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Programme

| Wednesday, 10th Oct. |
| 08:00 - 10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Opening Ceremony: M. Hilz (EFAS), I. Biaggioni (AAS),
W. Grisold (OEGN),
H. Lahrmann (Congress President) |
| Main Topic I: |
Stroke and ANS Disorders -
Advances in Pathophysiology of ANS Disorders |
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Chairs: S Schwab (Germany) & I Biaggioni (USA) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Stroke and ANS disorders
G Micieli
Pavia, Italy |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Molecular mechanisms of reciprocal dysautonomia
V Snitsarev, Z Tan, Y Lu, R Sabharwal, MW Chapleau, FM Abboud
Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Autonomic/baroreflex phenotypes in a novel mouse model of spontaneous congestive heart failure
R Sabharwal, RM Weiss, HM Stauss, CD Sigmund, FM Abboud,
MW Chapleau
Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Pressor effect of water: role of the vanilloid receptor TRPv1
NR Keller, J McHugh, M Appalsamy, J Jordan, SR Raj, D Robertson
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Sympathetic - vascular transduction in POTS
I Bonyhay, J Chang, R Freeman
Boston, MA, USA |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Cerebral white matter lesions in pure autonomic failure – age related or effect of treatment?
W Struhal, H Lahrmann, CJ Mathias
Linz, Austria |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch and
Poster Session I |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
C. Bernard Lecture:
ANS in long distance endurance competitions
O. Appenzeller
Albuquerque, NM, USA |
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| Main Topic II: |
ANS and Exercise - Advances in Therapy |
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Chairs: J Jordan (Germany) & O Appenzeller (USA) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
New thoughts about cardiovascular regulation during exercise
B Levine
Dallas, TX, USA |
| 14:30 - 14:45 |
Short-term exercise training normalizes vasomotor sympathetic responses to upright tilt in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Q Fu, TB VanGundy, S Shibata, JL Hastings, MD Palmer, BD Levine
Dallas, TX, USA |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
FMS Penaz-Wesseling Travel Fellowship Award
Heart rate response to exercise in adolescents with autonomic dysfunction
BEU Burkhardt, PT Pianosi, C Brands, CJ Porter, AL Weaver, PR Fischer
Rochester, MN, USA |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Interval hypoxic training improves autonomic cardiovascular and respiratory control in COPD patients
T Haider, G Casucci, T Linser, M Faulhaber, H Gatterer, I Ehrenbourg, M Burtscher, L Bernardi
Innsbruck, Austria |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy: IgG effects on ganglionic synaptic transmission
Z Wang, PA Low, S Vernino
Dallas, TX, USA |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Norepinephrine transporter blockade and alpha-2 antagonism have a synergistic effect on blood pressure in autonomic failure
C Shibao, A Gamboa, SR Raj, LE Okamoto, BK Black, D Robertson,
I Biaggioni
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Combination immunomodulatory therapy for autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy
CH Gibbons, SA Vernino, R Freeman
Boston, MA, USA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
FMS Lecture
Cardiac autonomic nervous modulation and baroreflex-sensitivity during specific sleep stages after acute myocardial infarction
H Bonnemeier
Lübeck, Germany |
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| Main Topic III: |
Sleep & Integrated Physiology |
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Chairs: R Hainsworth (UK) & F Axelrod (USA) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Sleep and ANS
M Hilz
Erlangen, Germany |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
Sleep-dependent changes in the control of heart rhythm in human subjects
A Silvani, D Grimaldi, G Pierangeli, G Barletta, S Vandi, F Provini, R Vetrugno, P Montagna, G Zoccoli, P Cortelli
Bologna, Italy |
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Sympathetic activation with voluntary apnea in elite divers
K Heusser, G Dzamonja, J Tank, I Palada, Z Valic, D Bakovic, A Obad, V Ivancev, A Diedrich, MJ Joyner, J Jordan, Z. Dujic
Berlin, Germany |
| 18:00 - 18:15 |
Disturbed sleep and quality of life in patients with postural tachycardia syndrome
SR Raj, I Biaggioni, BA Malow, BK Black, JF Ling III, SY Paranjape, MG Farley, D Robertson
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 18:15 - 18:30 |
Relationship of sympathetic nerve activity and cardiac output in older humans
N Charkoudian, LA Sokolnicki, CP Johnson, JH Eisenach, TB Curry, MJ Joyner, BG Wallin
Rochester, MN, USA |
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| 19:00 |
Welcome reception and Concert at Palais Ferstel |
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| Thursday, 11th Oct. |
| Main Topic IV: |
Syncope and Drug-Induced OH |
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Chairs: S Raj (USA) & J-M Senard (France) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Dopaminergic Therapy and Dysautonomia in Parkinson's Disease
J-M Sénard
Toulouse, France |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
Levodopa ingestion and metabolism in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
F Adams, M Boschmann, E Lobsien, A Lipp, G Franke, MC Leisse, S Gottschalk, J Spranger, A Kupsch, J Jordan
Berlin, Germany |
| 09:45 - 10:00 |
Susceptibility to vasoactive drugs in syndromes with pre- and postganglionic sympathetic denervation
A Lipp, P Sandroni, J Gehrking, PA Low
Berlin, Germany |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
AAS Travel Fellowship Award
Eyewitness account of transient loss of consciousness: clue or pitfall?
