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Saturday, September 5th

08:00 am   Registration Opening
01:30 pm   Courses with Masters (35 Euro for the whole day will be charged onsite -- Courses with Masters & Retinaws at EVRS) -- Only onsite registration possible
01:30 pm   Basic VitreoRetinal Surgery Skills Mario Facino, Slawomir Cisiecki & Manal Bouhaimed or Preparing Presentations on a Mac Klaus Lucke
02:50 pm   Retinal Imaging Jerzy Nawrocki, Francesco Boscia & Slawomir Cisiecki or Macular Surgery Didier Ducournau
04:10 pm   Strategy in Retinal Detachment Didier Ducournau or Pathologic Myopia Silvia Bopp
05:45 pm   Retinaws at EVRS -- When the Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going -- A comprehensive video course on retinal misadventures in the operating room -- Only onsite registration possible
08:00 pm   Welcome Reception around the Pool
 
Sunday, September 6th
08:30 am   Surgical Strategy in Standard Retinal Detachments Moderated by Francesco Boscia
    Systematic Primary Pneumatic Retinopexy vs Only in Selected Cases
   
Pneumatic Retinopexy for Uncomplicated Rheg. RD with Superior Retinal Breaks Salim Ben Yahia
   
Recent RD Treated with Pneumatic Retinopexy Slobodanka Latinovic
   
Pneumatic Retinopexy as a Primary Repair for Complicated RD Piotr Fryczkowski
   
Pneumatic Retinopexy for Selected RD Ron Adelman
   
Pneumatic Retinopexy Only for RD Without Active Vitreous Traction Didier Ducournau
    Systematic Primary Pars Plana Vitrectomy vs Only in Selected Cases
   
Primary PPV for RD with 20% C3F8 for Internal Tamponade Alexey Putienko
   
Limited Air Vitrectomy and Gas Tamponade in Fresh RD Levent Karabas
   
Primary PPV in Phakic Eyes with Air Tamponade Slawomir Cisiecki
   
Primary PPV without an Encircling Band for Rheg. RD Silvia Bopp
   
Primary PPV without Scleral Buckling for Management of Uncomplicated RD Hassan Mortada
   
Encircling band for RD Ron Adelman
   
Strategy of RD Repair Based on Clinical Findings Ron Adelman
   
Primary PPV in Stage A RDs Only in Selected Cases Didier Ducournau  
10:45 am   Coffee Break
11:15 am   Surgical Strategy in Special Retinal Detachments Moderated by Hassan Mortada
    High Myopia
   
Surgical Techniques to Treat Posterior RD and MH in Degenerative Myopia Barbara Parolini
   
PPV, Dye-Assisted Peeling and Gas Tamponade for Staphyloma-Associated RD Silvia Bopp
    Giant Tear
   
Bilateral Giant Retinal Tear Daniel Vilaplana
   
Simplified PFCL Silicone Oil Exchange in Giant Tear Jean-Paul Berrod
   
Densiron, an up-to-date Tamponade for Giant Tear RD Jean-Paul Amar
   
Strategy for Management of Giant Retinal Tear RD Hassan Mortada
    Silicone
   
Do we need Heavy Silicone Oil for PVR with Inferior Retinal Breaks or Retinotomy? Khaled El-Rakhawy
   
25G Surgery and Silicone Oil Made Easy Athanasios Nikolakopoulos
   
Relaxing Retinotomy / Retinectomy for Recurrent RD in Silicone Oil Filled Eyes Hassan Mortada
   
Silicone Oil Tamponade removal in RD Treatment Viktor Kazaikin
   
Sutureless Silicone Oil Removal: A Novel Technique George Pappas
01:15 pm   Lunch
02:15 pm   Epiretinal Membrane, Lamellar Macular Hole and Macular Hole Moderated by Silvia Bopp & Giampolo Gini
    Is ILM Peeling Mandatory?
   
