NOVEMBER 28TH - Interevent

NOVEMBER 28 TH
28/11/2012 | 08:00-10:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
PLENARY SECTION
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Chair: Jorge Nogales-Gaete
Secretary: SUZANA COSTA NUNES MACHADO
08:10 - 08:30 Opening
Keynote Speaker: Victor Rivera
08:30 - 09:00 The impact of the published papers: What do they say about Demyelination
Inflammatory Idiopathic Diseases in Latin America?
Speaker 1: Regina Papais Alvarenga
09:00 - 09:30 MS Prevalence in Latin America
Speaker 2: Mario O. Melcon
09:30 - 10:00 The environmental factors influencing MS immunology mechanism in Latin
American
Speaker 3: Jorge Correale
Mariana Spitz
28/11/2012 | 10:00-10:30 h | Coffee Break
28/11/2012 | 10:30-12:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
PLENARY SECTION
THE STATE OF THE ART IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Secretary: Damácio Ramon Kaimen Maciel
Chair: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon

10:30 - 11:00 Mapping genetic susceptibility and modeling pathogenesis in multiple
sclerosis
Speaker 1: Sergio E Baranzini
11:00 - 11:30 The role of the Blood Brain Barrier in Multple Sclerosis
Speaker 2: Andres Villa
11:30 - 12:00 Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis: The need to integrate new approaches to
its reality
Speaker 3: Oscar fernandez
28/11/2012 | 12:30-14:00 h | Symposium
NOVARTIS Satellite Symposium
Growing evidence once-daily oral fingolimod in MS
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
12:30 - 12:40 Welcome and Introduction
Apresentador(a): Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
12:40 - 13:10 Scientific paradigms in MS – burden of disease and unmet needs
Speaker: Jaume Sastre Garriga
13:10 - 14:40 Growing evidence for the benefit–risk profile of treatment with fingolimod.
Speaker: Heinz Wiendl
13:40 - 13:55 Q&A
Speaker: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
13:55 - 14:00 Closing remarks ECTRIMS slides
Apresentador(a): Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
28/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Activities
Idiopathic Inflammatory demyelinating Diseases (IIDD) in Latin America
ROOM ORIENTE
Chair: Regina Papais Alvarenga
14:00 - 14:15 IIDD in Panama
Speaker 1: Fernando Gracia
14:15 - 14:30 IIDD in Cuba

Speaker 2: Alina G.Quevedo
14:30 - 14:45 IIDD in Mexico
Speaker 3: Rivera Flores
14:45 - 15:00 IIDD in Venezuela
Speaker 4: Ibis Soto
15:00 - 15:15 IIDD in Peru
Speaker 5: Cesar Caparo
15:15 - 15:55 Oral Presentation
15:15-15:25 A 63 - GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
TREATED WITH IMMUNOMODULATOR AT PUBLIC HEALTHY SYSTEM IN CHILE, 2008-2012
Authors: Jorge Elías Nogales-Gaete;Casandra Ivonne Araya Salfate; Claudio Alonso Eloiza Concha;
Luis Rodrigo Aracena Conte; María Lorena Acevedo González; Paula Carolina Agurto Merino; Séfora
Esperanza Martínez Espinoza; Sergio Omar Cepeda Zumaeta; Silvia Jazmín Labbé Rojas;Vannia
Fernanda Díaz Zamorano.
15:25-15:35 A 62 GENETIC VARIABILITY IN PERUVIAN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSING REMITTING
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, USING STR MARKERS DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 Y CHROMOSOME
Authors: Miguel Ernesto Cordova Ruiz
15:35-15:45 A 95 NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: A VIEW FROM DNA, RNA
AND PROTEIN PROFILES.
Authors: Giselle Penton-Rol; Marcelo Nazabal-Galvez; Hanlet Camacho-Rodríguez; Seydi Pedroso-
Santana; Maria Elena Fernández de Cossío; Majel Cervantes- Llanos; Alberto Cintado- Benítez; Mayte
Ale-Martínez; Adelaida Villarreal-Barrios; Tamara Díaz-Argudín; Jesus Benítez-Fuentes; Nancy Pavón-
Fuentes; Daymet Grass; Jose Antonio Cabrera-Gómez
28/11/2012 | 14:00-14:30 h | Round Table
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Special topics with speakers defending the agreement or not
agreement MS treatment approaches
Fyngolimod - 1st line therapy x 2nd line therapy
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
Chair: Edgardo Cristiano
Secretary: Isabella D´Andrea Meira
14:00 - 14:15 Fyngolimod 1st line therapy
Speaker 1: Orlando Garcea
14:15 - 14:30 Fyngolimod 2nd line therapy
Speaker 2: Edgardo Cristiano

