{"id":8902,"date":"2018-01-30T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:12:57","slug":"fortis-malar-in-association-with-indian-academy-of-paediatrics-chennai-organizes-recent-advances-in-paediatric-neurology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=8902","title":{"rendered":"Fortis Malar in association with Indian Academy of Paediatrics, Chennai organizes \u201cRecent Advances in Paediatric Neurology\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image001\"<\/a>\"Photo<\/a>Highlight of the conference was the Session on Autoimmune Encephalitis<\/p>\n

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Chennai,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>January<\/strong>\u00a030,<\/strong>\u00a02018<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>: Fortis Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre<\/strong>\u00a0(FCEC) at Fortis Malar Hospital in association with Indian Academy of Paediatrics \u2013 Chennai City Branch, organized\u00a0\u201cRecent Advances in Paediatric Neurology\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0conference at Hotel Raintree, Chennai today. The purpose of the conference was to provide a comprehensive review of all the treatable disorders with an aim to improve patients\u2019 outcomes. More than 330 doctors from different specialties like paediatrics, neurology and paediatrics neurology from Tamil Nadu attended the conference.<\/p>\n

Dr Suvasini Sharma<\/strong>\u00a0from Lady Harding Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children\u2019s Hospital, New Delhi,\u00a0Dr Rachna Sehgal\u00a0<\/strong>from\u00a0<\/strong>Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi,\u00a0Dr Naveen Sankhyan<\/strong>from PGIMER, Chandigarh and\u00a0Dr Mahesh Kamate<\/strong>\u00a0from KLE University, Belgaum were the guest faculties in the conference.\u00a0Dr Satish Kumar, Consultant Neurologist and stroke specialist at Fortis Malar Hospital<\/strong>and\u00a0Prof G. Kumaresan, senior consultant paediatric neurologist from Kanchi Kamakodi Child Trust Hospital<\/strong>,\u00a0Chennai<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Karthik, Associate professor, Department of Neurological sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore\u00a0<\/strong>were the other faculty at the conference.<\/p>\n

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The highlight of the conference was the sessions on autoimmune encephalitis and on newer molecular genetic diagnosis for various childhood neurological diseases. The delegates actively participated and discussed various recent treatment guidelines for the emerging childhood neurological conditions like autoimmune encephalitis.<\/p>\n

Dr. Dinesh Nayak<\/strong>,\u00a0senior consultant neurologist and epileptologist, Fortis\u00a0Malar hospital\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>spoke on the scope of epilepsy surgery and presented many complex surgical cases from the Fortis Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre, Chennai. He said, \u201cEpilepsy surgery is the treatment of choice for those epilepsy patients who have surgically amenable lesions\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Lakshminarayanan<\/strong>,\u00a0consultant paediatric neurologist<\/strong>,\u00a0Fortis Malar hospital\u00a0<\/strong>presented a case series of 12 children with rare difficult to treat autoimmune encephalitis that were treated and completely cured of the disease, in the last two years.\u00a0Dr. Lakshminarayanan,\u00a0<\/strong>who spoke on\u00a0Epilepsy Pearls<\/em>\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cOver 80% of children with epilepsy could be cured with available medications alone and further emphasized that patient specific antiepileptic medication choice can go a long way in curing patients\u2019 epilepsy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr Sheetal Sharda, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, MedGenome<\/strong>\u00a0who spoke on recent advances in genetic diagnosis said\u00a0\u201cThe correct diagnosis, with help of genetic testing, can benefit many patients as far as understanding the prognosis, management or prenatal diagnosis is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Fortis Healthcare Limited:<\/strong>Fortis Healthcare Limited is a leading integrated healthcare delivery service provider in India. The healthcare verticals of the company primarily comprise hospitals, diagnostics and day care specialty facilities. Currently, the company operates its healthcare delivery services in India, Dubai, Mauritius and Sri Lanka with 45 healthcare facilities (including projects under development), approximately 10,000 potential beds and over 372 diagnostic centres.<\/p>\n

About Fortis Malar Hospital :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Fortis Malar Hospital was acquired by Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited in early 2008. The hospital founded in 1992, is established as one of the largest corporate hospitals in Chennai providing quality super specialty and multi-specialty healthcare services. Fortis Malar Hospitals, with 180 beds, focuses on providing comprehensive medical care in the areas of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Neuro Surgery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Paediatrics, Diabetics, Nephrology and Internal Medicine. Fortis Malar Hospital has a state of the art Cath Lab and multiple dedicated cardiac operation theatres and intensive coronary care units. Several rare and complex Adult and Paediatric Cardiac surgeries, Orthopaedic and Joint replacements, Neurosurgeries and Plastic reconstruction surgeries have been performed at this hospital. The hospital\u2019s Obstetrics and Gynaecology services are among the busiest in the city, successfully performing many complicated deliveries and surgeries. They are supported by a dedicated Neonatology unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Highlight of the conference was the Session on Autoimmune Encephalitis Chennai,\u00a0\u00a0January\u00a030,\u00a02018\u00a0: Fortis Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre\u00a0(FCEC) at Fortis Malar Hospital in association with Indian Academy of Paediatrics \u2013 Chennai City Branch, organized\u00a0\u201cRecent Advances in Paediatric Neurology\u201d\u00a0conference at Hotel Raintree, Chennai today. The purpose of the conference was to provide a comprehensive review of all the treatable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions\/8906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}