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