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Present State of Peripheral Nerve Surgery and how to achieve further improvement
March 14 - 16, 2008
General Hospital Lecture Halls, Vienna, Austria
 
The concept of the symposium in detail
I - Introduction
  • What are the Present Results of Peripheral Nerve Surgery?
II - Research
  • New facts about morphology and function of peripheral nerves
  • New facts about regenerative processes
  • How can we influence regenerative processes
III - Regeneration and re-organisation in the central nervous system
  • Brain
  • Spinal cord
  • Cerebral plasticity
IV - Bridging defects
  • Autologeous nerve grafts are still the golden standards but research on alternatives is everywhere going on.
  • What is the latest progress?
  • What about construction of nerve grafts by tissue engineering?
  • In which direction develops research as far as allografts are concerned?
V - End to Side Coaptation
  • The symposium 2006 has demonstrated that end to side coaptation works under certain conditions, even if we do not know exactly, how it works.
  • Presentations about clinical applications of End to Side coaptation are welcome as well as research on the mechanism
VI - Neurolysis
  • The controversy about "internal" neurolysis should be discussed and solved
VII - Timing of Surgery
  • It is well known that the chances of good recovery decrease with time and surgery should not be delayed beyond a certain limit. There are however several questions which are controversial:
  • What are the relative merits of primary repair in contrast to early, planed secondary repair?
  • Can a very early surgery avoid trauma-conditioned scar formation?
  • Is it justified in case of a humerus fracture with a radial nerve palsy to delay the exploration of the nerve and wait for spontaneous recovery which will occur in at least 70% of the cases?
VIII - Progress in diagnostic methods
  • How reliable are the results of electrophysiologic studies?
  • Can we get an idea about the degree of a nerve lesion by imaging?
 
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The concept of the symposium in detail
Present State of Peripheral Nerve Surgery and how to achieve further improvement
March 14 - 16, 2008
General Hospital Lecture Halls, Vienna, Austria
Present State of Peripheral Nerve Surgery and how to achieve further improvement
 
   
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