Friday, 27th September Asia Pacific Stroke Conference 2024

Unwind and start the day right with a relaxing Tai Chi session by the River Torrens led by a professional instructor. Or gear up in your running shoes and join the Stride for Stroke Fun Run where you can have a friendly battle with peers for a Trophy!

Please join Prof Jeoffrey Donnan & Prof Liping Liu in this session to hear them share their knowledge and experience on the importance of achieving lower levels of LDL-C to reduce the risk of recurrent CV events

Session objectives;

• Recognise the relationship between LDL-C and risk of ASCVD
• Understand the evidence surrounding management of dyslipidaemia, especially LDL-C, in the prevention of secondary CV events in patients with Stroke
• Confidently initiate and intensify lipid-lowering therapy to achieve guideline-directed LDL-C targets to alter the trajectory of disease
• Recognise that the lower the LDL-C the better, with no known lower limit at which benefit ceases and harm occurs.
• Implement a system to regularly assess full lipid profiles until guideline-directed LDL-C targets are achieved.
• Get an update on the current lipid lowering therapies and RWE.

Chair: Dominique Cadilhac

• New frontiers in ICH surgery - Christopher Kellner
• Neuroprotection - Past Present and Future - Michael Tymianski
• Launch of Stroke Foundation’s “Economic Impact of Stroke Report 2024” – The Hon Mark Butler MP (Minister for Health and Aged Care) - introduced by Stroke Foundation CEO Dr Lisa Murphy - Mark Butler MP
• Putting the neurology back into stroke recovery - Nick Ward

• Update in Large Core Thrombectomy - Bruce CV Campbell
• Medium and Distal Vessel Thrombectomy - Bernard Yan
• Acute Intravascular Stent post-thrombectomy - To stent or not to stent and peri-stent medication - zhongrong Miao
• Endovascular Management of Subdural Haemorrhage - Alice Ma

• Atrial Appendage Closure and Clipping: its role in stroke prevention - Bernard Chan
• PFO Closure: Patient selection and efficacy - Jerrett Lau
• Code Stroke Cardiac CT: its implications in stroke management - Carlos Garcia‐Esperon
• Transcranial Doppler - Update - Vijay Sharma

• Hemicraniectomy in large stroke: patient selection and outcome - Masatoshi Koga
• 'We know about this and we are already doing it’ … the facts and the fiction of Fever, Sugar & Swallowing management in Australia - Sandy Middleton
• Recognition and management of post-stroke depression, emotionalism and anxiety - Alyna Turner
• Post Stroke Seizure and its Management - Akshay Deepak

• Life After Stroke- the Action Plan for Stroke in Europe - Avril Drummond
• Return to driving after stroke - Zoe Adey-Wakeling
• Return to work after stroke - Natasha Lannin
• Fatigue after stroke – future national and international directions - Coralie English

• Systematic review and meta-analysis of the association of common variants in ABCA7 with Alzheimer’s Disease in non-Hispanic White and Asian cohorts - Hua Liu
• The role of neuroinflammation in delayed neurodegeneration following photothrombotic stroke in rats. - Shannon M Stuckey
• EDNRA affects susceptibility to large artery atherosclerosis stroke through potential inflammatory pathway - Hua Liu
• LINC01492 is associated with susceptibility to large atherosclerotic stroke and levels of inflammatory factors - Hua Liu
• Use of macromolecule carbonylation to differentiate between Transient Ischaemic Attacks (TIAs), TIA mimics, and minor stroke. - Deeksha Sharma
• Don’t follow the herd: Developing an ovine model of subarachnoid haemorrhage - Timothy Webber
• Investigating the degree of brain atrophy in regional sites of secondary neurodegeneration using magnetic resonance imaging in a longitudinal ovine stroke model. - Wishayanant Thirasantikamol
• Exploring the long-term blood-brain-barrier alterations associated with post-stroke secondary neurodegeneration in an ovine model. - Rosie A Costigan-Dwyer

• Anti-hypertensive Medication Prediction after Intracerebral Hemorrhage (The TRICH Score) - Kay Cheong Teo
• Triple therapy prevention of recurrent intracerebral disease events trial (TRIDENT): progressive report - Craig Anderson
• Mortality predictors among young patients with intracranial hemorrhage: Data from a stroke center in Vietnam - Dung Nguyen-Tien
• Factors associated with deterioration in patients with cerebellar haemorrhage at a tertiary stroke unit. - Oshi Swarup
• New cerebral microbleeds and risk of intracerebral haemorrhage in patients with atrial fibrillation on direct oral anticoagulants. A prospective longitudinal study. - Yannie Soo
• INFLUENCE OF MULTIMORBIDITY ON EFFICACY OUTCOME IN ICH PATIENTS: POST HOC ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACT3 TRIAL - XINWEN REN
• The efficacy and safety of intravenous anticoagulants for non-cardioembolic stroke: the Japan Stroke Data Bank - Ryo Itabashi
• Recommendations for Implementing the INTERACT3 Care Bundle for Intracerebral Haemorrhage in Latin America: A delphi Study - Maria Ignacia Allende Echanez

