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PRELIMINARY TIMETABLE

Main Hall "Patria"

PROGRAM

Thursday, 14th Nov

HOUR

08:00

Welcome

MACULAR HOLES 1
Macula mania: The Hole Story

Chair: Stratos Gotzaridis
Moderators: Remzi Avci, Sangeet Mittal

HOUR

08:05

SPONTANEOUS CLOSURE OF MACULAR HOLE: CASE SERIES

HOUR

08:10

PRE AND POSTOPERATIVE OCT MARKERS AND THEIR VALUE AS PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN FULL THICKNESS MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

08:15

CONVENTIONAL MACULAR HOLE SURGERY OUTCOMES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

HOUR

08:20

IS THERE A RIGHT SIZE OF INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE PEELED AREA IN MACULAR HOLE SURGERY?

HOUR

08.25 DISCUSSION

HOUR

08:33

TEMPORAL FLAP “NO PINCH” TECHNIQUE FOR MACULAR HOLE REPAIR

HOUR

08:38

INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE/EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE FLAP COMPLEX IN FTMH. CHALLENGING THE OBVIOUS

HOUR

08:43

GAS-FREE MINI-FLAP TECHNIQUE FOR MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

08:48

TAMPONADE-FREE MACULAR HOLE SURGERY USING INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP WITH DISPERSIVE VISCOELASTIC

HOUR

08:53

FAILED MACULAR HOLE SURGERY: WHAT'S NEXT?

HOUR

08:58

DISCUSSION

HOUR

09:08

AUTOLOGOUS RETINAL TRANSPLANT: BRIDGING THE GAP IN REFRACTORY MACULAR HOLE

HOUR

09:13

AUTOLOGOUS NEUROSENSORY RETINA FLEE FLAP TRANSPLANTATION FOR REFRACTORY HIGHLY MYOPIC MACULAR HOLES: A LONG-EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE FOLLOW-UP

HOUR

09:18

A NOVEL SURGICAL TECHNIQUE FOR GIANT AND REFRACTORY MACULAR HOLES: AUTOLOGOUS TENON CAPSULE PLUG

HOUR

09:23

SHORTFALLS OF FREE AUTOLOGOUS INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION FOR HIGHLY MYOPIC REFRACTORY MACULAR HOLES IN A LONG EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE FOLLOW-UP

HOUR

09:28

MACULAR RETINAL PATCH FOR RECURRENT MACULAR HOLE

HOUR

09:30

DISCUSSION

HOUR

09:40

COFFEE BREAK

MACULAR HOLES 2
Zen and the Art of Retina Maintenance

Chair: MOHAMED ALHAZZAZI
Moderators: Jayant Guha, Felipe Scala

HOUR

10:10

INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE PEELING IN VITREOMACULAR TRACTION SYNDROMES. A REAL FUNCTIONAL AND ANATOMICAL BENEFIT OR AN ATTRACTIVE VIDEO CLIP

HOUR

10:15

THIRD EYE AND THIRD HAND IN CHALLENGING MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

10:20

TRAUMATIC MACULAR HOLE: TO OPERATE OR TO OBSERVE?

HOUR

10:25

MACULAR HOLE SURGERY IN RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA

HOUR

10:30

SEQUENTIAL PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY AND INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP TECHNIQUE FOR RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENTS WITH PERIPHERAL BREAKS AND CONCOMITANT NON-CAUSATIVE MACULAR HOLE IN NON-HIGHLY MYOPIC PATIENTS

HOUR

10:35

MYOPIC MACULAR HOLE COMPLICATED BY POSTERIOR RHEGMATOGENOUS RD AND SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULAR MEMBRANE MANAGEMENT

HOUR

10:37

DISCUSSION

HOUR

10:49

INTRAOPERATIVE CLOSURE OF LARGE FULL THICKNESS MACULAR HOLES WITH PERFLUOROCARBON LIQUID

HOUR

10:54

SURGICAL OUTCOMES FOR X-LARGE, XX-LARGE AND GIANT MACULAR HOLES

HOUR

10:59

DRY AMNIOTIC SHEET FOR GIANT MACULAR HOLES

HOUR

11:04

LONG-TERM EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE OUTCOMES AND PROGNOSIS IN VITRECTOMY WITH AUTOLOGOUS PLATELET CONCENTRATE INJECTION FOR LARGE, HIGH MYOPIC OR RECURRENT MACULAR HOLES

HOUR

11:09

COMPARISON OF THE RESULTS OF CLASSIC INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP AND SUPERIOR INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP TECHNIQUE IN LARGE STAGE IV IDIOPATHIC MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

11:14

EPIRETINAL TISSUE PRESERVING TEMPORAL INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP TECHNIQUE FOR THE TREATMENT OF LAMELLAR MACULAR HOLES WITH EPIRETINAL PROLIFERATION

HOUR

11:19

A DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS AND FOLLOW-UP OF LAMELLAR HOLE PROGRESSION

HOUR

11:24

DISCUSSION

HOUR

11.38 OPENING CEREMONY

HOUR

12:00

LIVE SURGERY Surgeons: Armin Wolf (Germany), Giampaolo Gini, Daniele Tognetto (Italy), Mohamed Tawfik (Egypt), Uday Tekchandani (India), Barbara Parolini (Italy), Jorge Arroyo (USA)

