56th Annual Irish Neurological Association Meeting Programme

Poster Categories

• Posters A - Multiple Sclerosis

  A1	Alemtuzumab-related thyroid disease in people with multiple sclerosis is associated with age and brainstem phenotype at disease onset	Yap SM, Dillon M, Crowley RK, McGuigan C.
  A2	Co-incident Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (SPG4) – a Case Report.	Boucher J, Counihan T.
  A3	New diagnoses of Multiple Sclerosis in Sligo University Hospital - a 1 year audit.	Joyce E, Waters Á, McPartland G, Mansoor S, Murphy K, Kelly S.
  A4	‘Reportedly’…: An Analysis of the Coverage of Multiple Sclerosis in the Irish Print Media.	O'Donnell M, Redmond J.
  A5	PLEX in pregnancy: A Viable Option for Treatment of Resistant MS. [Withdrawn]	O'Flynn O, Reynolds A, Kinirons P, Higgins J, Merwick A.
  A6	Numb chin syndrome as a multiple sclerosis mimic in a patient with disseminated malignancy	Smyth M, Hennessy, M.
  A7	Diversity in CNS autoimmune encephalitides: Multiple antibodies; differing clinical phenotypes.	Lockhart A, Boers P.

• Posters B - Neurovascular

  B1	The change in management of Vertebrobasilar Strokes in an Irish Model 3 Hospital; a comparison of 2 time-periods.	Fullam S, Togher Z, Crowley P, Cotter P.
  B2	Neurovascular conflict causing nervus imtermedius neuralgia.	Hannon C, Hurley A, O’Dowd S.
  B3	Evaluation of the lipids and follow up after ischemic stroke- a retrospective cohort study in Cork University Hospital.	Nikola C, Khashab A, Gunko A, Ryan A.
  B4	Atherosclerotic stroke and neutrophil lymphocyte ratios in a young stroke cohort.	Tierney C, Rafee S, McGuigan C.
  B5	Fingolimod Increases Regulatory T Cells in a Mouse Model of Permanent Brain Ischaemia.	Malone K, Diaz Diaz A, Shearer J, Moore AC, Waeber C.
  B6	Now you see me, now you don’t! – Rapid spontaneous resolution of aqueductal obstruction.	Togher Z, Walsh MC, Fullam S, O’Riordan C, Cotter P, Crowley P.

• Posters C - Neurogenetics

  C1	An unusual presentation and basal ganglia calcification: is there a link?	Rafee S, Dudley A, Tubridy N.
  C2	Variant Ataxia Telangiectasia with a cavernoma and extensive white matter signal abnormalities.	Buckley C, Byrne D, Llamas Osorio Y, Kavanagh E, Lynch T.
  C3	First report of simultaneous haematological and immunological involvement in DeSanto-Shinawi Syndrome.	Darcy S, Bogdanova-Mihaylova P, Tuohy E, Niall Conlon N, Murphy SM.
  C4	A multi-disciplinary approach to the management of classical ataxia-telangiectasia for the adult neurologist.	McKenna MC, Cox F, Roche S, McDonald I, Fahy R, Conlon N, Edgar JD, Redmond J.
  C5	Genes or proteins: clinching the diagnosis in an era of genetic variants of uncertain significance.	Menon, PJ, Bogdanova-Mihaylova P, Walsh RA, Taylor M, Murphy SM.
  C6	Hereditary Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy with Axonal Spheroids (HDLS) caused by a mutation in the CSF1R gene.	O’Donnell L, Murphy K, Buckley C, Farrell MA, Fearon C, Llamas Y, Lynch T.

• Posters D - Cognitive Impairment

  D1	A Survey of the Use of CSF Analysis in the Investigation and Diagnosis of Dementia Disorders in Munster.	Gleeson K, Fitzgerald P, Costello D, Munteanu T, Kinirons P.
  D2	Severe Amnestic Syndrome as a consequence of Theophylline Toxicity.	Joyce E, Olszewska DA, Counihan T.
  D3	Rapidly progressive haemolysis-elevated liver enzymes-low platelet counts (HELLP) syndrome and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.	Lyons S, Bartels HC , O’Malley S, Asad M, O’Meara Y, Ni Ainle F, Geary M, O’Rourke K
  D4	Acute confusion and large frontal mass.	Rafee S, Killeen R, Tubridy N.

