CONTROVERSIES

Saturday, September 5th

Retinaws at EVRS

• When the Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going — A comprehensive video course on retinal misadventures in the operating room
• Introduction
• Always Measure Stanislao Rizzo
• Always Check the Infusion Tip Kourous A. Rezaei
• Suprachoroidal Infusion Maria H. Berrocal
• Small Gauge Infusion into Choroid Kirk H. Packo
• Subluxated Lens Stanislao Rizzo
• Induction of PVD Kourous A. Rezaei
• Paracentral Retinal Defect Jerzy Nawrocki
• Accidental Staining Frank Koch
• Trypan Blue Staining Stanislao Rizzo
• Enhanced Visualization Maria H. Berrocal
• Unusual Traction of the Macula Jerzy Nawrocki
• Trying Off von Hippel Angionoma Klaus Lucke
• Airbag Induced Retinal Detachment Jerzy Nawrocki
• Subretinal Infusion for Contracted Choroid TRD Maria H. Berrocal
• 23 Gauge Peripheral Vitreous Shaving and Endolaser in Phakic Patients Kourous A. Rezaei
• Emulsified Heavy Oil Klaus Lucke
• Surgical Arterial Embolectomy Stanislao Rizzo
• Pupilary Block from Gas in AC Klaus Lucke

Sunday, September 6th

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

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

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

Monday, September 7th

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
• 25 gauge surgery and silicone oil made easy Thanasis Nikolakopoulos
• ILM Peeling in DME Ivan Fiser

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

Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

Moderated by Claude Boscher

Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

• 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

Tumor

Moderated by Claude Boscher

Tumor

• Partial Lamellar Uvectomy for Choroidal Tumors: 10 Years Egyptian Experience Ihab Saad Othman
• Radiotherapy + Endoresection to Treat Malignant Melanoma with Exudative RD Mario Facino

Tuesday, September 8th

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

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

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

Hemorrhages

Moderated by Jerzy Nawrocki

Hemorrhages

• 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

Trauma

Moderated by Jerzy Nawrocki

Trauma

• 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

Scientific Movies

• 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
• 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

Scientific 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
• 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
• Intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis) for branch retinal vein occlusion induced macular edema: 6 months results of a prospective study Petros Petrou
• 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
• Where else can we apply the macular translocation technique? Zoran Tomic