Our Way in Surgery of ERM and MH Petr Kolar
   
ILM Peeling as a Prophylaxis for ERM Formation Jerzy Nawrocki
   
ILM Peeling for Management of Idiopathic ERM Hassan Mortada
   
Analysis of failures in MH Surgery Vincenzo Ferrara
   
ILM Peeling Should be Performed in all Cases of Full Thickness MH Surgery Ulrik Christensen
   
Surgical Treatment of Lamellar MH Etienne Bovey
   
Factors Determining Postoperative Results After Surgery for Lamellar MH Zofia Michalewska
   
ILM peeling in stage 1 MH Didier Ducournau
   
Treating stage 1 Macular Hole Without Surgery by Injecting Microplasmin Peter Stalmans
    Controversial Techniques
   
Trypan Blue Staining Pro Ivan Fiser
   
Trypan Blue Staining Pro Jerzy Nawrocki
   
Brilliant Peel Staining Pro Didier Ducournau
   
Visco-protection of MH during ICG-Guided ILM Peeling Silvia Bopp
   
Non-Vitrectomizing Idiopathic ERM Surgery Using only 2 Sclerotomies Cesare Mariotti
   
Application of Retina Vacuum Massage for  Closing of MH of the 3-4 Stages Ural Altynbaev
   
Massage on large MH George Pappas
   
Is any Intraocular Gas Bubble Safe for Airplane Travel? Mark Hammer
   
Silicone oil and MH: Yes, we still use it. Vincenzo Ferrara
04:30 pm   Relja Zivojnovic Award Lecture
04:45 pm   ALCON Symposium
 
Monday, September 7th
08:30 am   Macular Edemas Moderated by Giampaolo Gini
    Which Laser?
   
Should PASCAL Laser Replace Conventional Laser for the Treatment of CME? Catherine Favard
   
PASCAL Laser vs Conventional Laser in daily practice and diabetic retinopathy Vincenzo Ferrara
   
ME in BRVO: Early Treatment Using Laser Arteriolar Constriction Yields Good Results Jiri Rehak
   
Laser Micropulse in CSME Ihab Saad Othman
    Retinal Vein Occlusions
   
Bevacizumab vs Macular Grid Photocoagulation in non Ischemic BRVO Isaac Alarcon
   
Evaluation of IVT of Triamcinolone Acetonide on CME Secondary to BRVO Asaad Ghanem
   
Choroidal Response to Bevacizumab in Macular Edema Raimondo Forte
   
9 Months Results of Bevacizumab for the Treatment of CME Secondary to BRVO Sun Taek Lim
   
Bevacizumab for Retinal Vein Occlusions Ron Adelman
   
Our current multitasking approach to BRVO and CRVO Vincenzo Ferrara
   
Visual Outcomes in Five Different Approaches for Treatment of CRVO Masoud Soheilian
   
Revisiting Retinal Vein Occlusions Robert Nutt
   
ILM Peeling in CME Secondary to RVO Didier Ducournau
    Diabetes
   
Treatment of Diffuse DME: Bevacizumab vs Multifocal Photocoagulation Vladimir Poposki
   
Bevacizumab alone or combined with Triamcinolone vs Macular Grid in DME Masoud Soheilian
   
Peribulbar Triamcinolone for DME: Efficacy without Effects on Glyemic Control Salim Ben Yahia
   
Efficacy of Bevacizumab in DME Veronika Aslanova
   
Bevacizumab in Patients with Exudative ARMD or Diffuse DME Dorota Palenga-Pydyn
   
Timing and Strategy for Vitrectomy in DME Vincenzo Ferrara
    Extrafoveal Vitreous Traction Associated with Diabetic Diffuse Macular Edema Avinoam Ophir
   
ILM Peeling in DME Thanasis Nikolakopoulos
   
ILM Peeling in DME Ivan Fiser
11:00 am   Coffee Break
11:30 am   Choroidal New Vessels Moderated by Frank Koch
   
Anti-VEGF Alone
   
Tailored Anti-VEGF for ARMD Ivan Fiser
   
Tailored Anti-VEGF for ARMD Ron Adelman
    Combined Treatments
   
PDT+Triamcinolone vs PDT+Triamcinolone + Ranibizumab for Subfoveal CNV Rosa Maria Romero Castro
   
Triple Therapy for Exudative AMD Raimondo Forte
   
Change in Macular Thickness in Combined PDT+Bevacizumab  for Exudative ARMD Raimondo Forte
   
One Year Study of Avastin vs  Avastin + PDT in Neovascular ARMD Taehyuk Koh
    When Re-Treating
   
Definition and Management of Non-Responders to Anti-VEGF for CNV Sengul Ozdek
   
Classification for OCT Findings in CNV Secondary to AMD Arwa Azmeh
   
Assessment of CNV Activity with a New Activity Scoring Sengul Ozdek
   
Spectral OCT Determined Anti-VEGF Treatment Janusz Michalewski
    Surgery
   
Combined Treatment of RPE Serous Detachment Caused by ARMD Viktor Kazaikin
    Epimacular Brachytherapy for Wet AMD: 24 Month Results Timothy Jackson
   