• Posters E - Movement Disorders

  E1	An audit of advanced care planning in outpatients with idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease.	McKenna MC, Erica Walsh, David Bradley.
  E2	Sleep, Depression, and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease: An Investigation Using a Combination of Subjective and Objective Sleep Assessment Methods.	Mulryan P, Affonso S, O’Keeffe GW, Sullivan AM.
  E3	An Assessment of Sleep Quality in an Irish Parkinson’s Disease Cohort Using a Combination of Subjective and Objective Measures.	Mulryan P, Affonso S, O’Keeffe GW, Sullivan AM.
  E4	A Relapsing Ataxia with GQ1b Antibodies in CSF but not serum; Further Evidence for anti-ganglioside mediated CNS disease?	Lockhart A, Mills J, Boers P.

• Posters F - Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular

  F1	Distal axonopathy in paraplegin deficiency: peripheral neuropathy is not a common feature in SPG7-associated spastic ataxia.	Bogdanova-Mihaylova P, Gorman C, Alexander M, McHugh J, Richard Walsh R, Murphy SM.
  F2	Retrospective analysis of Neurophysiological and MRI findings in a cohort referred for Brachial Plexopathy.	Gunko A, Haider S, Brian McNamara B.
  F3	Lucky man: a case of musicogenic epilepsy.	Lyons S, Khalil M, Williams J, Widdess-Walsh P, O’Rourke K.
  F4	Bilateral Forearm Compartment Syndrome as a presenting feature of McArdle Disease.	Gailani G, Bermingham N, Ryan A.
  F5	When You Cannot ‘Keep Your Chin Up’: An Unusual Case of Head Drop.	O’Donnell M, Hunt I, MC, Armstrong C, Flynn C, Leonard N, Cryan J, Langan Y, Redmond J.
  F6	Mitochondrial cytopathy masquerading as an inflammatory myopathy.	Fives C, Jansen M, Blakely EL, Gorman GS, Taylor RW, McNamara B, Sweeney B, Bermingham N.

• Posters G - Neuroinfectious Diseases

  G1	Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae presenting with Community Acquired Meningitis – A Case Report from Ireland.	Bradley M, O’Murchadha L, Tacheva A, Morris B, Gileece A, Tun T, Chalissery A.
  G2	Quadriplegia following Herpes Zoster.	Gilligan M, Doyle M, Widdess-Walsh P.
  G3	NMDA encephalitis, Cryptococcal Meningitis and Immunocompetency- The Chicken and the Eggs.	Hunt I, McKenna MC, N, O’Rourke A, Langan Y, Conlon N, Merry C, Redmond J, Hutchinson S.
  G4	COVID-19 encephalopathy mimicking autoimmune encephalitis in a patient with mild COVID-19 infection.	Gaughan M, Connolly S, O’Riordan S, McGuigan C, Tubridy N, Kinsella J.
  G5	Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy – Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (PML-IRIS): a diagnostic muddle.	Almobaied M, Chaila E, Gadir A, Birmingham N, O’Connell S.
  G6	The story continues: narcolepsy spectrum occurring several years post-H1N1 vaccination in young Irish siblings.	Ferguson D, Slattery L, Lynch B, O’Malley S, Crowe C.
  G7	Progressive Multifocal Leucoencephalopathy as a tumour mimic in an apparently immunocompetent man.	Fives C, Jansen M, Wyse G, Mohammed W, Healy L, Bermingham N.
  G8	Patients’ experiences of virtual outpatient clinics in a Neurology Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.	McKenna MC, Al Hinai M, Bradley D, Doran E, Hunt I,Hutchinson S, Langan Y, O’Rourke D, Qasem R, Redmond J, Stanila RL, Troy E, Doherty CP.
  G9	Cytomegalovirus – Not So (H)armless.	Togher Z, Higgins E, Gunko A, Doyle M, Fullam S, Tubridy N, Connolly S, Feeney E, McGuigan C.

• Posters H - Toxic / Metabolic

  H1	Perceptions of medicinal cannabis among patients with epilepsy.	Gilligan M, G. Burke, White M, Delanty N, P. Widdess-Walsh.
  H2	Food for thought; D-lactic acidosis, a rare cause of recurrent encephalopathy.	Asad M, Smyth S, Leyden J.
  H3	An evaluation of optimal tutorial methodologies for neurology teaching at an undergraduate level.	Togher Z, Fullam S, Callanan I, Kearney H, Tubridy N.
  H4	Observations on a decade of electronic neurology referrals.	Togher Z, Fullam S, Tubridy N.