MAGNIMS Workshop
Imaging the aging CNS in multiple sclerosis
Venue: Hotel NHOW
November 10th, 2023
08.30 – 08.40: Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop
Massimo Filippi & Mara Rocca
08.40-10.40 Immuno-pathology and lesional features
Chairs: Massimo Filippi (Milan); Claudio Gasperini (Rome)
- 08.40-09.00 – Senescence of the immune system
Andrea Cossarizza (Modena, Italy)
PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE
- 09.00-09.20: Pathological mechanisms and aging in MS
Hans Lassmann (Vienna)
- 09.20-09.40: Virchow-Robin spaces: from pathology, to imaging, to diagnosis and differential diagnosis in MS, NMOSD and other MS mimickers
Lukas Haider (Vienna/London)
- 09.40-10.00: Comorbidities: effects on imaging features
Ruth Geraldes (Oxford)
- 10.00-10:20: MS Diagnostic criteria and age
Paolo Preziosa (Milan)
10.20-10.40: Round table and discussion. Do we need different diagnostic criteria in the aged MS patient? Massimo Filippi (Milan), Alex Rovira (Barcelona) and all previous speakers
10.40-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.40 Second session – Age and neurodegenerative and repair mechanisms
Chairs: T. Yousry (London); Mara Rocca (Milan)
- 11.00-11.20: Aging and brain atrophy in MS
Giuseppe Pontillo (London)
- 11.20 -11.40: Quantification of iron abnormalities (relaxometry, SWI, etc)
Cristina Granziera (Basel)
- 11.40- 12.00: Quantification of myelin damage and repair (MT, MWF, T1/T2, etc.)
Stefan Ropele (Graz)
- 12.00-12.20: Measuring treatment effect using MRI in the aged MS patient
Jaume Sastre-Garriga (Barcelona)
