Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Neurosurgery Department Cristo Redentor Hospital, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Hospital São José, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre RS, Brasil.

Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre

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3: Patel K, Olijnyk LD, Tsang ACO, Pereira VM, Radovanovic I. Craniocervical Junction Vertebral Artery Dural Arteriovenous Fistula With Cranial and Spinal Venous Reflux: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2019 Jul 17. pii: opz213. doi: 10.1093/ons/opz213. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31312840.

4: Thomaz A, Pinheiro KV, Souza BK, Gregianin L, Brunetto AL, Brunetto AT, de Farias CB, Jaeger MDC, Ramaswamy V, Nör C, Taylor MD, Roesler R. Antitumor Activities and Cellular Changes Induced by TrkB Inhibition in Medulloblastoma. Front Pharmacol. 2019 Jun 26;10:698. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00698. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31297057; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6606946.

5: Olijnyk LD, Patel K, Brandão MR, de Morais ANL, de Carvalho RF, Severino AG, Mayor D, da Silva CE, Stefani MA. The Role of Low-Cost Microsurgical Training Models and Experience with Exercises Based on a Bovine Heart. World Neurosurg. 2019 Jun 22;130:59-64. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.06.089. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31238170.

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8: Patel K, Budohoski KP, Olijnyk LD, Bulstrode H, Santarius T, Kirollos RW, Trivedi RA. Infratentorial Supracerebellar Approach for Resection of Midbrain Cavernous Malformation: 3-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2019 Jun 4. pii: opz114. doi: 10.1093/ons/opz114. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31162594.

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10: Rynkowski CB, de Oliveira Manoel AL, Dos Reis MM, Puppo C, Worm PV, Zambonin D, Bianchin MM. Early Transcranial Doppler Evaluation of Cerebral Autoregulation Independently Predicts Functional Outcome After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2019 May 17. doi: 10.1007/s12028-019-00732-5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31102237.

11: Ouriques Martins SC, Sacks C, Hacke W, Brainin M, de Assis Figueiredo F, Marques Pontes-Neto O, Lavados Germain PM, Marinho MF, Hoppe Wiegering A, Vaca McGhie D, Cruz-Flores S, Ameriso SF, Camargo Villareal WM, Durán JC, Fogolin Passos JE, Gomes Nogueira R, Freitas de Carvalho JJ, Sampaio Silva G, Cabral Moro CH, Oliveira-Filho J, Gagliardi R, Gomes de Sousa ED, Fagundes Soares F, de Pinho Campos K, Piza Teixeira PF, Gonçalves IP, Santos Carquin IR, Muñoz Collazos M, Pérez Romero GE, Maldonado Figueredo JI, Barboza MA, Celis López MÁ, Góngora-Rivera F, Cantú-Brito C, Novarro-Escudero N, Velázquez Blanco MÁ, Arbo Oze de Morvil CA, Olmedo Bareiro AB, Meza Rojas G, Flores A, Hancco-Saavedra JA, Pérez Jimenez V, Abanto Argomedo C, Rodriguez Kadota L, Crosa R, Mora Cuervo DL, de Souza AC, Carbonera LA, Álvarez Guzmán TF, Maldonado N, Cabral NL, Anderson C, Lindsay P, Hennis A, Feigin VL. Priorities to reduce the burden of stroke in Latin American countries. Lancet Neurol. 2019 Jul;18(7):674-683. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30068-7. Epub 2019 Apr 24. Review. Erratum in: Lancet Neurol. 2019 Jul;18(7):e6. PubMed PMID: 31029579.

12: Kennis BA, Michel KA, Brugmann WB, Laureano A, Tao RH, Somanchi SS, Einstein SA, Bravo-Alegria JB, Maegawa S, Wahba A, Kiany S, Gordon N, Silla L, Schellingerhout D, Khatua S, Zaky W, Sandberg D, Cooper L, Lee DA, Bankson JA, Gopalakrishnan V. Correction to: Monitoring of intracerebellarly-administered natural killer cells with fluorine-19 MRI. J Neurooncol. 2019 May;142(3):409. doi: 10.1007/s11060-019-03162-7. PubMed PMID: 30968268.

