The new registry of Mitochondrial Diseases is ready to use. This new registry is the result of the collaboration of Hospital 12 de Octubre, Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital de Sant Pau and the Association of Patients with Mitochondrial Diseases (AEPMI). They have defined the variables of this registry to include adult and paediatric patients with the aim of characterizing clinically and genetically patients with these pathologies. This registry is part of the project: National Registry of Neuromuscular Diseases NMD-ES (CIBERER), with 30 hospitals from Spain participating. The design was made with REDCap, a secure web application that facilitates the electronic capture of data for research.
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The seventh course to be held on May 16-17-18, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.
As in previous editions, the number of places will be limited to 30 maximum. The selection of candidates will be made, first, based on years of experience (specialits have priority over residents) and second depending on the number of enrolled in each center (we will prioritize diversity of centers.) If there are very similar registration requests, we will value the future interest in the field and, if there is no possible way to carry out this evaluation, the remaining places will be raffled off.
The first meeting of the European Reference Network for Neuro-muscular Diseases EURO-NMD will be held in Freiburg (Germany) next few days. During the meeting the different working groups created will have the opportunity to meet and share new ideas.
This year the winter meeting of the Neuromuscular Disease Study Group will be held on 23-24 February at the Hospital de Sant Pau. It is organized by Drs. Jordi Díaz-Manera and Luis Querol from the Neuromuscular Diseases Unit of the same hospital.
The pre-doctoral students Patricia Piñol and Alicia Alonso have been awarded for their work exhibited during the congress.
Drs. Luis Querol, Ricard Rojas-Garcia and Isabel Illa of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit have recently published a review in the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Neurology entitled “Autoantibodies in chronic inflammatory neuropathies: diagnostic and therapeutic implications” This is a review on antibodies in these diseases published in one of the greatest impact journals in Neurology.