On behalf of the Emerging Stroke Clinicians and Scientists (ESCS) committee of the Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation (ANZSO), we invite you to our lunchtime seminar at the combined ANZSO/Asia Pacific Stroke Conference (APSC) on Friday, 27th September 2024, Room E3, 12pm to 1:15pm.

Our seminar this year, entitled ‘Expanding the Borders of your Research’, aims to highlight the challenges and strategies needed to successfully transcend borders in stroke research, including establishing national and international collaborations and experience working across the various stages of the research pipeline to optimise translation and impact. We have a fantastic line-up of international speakers including Professor Louise Connell, Professor Jeyaraj Pandian and others.

We welcome all emerging stroke clinicians and scientists attending the conference to attend, including APSC members!

• Robotic assisted gait training - Parit Wongphaet
• Reimagining Rehabilitation Technology: Bringing a Relational Lens to Development and Implementation. - Nada Signal
• Use of robotics to support the rehabilitation of young people after acquired brain injury - Remo (Ray) Russo
• The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in tailoring stroke rehabilitation - Leeanne Carey

• Novel Devices and approaches in Thrombectomy - Raul Nogueira
• Thrombectomy beyond clinical guidelines in Asia - Shinichi Yoshimura
• Venous Sinus Interventions - Rebecca Scroop
• Advanced approaches to reducing periprocedural carotid stenting risk - Michael Waters

• ICAD : Update in imaging, diagnosis and management - Vijay Sharma
• ICAD: Non-hyperacute neuro-intervention and its role (Fr) Acute Intravascular stent post-thrombectomy - to stent or not to stent and peristent medication - zhongrong Miao
• Update: Neurosurgical Management of ICAD - Marcus Stoodley
• Moyamoya - advances in management - Shinichiro Uchiyama

• Novel Trial Design for the uninitiated - Leonid Churilov
• Different faces of adaptive trials: from adaptive randomization to multiple interim analyses - Hannah Johns and Freda Werdiger
• How to submit a successful grant - Michael Hill
• Consent for Hyperacute stroke trials: differences around the world - Mayumi Fukuda-Doi

• To repeat or not to repeat: Association of repeat in-hospital CT-imaging after mobile stroke unit assessment with endovascular thrombectomy treatment efficiency. - James L Barker
• Bridging thrombectomy benefits patients in the Asian region: insights from DIRECT-SAFE sub analysis - James L Barker
• Anticoagulation associated intracerebral hemorrhage treatment and outcomes analysed by the potential availability of specific versus non-specific reversal agents: a retrospective cohort study. - Shaddy El-Masri
• Early Mobility Training After Intracerebral Haemorrhage: What, How and When? - Emily R Ramage
• Lesion Age by Quantitative Lesion Net Water Uptake and Effect of Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients with Large Ischemic Stroke A Post Hoc Analysis of the ANGEL-ASPECT Trial - Ximing Nie
• What is current physiotherapy practice for the provision of “independent practice” resources to inpatients recovering from stroke? – Results form a bench-marking survey. - Zarina Hau
• Bridging thrombolysis with tenecteplase versus mechanical thrombectomy alone for large vessel anterior circulation stroke - a target trial - Valerian L Altersberger