28/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Course
Research Methods applied to Multiple Sclerosis
ROOM SEGÓVIA II
Secretary: Juliane Sauter Dalter
Coordenador: CARLOS KETZOIAN
14:00 - 14:45 Introduction to study design: With examples from multiple sclerosis
PALESTRANTE: WALTER A ROCCA
14:45 - 15:15 Acuity of the EM diagnosis in neuroepidemiological studies
PALESTRANTE: Violeta Diaz
15:15 - 15:45 Capture and recapture application method
PALESTRANTE: Mario O. Melcon
15:45 - 16:15 Studies on risk factors in MS
PALESTRANTE: Luiz Claudio Thuler
28/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Mesa Redonda
Children Demyelinating diseases
ROOM SEGÓVIA III
Chair: Silvia Tenembaum
Secretary: Tania Regina D. Saad Salles
14:00 - 14:30 ADEM and NMO in children
Speaker 1: Freda Hernández
14:30 - 15:00 MRI in the differential diagnosis of pediatric demyelinating disorders
Speaker 2: Juan Pablo Princich
15:00 - 15:30 Pediatric MS
Speaker 3: Daniela Pohl
15:30 - 16:00 Treatment of pediatric demyelinating disorders
Speaker 4: Silvia Tenembaum
28/11/2012 | 14:30-15:00 h | Round Table
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Special topics with speakers defending the agreement or not
agreement MS treatment approaches

Non responders to IFN BETA or Glatiramer Acetate - switch to what?
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
14:30 - 14:45 Switch one immunomodulator to other
Speaker 3: Adriana Carra
14:45 - 15:00 Switch to Natalizumab
Speaker 4: Rodrigo Barbosa Thomaz
28/11/2012 | 15:00-15:30 h | Round Table
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Special topics with speakers defending the agreement or not
agreement MS treatment approaches
Natalizumab x Fingolimode for severe MS
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
15:00 - 15:15 Natalizumab
Speaker 5: Marcos Papais Alvarenga
15:15 - 15:30 Fingolimod
Speaker 6: Jefferson Becker
28/11/2012 | 15:30-16:00 h | Round Table
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Special topics with speakers defending the agreement or not
agreement MS treatment approaches
MS treatment Withdrawal - Is it Possible?
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
15:30 - 15:45 YES!
Speaker 7: Charles PeterTilbery
15:45 - 16:00 NO
Speaker 8: Fernando Faria de Andrade Figueira
28/11/2012 | 16:00-16:30 h | Coffee Break
Coffee Break
28/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Mesa Redonda
Idiopathic Inflammatory demyelinating Diseases (IIDD) in Latin America
ROOM ORIENTE

Chair: Arnoldo Soto
16:30 - 16:50 IIDD in Argentina
Speaker 1: Adriana Carra
16:50 - 17:10 IIDD in Colombia
Speaker 2: Juan Garcia Bonitto
17:10 - 17:30 IIDD in Paraguay
Speaker 3: Fernando Hamuy Díaz de Bedoya
17:30 - 17:50 IIDD in Chile
Speaker 4: Claudia Cárcamo
17:50 - 18:10 IIDD in Uruguay
Speaker 5: Carlos Oehninger
18:10 - 18:30 IIDD in Bolivia
Speaker 6: Maria Eugênia Tejada Ocampo
28/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
FUTURE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TREATMENTS
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
Chair: Angelo Maiolino
Secretary: Leticia Fezer
16:30 - 17:00 Autologus STEM CELL transplantation in MS
Speaker 1: Amilton Antunes Barreira
17:00 - 17:30 Steam Cell Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis
Speaker 2: Oscar fernandez
17:30 - 18:00 Teriflunomide: Targeting Activated Lymphocyte Proliferation
Speaker 3: Victor Rivera
18:00 - 18:30 Alemtuzumab: Targeting Circulating Lymphocytes by Selective Depletion
Speaker 4: Guillermo Izquierdo
28/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
Neuroepidemiology in MS: Latin American Studies
ROOM SEGÓVIA II

