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4th Vienna Symposium on Surgery of Peripheral Nerves
Present State of
Peripheral Nerve Surgery
and how to improve the Results
March 23-25, 2012 • General Hospital Lecture Halls, Vienna, Austria
Organiser: Millesi Center Vienna
Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration and
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical and Experimental Traumatology
Organization
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Hanno Millesi
Robert Schmidhammer
David Chiu
Andreas Greslehner
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Patronage
Content
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
Organization
Welcome
General Information
Social Programme
Conference Venue
Programme at a Glance
Scientific Programme
Sponsors & Exhibotors
Michael Häupl
Mayor of the City of Vienna
Alois Stöger
Austrian Minister for Health
Wolfgang Schütz
Rector of the Medical University of Vienna
Responsible for content: H. Millesi
All contents are subject to changes.
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Welcome
Similar to the previous symposia we will this year have a very strong session
on research with presentation of recent advances. In contrast to the past, the
symposium will be introduced by a session where surgeons present optimal results
of peripheral nerve and brachial plexus repair. This is not to glorify themselves but
to show what at least theoretically should be possible to achieve and to articulate
what they would like to get as far as improvement is concerned. Special attention
is paid to include cerebral plasticity into consideration. At the end a vivid discussion
between research and clinic should result.
The second important topic will be dedicated to the important role of connective
tissues in general and fascial tissue in special as it attracts more and more interest in
recent years. Of course an interesting free paper session is included.
Our team hopes that all participants will enjoy their stay in Vienna. We will anyway
try our best.
The Millesi Center
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General Information
Registration
The registration desk will be situated in front of Lecture Room 3 on Level 7 of the Vienna General Hospital
Registration hours
Friday, March 23, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
15:00 – 17:00 hrs at the Vienna General Hospital
18:00 – 19:00 hrs at the Wiener Privatklinik
07:30 – 17:00 hrs
08:00 – 16:30 hrs
Registration Fees in EURO
Regular Fee
Trainees*
Studens**
Social Program: Mozart and Strauss Concert – Palais Palffy***
EUR 400.EUR 300.EUR 200.EUR 60.-
* Surgeons in training may request a reduced congress fee by bringing a short CV and a letter of certification by their head of
department.
** Copy of Students ID mandatory
*** Registration and payment are mandatory in advance!
The registration fee covers
Admission to all Scientific Sessions, Exhibition and Welcome Reception
Coffee breaks, Lunches
Abstract book and Programme
Official Conference Language
English
Coffee Breaks & Lunch
Coffee Breaks and Lunch are included in the registration fee and will be served in front of the meeting rooms
Certificates
Certificates of attendance will be handed out at the registration desk.
Awards:
Millesi Award – Sunday, 13.30 – 14.00h
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General Information
Information for Speakers
We kindly ask all presenters to hand in their presentations to the technician preferably in the morning of the
day of their talk but no later than in the break before the start of the session. Please bring an USB-stick or
CD-ROM compatible with Windows as all lecture rooms are equipped exclusively with Windows-PCs. You may
want to carry a second disk/CD as a back-up in case there is any unsolvable technical problem. In case you
absolutely need to use your own laptop or notebook, we would kindly ask you to contact our technicians well
in advance.
Speaking Time
Please note your speaking time indicated in the detailed scientific programme and be aware that the time
also includes discussion time. The chairpersons are asked to pay attention to the exact speaking times to avoid
any program changes and delays.
Social Programme
Friday, March 23, 2012
18.30 hrs
Welcome Reception at the Wiener Privatklinik
Pelikangasse 15, 1090 Vienna
Please note that the attendance at this event is free of
charge, however, registration is mandatory in advance!
Saturday, March 24, 2012 20.00 hrs
Mozart and Strauss Concert
Palais Palffy
Josefsplatz 6, 1010 Vienna
Vienna Walzer Concerts: We are performing for you in the heart of the inner-city of Vienna. The location of our concert hall is at the
world famous Palais PALFFY (14th Century), in the FIGARO HALL where Mozart gave Concerts at 1762 with his sister. You will be able
to hear some of the most beautiful and famous Viennese melodies: Mozart‘s Little Night Music, arias and duets of „The Magic Flute“, a
violin concerto, melodies by Johann Strauss as the Blue Danube Waltz, the Tritsch Tratsch Polka, arias and duets from „Vienna Blood“,
„The Bat“, „Gypsy Baron“ and many more.
