Saturday, September 15th

 

09:00 – 12:30 EVRTS Update (for Alumni only) Klaus Lucke and EVRTS lecturers

14:00 – 18:00 Courses

• High School of Ocular Trauma — When Anterior Meets Posterior, Cesare Forlini
• Pathologic Myopia,  Silvia Bopp
• Young EVRS — IVT, Agnieszka Nowosielska
• Update on Macular Degeneration, Ron Adelman
• Young EVRS — PPV, Agnieszka Nowosielska
• Vitreo Macular Interface Disorders. Jerzy Nawrocki & Hassan Mortada

17:30 - 19:30 Retinawas at EVRS Directed by Kourous A. Rezaei
                          A Comprehensive Video Course on Retinal Misadventures in the Operation Room

 

Sunday, September 16th

 

Macular Edema General Considerations

08:00 Basic Science

•     Neurobiological Principles Applied to Retinal Diseases, Nicolas Cuenca
•     Pathological Findings in Macular Edema, Didier Ducournau
•     Quantitative Determination and Comparison of Intravitreal Cytokines in PDR and RVO, Michael Koss
•     Self Testing in Macular Edema: Possible Applications and Their Limits, Wolfgang Schrader

09:15 Principles of Treatment

•     27 G One Pars Plana Port Vitrectomy with a Reflow Strategy, Cesare Forlini
•     Various Dyes forl ILM Peeling, Silvia Bopp
•     ILM Peeling Technique, Jean-Paul Amar
•     ILM Peeling Different Tricks, Didier Ducournau
•     History of Development of Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab, Ron Adelman
•     Persistent Ocular Hypertension Following Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Agents, Ron Adelman
•     Discussion

10:45 Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane

•     What is an ERM; How Could ILM Peeling Work? Didier Ducournau
•     The Importance of Gas Injection in Idiopathic ERM Peeling Recovery, Philippe Koch
•     Incidence of Cystoid Maclar Edema After Vitrectomy for ERM, Barbara Parolini
•     Long-term Spectral Domain OCT After Surgery for ERM, Zosia Michalewska
•     En-face OCT Analysis of the Retinal Surface Changes After ILM Peeling for ERM,
      Jean-François Le Rouic
•     What Happens to the Macula Following ERM Surgery: OCT and Visual Changes, Sengul Ozdek
•     Natural Course and Surgical Treatment of Vitreomacular Traction Syndrome, Jerzy Nawrocki
•     The EVRS Macular Edema Study Results
•     Discussion

Macular Edema After Retinal Vein Occlusion
13:50 Various Treatments

•     3 Bevacizumab vs 2 Triamcinolone Injections in Recent CRVO, Alireza Ramezani
•     3 Bevacizumab vs 2 Triamcinolone Injections in Recent BRVO, Alireza Ramezani
•     Combined Therapy for Recurrent Macular Edema Following RVO, Maurizio Mete
•     Combined Therapy of Macular Edema Following RVO, Diana Chichur
•     Evaluating Adjunctive Surgery to Ozurdex for the Treatment Macular Edema Following RVO,
      Frank Becquet
•     Medical Limits in Macular Edema After RVO, Guy L’Helgoual’ch
•     Surgery Associated with Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Agents in CRVO. A More Rational Approach?,
      Giampaolo Gini
•     ILM Peeling in RVO, Jean-Paul Amar
•     ILM Peeling in RVO, Didier Ducournau

 

15:40 Review of Literature &  Debate: What Should We Do?

•     Literature & Posters Review
•     The EVRS Macular Edema Study Results
•     Discussion

 

16:35 - 18:35 Retinaws at EVRS, directed by Kourous A. Rezaei:
                          When the Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going
                          A comprehensive video course on retinal misadventures in the operating room

 

 Monday, September 17th

 
Diabetic Macular Edema
08:15 Fundamentals of DME

•     Terminologic Confusion in DME, Sengul Ozdek
•     Vitreoretinal Interface Abnormalities Associated with Diffuse DME: Diagnosis and Management, Hassan Mortada
•     High Systolic Blood Pressure is Related to Macular Edema in Diabetic Patients, Soo Geun Joe
•     Discussion

09:00 ILM Peeling

•     DME: 15 Injections or 1 Surgery?, Ferenc Kuhn
•     Vitrectomy for DME – An Alternative to Anti-VEGF Therapy?, Andreas Schüler
•     Vitrectomy Outcome in Traction Diffuse DME. Hassan Mortada
•     Vitrectomy Outcome in Resistent Non-tractional Diffuse DME, Hassan Mortada
•     PPV in Management of Type 1 Non-tractional DME After Failure of all Therapies, Ihab Saad Othman
•     Does Vitreous Surgery for Diabetes Complications Have an Influence on the Course of Macular Edema in Long-term Follow-up?, Jerzy Nawrocki
•      ILM Peeling in Patients with Clinically Significant DME: Long-term Outcomes, Maria Chiara Freno
•     Discussion