Secretary: Heloise Helena de Figueiredo Siqueira
Chair: WALTER A ROCCA
16:30 - 16:45 Neuroepidemiology in MS: Infecçöes e EM
Speaker 1: Julio Sotelo
16:45 - 17:00 Association Between The Prevalence of MS And Environmental Factors In
Latin America And The Caribbean: An Ecological Study (GEEMAL: Grupo Colaborativo
Multicéntrico para el Estudio de la Esclerosis Múltiple en América)
Speaker 2: CARLOS KETZOIAN
17:00 - 17:15 Epidemiological MS in Chile
Speaker 3: Violeta Diaz
17:15 - 17:30 Pregnancy and MS
Speaker 4: Yara Dadalti Fragoso
17:30 - 17:45 Epidemiological MS in Cuba
Speaker 5: Jose A Cabrera Gomez
17:45 - 18:30 Oral Presentation
17:45 - 17:55 A 16 - BREASTFEEDING AND RISK OF POSTPARTUM RELAPSES IN WOMEN WITH
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Authors: Nora Fernández Liguori; Berenice Silva; Diana Klajn;Fernando Cáceres;María Laura
Saladino;Orlando Garcea.
17:55 - 18:05 A 50 - EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IN THE ISLAND OF MARGARITA,
VENEZUELA
Authors: Arnoldo Soto; Enrique Ordaz;Evelyn Bracho;Marisol Gallardo;Simon Gomez.
18:05 - 18:15 A 51 EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS AND SMOKING HABITS IN BRAZILIAN PATIENTS WITH
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Authors: Cátia Silva;Celso Luis Silva Oliveira; Fabio Siquineli;Francisco Tomaz Menezes
Oliveira;Heloisa Helena Ruocco;Joseph Bruno Bidin Brooks;Marcus Vinicius Magno Gonçalves; Sidney
Gomes;Sonia Beatriz Felix Ribeiro;Yara Dadalti Fragoso.
18:15 - 18:25 A 52 EPSTEIN-BARR VÍRUS INFECTION OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS DISEASE ACTIVITY
Authors: Carlos Otávio Brandão;Adriel dos Santos Moraes;Alessandro S Farias;Alfredo
Damasceno;Analeda F Longhini;Benito Pereira Damasceno;Denise Sayuri Tukada;Felipe Von Glehn;
Juan Cabanillas; Leonardo de Deus Silva;Leonilda M B Santos.
28/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
Genetic and Familiar MS and MNO in Latin America
ROOM SEGÓVIA III

Secretary: Eduardo Paradella
16:30 - 16:50 Genetics Studies in Latinamerica
Speaker 1: TERESA CORONA
16:50 - 17:10 Genetics aspects of MS in Brazil
Speaker 2: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
17:10 - 17:30 ancestry information markers application to studies of neurological
autoimmune diseases in admixed population
Speaker 4: DORALINA GUIMARÃES BRUM SOUZA
17:30 - 17:50 Familial MS
Speaker 5: Carmen Antão Paiva
17:50 - 18:10 Genetics in Colombia
Speaker 6: Jaime Toro
28/11/2012 | 18:30-20:00 h | Symposium
TEVA Symposium
Sharpening the Management of MS
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
18:30 - 18:40 Welcome and Introduction
Apresentador(a): Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
18:40 - 19:00 Importance of Non Biologic Complex Drugs in MS Treatment
Speaker: Jill Conners
19:00 - 19:30 Widening the Glatiramer Acetate Data: The GALA Study
Speaker: Robert Zivadinov
19:30 - 19:55 MS Therapy: Addressing the CNS Pathology
Speaker: Denisa Hurtukova
19:55 - 20:00 Discussion
Debatedor: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon

