampal diffusion abnormality after febrile status epilepticus is related to subsequent epilepsy

12:10-13:00

Luncheon Seminar 2

Chair: Mitsuhiro Kato (Showa University, Tokyo, Japan)

Vicente Villanueva (University and Polytechnic La Fe Hospital, Valencia, Spain.)
Quality of life of pediatric epilepsy: Focus on Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

13:20-14:50

10. Acute Encephalopathies

Chair: Masashi Mizuguchi (Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan)

13:20-13:50

Jun-ichi Takanashi (Tokyo Women's Medical University Yachiyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan)
Acute infectious encephalopathy in Japan, focusing on AESD and encephalopathy associated with COVID-19

13:50-14:20

Choong Yi Fong (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Approach and recognition of Infection-Triggered Encephalopathy Syndromes (ITES)

14:20-14:50

Terrence Thomas (KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore)
Treatments and interventions in the Infection-Triggered Encephalopathy Syndromes (ITES)

15:00-16:10

11. FIRES (febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome)

Chair: Hiroshi Sakuma (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan)

15:00-15:20

Ichiro Kuki (Department of Pediatric Neurology, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan)
Intrathecal dexamethasone therapy and epilepsy surgery to treat febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome

15:20-16:10

Ronny Wickstrom (Neuropediatric Unit, Dept of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden)
Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome (FIRES) in Children: Current concepts, Diagnosis and Management

16:10-

Closing Remarks

Jun Natsume (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)
Choong Yi Fong (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

17:30-19:00

Poster Session

19:30-

Party (Crowne Plaza - ANA Hotel Grand Court Nagoya)

Day 3 2024/6/1 Sat.

10:10-11:40

Joint Symposium of Infantile Seizure Society and Japanese Society of Child Neurology
“Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies”

Chair: Raman Sankar
Hideo Yamanouchi
Speakers: Ingrid Scheffer
Lee Wang-Tso
Yuji Ito
Ryoko Honda

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