13: Lüders H, Akamatsu N, Amina S, Baumgartner C, Benbadis S, Bermeo-Ovalle A, Bleasel A, Bozorgi A, Carreño M, Devereaux M, Fernandez-Baca Vaca G, Francione S, García Losarcos N, Hamer H, Holthausen H, Jamal Omidi S, Kalamangalam G, Kanner A, Knake S, Lacuey N, Lhatoo S, Lim SH, Mani J, Matsumoto R, Miller J, Noachtar S, Palmini A, Park J, Rosenow F, Shahid A, Schuele S, Steinhoff B, Szabo CÁ, Tandon N, Terada K, Van Emde Boas W, Widdess-Walsh P, Kahane P. Critique of the 2017 epileptic seizure and epilepsy classifications. Epilepsia. 2019 Jun;60(6):1032-1039. doi: 10.1111/epi.14699. Epub 2019 Mar 28. PubMed PMID: 30924146.

14: Trevisan P, Graziadio C, Rodrigues DBK, Rosa RFM, Soares FP, Provenzi VO, de Oliveira CAV, Paskulin GA, Varella-Garcia M, Zen PRG. Clinical and Molecular Characterization of Adult Glioblastomas in Southern Brazil. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2019 Apr 1;78(4):297-304. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlz006. PubMed PMID: 30840759.

15: Worm PV, Finger G, Brasil AVB, Teles AR. Postoperative Supine Position Increases the Risk of Infection After Spinal Surgery by Posterior Approach. World Neurosurg. 2019 Mar 1. pii: S1878-8750(19)30509-1. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.02.098. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30831303.

16: Worm PV, Finger G, Ludwig do Nascimento T, Rynkowski CB, Collares MVM. The impact of cranioplasty on the patients' quality of life. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2019 May;47(5):715-719. doi: 10.1016/j.jcms.2019.01.040. Epub 2019 Feb 1. PubMed PMID: 30803855.

17: Baptista AF, Fernandes AMBL, Sá KN, Okano AH, Brunoni AR, Lara-Solares A, Jreige Iskandar A, Guerrero C, Amescua-García C, Kraychete DC, Caparelli-Daquer E, Atencio E, Piedimonte F, Colimon F, Hazime FA, Garcia JBS, Hernández-Castro JJ, Cantisani JAF, Karina do Monte-Silva K, Lemos Correia LC, Gallegos MS, Marcolin MA, Ricco MA, Cook MB, Bonilla P, Schestatsky P, Galhardoni R, Silva V, Delgado Barrera W, Caumo W, Bouhassira D, Chipchase LS, Lefaucheur JP, Teixeira MJ, de Andrade DC. Latin American and Caribbean consensus on noninvasive central nervous system neuromodulation for chronic pain management (LAC(2)-NIN-CP). Pain Rep. 2019 Jan 9;4(1):e692. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000692. eCollection 2019 Jan-Feb. Review. PubMed PMID: 30801041; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6370142.

18: Frizon LA, Yamamoto EA, Nagel SJ, Simonson MT, Hogue O, Machado AG. Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain in the Modern Era: A Systematic Review. Neurosurgery. 2019 Feb 25. pii: nyy552. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyy552. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30799493.

19: Carteri RB, Kopczynski A, Rodolphi MS, Strogulski NR, Sartor M, Feldmann M, De Bastiani MA, Duval Wannmacher CM, de Franceschi ID, Hansel G, Smith DH, Portela LV. Testosterone Administration after Traumatic Brain Injury Reduces Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration. J Neurotrauma. 2019 Jul 15;36(14):2246-2259. doi: 10.1089/neu.2018.6266. Epub 2019 Apr 9. PubMed PMID: 30794079; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6653807.

20: Kennis BA, Michel KA, Brugmann WB, Laureano A, Tao RH, Somanchi SS, Einstein SA, Bravo-Alegria JB, Maegawa S, Wahba A, Kiany S, Gordon N, Silla L, Schellingerhout D, Khatua S, Zaky W, Sandberg D, Cooper L, Lee DA, Bankson JA, Gopalakrishnan V. Monitoring of intracerebellarly-administered natural killer cells with fluorine-19 MRI. J Neurooncol. 2019 May;142(3):395-407. doi: 10.1007/s11060-019-03091-5. Epub 2019 Feb 20. Erratum in: J Neurooncol. 2019 Apr 9;:. PubMed PMID: 30788681.