NOVEMBER 29 TH
29/11/2012 | 08:00-09:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
JEAN MARTIN CHARCOT SECTION
Cellebration of Charcot Birthday in November-29 - ANERJ
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Speaker: Helcio Alvarenga
Chair: Jose Mauro Braz de Lima
Secretary: Maria Clinete Sampaio Lacativa
29/11/2012 | 09:00-10:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
WHAT IS MS AND WHAT IS NOT MS
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Chair: Charles PeterTilbery
Secretary: Rodrigo Barbosa Thomaz
09:00 - 09:30 When one bout and one MRI is MS
Speaker 1: Jorge Barahona
09:30 - 10:00 When one bout and one MRI is not MS
Speaker 2: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
29/11/2012 | 10:00-10:30 h | Coffee Break
29/11/2012 | 10:30-12:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
MS IN AMERICAS
MS in Latin America and Canada
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Secretary: DORALINA GUIMARÃES BRUM SOUZA
Chair: TERESA CORONA
10:30 - 10:40 Natural History MS in Spanish countries
Speaker 1: Liliana Patrucco
10:40 - 11:00 Natural History MS in Brazil

Speaker 2: Cláudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos
11:00 - 11:20 Natural History of Pediatric MS in Latin America
Speaker 3: Silvia Tenembaum
11:20 - 12:00 Natural History MS in Canada
Speaker 4: Marcelo Kremenchutzky
29/11/2012 | 12:30-14:00 h | SIMPÓSIO
Biogen Idec Symposium : Commitment to Treatments of Demyelinating and
Neurodegenerative Diseases
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
12:30 - 12:40 Opening remarks
Chair: Regina Papais Alvarenga
12:40 - 13:15 Tailoring Therapy for the MS Patient: Challenges in Choosing Right Treatment
Options
Speaker: Hans-Peter Hartung
13:15 - 13:50 Biogen Idec Neurology: Current Status of Clinical Development
Speaker: Rick Munschauer
13:50 - 14:00 Closing remarks and Q&A
Moderador: Regina Papais Alvarenga
29/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Mesa Redonda
Idiopathic Inflammatory demyelinating Diseases (IIDD) in Latin America
ROOM ORIENTE
Chair: Cláudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos
Secretary: Mônica Koncke Fiuza Parolin
14:00 - 14:20 IIDD in Rio Grande do Sul
Speaker 1: Maria Cecília de Vecino
14:20 - 14:40 IIDD in Santa Catarina
Speaker 2: SUZANA COSTA NUNES MACHADO
14:40 - 15:00 IIDD in Paraná
Speaker 3: Mônica Koncke Fiuza Parolin
14:40 - 15:00 IIDD in Paraná

Speaker 3: Walter Oleschko Arruda
15:00 - 15:20 IIDD in São Paulo
Speaker: Alfredo Damasceno
15:00 - 15:20 IIDD in São Paulo
Speaker 4: Luiz Domingos Mendes Melges
15:00 - 15:20 IIDD in São Paulo
Speaker: Maria Sheila Rocha
15:20 - 15:40 IIDD in São Paulo
Speaker 4: Yara Dadalti Fragoso
15:40 - 16:00 IIDD in Rio de Janeiro
Speaker: Ana Beatriz Calmon Nogueira da Gama Pereira
15:40 - 16:00 IIDD in Rio de Janeiro
Speaker: Elizabeth Batista
15:40 - 16:00 IIDD in Rio de Janeiro
Speaker: Elizabeth Batista
15:40 - 16:00 IIDD in Rio de Janeiro
Speaker: Elizabeth Batista
15:40 - 16:00 IIDD in Rio de Janeiro
Speaker: Maria Lúcia Vellutini Pimentel
29/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Round Table
Pit Falls in MS Diagnosis
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
Secretary: Claudia Rego
Chair: Sebastião Eurico
14:00 - 14:20 Eritematosous Systemic Lupus Versus MS
Speaker 1: DENISE SISTEROLLI DINIZ
14:20 - 14:40 Lyme Disease Versus MS
Speaker 2: Maria Lúcia Vellutini Pimentel
14:40 - 15:00 Myastenia Gravis and IIDD