Ticket à € 60,00 (category A) incl. 1 glass of sparkling wine
Palais Palffy: The house was first mentioned in the 14th century archive files. In the 15th century the Palais was owned by Count Paul
Eberhard Palffy von Erdöd and remained property of the Palffy family until the end of the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th
century, the palace was renovated along with the historical middle facade. The house was rebuilt after being damaged during World
War II, and today is one of the most beautiful palaces in Vienna. A remarkable date for the culture and history was October 16th, 1762
when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave a concert in the Figaro-Saal, together with his sister Nannerl.
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Information for Speakers
Conference Venue
We kindly ask all presenters to hand in their presentations to the technician preferably in
the morning of the day of their talk but no later than in the break before the start of the
session. Please bring an USB-stick or CD-ROM compatible with Windows as all lecture
Viennaare
General
Hospital
rooms
equipped
exclusively with Windows-PCs. You may want to carry a second
Lecture Centre
disk/CD
as a back-up in case there is any unsolvable technical problem. In case you
(Allgemeines
Krankenhaus
– AKH,
absolutely
need
to use your
own Hörsaalzentrum)
laptop or notebook, we would kindly ask you to contact
Lecture
Hall 3, Level
7 in advance. The congress also provides a preview room with laptops
our
technicians
well
were
you are
able
to prepare for your lecture.
Währinger
Gürtel
18-20
1090 Vienna, Austria
Speaking Time
Please
note your speaking time indicated in the detailed scientific programme and be
Public Transportation
aware
that
the time
also
time.
The by
chairpersons
are line
asked
to pay
The Vienna General
Hospital
(theincludes
congress discussion
venue) is easily
reachable
taking the subway
U6 (brown
attention to the exact speaking times to avoid any program changes and delays.
line) to the station “Michelbeuern – Allgemeines Krankenhaus”. It can also be reached with the tramway 42,
the tramway 5 and 33 (stop “Lazarettgasse”) as well as the tramways 43 and 44 (stop “Alser Straße”).
Map of the Vienna General Hospital
(Hörsaalzentrum) on Level 7
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Conference
Venue
GENERAL INFORMATION
of theHalls
Lecture Halls
Map Map
of the Lecture
(Hörsaalzentrum)
(Hörsaalzentrum)
on Level 7 on Level 7
PNS
PNS2012
2012
Lectures
Lectures
Registration,
Registration,
Exhibition,
Exhibition,
Posters,
Coffee,
Coffee
Lunch
Elevators,
Elevators,
Moving
Moving
Walkway
Walkway
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Programme at a Glance
Friday, March 23, 2012
15.00 - 17.00 hrs
18.00 hrs
18.30 hrs
Registration at the Vienna General Hospital
Registration at the “Wiener Privatklinik”
Welcome Reception at the “Wiener Privatklinik”, Pelikangasse 15, 1090 Vienna
Saturday, March 24, 2012
08.45 – 09.00 hrs
09.00 – 10.45 hrs
10.45 – 11.00 hrs
11.00 – 12.45 hrs
11.45 – 12.45 hrs 12.45 – 14.00 hrs
14.00 – 15.30 hrs
15.30 – 15.45 hrs
15.45 – 16.30 hrs
Welcome
Session I - Present State of Peripheral Nerve Surgery
Coffee break
Session II - Present State of Research in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Session II - Present State of Research in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration –
Research Papers I
Lunch
Session II - Present State of Research in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration –
Research Papers II
Coffee break
Session III - Cerebral Plasticity
Sunday, March 25, 2012
08.00 – 08.30 hrs
08.30 – 10.45 hrs
10.45 – 11.00 hrs
11.00 – 12.00 hrs
12.00 – 13.00 hrs
13.00 – 13.30 hrs
13.30 – 14.00 hrs
14.00 – 16.30 hrs
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Session IV - Movements of Tissues as a General Principle
Session V - Neurolysis and Related Problems
Coffee break
Session VI - Donor Site Morbidity and Painful Neuroma
Lunch
Session VII - Spinal Cord Lesions
Millesi Award
Session VIII - Free Papers
Scientific Programme Saturday, March 24, 2012
08.45 - 09.00
Welcome
09.00 - 10.45
Session I - Present State of Peripheral Nerve Surgery
Chair: H. Millesi, D.T.W. Chiu
09.00 - 09.15
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What can we expect from peripheral nerve surgery today?
Robert Schmidhammer
09.15 - 09.30
Functional outcome 30 years after median and ulnar nerve repair in
childhood and adolescence
A. Chemnitz, A. Björkman, L.B. Dahlin, B. Rosen
09.30 - 09.45
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Results after reconstruction of lesions of the brachial plexus
M. Becker and F. Lassner
09.45 - 10.00
What results by brachial plexus surgery of severe cases can be expected
under optimal conditions today?
H. Millesi and R. Schmidhammer
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Results after surgical treatment of severe post-traumatic brachial plexus
lesions under optimal conditions
Liang Chen
10.15 - 10.45
Discussion - What do we want to improve our results?
