27th Annual Meeting

Preliminary Programme - 16 January 2025

Time Chairs Topic/activity
9h00 - 10h45 Chairs:
Paul Muresan
Marie-Luise Mono
Welcome by SSS president and local chair

(Swiss/ESO) Guideline session

Basilar Artery Occlusion
Patrik Michel, Lausanne

Brain Heart Group
Mira Katan, Basel

Intracerebral haemorrhage
David Seiffge, Bern

Neuroradiology/MRI
Advanced MRI to reveal mechanisms of small vessel disease
Eric Jouvent, Paris

10h45 - 11h15 Coffee break in the industrial exhibition
11h15 - 12h00 Chairs:
Julien Niederhäuser
Davide Strambo
High scoring abstract oral presentations

12h00 - 12h30 Chair:
Manuel Bolognese
Satellite Symposium Boehringer Ingelheim: Intravenous thrombolysis in stroke: New challenges and opportunities
Thomas Meinel, Bern

12h35 - 12h50 Chair:
Mira Katan
Satellite Symposium Abbott: LAA and stroke prevention
David Seiffge Bern

12h50 - 14h00 Lunch and Poster Walk in exhibition area
14h00 - 15h30 Chairs:
Giovannni Bianco
Christophe Bonvin
Controversies

PFO-closure for stroke of unknown origin in patients >60 years
PRO: Lorenz Räber, Bern
CONTRA: Guillaume Turc, Paris


Sex and Gender – does it matter for acute stroke treatment and prevention?
PRO: Carlo Cereda, Lugano
CONTRA: Emmanuel Carrera, Geneva


Distal vessel occlusion should be treated with intravenous thrombolysis only
PRO: Susanne Wegener, Zurich
CONTRA: Kristin Blackham, Basel


15h30 - 16h00 Coffee break in the industrial exhibition
16h00 - 17h30 Chairs:
Pamela Correia
Nils Peters
Neurosurgery
MMA embolization vs surgical treatment – what first?
Zsolt Kulcsar, Zurich + Isabel Hostettler, St. Gallen

Prevention
Blood pressure and brain health
Andreas Schönenberger, Münsterlingen

Rehabilitation
The Swiss stroke rehab landscape now and in 10 years
Meret Branscheidt, Zurich
17h30 - 17h45 Awards and Closing remarks
18h00 - 19h00 General Assembly SSS