ITMIG2024
Scientific and Educational Program
Friday, November 1st, 2024
08:30 - 10:30 NEUROLOGY WORKSHOP for Non-Neurologists
Practical Implications on Patient Centric Care With Take Home Messages for Non-Neurologists and Neurologists
Chair: Marc De Baets (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Understanding Myasthenia Gravis (MG) as a Non-Neurologist, Maria Isabel Leite (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Topics to be discussed:
- When and how to suspect MG?
- Ordering antibodies - when it is more than anti-AChR?
- Is there a role for following antibody titers post operatively?
- Understanding diagnostic modalities
Does The Presence of a Thymoma Influences The Treatment Strategies for MG? Marc De Baets (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Topics to be discussed:
- Classic therapy with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
- Immunosuppressive therapy
- Mechanical immunomodulatory therapy
- Biologic therapies
- Measured objective responses therapy guidance
When to Operate, When Not to Operate, Speaker - to be announced
Topics to be discussed:
- Optimizing and understanding pre-operative treatments
- Non thymomatous myasthenia gravis vs. thymoma with myasthenia gravis pretreatment regimes
Understanding Implications of Myasthenia Gravis on Patients, Mohammad Ashraghi (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK)
Topics to be discussed:
- Practical implications for everyday life
Interactions with medications
- Treatment implications with chemo and radiotherapy
Paraneoplastic Syndromes - An Unusual Case, Marc De Baets (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Topics to be discussed:
- When to suspect?
- How to screen if suspected?
- How to avoid complications?
- Is the treatment different than in myasthenia gravis?
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:00 Future Studies/Collaborations: Working Group Discussion/Formulation
Chairs:
Joshua Sonett (Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA)
Maria Isabel Leite (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Topics to be discussed:
- Myasthenia gravis and other paraneoplastic syndromes in thymoma: prospective studies, biobanks, collective series
- Thymectomy implications in adults
- Can we prospectively study and how?
- Thymectomy in children and adolescents
- MGNET collaboration
- MGFA collaboration
- Solicitation of ideas/projects
12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 - 16:00 ITMIG Committee Meetings
All ITMIG members are welcome!
Business meeting
16:00 - 19:00 BREAK
19:00 - 21:00 JLCS GALA DINNER
All ITMIG2024 attendees are welcome!