Is Surgical Ablation of Blood Neovessels Still Useful? Jean-Paul Amar
    There Could Still be a Place for Surgical CNV Removal Klaus Lucke
   
Submacular Surgery for Myopic Choroidal Neovascular Membrane Khaled El-Rakhawy
   
Macular Translocation with 360° Retinotomy for the Management of RPE Tear Grazia Pertile
01:30 pm   Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Moderated by Claude Boscher
   
20 G and 23 G PPV Combined with Phaco after Avastin in Advanced PDR Hülya Güngel
   
Avastin in Complicated Diabetic Detachments Maria Berrocal
   
Bevacizumab Before Vitrectomy in Severe PDR Veronika Aslanova
   
New Generation 25 G Vitrectomy for PDR Vito Primavera
   
Vitreous Hemorrhages & Fibrovascular Ingrowth after 25 G PPV in Diabetic Patients Sergey Nosov
02:15 pm   Tumor Moderated by Claude Boscher
   
Partial Lamellar Uvectomy for Choroidal Tumors: 10 Years Egyptian Experience Ihab Saad Othman
   
Radiotherapy + Endoresection to Treat Malignant Melanoma with Exudative RD Mario Facino
02:30 pm   Lunch
02:30 pm   EVRTS Alumni Meeting
08:30 pm   Gala Diner at the Nikki Beach
 
Tuesday, September 8th
08:00 am   Assembly of National Delegates
09:00 am   Let's See Moderated by Didier Ducournau
    Illumination
   
How many Holes Does the Patients' Eye Need to Tolerate? Frank Koch
   
27 Gauge Photo II Endoillumination for Scleral Buckling Madjed Bakdjadji
   
Vitrectomizing Surgery with 2 Sclerotomies: Vitreous and Macular Diseases Cesare Mariotti
   
Why I Use Two Illuminating Systems in my Surgery Madjed Bakdjadji
   
Routinely Use of Xenon Chandelier Light for VR Procedures Cesare Forlini
   
Our Way in Illuminating the Eye Grazia Pertile
   
Slit Lamp Illumination Advantages and Disadvantages Roberto Cian
    Viewing
   
My Way in Viewing the Eye Ivan Fiser
   
Our Way in Viewing the Eye Barbara Parolini
   
Wide Angle Oservation for Macula Surgery Thanasis Nikolakopoulos
   
Endoscopy in VitreoRetinal Surgery: The First Step Cesare Forlini
   
Endoscopy: A Tool in Standard Vitreosurgery Procedure Jean-Paul Amar
10:30 am   Coffee Break
11:00 am   Gauge War Moderated by Klaus Lucke
    20 Gauge / 23 Gauge / 25 Gauge
   
Sutureless 20 G Vitrectomy Stratos Gotzaridis
   
Tangential, Circumferential Scleral Tunnel in 20 G TSV or Why I Still Use 20 G Zachariah Koshy
    A Case Against Transconjunctival Surgery Klaus Lucke
   
Combined Sutureless 20 / 23 G Vitrectomy Maged Messeha
   
23 G Vitrectomy in the Management of Complicated RD Maria Berrocal
   
The Size Does not Matter Anymore Zoran Tomic
    Role of 20 G Vitrectomy in MIVS 23 G Era Miroslav Vukosavljevic
    23 G PPV for VR Diseases Theonitsa Panagiotoglou
    23 G TSV: Modified 2 Step Technique Enrico Bertelli
    Early Experience with the Next Generation 25 + Technology Thanasis Nikolakopoulos
    Ultrahigh Speed 5000 Cut Rate 25 Gauge Vitrectomy System vs Standard 25 Gauge and 20 Gauge in the Treatment of Macular Epiretinal Membrane Stanislao Rizzo
    Re-Flow Strategy: Expanded Indications in the Mini-Evasive Era Cesare Forlini
    How to Reduce Complications?
   
