35th Annual Carrell-Krusen Neuromuscular Symposium
Thursday – Friday, February 14 – 15, 2013
Course Logistics
| General Information | Instructional Team |
| Agenda | Registration |
| Call for Abstracts |
Thursday, February 14, 2013 | |
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| 7 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 7:45 a.m. | Introduction & Announcements -Susan T. Iannaccone |
| Session I Moderators: Srikanth Muppidi and Perry Shieh |
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| 8 a.m. | A curious case of an acute-onset asymmetric lower extremity weakness - F. Shu |
| 8:30 a.m. | 12-year-old boy with rigid spine - H. Gilbreath |
| 9 a.m. | Autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia - L. Phillips |
| 9:30 a.m. | Post-operative bulbar weakness - H. Chen |
| 10 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session II Moderators: Jaya Trivedi and Richard Barohn |
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| 10:30 a.m. | 65-year-old with lifelong progressive weakness - P. B. Shieh |
| 10:45 a.m. | 17-year-old boy with progressive bilateral foot-drop - E. Gerena-Maldonado |
| 11 a.m. | Abs of steel - S. Parikh |
| 11:15 a.m. | A case with early respiratory weakness - J. Dearlove |
| 11:30 a.m. | More support for the lumpers out there - N. Parziale |
| 11:45 a.m. | An unusual congenital myopathy - K. Anis |
| 12 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session III Moderator: Matt Wicklund |
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| 1 – 2:30 p.m. | Case report of motor cognitive and behavioral disturbances in Klinefelter’s Syndrome - J. Thonhoff |
| The role of electrodiagnostic testing in a case series of infants who present with hypotonia - A. Witt |
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| HIV seroconversion, quadriplegia, and neuropathy - Y. Jin |
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| Establishing a registry for oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy patients and family members: benefits and barriers - S. Youssof |
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| Acute onset motor neuronopathy with longitudinally extensive cord lesion without overt cord symptomatology - V. Prakash |
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| A 23 month old infant with a sodium channelopathy (SCN4A) defect associated with congenital myasthenic syndrome - R. Ninan |
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| Double trouble - A. Soriano Caminero |
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| A neonate with nemaline rod myopathy and abnormal mitochondria - L. Boukarrou |
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| Immune- mediation and the culprit in focal neuropathies - T. Squire |
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| A complicated case of GAD antibody syndrome - S. Smith |
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| Mitochondrial disease and PLEDS - R. Riel-Romero |
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| Small fiber neuropathy in adolescents with neurocardiogenic syncope and dysautonomia - S. Moody |
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| Transthyretin receptor amyloid neuropathy presenting as chronic immune mediated demyelinating polyneuropathy - D. Kassar |
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| Chronic inflammatory polyradiculonneuropathy (CIDP) secondary to ipilimumab therapy in a patient with metastatic melanoma - S. Shivaprasad |
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| Further characteristics of repetitive compound muscle action potential in congenital slow-channel myasthenic syndrome - B. Malo |
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| Rapidly progressive head ptosis - T. Cash |
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| Facial onset sensory motor neuropathy syndrome - H. Patel |
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| Sensory neuropathy/neuronopathy and oscillopsia - B. Liou |
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| Incidence and risk factors of side effects of outpatient plasmapheresis in patients with neuromuscular diseases - N. Hussin |
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| A case of selenium-deficient myopathy - P. Kunecka |
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| Session IV Moderators: Tahseen Mozaffar and Emily Herndon |
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| 2:45 p.m. | A case of hemibody pain - D. Jabari |
| 2:55 p.m. | Epimysial tissue: usually discarded, but it can assist diagnosis - J. Fratkin |
| 3:05 p.m. | A novel mutation and unusual presentation - L. Davis |
| 3:15 p.m. | SH3TC2 mutations - O. Sanmaneechai |
| 3:25 p.m. | A child with progressive lower extremity weakness and a “twist” - P. Mancias |
| 3:35 p.m. | Weakness and nonischemic cardiomyopathy - L. Wang |
| 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:15 p.m. | Elevated CK and muscle soreness in a weight lifting African-American male - R. Reinsvold |
| 4:25 p.m. | Glycogen breakdown is preserved during exercise - L. Sharp |
| 4:35 p.m. | Late-onset VLCAD deficiency - V. Sharma |
| 4:45 p.m. | Inclusion body myositis and sarcoidosis - O. Sanmaneechai |
| 4:55 p.m. | Cardiomyopathy case - E. Zakhem |
| 5:05 p.m. | Proximal muscle weakness masquerading as polymositis - A. Prabhu |
| 5:15 p.m. | Tongue weakness in a patient with myopathy - B. Zamanifekri |
Friday, February 15, 2013 | |
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| 7 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 7:45 a.m. | Welcome and Announcements - Susan Iannaccone |
| Session V Moderators: Gil Wolfe, M.D. and Steven Vernino, M.D. |
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| 8 a.m. | Post viral dysautonomia - L. Phillips |
| 8:15 a.m. | Clinical characteristics and health outcomes of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy in a single-center longitudinal cohort - S. Youssof |
| 8:30 a.m. | The clinical spectrum of lower motor neuron syndrome - A. Sanderson |
| 8:45 a.m. | Osteoporosis in neuromuscular medicine - A. Soriano Caminero |
| 9 a.m. | Carrell Krusen Lecture - C. Thornton |
| 10 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session VI Moderators: Sharon Nationsand Pedro Mancias |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Not PFK deficiency - L. Sharp |
| 10:45 a.m. | Subcutaneous immunoglobulin use in neuromuscular patients who could not use or tolerate intravenous immunoglobulin: case series - M. Kazamel |
| 11 a.m. | IBMFRS yearly change in inclusion body myositis - M. Tahmasbi Sohi |
| 11:15 a.m. | Retrospective case series of multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) - B. Bittel |
| 11:30 a.m. | Sensitivity of primary lateral sclerosis criteria - B. Zamanifekri |
| 11:45 a.m. | Predictors of muscle biopsy outcome in a tertiary neuromuscular center - J. Jasem |
| 12 p.m. | Effect of hypovitaminosis D on nerve conduction studies in diabetic neuropathy - A. Neelakantan |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session VII Moderators: Diana Castro and Kazim Sheikh |
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| 1:15 p.m. | Abdominal pain and eosinophilia - B. Bittel |
| 1:25 p.m. | Case of autophagic vacuoles with sarcolemmal features - M. Tahmasbi Sohi |
| 1:35 p.m. | An uncommon presentation of polymyositis - N. Silvestri |
| 1:45 p.m. | Episodes of weakness - J. Bodensteiner |
| 1:55 p.m. | A case of progressive external ophthalmoplegia - S. Yegiaian |
| 2:10 p.m. | An unusual cause of proximal muscle weakness and elevated creative kinase - C. Ford |
| 2:25 p.m. | Two children who actually do not have cerebral palsy - N. Kuntz |
| 2:40 p.m. | A case of episodic weakness and myotonia - J. Rhee |