Close
Tuesday 7 - Thursday 9 May 2024
The course was held in person at the Clinical Neurosciences Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square.
The Update in Neuromuscular Disorders covered听a wide range of childhood and adult neuromuscular disorders with an emphasis on clinical issues, natural history studies, disease specific treatments and general management.听 The听three-day course is听designed for specialists with an interest in neuromuscular diseases. The first 1.5 days concentrated听largely on paediatric neuromuscular disorders and the second 1.5 days on adult neuromuscular disorders.
The themes this year were:
Paediatric: Congenital myopathies, Arthrogryposis, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, respiratory management in neuromuscular diseases, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and childhood Myasthenia gravis.
Adult: Channelopathies, Nodal / paranodopathies, Limb girdle dystrophies, Metabolic myopathies, Mitochondrial diseases, 听Charcot Marie Tooth disease, peripheral nerve vasculitis, paraproteinaemic neuropathies, TTR amyloidosis, Motor Neurone disease and听 inflammatory myopathies.
听
听