10.45 - 11.00
Break
11.00 - 11.45
Session II - Present State of Research in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Chair: T. Gordon, L. Dahlin
11.00 - 11.15
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Present Stage of Research (On invitation)
Tessa Gordon
11.15 - 11.30
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Present Stage of Research (On invitation)
David T.W. Chiu
11.30 - 11.45
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Present Stage of Research (On invitation)
Lars Dahlin
10.00 - 10.15
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Scientific Programme Saturday, March 24, 2012
11.45 - 12.45
11.45 - 12.00
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Two strategies of brief (1 hour) low frequency (20Hz) electrical stimulation
(ES) and of “protection” of a chronically denervated nerve stump by axons
from a donor nerve improve nerve regeneration after delayed nerve repair
in Sprague Dawley rats
T. Gordon, N. Tyreman, G.H. Borschel, A. Ladak
12.00 - 12.15
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Improved rate of peripheral nerve regeneration induced by extracorporeal
shock wave treatment in the rat
Thomas Hausner, Krisztián Pajer, Gabriel Halat, Rudolf Hopf, Robert Schmidhammer,
Heinz Redl, Antal Nógrádi
12.15 - 12.30
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Growth factor-dependent signaling in adult neurons – Novel approaches to
speed up axon Regeneration
L. Klimaschewski, B. Hausott
12.30 - 12.45
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12.45 - 14.00
Signal transduction mechanisms after nerve injury and repair in healthy
and diabetic rats
L.L.B. Dahlin, L. Martenson, L. Stenberg, M. Kanje
Lunch
Session II - Present State of Research in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration –
Research Papers II
Chair: T. Gordon, L. Dahlin
14.00 - 14.15
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Can regenerated nerve fibers return to normal size?
S. Geuna, L. Muratori, G. Ronchi, M. Fornaro, P. Tos, B. Battiston
14.15 - 14.30
Motoneuron survival and elongative axonal growth induced by
spatiotemporally restricted ex vivo BDNF gene therapy
Gholam Pajenda, Gábór Márton, David Hercher, Georg A. Feichtinger, Heinz Redl,
Antal Nógrádi
14.00 - 15.30
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14.30 - 14.45
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Session II - Present State of Research in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration –
Research Papers I
Chair: T. Gordon, L. Dahlin
Delayed reinnervation induced by cervical motoneurons rescued by riluzole
treatment after ventral root avulsion injury
Antal Nógrádi, Balázs Gloviczki, Dénes Török, Gábor Márton, Sándor Pínter
Scientific Programme Saturday, March 24, 2012
14.45 - 15.00
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15.00 - 15.15
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Schwann-like Cells- Neural Differentiation of rat Adipose Derived Stem Cells
for improvement of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Christina M. A. P. Schuh, Asmita Banerjee, Shorena Mosia, Rudolf Hopf, Christian Grasl,
Heinrich Schima, R. Schmidhammer, Heinz Redl, Dominik Rünzler, Tatjana J. Morton
Tissue Engineered Guided Regenerative Gel for Recovery of Peripheral Nerve
Injury with Massive Loss Defect
S. Rochkind, M. Alon, M. Graif, Y. Shapira, E. Reider, Z. Nevo
A multicenter Registry Evaluating Outcomes after Peripheral Nerve
Reconstruction with Processed Nerve Allograft
G. Buncke, S. Bauback, B. Parrett, R. Weber, B. Rinker, M. Chao, J. Ingari, D. Brooks
15.30 - 15.45
Break
15.45 - 16.45
Session III - Cerebral Plasticity
Chair: S. Geuna, A. Nogradi
15.45 - 16.00
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Brain Plasticity as a Corner Stone of Peripheral Nerve Repair
R. Schmidhammer and H. Millesi
16.00 - 16.15
A new type of cortical neuroplasticity after nerve repair in brachial plexus
lesions
R. Beisteiner, H. Millesi, W. Grisold, R. Schmidhammer
15.15 - 15.30
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Multimethodological functional data in an early stage end to side
coaptation patient
R. Beisteiner, R. Schmidhammer, H. Millesi
16.30
Round Table and General Discussion
Chair: H. Millesi, D.T.W. Chiu
16.15 - 16.30
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Scientific Programme Sunday, March 25, 2012
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08.00 - 08.30
Session IV - Movements of Tissues as a General Principle
Chair: M. Becker, S. Rochkind
08.00 - 08.30
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Movements of tissues as a General Principle
H. Millesi, R. Schmidhammer, A. Nogradi, G. Bodner, T. Hausner, S. Kalbhen
