This Course will be organized by the University Hospital  Ruggi D' Aragona, via San Leonardo, Salerno  in cooperation with the Echography Teaching Services  (Iowa City, USA)  and the Augen-Echographie-Center (Regensburg, Germany). The purpose of the Course is to inform participants about the unique clinical applications of this most effective ultrasonographic method in Ophthalmology. 

Topic:

Emphasis will be placed on special software (artificial intelligence) which has transformed Standardized Echography into a much easier, faster  and still more reliable and precise diagnostic and biometric procedure permitting automatic diagnosesusing a advanced instrument ABSolu (Quantel Medical, France).

Special topics:

* POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT

• RETINAL DETACHMENT: reliable diagnosis and safe differentiation from HEMORRHAGIC POSTERIOR VITREOUS DETACHMENTS and dense fibrovascular MEMBRANES, BREAKS
• ENDOPHTHALMITIS (early detection) 
• VITREOUS CONDITIONS :  posterior hyphemas,  asteroid hyalosis
• TUMORS IN ADULTS and CHILDREN: reliable diagnosis and differentiation

  * ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT

• Corneal conditions
• Masurements of anterior chamber(angle), iris thickness
• Hyphaemas, foreign bodies, Synechiae, subluxated lenses,
• Iris  & ciliary body tumors
• Glaucomatous changes, and  other conditions affecting the anterior eye segment
• UBM vs OCT

ORBIT and PERIORBITA

• EXAMINATION TECHNIQUES:   including measurement of extra-ocular muscles
• INFLAMMATION
• TRAUMA and FOREIGN BODIES 
• TUMORS in ADULTS and CHILDREN : diagnosis, differentiation, localization and measurement
• EXTRA-OCULAR MUSCLES
• GRAVES' ORBITOPATHY  (diagnosis, grading, detection of optic nerve compression, management)
• myositis, tumors, pareses
• OPTIC NERVE DISEASES optic neuritis, optic atrophy, tumors,  papilledema vs. papillitis, optic disc drusen, optic nerve compression, IIH

STANDARDIZED ECHOGRAPHY versus CT / MRI

Tuesday,  3. September  
                                 

9:00                Registration

Advanced Course
9:35                 Introduction & Lecture 1  examination of the eye
10:45                 Coffee Break
11:00                  Lecture 2   differentiation RD vs. posterior vitreous detachment I
12:00                  Break
12:15                  Lecture 3  differentiation RD vs. posterior vitreous detachment II
13:15                  Lunch Break
14:15                  Lecture 4   intraocular tumors I
15:15                   Coffee Break
15:30                   Lecture 5   intraocular tumors II
16:30                   Break
16:45 - 17:45     Lecture 6   intraocular tumors III

Wednesday,  4. September
                                                                   
8:30                Lecture 7  differentiation RD vs. dense vitreous membranes I        
9:30                Coffee Break
9:50                Lecture 8  differentiation RD vs. dense vitreous membranes II
10:50               Break
11:00               Lecture 9   differentiation RD vs. dense vitreous membranes III  
12:00               Break
12:10               Demonstration 1
13:00              Lunch Break
14:15               Lecture 10   orbial examination I
15:30              Lecture 11    orbial examination I
            

 
Thursday,  5. September                                      

8:30                  Lecture 12  differentiation RD vs. dense vitreous membranes III       
9:30                  Coffee Break
9:45                  Lecture 13   vitreous lesion
10:45                 Break
11:00                  Lecture 14   vitreous lesions II, endophthalmitis
12:00                 Break
12:10                  Demonstration 2
13:00                 Lunch Break
14:15                  Lecture 15  orbital tumors I
15:15                  Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30    Lecture 16    orbital tumors II 

Friday,  6. September
                                
8:30                   Lecture 17   UBM
9:30                    Coffee Break        
9:45                   Lecture 18    endophthalmitis
10:45                  Break                         
10:55                  Lecture 19  UBM  I                       
11:55                  Break
12: 05                 Demonstration 3
13:00                  Lunch Break 
14:15                  Lecture 20 orbital tumors III
15:15                  Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00     Lecture 21  Potpourri of ocular lesions

Saturday, 7. September

8:30                   Lecture 22
9:30                   Coffee Break
9:45                   Lecture 23
10:45                   Break
10:50                   Lecture 24
11:50                  Distribution of Certificates
12:00                  Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00     Voluntary Practice

Instrumentation :

Aviso S,   ABSolu  (Quantel Medical, France) the newest and most advanced fully standardized instruments complete with cine-loop, sensitivity (gain) adjustments of frozen images, software allowing for various automated settings, e.g., measurements, quantitative echography I and II, angle kappa and for automated diagnoses (e.g., A1 to diagnose retinal surface) lap-top based, fully digitized, newest software Standardized A-scan frequency 8 MHz,  Standardized B-scan frequencies 10, 20, 25, and 50 MHZ (UBM)

Rahmenprogramm

The basic course for standardised echography is an absolute prerequisite for participation in this course. The basic course consists of 14 video lectures and costs 50€. 

Please contact the organiser for further information.