Speaker 3: ELZA DIAS TOSTA DA SILVA
15:00 - 15:20 Behcet Disease vs MS
Speaker 4: Ernani Maciel
15:20 - 15:40 HAM-TSP Versus Primary Progressive MS
Speaker 5: Abelardo de Queiroz C. Araújo
15:40 - 16:00 Hereditary Ataxia vs MS
PALESTRANTE: Helio Teive
29/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Course
Update - Multiple Sclerosis For All
ROOM SEGÓVIA II
Chair: Helcio Alvarenga
Secretary: Wanderson Carvalho Neri
14:00 - 14:20 The concept and classification of demyelinating diseases
Speaker 1: Fabiola Rachid
14:20 - 14:40 Multiple Sclerosis Diagnostic Criteria
Speaker 2: Liliana Patrucco
14:40 - 15:00 Clinical Isolated Syndrome
Speaker 3: Roberto Rotta Escalante
15:00 - 15:20 Brain MRI for MS Diagnosis
Speaker 4: Marcos Vinicius
15:20 - 15:40 Inflammation and degeneration in MS
Speaker 5: Douglas Goodin
15:40 - 16:00 Treatments Algoritms In MS
Speaker 6: Carlos Cuevas
29/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Round Table
Fatigue: a MS
ROOM SEGÓVIA III
Secretary: Debora Sales
Chair: Maria Fernanda Mendes

14:00 - 14:20 Fatigue and MS: An Overview
Speaker 1: Regina Papais Alvarenga
14:20 - 14:40 Fatigue and MRI
Speaker: Fernanda Erthal
14:20 - 14:40 Fatigue and MRI
Speaker 2: Fernanda Moll
14:40 - 15:00 Methods For Fatigue Evaluation
Speaker 3: Helcio Alvarenga Filho
15:00 - 15:20 Cognition and Mental Fatigue
Speaker 4: Maria Fernanda Mendes
15:20 - 15:40 Physical Intervention, Fatigue and Immunology
Speaker 5: Cleonice Bento
15:40 - 16:00 Fatigue Treatment
Speaker 6: Damácio Ramon Kaimen Maciel
29/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
Idiopathic Inflammatory demyelinating Diseases (IIDD) in Latin America
ROOM ORIENTE
Secretary: Heloise Helena de Figueiredo Siqueira
Chair: Solange Camargo
16:30 - 16:50 IIDD in Pernambuco
Speaker 1: Maria Lúcia Brito Ferreira
16:50 - 17:10 IIDD in Mato Grosso
Speaker 2: Anderson Kuntz Grzesiuk
16:50 - 17:10 IIDD in Mato Grosso
Speaker 2: Heloise Helena de Figueiredo Siqueira
17:10 - 17:30 IIDD in Goiás
Speaker 3: DENISE SISTEROLLI DINIZ
17:30 - 17:50 IIDD in Brasília
Speaker 4: Patricia Beatriz Christino Marinho

17:50 - 18:10 IIDD in Minas Gerais
Speaker 5: Antonio Gomes Neto
18:10 - 18:30 IIDD in Bahia
Speaker 6: Andre Muniz
29/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
Challenges in MS: Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
Chair: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
16:30 - 17:10 Differential Diagnosis PML in the Setting of MS
Speaker 1: Nancy Richert
17:10 - 17:30 The Management of Clinical Isolated Syndrome With High Risk to MS
Conversion
Speaker 2: Darwin Vizcarra
17:30 - 17:50 The Management of Secondary Progressive MS With Active Lesions In MRI
Speaker 3: Vladmiro Sinay
17:50 - 18:10 The Management of "Benign" MS
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Armas
18:10 - 18:30 The Management of "Severe" MS?
Speaker 5: Marcos Papais Alvarenga
29/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
Update in Methods of Investigation in Multiple Sclerosis
ROOM SEGÓVIA II
Secretary: Gutemberg Augusto Cruz dos Santos
Chair: Mauricio Klajenberg
16:30 - 17:00 The role of MRI in the Diagnosis Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis
Speaker 1: Emerson Gasparetto
17:00 - 17:30 Spinal Cord MRI
Speaker 2: Fernanda Rueda Lopes
17:30 - 18:00 Electrophysiological Methods