Does 23 G Vitrectomy Modify the Rate of RD after Macular Surgery? Jean-François Le Rouic
   
My Way in 23 G Surgery: How to Reduce the Major Postoperative Complications Cesare Forlini
   
Incidence of RD after Transconjunctival 23 G PPV Barbara Parolini
    Can You Hear the Vitreous? Klaus Lucke
   
Effectiveness of  Air Tamponade in the Prevention of Post Surgical Hypotony Enrico Bertelli
   
Tricks to Enhance Security in Sutureless and Microincisional Vitrectomy Frank Becquet
01:00 pm   Lunch
02:00 pm   Lens Problem Moderated by Jerzy Nawrocki
    Combined or Not Combined
   
Incidence of CME in Combined vs Non Combined 23 G TSV for ERM Removal Barbara Parolini
   
Visual Outcomes of ERM Surgery in Combined vs Non Combined 20 or 25 G PPV Jean-Paul Berrod
   
Minimal Fluid-Air Exchange in Combined 23 G TSV, Phaco and IOL Implantation Dong Heun Nam
    Dislocated Lens
   
Removal of Dropped Nucleus with a 23 G System Katerina Papadopoulos
   
23 G PPV and Iris Sutured PC-IOL in Traumatic Lens Dislocation  with  Mydriasis Levent Karabas
   
Posterior Iris IOL Fixation as Gold Standard in the correction of Aphakia Cesare Forlini
02:50 pm   Hemorrhages Moderated by Jerzy Nawrocki
   
Atraumatic Way of Submacular Hemorrhage Management Veronika Aslanova
   
Surgical Treatment of Submacular Hemorrhage Grazia Pertile
   
Submacular Hemorrhage: A Lost Eye Pietro Rossi
   
Surgical Displacement of Medium-Sized Submacular Hemorrhage Sophie Bakri
   
Temporal Peripheral Retinotomy for SMH Secondary to Arterial Macroaneurysm Hassan Mortada
   
Full Macular Translocation for Massive SMH Secondary to Neovascular AMD Hassan Mortada
   
Vitreous Hemorrhage of Indeterminate Origin: Rationales for Early  Surgery Silvia Bopp
03:50 pm   Trauma Moderated by Jerzy Nawrocki
   
Pole to Pole Surgery in Trauma Case and "Dancer" Philosophy Cesare Forlini
   
Outcomes of Partial PPV in Open Globe Injuries Involving the Posterior Segment Francesco Boscia
    Predictive Value of Ocular Trauma Score in Terror-Related Open Globe Injuries Gungor Sobaci
04:15 pm  
General Assembly
 
EDITED FILMS
Pintucci's Keratoprosthesis: An Interrupted History, a Completed Path, a Battle which goes on … Cesare Forlini
Where is the Limit? Daniel Vilaplana
Chronic and Hemorrhagic RD in PDR Daniel Vilaplana
Scleral Buckling, Vitrectomy and Pars Plana Lensectomy in a Marfan Syndrome Child with RD and Subluxation of Crystalline Elena Palacios-Pozo
27 G Twinlight Chandelier as an All-Purpose Light Source in VR Surgery Enrico Bertelli
Vitrectomy in two Steps Fernando Faus
Brilliant Blue is "Cool" Fernando Faus
The Inverted ILM Flap Technique for Large Macular Holes Jerzy Nawrocki
Spectral OCT History of Macular Hole Jerzy Nawrocki
Optic Pit Maculopathy Diagnosis with Spectral OCT and its Implications for Treatment Jerzy Nawrocki
Vitreous Hydration after Phacoemulsification: Its Possible Role in the Pseudiphakic VR Detachment Juan B.T.A. Yepez M.
Septate 360° Barrier Laser Photocoagulation for Prevention of Postoperative Retinal Detachment in Epiretinal Membrane and Macular Hole Patients Kyoung Sub Lee
Sutureless Management Dropped Nucleus Lens Madjed Bakdjadji
Little Pears that can make 23 G VR Surgery Uncomfortable Maria Garcia-Pous
Blunt Trauma with Bilateral Globe Rupture, Loss of Intraocular Content and 330 degree Retinal Dialysis Mario Alfaiate
Virtual Reality Becoming Reality Martina Zavorkova
Pharmacosurgery with the INTRECTOR Technology, Clinical Results & Effects onto the Physiology of the vitreous Body Michael Koss
Use of Viscoelastic Materials to Protect the Macula During Removal of Large Posterior Segment Intraocular Foreign Bodies Touka Banaee
Presumed Ocular Angiostrongyloidosis: Controversy: Surgical Removal vs Thermal Laser Photocoagulation Vasantha Thangasamy
 