RD Thijs, WA Wagenaar, W Wieling, JG van Dijk
Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Decrease in splanchnic resistance contributes to the mechanism of simple faint
I Taneja, JL Glover, MS Medow, JM Stewart
Valhalla, NY, USA |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Supine splanchnic compression enhances cardiovascular recovery from orthostatic hypotension in familial dysautonomia patients
MJ Hilz, EC Ehmann, H Marthol, R Baltasdzhieva, S Moeller, FB Axelrod, D Berlin, T Haendl
New York, NY, USA & Erlangen, Germany |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Orthostatic stress activates coagulation: a novel physiologic mechanism for hypercoagulation
M Masoud, G Sarig, B Brenner, G Jacob
Haifa, Israel |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Novartis Lecture - Chair: F Skrabal (Austria)
Modern antihypertensive drugs - better control of arrhythmia?
A Podczeck-Schweighofer
Vienna, Austria |
| DAVID H. P. STREETEN SESSION |
| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Streeten Lecture
POTS: Deconditioning, pseudodeconditioning, both or neither
M Joyner
Rochester, MN, USA |
| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Streeten Travel Fellowship Award
Impact of spinal cord injury on emotion and autonomic function: an exploratory brain functional magnetic resonance imaging study
A Nicotra, HD Critchley, RJ Dolan, CJ Mathias
London, UK |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch and Poster Session II
EFAS Board Meeting (at Style Hotel) |
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| Main Topic V: |
Autonomic Failure In Parkinsonism |
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Chairs: C Mathias (UK) & P Low (USA) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Neuropathologic basis of autonomic manifestations of multiple system atrophy and Lewy body disorders
E Benarroch
Rochester, MN, USA |
| 14:30 - 14:45 |
Autonomic indices as predictors of worse outcome in multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease: a preliminary report
A Lipp, P Sandroni, JE Ahlskog, TL Gehrking, RD Fealey, J Gehrking, KK Nickander, D Sletten, W Singer, DM Maraganore, CM Shults, PA Low
Berlin, Germany |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Is Parkinson disease with neurocirculatory failure associated with generalized dysautonomia? Results of neurochemical and neuropharmacologic testing
Y Sharabi, R Imrich, BA Eldadah, C Holmes, S Pechnik, DS Goldstein
Bethesda, MD, USA |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Chelsea Lecture
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to determine the efficacy and safety of droxidopa in the treatment of orthostatic hypotension associated with multiple system atrophy or Parkinson’s disease
CJ Mathias, JM Senard, P Cortelli
London, UK |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Novartis Lecture - Chair: W Grisold (Austria)
Nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease
W Gerschlager
Vienna, Austria |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Break |
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| Main Topic VI: |
ANS and the Perception of Music |
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Chairs: E Altenmüller (Germany) & T Chelimsky (USA) |
| 16:30 - 16:55 |
Music or noise: different effects on the ANS
J-L Elghozi
Paris, France |
| 16:55 - 17:15 |
The importance of silence in music: effects on the ANS
L Bernardi, C Porta, P Sleight
Pavia, Italy |
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Classical music inducing negative emotions decreases cardiovagal modulation in young healthy persons
MJ Hilz, S Wong, S Buechner, B Stemper, MHM Lee, T Gryc, J Nath,
L Habib-Romstöck, P Stadler
Erlangen, Germany |
| 17:30 - 19:00 |
AAS Board Meeting (at Style Hotel) |
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| 20:00 |
Gala Dinner at the City Hall of Vienna |
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Allergan Lecture with Music Performance
Emotional effects of music and its impact on the autonomic nervous system: the "chill effect"!