• The Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Poststroke Depression (PSD) in Thailand  - Rattayaporn Jaikusol
• Nottingham Fatigue after Stroke:  Feasibility Trial of an Intervention to support the Management of Post-Stroke Fatigue.  - Avril Drummond
• New Zealand Ethnic Variation in Rates of Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: A Retrospective Observational Study - Frances Mein Smith
• Descriptive analysis of baseline LS7 values of Individualized Intervention for the Prevention of Stroke (TIIPS) Study - Jesse Dyer
• Prediction of thrombectomy outcomes using perfusion profile of eloquent brain regions: A multicenter study - Haipeng Li
• Impact of Diabetes Mellitus Duration on Incident Dementia in Patients with Ischemic Stroke: National Insurance Database Study - Jonguk Kim
• International care bundle evaluation in cerebral hemorrhage research (I-CATCHER): a batched parallel cluster-randomized trial with a baseline period - Menglu Ouyang
• Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise for Post-Stroke Patients: A Pilot Feasibility Study - Hoi-Fung Kwong
• Influence of Geometric Factors on Hemodynamics and Atherosclerosis Progression in Carotid Arteries: Insights from In Vitro Models - Ho Geol Woo
• Optimal timing for initiating anticoagulation following acute ischemic stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation - Quentin Siu-hung LI
• Prediction of hemorrhagic transformation in childhood acute ischemic stroke from nationwide data - Huy Le
• Developing a TIA pathway without hospital admission; an audit into radiology burden, carotid disease, and accurate diagnosis as per EDCT score.  - Niamh Farrell
• Clinical characteristics and outcomes associated with non-using of oral anticoagulants in patients with ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation  - Hung-Yi Hsu
• Novel vascular territory mapping algorithm as a predictive tool for identification of antegrade flow in MCA occlusion. - Michael Valente
• Ghost infarct core is associated with fast core growth in acute ischemic stroke - Mikito Saito
• Correlation between Serum CTSL and Acute Large Artery Atherosclerosis Cerebral Infarction - Mengmei Yin

• Ambulance LVO bypass tool: more harm than good? - Mark Parsons, Manabu Shirakawa, Henry Zhao and Richard Li
• Systolic Blood pressure >185mmHg should be lowered in thrombolysis candidates. - Craig Anderson, Kazunori Toyoda, Anna Ranta and Stephen Cheng
• Take charge intervention for stroke should be universally implemented. - Vivian WY Fu and John Fink

• Bench to bedside translation in stroke - Michael Tymianski
• Shear-activated nanotherapeutics to enhance collateral blood flow during ischaemic stroke - Daniel Beard
• Amnion epithelial cell therapy for ischemic stroke - Hyun Ah Kim
• Non-invasive detection of stroke in sheep with optical brain pulse monitoring - Elliot J Teo
• Exploring the Frontiers of Medical Imaging: The Science and Research Behind Portable MRI Technology - Sergei Obruchkov

• Antiplatelet Therapy in Stroke Prevention - Sun U. Kwon
• What is the latest in blood pressure management - Maria Epifania Collantes
• How to manage 'failed' anti-coagulation - Masatoshi Koga
• Update on Carotid Artery Stenosis (+ Dissection) Management - Anna Balabanski

• Arts and creativity in stroke rehabilitation - Susan Hillier
• Fall After Stroke Trial FAST - Kate Scrivener
• Yarnin Up After Stroke - Heidi Janssen
• Raising the bar in rehabilitation - Louise Connell

• Enhancing outcome prediction of Intracerebral Hemorrhage with detailed clinical and radiological analysis using machine-learning - Kay Cheong Teo
• The feasibility of an automated artificial intelligence system in detecting signs of large vessel occlusion stroke - Helen M Badge
• Large language models can effectively extract stroke audit data from medical free-text discharge summaries - Rudy Goh
• Interactive visual simulation modelling of prehospital stroke care processes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in rural and remote Australia - Dominic Italiano
• Estimated impact of potassium-enriched salt substitutes on stroke burden in Indonesia: a modelling study - Leopold N Aminde
• Demographic disparities in the incidence and case fatality of subarachnoid haemorrhage: an 18-year nationwide study from New Zealand - Ilari Rautalin
• Comparative assessment of Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning (AI-ML) models for prediction of the long-term clinical outcome in stroke patients - Bhalchandra Vaidya

• Decompressive hemicraniectomy for acute ischemic stroke patients: does the endovascular treatment have an impact on outcome? - Hidetoshi Matsukawa
• Association of Ischemic Core Hypodensity on Endovascular Therapy Treatment Effect in Large Core Stroke - Bruce CV Campbell
• Inverse relationships between infarct lesion growth and mean blood pressure after endovascular thrombectomy. - Yuki Sakamoto
• Functional outcomes after Endovascular Thrombectomy among patients with Acute Large Vessel Infarct: A Philippine single center experience - Miguel Alejandro Baroque
• Large infarct core patients treated with endovascular therapy in a real-world setting - Daniel Wellington
• Intravenous thrombolysis before successful angiographic reperfusion in patients with basilar artery occlusion   - Fana Alemseged
• The HERMES-24 Score: External Validation in a Contemporary Clinical Cohort - Vincent Trinh

The Networking Evening is without a doubt the social highlight of the conference. This is your chance to dress up, dance-off and celebrate amongst friends. Tickets for this special evening will include food, drinks, dancing and karaoke!