DETAILED PROGRAMME

Navigating Stroke Epidemiology: Managing Aging Populations, Young Stroke Trends, and More

Ulrike Waje-Andreassen (NOR)

SAP-E: Shaping the Future of Stroke Care in Nordic and Baltic Countries 

Hanne Christensen (DEN)

Big Data in Healthcare Registries: Current Trends and Future Opportunities

Bo Norrving (SWE)

Certification of Stroke Units: Is It Time for a Universal Standard? 

Bjorn Thorarinsson (ISL)

Hot topics in Stroke I: Advances in acute care

Chairs: Anette Fromm and Claus Simonsen 

Transition from Alteplase to Tenecteplase: Implementation into Practice

Anette Fromm (NOR)

Thrombolysis in Patients Using Anticoagulation Therapy: To Treat or Not to Treat? 

Daniel Strbian​ (FIN)

Severe Stroke Treatment: The Efficacy and Safety of Thrombectomy 

Claus Simonsen (DEN)

Enhancing Stroke Care with AI: From Diagnosis to Treatment

Agnethe Eltoft (NOR)

Hot topics in Stroke II: Challenges and future visions

Chairs: Ellisiv Mathiesen and Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen

Improving Acute Stroke Care in Sparsely Populated Regions: How to Fit into the Treatment Time Window? 

Ellisiv Mathiesen (NOR)

Anti-inflammatory therapy for secondary prevention after stroke

Peter Kelly (IE)

Stroke Rehabilitation: Navigating the Future of Recovery 

Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen (SWE)

Primary and secondary prevention of stroke

Chairs: Christina Kruuse and Jesper Petersson 

Early-onset stroke

Chairs: Siim Schneider and Nicolas Martinez-Majander

Primary Prevention of Stroke: How Are We Doing? 

Thomas Truelsen (DEN)

Stroke in Pregnancy: Clinical Challenges and Management Strategies 

Petra Ijäs (FIN)

Management Strategies for Stroke Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Microbleeds

Christina Kruuse (DEN)

Migraine and stroke: From pathophysiologic link to management considerations

Siim Schneider (EST)

New Strategies for Lipid-Lowering Therapies in Secondary Stroke Prevention 

Jori Ruuskanen (FIN)

New explanations for cryptogenic stroke in the young? Lessons learned from the SECRETO study 

Nicolas Martinez-Majander (FIN)

Secondary Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease 

Jesper Petersson (SWE)

Preventing Recurrences: Long-Term Outcomes of Young-Onset Stroke

Katarina Jood (SWE)

Modern Approaches to Managing Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Chairs: Atte Meretoja and Kateriine Orav 

News from stroke rehabilitation

Chair: Guna Berzina and Tamar Abzhandadze

Real-World Implementation of the ICH Care 

Atte Meretoja​ (FIN)

Key Strategies in Early Poststroke Rehabilitation 

Guna Berzina (LV)

Minimally invasive surgery ICH: how to implement in clinical practice? 

Andres Asser (EST)

Post Stroke Aphasia – New Insights from the ESO Guideline on Aphasia Rehabilitation

Hege Prag Øra (NOR)

Acute bundle of care for intracerebral hemorrhage 

Kateriine Orav (EST)

Motor Function Rehabilitation Today and In the Future 

Margit Alt Murphy (SWE)

Antithrombotic treatment following intracerebral hemorrhage 

Dorte Damgaard (DEN)

Post stroke cognitive rehabilitation - current guidelines and new horizons 

Terry Quinn (UK)

Stroke biomarkers and genetics

Chairs: Perttu Lindsberg and Andreea Ilinca 

Biomarkers in Stroke: Pioneering the Next Generation of Care 

Liisa Kõrv (EST)

Teaching course I: Practical aspects in post-stroke speech and cognitive rehabilitation 

Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen (SWE)
Tamar Abzhandadze (SWE)

Hyperacute (in the field) differentiation between ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke - paving the way to early personalized treatments? 

Perttu Lindsberg (FIN)

Teaching course II: Practical aspects in post-stroke motor rehabilitation 

Margit Alt-Murphy (SWE)
Hanna Persson​ (SWE)

Update on Stroke genetics 

Liisa Tomppo (FIN)

Teaching course III: Challenging stroke cases 

Dalius Jatuzis (LT)
Kristaps Jurjans (LV)

When to suspect a monogenic cause of stroke? 