21: Lüders H, Vaca GF, Akamatsu N, Amina S, Arzimanoglou A, Baumgartner C, Benbadis SR, Bleasel A, Bermeo-Ovalle A, Bozorgi A, Carreño M, Devereaux M, Francione S, Losarcos NG, Hamer H, Holthausen H, Jamal-Omidi S, Kalamangalam G, Kanner AM, Knake S, Lacuey N, Lhatoo S, Lim SH, Londoño LV, Mani J, Matsumoto R, Miller JP, Noachtar S, Palmini A, Park J, Rosenow F, Shahid A, Schuele S, Steinhoff BJ, Ákos Szabó C, Tandon N, Terada K, Boas WVE, Widdess-Walsh P, Kahane P. Classification of paroxysmal events and the four-dimensional epilepsy classification system. Epileptic Disord. 2019 Feb 1;21(1):1-29. doi: 10.1684/epd.2019.1033. Review. PubMed PMID: 30782582.

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23: Paim Strapasson AC, Martins Antunes ÁC, Petry Oppitz P, Dalsin M, de Mello Rieder CR. Postoperative Confusion in Patients with Parkinson Disease Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus. World Neurosurg. 2019 Feb 11. pii: S1878-8750(19)30328-6. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.01.216. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30763744.

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WFNS Education course Porto Alegre, November 17-20, 2016 Organized by the WFNS Education Committee Chairmen: H Bertalanffy, C Di Rocco Local Organizer: Prof Apio Antunes FACULTY International: 1 Miguel Arraez, Spain marraezs@commalaga.com 2 Armando Basso, Argentina armandobasso@gmail.com 3 Maurice Choux, France mchoux4842@numericable.fr 4 Concezio Di Rocco, Italy-Germany profconceziodirocco@gmail.com 5 Sherif Ezzat, Egypt sherifezzat10@gmail.com 6 Fusao Ikawa . Japan fikawa-nsu@umin.ac.jp 7 Yoko Kato, Japan kyoko@fujita-hu.ac.jp 8 Ekkehard Kasper , USA ekasper@bidmc.harvard.edu 9 Kentaro Mori , Japan kmori@ndmc.ac.jp 10 Vincenzo Paterno'. Germany paterno@Ini-hannover.de 11 Christian Raftopoulos ,Belgium christian.raftopoulos@uclouvain.be 12 Scott Robertson. USA s.robertson.md@gmail.com

National: 1. Paulo Henrique Aguiar Phpaneurocir@gmail.com 2. Luis Felipe Alencastro lfalencastro@me.com 3. Apio Antunes apioantunes@gmail.com

4. Hildo Azevedo Filho azevedoh@uol.com.br

5. Leonardo Frighetto lfrighetto@hotmail.com 6. Francine Hehn franhehn@gmail.com 7. Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira manoeljacobsen@gmail.com 8. Ricardo Ramina ramina@inc-neuro.com.br 9. Leonardo Vedolin leonardovedolin@hotmail.com WFNS Education course Program DAY ONE (17 November 2016) 13.00-18.30 HYDROCEPHALUS WORKSHOP Sponsored by Karl Storz GmbH and Co and Surgiwear Co. Chairmen : Maurice Choux (Marseille, France), Concezio Di Rocco (Hannover, Germany) Participants : Yoko Kato (Nagoya, Japan), Hildo Azevedo (Recife, Brazil), Jose Luis Alencastro (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Leandro Kubagawa(Brazil) 13.00-13.10 Introduction M Choux, C Di Rocco 13.10-13.30 Endoscopy : how did it change the Surgical Approach to Hydrocephalus C. Di Rocco 13.30-14.00 How to perform a Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunt M. Choux 14.00- 14.20 Hydrocephalus associated to Myelo-Meningocele C. Di Rocco 14.20-14.40 How to prevent Shunt infection M. Choux 14.40-15.00 How I do it : External Ventricular Drainage M. Choux 15.00-15.20 Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus H. Azevedo

15.20-15.40 Coffee Break 15.40-16.00 How to perform an Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy C. Di Rocco 16.00-16.20 Endoscopic third Ventriculostomy : where are we today ? H. Azevedo 16.20-16.40 Endoscopy in Hydrocephalus : difficulties and recurrences L. Alencastro 16.40-18.30 HANDS-ON ENDOSCOPY Leandro Kubagawa , Yoko Kato, Hildo Azevedo, Jose Luis Alencastro, C. Di Rocco, M. Choux DAY TWO (18 November, 2016) 08.00- 08-20 Welcome, Presentation of the course: Apio Antunes, Concezio Di Rocco Session I TUMORS I Supratentorial 08.20 10.50 08.20 -08.50 New trends in neuroimaging L. Vedolin 08.50-09.20 The WHO new CNS tumors classification F.Hehn 09.20-09.50 Pituitary surgery- how we got here! A. Basso 09.50-10.20 Clival tumors: from microsurgery to endoscopy M Arraez 10.20-10.50 Optic pathways and hypothalamic tumors M Choux 10.50-11.10 Coffee break Session II TUMORS II Supratentorial 11.10-13.00 11.10-11.35 Current treatment options for glioblastoma multiforme S Ezzat 11.35-11.50 Impact of intraoperative MRI on glioblastoma surgery and survival C Raftopoulos 11.50-12.15 Surgical Removal of Petroclival Meningiomas R Ramina HOW I DO IT (15’+5’) 12.15-12.35 Giant olfactory groove meningiomas E Kasper 12.35-12.55 The subfrontal-interhemispheric approach to the suprasellar area and third ventricle M Arraez