Speaker 3: Joseph Brooks
18:00 - 18:30 Cerebral Spinal Fluid In MS
Speaker 4: Carlos Oehninger
29/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
President and Delegates of Latin American Committee of Research and Treatment in Multiple
Sclerosis
ROOM SEGÓVIA III
Chair: Benito Damasceno
Secretary: Thais Conceição Monteiro
16:30 - 16:50 Cognition and MS - Overview
Speaker 1: Miguel Angel Macias
16:50 - 17:10 MS Cognition Studies in Spanish Speaking Latin American Countries
Speaker 2: Fernando Caceres
17:10 - 17:30 Cognitive Different Pattern In MS According Clinical Types
Speaker 3: Renata Paes
17:30 - 17:50 Topics on MS and cognition - Experience in Colombia
Speaker 4: Juan Garcia Bonitto
17:50 - 18:10 Personality and MS
Speaker 5: Edgardo Reich
18:10 - 18:30 Cognition and MRI In MS
Speaker 6: Alfredo Damasceno
29/11/2012 | 18:00-19:30 h | SIMPÓSIO
Simpósio MERCK
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
18:10 - 18:20 Opening
PALESTRANTE: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
18:20 - 18:50 Optimising Multiple Sclerosis Therapy
PALESTRANTE: Oscar fernandez
18:50 - 19:20 "Multiple Sclerosis - Children's approach"

PALESTRANTE: Silvia Tenembaum
NOVEMBER 30 TH
30/11/2012 | 08:00-10:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
PLENARY SECTION
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Chair: Jose A Cabrera Gomez
Secretary: Maria Sheila Rocha
08:00 - 08:30 Neuromyelits Optica with recurrent clinical course - A new demyelinating
syndrome
Speaker 1: Raul Mandler
08:30 - 09:00 The relative frequency of NMO and Multiple Sclerosis in Latin American
Speaker 2: Regina Papais Alvarenga
09:00 - 10:00 Demyelinating diseases in Asian population
Speaker 3: JUN-ICHI KIRA
30/11/2012 | 10:00-10:30 h | Coffee Break
30/11/2012 | 10:30-12:00 h | PLENARY SESSION
PLENARY SECTION
Neuromyelits Optica in Latin America
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
Chair: Alberto Alan Gabbay
Secretary: Elizabeth Regina Comini Frota
10:30 - 11:00 NMO - Genetic and Epidemiology in Cuba and Martinique
Speaker 1: Jose A Cabrera Gomez
11:00 - 11:30 NMO and Potencial Evoked Visual Test
Speaker 3: Silvio Pessanha Neto
11:30 - 12:00 MRI pattern in NMO
Speaker 4: Emerson Gasparetto
30/11/2012 | 12:30-14:00 h | SIMPÓSIO

Bayer Symposium - Impact of MS on Survival and the Role of Interferon β 1-b
ROOM SEGÓVIAS
12:30 - 12:40 Introduction
PALESTRANTE: Marcos Papais Alvarenga
12:40 - 13:10 Impact of MS on Survival
PALESTRANTE: Marcos Papais Alvarenga
13:10 - 13:50 Interferon β 1-b and Survival
PALESTRANTE: Douglas Goodin
13:50 - 13:55 Q&A
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13:55 - 14:00 Close
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30/11/2012 | 14:00-16:15 h | Session
HOT TOPICS
ROOM SEGÓVIA I
Chair: Antonio Gomes Neto
Secretary: Paulo Christo
14:00 - 14:20 Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency
Speaker 2: Leonardo de Deus Silva
14:20 - 14:40 Biological markers in MS - how long we are?
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Regina Comini Frota
14:40 - 15:00 Identification of responders and non-responders to immunomoulators
Speaker 4: Valéria Coelho Santa Rita Pereira
15:00 - 16:15 Oral Presentation
15:00 - 15:15 A 54 - RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN THE
ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS WITH NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA
Authors: Emerson Leandro Gasparetto;Fabiola Malfetano;Fernanda Cristina Rueda Lopes;Fernanda
Miraldi;Isabela Meira;Paulo Roberto Valle Bahia;Romeu Domingues;Soniza Alves-Leon.
15:15 - 15:30 A 74 - INTER- AND INTRAGENERATIONAL STUDY OF MS FAMILIAL CASES IN A
REFERENCE CENTER IN THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO.