 

10:30 Intravitreal Injections

•     The Effectiveness and Safety of Triamcinolone Injections in DME, Hanna Zajac-Pytrus
•     Effectivity of Intravitreal Triamcinolone Injections for Diabetic Cystoid Macular Edema, Alexey Putienko
•     Comparison of Endovitreal Triamcinolone with Betamethasone in DME, Yana Sirman
•     Fluocinolone Acetonide Implants for the Treatment of Chronic DME, Albert Augustin
•     Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema with Ranibizumab, Ron Adelman
•     Aflibercept (VEGF Trap Eye, Eylea) for Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema, Ron Adelman
•     Discussion

13:35 Laser

•     Micropulse Contiguous Grid Laser for Resistant Diffuse DME, Stephen Sinclair
•     Micropulsed 577 nm Laser Stimulation for DME, Martin Flores-Aguilar
•     Effectiveness of Combined Betamethasone and Laser Coagulation for DME, Yana Sirman
•     Micropulse Laser Following Intra Vitreal Bevacizumab in Diffuse DME, Ihab Saad Othman
•     Discussion

14:25 Severe Cases

•     Miniinvasive Vitrectomy as a Gold Standard for Severe PDR, Cesare Forlini
•     Severe PDR Surgical Strategy, Malgorzata Pietras-Trzpiel

14:45 Comparative Studies

•     Comparative Study of Vitrectomy with ILM Peeling vs Anti-VEGF in DME, Jerzy Nawrocki
•     Multiple Therapeutical Approaches for the Same DME Case, Horia Stanca
•     Design of a Comparative Study Anti-VEGF vs Surgery for DME, Andreas Schüler

15:40 Review of Literture & Debate: What Should We Do?

•     Literature & Posters Review
•     The EVRS Macular Edema Study Results
•     Discussion

 

16:30 EVRS General Assembly

Tuesday, September 18th

 

09:00 Finally: Medical or Surgical Treatment?

•     Management of Rubeosis Iridis, Surgery vs Medical Treatment, Theodoros Potamitis
•     Final Visual Acuity Post Cystoid Macular Edema: To Peel or Not To Peel, Theodoros Potamitis
•     Individualized Treatment in Macular Edema: Focal vs Diffuse, Ivan Fiser
•     The EVRS Macular Edema Study: General Conclusions
•     Discussion

10:30 Zivojnovic Award Lecture

 

11:20 Other Macular Edemas

•     Efficacy of Citicoline in Treatment of Diffuse Macular Edema After Successful Surgery of RRD, Ivan Levytskyy
•     Dome-shaped Macula in Non Myopic Patients; Description and Management, Fernando Faus Guijarro
•     Modified Vitreo Retinal Instruments for Macular Surgery on Eyes with High Myopia, Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk
•     Focal RPE Angiographic Leaks Visualized by En-face OCT: “A New Diagnostic Technique”, Vladimir Poposki
•     Natural Course of Disc Pit, Zosia Michalewska
•     Treatment of Optic Pit Maculopathy with Vitrectomy and Arcuate ILM Peeling, Jerzy Nawrocki
•     Etiology and Treatment of Serous Macular Detachment Associated with Optic Pit – Clinical Case, Claudia Bacalhau
•     Tractional Macular Edema in Coats’ Disease After Laser, Cryo and Anti-VEGF; A 25 G MIVS Approach. Cesare Forlini
•     Macular Edema and Exudates in the Pediatric Age Group, Ihab Saad Othman
•     Cystoid Macular Edema in Retinitis Pigmentosa, Christine Kusserow-Napp
•     Macular Dilemas in Retinitis Pigmentosa, Agnieszka Nowosielska
•     Management of ME in Retinitis Pigmentosa with Topical Dorzolamide, Ihab Saad Othman
•     Citalopram Associated with Unilateral Cystoid Macular Edema, Alexik Mikulas
•     Discussion

13:20 End of congress

Abstract 01.04.2013	Hinweis Application as a session moderator: 1st April 2013 (please read carefully the moderator guidelines, and send an email to ddd@club-internet.fr) Abstract submission deadline: 1st April 2013
Posters 01.04.2013	Hinweis All topics accepted. Best poster awarded.
Videos 16.04.2013	Hinweis 8 minutes or less recommended, all topics accepted.

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