Andreea Ilinca (SWE)

Short communications I

Chair: Bjorn Thorarinsson and Petra Ijäs

Short communications II

Chairs: Aleksandras Vilionskis and Katarina Jood

Symptoms and Referral Patterns of Patients with a Missed Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Danish Multicentre Cohort Study

Line Bilgrav Nisgaard (DEN)

FAST Heroes Iceland: Campaign implementation and public awareness of stroke symptoms and risk factors

Marianne Elisabeth Klinke (ISL)

Ischaemic stroke and subtype diagnoses clinical validation in the Estonian Biobank

Sven Laur (EST)

Recent Alcohol Consumption as a Trigger for Young-Onset Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke – A Case-Crossover and Serial Blood Biomarker Study

Jukka Putaala (FIN)

Peripheral blood transcriptome profiling of young adults with acute cryptogenic stroke

Teele Tuularu (EST)

Time-Specific Association of von Willebrand Factor with Early-Onset Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke

Nina Jaakonmäki (FIN)

Differences in the Serum Metabolite Levels of Large Artery Atherosclerosis and Cryptogenic Stroke Subtypes of Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults
Liisa Kõrv (EST)

Association between unhealthy diet and cryptogenic ischemic stroke in young adults: a case-control study

Shakar Kutal (FIN)

No associations between environmental exposures and stroke severity in a low pollution area: a register-based study in Sweden

Tamar Abzhandadze (SWE)

Long-term Prognosis of Patients after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage during Pregnancy or Puerperium

Aino Korhonen (FIN)

Trends in Patient Admission for Mechanical Thrombectomy and Outcomes from 2017 to 2023: A Single-Centre Cohort Study

Thomas Truelsen (DEN)

Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome after childhood stroke

Rael Laugesaar (EST)

Concomitant Infectious Diseases in Ischemic Stroke Patients   in West Tallinn Central Hospital’s Stroke Department

Triin Helin Unt (EST)

Adapting the Post-Stroke Checklist for Structured Stroke Follow-Up in Estonia

Triinu Kurvits (EST)

The rate of hemorrhagic complications is not increased in patients thrombolysed on direct anticoagulant treatment

Katrin Gross-Paju (EST)

Stroke Mortality and Rehabilitation Continuity in Estonia during 2011-2023

Beatrice Marlene Metsaorg (EST)

Estonian young stroke registry: evaluation of cognitive function and its association with risk factors one year after ischemic stroke

Victoria-Lisethe Kriisa (EST)

Patient-tailored transcranial direct current stimulation versus sham for upper-extremity rehabilitation in subacute stroke patients – a feasibility and pilot randomised clinical trial

Mia Kolmos (DEN)

Stroke imaging: guiding diagnosis and treatment decisions

Chairs: Sami Curtze  and Arne Lindgren

Aiming for the best outcome of stroke

Chairs: Evija Miglane and Marianne Elisabeth Klinke

Acute imaging of ischemic stroke beyond plain CT 

Sami Curtze  (FIN)

Prevention of post-stroke complications 

Evija Miglane (LV)

Intracranial vessel-wall imaging MRI: new insights in stroke etiology? 

Juhan Reimand (EST)

SAP-E with a special focus on Advocacy and Life After Stroke

Melinda Roaldsen (NOR)

Clinical impact of AI deployment for acute stroke detection 

Ain Neuhaus (UK)

Management of neuropsychological consequences of stroke 

Nina Imbaek (DEN)

Care bundles to reinforce multidisciplinary competency in Stroke Units 

Marianne Elisabeth Klinke (ISL)

Heart and stroke

Chairs: Kristina Ryliskiene and Jukka Putaala 

PFO: treatment decisions across age groups

Kristina Ryliskiene (LT)

Screening for atrial fibrillation after stroke and TIA in practice 

Jukka Putaala (FIN)

Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Current Practices and Future Directions in Stroke Prevention

Ainars Rudzitis (LV)

Cardiovascular risk reduction in heart disease and stroke: Challenges in multimorbidity and cardiovascular prevention

Aleksandra Ekkert (LIT)