Friday, December 15th, 2023 and (whole day)
Saturday, December 16th, 2023 (half day)

Location:
Auditorium "Pavillon", Technical University of Munich, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Street 22, Munich, Germany

Registration:

• Registration fee for members / applicants: 0,- €
• Registration fee for non-members: 50,- € / students 20,- €

Deadline for registration is 15th October 2023.
If you want to register, please send an email to Sabine Panier, office@eurlssg.org
 

For members please note:
As decided at the last general meeting, we would like to remind you that hotel and travel expenses can no longer be reimbursed.

Downloads:

• Agenda Friday, 13th December and Saturday, 14th December (download)
• Directions Pavillon (download)
• Airport-Bus Schedule (download)
• How to get to the Hotel IBIS Munich City (download)
• Public car garages located near the IBIS hotel (download)

EURLSSG e.V. Session:

15th December 2023 - General Meeting of the EURLSSG  (EURLSSG members only)

Hotel for participants:

IBIS Munich City
Dachauer Street 21
80335 Munich
(located at the main railway station)

phone: +49 (0) 89 / 55 19 30
fax: +49 (0) 89 / 55 19 31 02
Email: H1450-EL@accor.com

Dinner after the EURLSSG Meeting, 15th December 2023:

Hofbräuhaus
Platzl 9, 80331 Munich
phone: ++49-89-290 136-100

Map of Munich:
http://www.stadtplan.net/bayern/reg-bez-oberbayern/munchen-landeshauptstadt/munchen

Presentations:

Friday 15th December 2023, 9:00 - 16:30 h

Welcome (Rosalia Silvestri, president)

Genetics and Animal Models

Chairpersons: Juliane Winkelmann, Germany and Klaus Berger, Germany

• Update on the genetics of RLS (Barbara Schormair, Germany)
• Update on functional studies of MEIS1 in RLS (Volker Kittke, Germany)
• Epigenetics of RLS (Konrad Oexle, Germany)
• Restless Legs Syndrome: from Genotype to Phenotype (Sofiene Chenini, France)

EURLSSG common projects

• The EURLSSG database: Brainstorming of ideas for common projects (Angelica Montini, Italy & Federica Provini, Italy)

New clinical data

Chairpersons: Lucia Muntean, Germany and Diego Garcia-Borreguero

• Restless Legs Syndrome in children under 6 years of age (Sofia Kasradze, Georgia)
• RLS and chronic fatigue syndrome: Are there common mechanisms? (Olli Polo, Finland)
• Leg movements in disorders of arousal: a new kid on the block (Elza Balian, Armenia)
• Association of levodopa-related clinical parameters with restless legs syndrome in patients with Parkinson´s disease (Narine Nadryan, Armenia)
• L-Dopa treatment in restless legs syndrome in Germany - data from the largest German Health Insurance Company (AOK) (Dagmar Drogan, Germany & Klaus Berger, Germany)
• Metagenomic analysis in restless legs syndrome (Angelica Montini, Italy)
• Hydrotherapy and accupressure in restless legs syndrome - a randomized, controlled, three-armed, explorative clinical trial (Julia Siewert, Germany)
• Time structure of PLMS in RLS around 50 years of age in women and men (Raffaele Ferri, Italy)
• Previous dopaminergic augmentation of RLS symptoms reduces the therapeutic response to non-dopaminergic treatments (Diego Garcia-Borreguero, Spain)

Patients´ perspective

Chairpersons: Samson Khachatryan, Armenia and Federica Proini, Italy

• RLS: Are we still living in the aftermath of the disease mongering movement? (Joke Jaarsma, The Netherlands)
• Swedish patients´ perspective: How to cope with problems? (Sören Berg, Sweden)

German RLS Patient Foundation (RLS e.V.)

• Lilo Habersack Young Researcher Award

Update on the European RLS guidelines (Ambra Stefani, Austria)

Clinical Cases

Chairpersons: Birgit Högl, Austria and Raffaele Ferri, Italy

• Are there differences between idiopathic hypersomnia and PLMD characterized by PLMS and hypersomnolence? (Karel Sonka, Czech. Republic)
• Ups and downs - precision medicine in RLS - how is this possible? (Anna Heidbreder, Austria)
• De novo lower body restlessness due to antidepressant discontinuation: RLS or withdrawal akathisia? (Samson Khachatryan, Armenia)
• More tongue movements or less movements - what will finally bring back good nights´ sleep? (Christina Dirks, Germany)

Saturday 16th December 2023, 9:00 - 12:30 h

Welcome (Rosalia Silvestri, president)

• Iron supplementation in RLS and RSD: a clinical perspective (Raffaele Ferri, Italy)

Year in Review

Chairpersons: Claudia Trenkwalder, Germany and Raffaele Ferri, Italy

• Treatment (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) (Giorgos Sakkas, Greece)
• RLS and cognitive function / risk of dementia (Ambra Stefani, Austria)
• RLS and multiple sclerosis (Rosalia Silvestri, Italy)
• RLS, inflammatory factors and omics (Maria Paola Mogavero, Italy)