08.30 - 10.45
Session V - Neurolysis and Related Problems
Chair: M. Becker, S. Rochkind
08.30 - 08.45
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08.45 - 09.00
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Passive Movement of Peripheral Nerves
H. Millesi, G. Bodner, R. Schmidhammer
09.00 - 09.15
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Clinical results of interfascicular neurolysis
F. Lassner and M. Becker
09.15 - 09.30
Brachial Plexus Compression Syndromes secondary to Costoclavicular
Pseudarthrosis
M. Schmidt, O.C. Aszmann, S. Hacker, M. Frey
09.30 - 09.45
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Posttraumatic Double-Crush Syndrome
A. Alexandre
09.45 - 10.00
Environment engineering as an approach for treatment of neuropathic pain
secondary to injury
David TW Chiu, Shawn Kutnik
10.00 - 10.15
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Microsurgical management of severe cauda equina arachnoiditis
S. Rochkind, M. Alon, Y. Shapira, Z. Lidar, K. Salame
10.15 - 10.30
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Neurolysis: Terminology of tissues, procedures and topical terms
H. Millesi, R. Schmidhammer
10.30 - 10.45
Discussion
10.45 - 11.00
Break
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Neurolysis: Indication, Technique and Results
R. Schmidhammer, B. Bodner, H. Millesi
Scientific Programme Sunday, March 25, 2012
11.00 - 12.00
Session VI - Donor Site Morbidity and Painful Neuroma
Chair: J. Bahm, T. Hausner
11.00 - 11.15
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Donor site morbidity after contralateral nerve transfers
M.Becker and F.Lassner
11.15 - 11.30
Residual symptoms following the use of the sural nerve for nerve
Reconstructions
L. B. Dahlin, A. Hallgren, A. Chemnitz and A. Björkman
11.30 - 11.45
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Donor Nerve Morbidity
R. Schmidhammer and H. Millesi
11.45 - 12.00
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Treatment of painful neuromata
M. Becker, F. Lassner, B. Sellhaus, J. Weiss, B. Klosterhalfen, H. Kaesmacher
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 13.30
Session VII - Spinal Cord Lesions
Chair: R. Schmidhammer, A. Gohritz
13.00 - 13.15
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Paraspinal nerve transfer in spinal cord lesions
M. Becker, F. Trommer, F. Lassner
13.15 - 13.30
Nerve Transfers to Improve Upper Extremity Function in Tetraplegia –
Literature Review, Anatomical Feasibility and Clinical Case
Andreas Gohritz, Peter M. Vogt, Jan Fridén
13.30 - 14.00
Millesi Award
14.00 - 16.30
Session VIII - Free Papers
Chair: A. Alexandre, L. Chen
14.00 - 14.15
Video-assisted multifactorial movement analysis to explore upper limb
motion chains
Jörg Bahm and C. Disselhorst-Klug
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14.15 - 14.30
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Constituent ratio of motor fibers of the C5C6C7 spinal nerves in the radial
nerve is more in pup rats than in adult ones
Ming-bo Nie, Liang Chen, Yu-dong Gu
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Scientific Programme Sunday, March 25, 2012
Semi-Quantifying of Components of the C7 Spinal Nerve in the Upper and
Lower Subscapular Nerves Innervating the Subscapularis and Its Clinical
Implications in Erb’s Palsy
Le-zi Chen, Liang Chen, Yue Zhu, Yu-dong Gu
14.45 - 15.00
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The dorsal approach to the suprascapular nerve
Jörg Bahm
15.00 – 15.15
The method of elbow joint movement restoration in lesion of long branches
of brachial plexus
A.V. Borzykh, A.N. Sotnik, N.A. Borzykh, Yu.A. Borzykh
15.15 – 15.30
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A clinical application of “secured” nerve coaptation
A.V. Borzykh, A.N. Sotnik, N.A. Borzykh, Yu.A. Borzykh, A.A. Oprishchenko
15.30 - 15.45
Nicolaus Rüdinger (1832-1896) and his first description of joint innervation
in 1857 and the history of modern joint denervation techniques
Andreas Gohritz
14.30 - 14.45
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15.45 – 16.00
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16.00 - 16.15
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Features of Peripheral Nerves Restoration of Upper Extremity in Patients
with Ischemic Volkmann’s Contracture
S.S. Strafun, O.D. Gayko, O.V. Dolgopolov
The feature of the development of the wrist clawing during ulnar nerve
injuries
Gevorg Yaghjyan, Ara Nazaryan
16.30
Summaries and Closing Remarks
16.15 – 16.30
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Treatment of persistent radial nerve palsy by transfer of flexor carpi ulnaris
muscle
J. Gousheh
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