13.00-14.00 Lunch Session III TUMORS III 14.00-15.30 14.00-14.30 Intraventricular tumors E Kasper 14.30-15.00 The concept of minimally invasive neurosurgery A Basso 15.00-15.30 Complex cranial surgery for neoplastic lesions E Kasper 15.30-16.00 Stereotactic neurosurgery treatment for brain metastasis L Frighetto 16.00-16.30 Coffee break Session IV SPINE I 16.30-17.00 Degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine: overall management S Robertson 17.00-17.30 Minimal invasive lumbar surgery with neuronavigation based on intraoperative robotic 3D fluoroscopy C Raftopoulos HOW I DO IT 17.30-17.50 Spondylitis and spondylolisthesis: How I manage them. S Robertson 17.50-18.10 Brachial plexus lesions V Paterno’ 18.10-18.30 Anterior approach for cervical discs S Robertson DAY THREE ( 19, NOVEMBER, 2016) Session V Vascular 08.00-13.00 08.00-08.30 Initial management of subarachnoid hemorrhage S Ezzat 08.30-09.00 Aneurysm – Management of aneurismal SAH - H Azevedo 09.00-09.30 Advances in aneurysm surgery Y Kato 09.30-10.00 Surgical management of middle cerebral aneurysms in a multidisciplinary group C Raftopoulos 10.00-10.30 Trans-cavernous approach and bypass technique to manage complicated cerebral aneurysms K Mori 10.30-11.00 Coffee break How I do it 11.00-11.25 Preoperative simulation for cerebral aneurysm and F Ikawa skull base tumors 11.25-11.50 Keyhole clipping techniques to treat unruptured cerebral aneurysms K Mori 11.50-12.15 Technical principles of AVM Surgery Y Kato 12.15-12.50 Carotid endarterectomy A Antunes 13.00-14.30 Lunch Session VI PEDIATRICS 14.30-16.00 14.30-15.00 Craniopharyngiomas C Di Rocco 15.00-15.30 Medulloblastomas M Choux 15.30-16.00 Management of complex craniosynostoses C Di Rocco 16.00-16.20 Coffee break Session VII FUNCTIONAL/PAIN 16.20-18.00 16.20-16.45 Anterior temporal lobectomy amigdalo-hipocampectomy (Spencer technique). Surgical nuances PH Aguiar 16.45-17.10 Neurosurgical procedures for psychiatric diseases MJ Teixeira

17.10-17.35 Surgical management of refractory pain C Raftopoulos

17.35-18 .00 Neuromodulation and abnormal movements. What do we know? What to expect for the future ? MJ Teixeira

DAY FOUR ( 20, NOVEMBER, 2016) Session VIII TUMORS IV Infratentorial 08.30 11.00 08.30-08.55 Skull base approach for posterior fossa lesions F Ikawa 08.55-09.20 Cerebello-pontine angle region approach V Paterno’ 09.20-09.45 Acoustic schwannoma surgery . Tips and tricks E. Paglioli Neto 09.45-10.10 Brain stem tumors in children M Choux HOW I DO IT : 10.10-10.35 Surgical approach to ponto-mesencephalic tumors M Arraez 10.35-11.00 Supracerebellar approach H Azevedo 11.00-11.20 Coffee break Session IX TRAUMA/INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION 11.20-13.00 11.20-11.50 Head injuries in children M Choux 11.50-12.20 Decompressive post-traumatic craniotomy: The experience of Recife neurosurgical team H Azevedo 12.20-12.50 Decompressive craniotomy in post-ischemic malignant intracranial hypertension A Antunes 13.00-14.30 Farewell A Antunes/C Di Rocco