American Heart Association (AHA): International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2013

This 2½-day conference provides a forum in which to present recent scientific work related to stroke and cerebrovascular disease. More than 900 abstract presentations, lectures and debates will be featured.

This year, special symposia and debates will focus on numerous topics including: brain repair after stroke; state-of-the-art surgical and endovascular treatment for intracranial occlusive disease; the economics of stroke (debate); subarachnoid hemorrhage: current protocols and future prospective; new approaches to the decision to anticoagulate; vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer Disease; HIV and cerebrovascular disease; comprehensive stroke centers: the future of stroke care; informed consent: have we gone too far or not far enough?; controversies in the management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: where we are and can ARUBA help? (debate); and emerging new mechanisms for ionic imbalance and cell death in ischemic brain damage.

Sessions in clinical categories will center on diagnosis, acute management, in-hospital treatment, rehabilitation and recovery, pediatric stroke, prevention, community/risk factors, nursing, emergency medicine, outcomes and vascular cognitive impairment. Sessions in surgical and interventional categories will focus on aneurysm, carotid revascularization, intracranial atherosclerotic occlusive disease, ischemic stroke intervention, SAH management and vascular malformations.