E Altenmüller
Hannover, Germany |
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| Friday, 12th Oct. |
| 07:30 - 08:30 |
CAR Editorial Board Meeting |
| Main Topic VII: |
ANS and Cardio-Respiratory Control |
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Chairs: E Benarroch (USA) & H Lahrmann (Austria) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Respiratory autonomic regulation
J Paton
London, UK |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
Ventilatory drive in patients with multiple system atrophy
A Lipp, P Sandroni, B Johnson, PA Low, E Benarroch
Berlin, Germany |
| 09:45 - 10:00 |
Altered control of cerebral circulation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an early sign of functional cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction
L Bernardi, G Casucci, T. Haider, E Brandstätter, E Pocceco, I Ehrenbourg, M Burtscher
Pavia, Italy |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Role of substance P in the sympathetic activation in postural tachycardia syndrome
SR Raj, MV Dzurik, I Biaggioni, BK Black, PA Harris, D Robertson
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Pharmacological actions of arginine are not consistent with synthesis of nitric oxide
WT Talman, JE Langasek
Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break
AAS General Assembly |
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| Main Topic VIII: |
New Developments in Autonomic Testing -
From FFT to Wavelet and Beyond |
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Chairs: L Bernardi (Italy) & S Carvalho (Portugal) |
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
HRV analysis and Fourier transform
A Diedrich
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Application of wavelet analysis to HRV data
I Rocha
Lisbon, Portugal |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Evaluation of a novel non model driven assessment of cardiac autonomic activity: reinnervation after human heart transplantation
R Schondorf, J Benoit, M Genoulaz, MJ Lafitte, L Bernardi
Monteal, Quebec, Canada |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
QDIRT: quantitative direct and indirect testing of sudomotor function
CH Gibbons, J Centi, B Illigens, R Freeman
Boston, MA, USA |
| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Recovery by microdialysis of norepinephrine from interstitial fluids and retrorecovery of salicylate is not primarily determined by membrane permeability
PJ van Gurp, HA Ross, JWM Lenders, JJ Willemsen, CJ Tack, FCGJ Sweep
Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch and
Poster Session III |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
BMEYE Satellite Symposium
Integrative Physiology in Cardiovascular Medicine: Back to Basics and Beyond
The differential effects of hyperventilation on blood pressure regulation in the normal and the failing circulation
RD Thijs
Lieden, The Netherlands
Bedside medicine: symptoms and signs of syncope
W Wieling
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| Main Topic IX: |
Microgravity & POTS |
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Chairs: D Robertson (USA) & W Talman (USA) |
| 14:00 - 14:25 |
Cardiovascular and fluid volume control in microgravity
P Norsk
Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 14:25 - 14:45 |
Sympathetic neural control of blood pressure in microgravity
T Mano
Gifu, Japan |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Effect of vestibular impairment on cerebral blood flow response to dynamic roll tilt
JM Serrador, GS Gopalakrishnan, FO Black, LA Lipsitz, SJ Wood
Boston, MA, USA |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Does respiratory entrainment prevent motion sickness?
A Voustianiouk, L Norcliffe-Kaufmann, M Dai, B Cohen, H Kaufmann
New York, NY, USA |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
G-Protein coupled receptor antibodies in postural orthostatic tachycardia patients
J Tank, K Heusser, A Diedrich, FC Luft, G Wallukat, J Jordan
Berlin, Germany |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Melatonin attenuates tachycardia in postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
SR Raj, I Biaggioni, BK Black, PA Harris, D Robertson
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
'Early' vs 'late' postural tachycardia syndrome: is there a hemodynamic significance?
KA Mayuga, K Butters, F Fouad-Tarazi
Cleveland, OH, USA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Break
EFAS General Assembly |
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| Main Topic X: |
Pain & Peripheral Neuropathies |
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Chairs: R Freeman (USA) & P Cortelli (Italy) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
The autonomic face of migraine
P Cortelli
Bologna, Italy |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
Modeling the role of peripheral neuropathy on wound healing
CH Gibbons, B Illigens, J Centi, N Wang, R Freeman
Boston, MA, USA |
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Autonomic dysreflexia, more than just the sympathetic nervous system?
JT Groothuis, GA Rongen, J Deinum, ACH Geurts, P Smits, MTE Hopman
Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
The immediate effects of IV beta-blockade on cardiac sympathetic nerve activity in the conscious sheep model
DL Jardine, CJ Charles
Christchurch, New Zealand |
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
How do QSART and skin biopsy correlate in small fiber neuropathy?
KR Chemali, K Anis, N Chemali, L Zhou
Cleveland, OH, USA |
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| 18:00 |
Concluding Remarks & Farewell |
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| Saturday, 13th Oct. |
Postcongress teaching course:
Venue: Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Vienna |
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M. Hilz (Germany), H. Lahrmann (Austria), W. Struhal (Austria) |
| 09:00 - 13:00 |
The autonomic laboratory: Indications, standard tests, interpretation of results and common pitfalls. |
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