POSTERS
Video Journal of VR Surgery Alireza Mirshahi
ILM Peeling in Retinal Detachment Anselm Jünemann
Viewing and Illumination of the Vitreous Base Anselm Jünemann
To Combine or not to Combine Treatments in AMD. Is it a matter of savings? Begona Pina Marin
Fourier-Domain OCT for Evaluation of Myopic Foveoschisis Boon Kwang Loh
Comparison of Primary and Secondary Epiretinal Membranes Using OCT Cigdem Altan
The Approaches to Central Serous Chorioretinopathy Cigdem Altan
Vitreous Biopsy - Controlled Aspiration Pressure Method for Collecting Pure Vitreous Samples During Vitreous Biopsy Clairton de Souza
Effects of Anti-VEGF Therapy vs Triamcinolone IVT on Non Ischemic CME of BRVO Dong Hyun Jee
Dongwon Lee
Surgical Results of PPV in Pseudophakic RD Evre Pekel
Additional Gas Tamponade of Weak Expanding C3F8 in RD Surgery with Inferior Breaks Galyna Levytska
Coats Disease: Management of Lipid Exudates by Intravitreal Triamcinolone with or wothout Subretinal Fluid Drainage: Effects & Complications Ihab Saad Othman
How to Manage Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Isaac Alarcon
Changes in Aqueous VEGF and PEDF after Ranibizumab alone or combined with Verteporfin for Exudative ARMD Jae Kyoun Ahn
Treatment of the Retinal Detachment Secondary to Optic Pit with Autologus Platelet Concentrate Jeroni Nadal
Dense Premacular Subhyaloid Haemorrhages Treated with Vitrectomy Joaquin Castro-Navarro
What about DME? We Choose a Different Way Combined Medical Approach Jose Juan Escobar
Effect of Topical Brimonidine (0,15%) on the development of Subconjunctival Haemorrhage Following Intravitreal Injection Jung Yeul Kim
Macular Hole Surgery with Inverted ILM Peeling Technique Kubilhan Elmas
Comparison of Effect of Cataract Surgery with Bevacizumab Alone and Combined with Intravitreal Triamcinolone Injection on Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy Kubilhan Elmas
PPV in Acute Submacular Hemorrhage (Case Report) Lidmila Prochazkova
What Can we Do to Improve and Increase the Efficacy of our Service Delivered to the Patients? Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk
Partial Regression of Degenerative Retinoschisis Associated with Epiretinal Membrane After Vitrectomy Marcin Stopa
Sensitivity and Specificity of the Wide Field Retinography Optomap for Detecting Retinal Tears in RD Maria Garcia-Pous
Incidence of Cardiovascular Morbidity in Patients with ARMD: Preliminary Report Marta Suwalska
Laser Eye Injury: Case Report Miroslav Vukosavljevic
Persisting Floaters: Is Vitrectomy the Solution? Myriam Nargisse-Feraoun
An Outbreak of Fusarium Endophthalmitis after Consecutive Cataract Surgery Necip Kara
Evolution of Surgical Technique in Management of Optic Disc Pit Maculopathy Paolo Fantaguzzi
Postoperative Monitoring of Patient's Head Position After Vitrectomy with Gas Radek Girgle
Pseudophakic Retinal Detachment: Its Incedence Rate and Types of Management Raed Mousa
25 G Primary PPV in the Surgery of Rhegmatogenic Retina Detachment in Pseudophakic Eyes Sergey Stebnev
Transscleral Extraction of an IOFB Without PPV Stepan Rusnak
Topical NSAID as Adjuvant Therapy after Ranibizumab Injection for CNV Su Jin Lim
Changes of Aqueous Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor Following Intravitreal Bevacizumab for Macular Edema Secondary to BRVO Sung Pyo Park
Treatment of Agressive Posterior ROP Susana Teixeira
Use of "Vitrenal" for Vitrosyneresis in Experiment Tursungul Botabekova
Stain Brilliant Blue G for Peeling ILM Vadim Stebnev
Endophthalmitis Rate after Intravitreal Injections with or without Drape Vasiliki Kounali
Subtenon's Anesthesia in VR Surgery Willemine de Vries Knoppert
PPV Results of Cases with Cristalline Lens or Lens Fragments in Vitreous During Phacoemulsification Surgery Zeliha Yazar
PPV Results in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Zeliha Yazar