by Prof Dr Norlisah Ramli
The pre-congress session in Neuroradiology had sessions on Neurological Emergency and was interestingly divided into first half of the evening for pediatric cases and later half on the adult cases. Expert panels from the various teaching Universities, general hospital and private hospital gave the talks, creating a healthy mix of informative and educational program.
The program started with a talk from Assoc Professor Dr Rohaizan from International Medical University on hydrocephalus in pediatric population. Dr Rohaizan gave an overall view of hydrocephalus being a complex physiological disease rather then just simple mechanical obstruction. She highlights the limitation of imaging in differentiating acute and chronic hydrocephalus. Several imaging sequences were discussed and highlighted.
Dr Noryati from the Institute of Pediatric Hospital Kuala Lumpur was the next speaker and she shared her expertise on head trauma in the pediatric group. Her talk gave an interesting insight on non-accidental injury (NAI) in the local context and the importance of exercising restrain on diagnosing NAI on imaging alone.
Assoc Prof Dr Kartini Rahmat from University Malaya Medical gave a very interactive talk on acute infarcts and neurotoxicity in children. She obtained a lot of audience participations from the various cases presented.
The later half of the evening, Assoc Prof Khairul Azmi from University Malaya proceeded with talk on acute infarcts and salient point to management for adult’s patients. His talks were made exciting by several video presentations of procedures being done in treatment of stroke.
Professor Dr Norlisah, from UM then gave her talk on intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). She accented the importance of classification and causative factors of intracranial hemorrhage. Guidelines with regards to imaging of ICH were highlighted.
The evening was concluded by Dr Alex Tang’s talk on the Role of Imaging department in therapeutic options. Dr Alex shared his experience and challenges as an interventional neuroradiologist in this country.
The session was well received with a full room of participants. The neuro SIG was happy to contribute to continuous medical education for the College of Radiology Malaysia.