Authors: Melina da Silva Bernardes;Carmem Lucia Antão Paiva;Cláudia Vasconcelos;Elizabeth
Batista;Fernanda Ferreira Chaves da Costa Pereira;Marcos Papais Alvarenga;Regina Maria Papais
Alvarenga;Solange Camargo.
15:30 - 15:45 A 81 - MOLECULAR TARGETS INVOLVED IN PATHOGENESIS AND RESPONSE TO
THERAPY OF DEMYELINATING DISEASES
Authors: Majel Cervantes-Llanos;Carmen Valenzuela-Silva;Giselle Pentón-Rol;Gregorio Martínez-
Sánchez;Ileana Lopategui-Cabezas;José Cabrera-Gómez;Pedro López-Saura;Ruby Alonso-Ramírez.
15:45 - 16:00 A 124 - RESEARCH OF LOCUS XQ22.3 AS TRANSCRIPTION SOURCE FOR
ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ETIOLOGY
Authors: Guilherme Sciascia do Olival;Camila Malta Romano;Charles Peter Tilbery;Laura Sumita;Luis
S Nali;Maria Cristina Domingues Fink;Rodrigo Barbosa Thomaz;Tiago S Faria;Vitor B Cavenaghi;Vitor
Serafim.
16:00 - 16:15 A 41 - Disease modifying therapy withdrawal in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis:
follow-up of 40 patients.
Authors: Guilherme Sciascia do Olival; Vitor Breseghello Cavenaghi; Vitor Serafim;
Rodrigo Barbosa Thomaz; Charles Peter Tilbery
30/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Course
Neuroimmunology of Idiopathic Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases
ROOM SEGÓVIA II
Secretary: Ulisses Cerqueira Linhares
14:00 - 14:10 Neuroimmunology up to date
Chair: Andres Villa
14:10 - 14:40 Immunological and pathological features of neuromyelitis optica
Speaker 1: JUN-ICHI KIRA
14:40 - 15:10 Neuroimmunology of MS
Speaker 2: Jorge Correale
15:10 - 15:35 Experimental Allergic Encephalitis
Speaker 3: Leonilda Santos
15:35 - 16:00 The TH17 cell biology in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica
Speaker 4: Cleonice Bento
30/11/2012 | 14:00-16:00 h | Round Table
Advances in Symptomatic Treatment
ROOM SEGÓVIA III

Secretary: Camila Rodrigues
Chair: Orlando Garcea
14:00 - 14:20 The Neuro rehabilitation is part of symptomatic treatment
Speaker: Fernando Caceres
14:20 - 14:40 Bladder and sphincter dysfunction
Speaker: Camila Rodrigues
14:40 - 15:00 Spasticity
Speaker: Elizabeth Armas
15:00 - 15:20 Sexual Disfunction
Speaker: Fernando Hamuy Díaz de Bedoya
15:20 - 15:40 Ataxia and Trembling
Speaker: Orlando Garcea
15:40 - 16:00 Debate
Debatedor: .
30/11/2012 | 16:30-18:00 h | Activities
President and Delegates of Latin American Committee of Research and Treatment in Multiple
Sclerosis
ROOM ORIENTE
Chair: Jorge Nogales-Gaete
Secretary: Violeta Diaz
16:30 - 16:50 LACTRIMS - Who are we?
Speaker: Jorge Nogales-Gaete
16:50 - 17:10 Groups in Latin American with specific targets: How does it / can it really
work?
Speaker 3: Miguel Córdova Ruiz
17:10 - 17:30 A new LACTRIMS
Speaker 1: Miguel Angel Macias
30/11/2012 | 16:30-18:30 h | Round Table
Research in IIDD Latin American Syndromes of NMO spectrum
ROOM SEGÓVIA II

