At the begging of the first day of the ESOC an interesting section was introduced by the Chairs Heinrich Mattle and Valery Feigin on “Extracranial and Intracranial Large Vessel Disease”. The first presentation by Mike Sharma deals with an interesting question on the management of carotid disease: should antiplatelet be combined with anticoagulation in people […]
Media Release Milan, 22 May 2019 The 5th annual European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) presents developments across the full spectrum of care – from acute intervention to robot-assisted rehabilitation and secondary prevention RESTART: Now clinicians can be reassured that antiplatelet drugs are safe after brain bleeds RATULS: Overall no direct effect of robot-assisted training, but […]
As the day came to a close on the day before the official start of ESOC 2019, the 2nd ESO-WISE Stroke Leadership Workshop took place. With over 50 participants and speakers from both Europe and North America the discussion was flowing. It was a great workshop, focusing on solutions, rather than challenges! The Chair of […]
by Milan R Vosko, MD, PhD, FESO, for the ESO-EAST Steering Committee. Stroke specialists and coordinators from 28 countries have met in the beautiful Italian city of Milan one day prior to ESOC 2019 to share the progress in quality of stroke management in their countries and to exchange the experiences. Chairs of the workshop, […]
It is May 22 and, the day is as bright as a Leonardo’s idea and Milan is going to host the 5th European Stroke Organisation Conference. Indeed, Milan hosted the genius from Vinci too, in late XV Century. As everyone knows, Leonardo was a genius able to put thoughts into action, to imagine divine faces […]
5th Annual ESO Conference Extends Program to Accommodate Unprecedented Number of High Quality and Late Breaking Submissions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Switzerland, 14 May 2019 – The European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) has been gaining in size and popularity since its inception in 2015 and is now firmly established as the premier European forum for stroke […]
Dr Jatinder S. Minhas, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. This brief clinical review was prompted following a recent study by Goto et al. (2019) Geriatrics and Gerontology International.1 An 83 year old white female, Nora, is found on the floor by her carer having fallen sometime […]
Improvement of international stroke research networks can increase efficiency and reduce waste in clinical trials of stroke treatments. The ESO Trials Alliance (ESOTA) is a new academic initiative led by the ESO Trials Network Committee, on behalf of ESO. Authors: Diana Aguiar de Sousa and Else Charlotte Sandset The ESO Trials Alliance (ESOTA) published today […]
Interview with Grégoire Boulouis, MD MSc, Fellow of the ESO, Department of Neuroradiology, Université Paris Descartes, Sainte Anne Hospital, Paris, France Interviewed by Johannes Kaesmacher MD, from the Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. Dear Greg, first of all, many thanks for agreeing to do this interview. Would you mind telling […]