Secretary: Adriano Miranda
Chair: JUN-ICHI KIRA
16:30 - 16:50 CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL NEURITIS SYNDROMES IN COMPLEX NMO
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Batista
16:50 - 17:10 Brainstein syndrome and encephalopaty in NMO
Speaker 2: Marcos Papais Alvarenga
17:10 - 17:30 POSITIVITY FREQUENCY OF ANTI AQP4 WITH THE ELISA METHOD IN NMO
PATIENTS TREATED AT THE SARAH NETWORK – BRASILIA UNITY
Speaker 4: Maria Cristina Del Negro Barroso Freitas
17:30 - 17:50 POSITIVITY FREQUENCY OF ANTI AQP4 WITH THE INDIRECT
IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE METHOD IN PATIENTS WITH NMO IN SÃO PAULO
Speaker 3: Tarso Adoni
17:50 - 18:10 Transverse Mielytis Post Dengue Infection
Speaker: Adriano Miranda
18:10 - 18:30 NMO TREATMENT – OBSERVATIONAL STUDY IN SÃO PAULO
Speaker 2: Rivera Flores
30/11/2012 | 16:30-18:00 h | Oral Presentation MS
LACTRIMS Oral Presentation MS
ROOM SEGÓVIA III
Secretary: Fabíola Rachid Malfetano
Chair: Victor Rivera
16:30 - 16:40 A 3 - ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS: PRESENTATION IN THE ADULT
POPULATION.
Authors: Guilherme Sciascia do Olival;Camila Malta Romano;Charles Peter Tilbery;Laura Sumita;Luis
S Nali;Maria Cristina Domingues Fink;Rodrigo Barbosa Thomaz; Tiago S Faria; Vitor B Cavenaghi;Vitor
Serafim.
16:40 - 16:50 A 6 - APLICATION OF THE McDONALD 2010 CRITERIA FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IN AN ARGENTINEAN COHORT OF PATIENTS WITH CLINICALLY ISOLATED
SYNDROMES
Authors: Liiana Patrucco;Edgardo Cristiano;Juan Ignacio Rojas.
16:50 - 17:00 A 21 - CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF MALIGNANT MS IN A BRAZILIAN REFERENCE CENTER
FOR MS
Authors: Fabrício da Costa Hampshire de Araújo;Cláudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos ;Gutemberg
Augusto Cruz dos Santos;Juliana Calvet Kallenbach Aurenção;Regina Maria Papais Alvarenga;Solange
Maria das Graças Gomes Camargo.

17:00 - 17:10 A 42 - PROGNOSTIC FACTORS OF MALIGNANT MULTIPLE SCLEOSIS IN A COHORT OF
ARGENTINEAN PATIENTS
Authors: Liliana Patrucco;Edgardo Cristiano;Jimena Miguez;Juan Ignacio Rojas;Verónica Fleitas.
17:10 - 17:20 A 92 - MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: NATURAL HISTORY AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN
BRAZILIAN PATIENTS.
Authors: Gutemberg Augusto Cruz dos Santos;Claudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos;Fabrício
Hampshire Araujo;Juliana Calvet Kallembach;Luiz Claudio Santos Thuler;Regina Maria Papais
Alvarenga;Solange Maria das Graças Gomes Camargo.
17:20 - 17:30 A 112 - PREVALENCE OF PSEUDOTUMORAL DEMYELINATING LESIONS IN AN
ONCOLOGY REFERENCE CENTER
Authors: Yasmine Coura Torres; Marco Antônio Sales Dantas Lima; Soniza Vieira Alves Leon.
17:30 - 17:40 A 11 - BRAIN ATROPHY AS A NON RESPONSE PREDICTOR TO INTERFERON? IN
RELAPSING REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Authors: Juan Ignacio Rojas;Edgardo Cristiano;Liliana Patucco.
17:40 - 17:50 A 12 - BRAIN ATROPHY EVALUATION IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS: A
COMPARISON STUDY WITH CLINICALLY ISOLATED SYNDROME AND NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA
Authors: Fernanda Miraldi Clemente Pessôa;Emerson Leandro Gasparetto;Fernanda Cristina Rueda
Lopes;Soniza Vieira Alves-Leon.
17:40 - 17:50 A 35 - CYTOKINE PROFILE IN RELAPSING-REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS
AND THE ASSOCIATION WITH THE PROGRESSION AND THE ACTIVITY OF THE DISEASE
Authors:Ana Paula Kallaur;Andréa Name Colado Simão;Damácio Ramon KaimenMaciel;Edna Maria
Vissoci Reiche;Elaine Regina Delicato de Almeida;Helena Kaminami Morimoto;Josiane Lopes;Larissa
Muliterno Pelegrino;Renato Marques Andrade;Sayonara Rangel Oliveira;Wildea Lice de Carvalho
Jennings Pereira.
30/11/2012 | 18:30-19:30 h | Clousure
Hold of the New Lactrims Directors Board and Prize Giving Ceremony
LACTRIMS AND ANERJ CLOSURE SECTION
ROOM SEGÓVIA I