HOUR

12:00

LIVE SURGERYPanel 1: Ron Adelman Panelists: Ashraf Shaarawy, Mohamed Moghazy, Jaryant Guha, Silvia Bopp

HOUR

13:00

LIVE SURGERYPanel 2: Ahmed Sallam Panelists: Nur Acar Göçgil, Ivan Fiser, Stratos Gotzaridis, Gokhan Gurelik

HOUR

13:00

LUNCH DURING LIVE SURGERY

SURGICAL TIPS & TRICKS / MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS (MY WAY)
Don’t Try This at Home: Retina Edition

Chair: Mahmoud Soliman
Moderators: Hussain Khaqan, Murat Öncel

HOUR

14:00

SURGICALLY-INDUCED POSTERIOR VITREOUS DETACHMENT AS A POTENTIALLY DELETERIOUS MANEUVER: A MINI CASE SERIES WITH ESCALATING SITUATIONS

HOUR

14:05

PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY FOR COMPLEX RETINAL CASES FOLLOWING OSTEO- ODONTO KERATOPROSTESIS

HOUR

14:10

USE OF SF6 GAS TO TREAT POST-GLAUCOMA SURGERY HYPOTONY

HOUR

14:15

DISCUSSION

HOUR

14:21

“HAVING GOOD HANDS IS NOT ENOUGH”. IMPROVING SURGICAL SKILLS AND OUTCOMES: A MULTI-PERSPECTIVE APPROACH

HOUR

14:26

FINDING RETINAL HOLE IN RETINAL RE-DETACHMENT USING DE-TECH

HOUR

14:31

UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF TENON'S CAPSULE IN THE TREATMENT OF COMPLEX VITREORETINAL PATHOLOGIES

HOUR

14:36

DISCUSSION

HOUR

14:42

VISUAL OUTCOMES AND POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS OF EYES WITH DROPPED LENS FRAGMENTS DURING CATARACT SURGERY: A MULTICENTER DATABASE STUDY

HOUR

14:47

NON-PERFORATING INTRASCLERAL STABBING FOR SUTURELESS 23G SCLEROTOMY CLOSURE

HOUR

14:52

INDIRECT CYCLOPEXY IN CASES WITH CYCLODIALYSIS USING FLANGED PROLENE CYLOPEXY TECHNIQUE

HOUR

14:57

DISCUSSION

HOUR

15:03

INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE REMOVAL TECHNIQUES IN TERSON'S SYNDROME

HOUR

15:08

REPROLIFERATION AFTER COMPLEX PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY SURGERY

HOUR

15:13

SUPRACHORIDAL HEMORRHAGE - TIPS AND TRICKS IN IDENTIFYING AND MANAGING THIS CATASTROPHE

HOUR

15:18

DISLODGING THE CAUSATIVE EMBOLUS IN A CASE OF CENTRAL RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION

HOUR

15:23

THE CORNEA IN THE HANDS OF THE VITREORETINAL SURGEON

HOUR

15:28

PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY WITH RETINOSCHISIS CYST ASPIRATION AS A TREATMENT OPTION FOR MACULAR RETINOSCHISIS IN COATS-LIKE RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA

HOUR

15:33

PERFLUOROCARBON LIQUID SAVED THE DAY IN UNEXPECTED BLEEDING DURING DIABETIC RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY

HOUR

15:38

DRY VITRECTOMY

HOUR

15:43

DISCUSSION

HOUR

15:59

COFFEE BREAK

OCULAR TRAUMA
Total Wrecks to Total Fixes

Chair: Bertelli Enrico
Moderators: Ferenc Kuhn, Nur Acar Göçgil

HOUR

16:20

EYE WITH CHRONIC, FERROUS IOFB: WHAT TO DO?

HOUR

16:25

INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL: SCLERAL VS CORNEAL INCISION

HOUR

16:30

INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL WITH MINIMALLY INVASIVE, NON-VITRECTOMIZING VITREOUS SURGERY

HOUR

16:35

COMPLEX OCULAR TRAUMA SURGERY: INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODYREMOVAL AND CORNEAL REPAIR

HOUR

16:40

DISCUSSION

HOUR

16:48

OCCULT METALLIC FOREIGN BODY LODGED IN THE PARS PLANA AND REMOVAL BY CHANDELIER ASSISTED VITRECTOMY

HOUR

16:53

ENDOSCOPY-ASSISTED VITRECTOMY AND CONJUNCTIVAL FLAP COVERING IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE OCULAR TRAUMA COMBINED WITH CORNEAL BLOOD STAINING

HOUR

16:58

SURGICAL TREATMENT IN POST-TRAUMATIC ENDOPHTHALMITIS

HOUR

17:03

MANAGEMENT OF OCULAR TRAUMA IN WAR VICTIMS: A CASE SERIES FROM THE VIEW HOSPITAL

HOUR

17:08

DISCUSSION

HOUR

17:16

OCULAR TRAUMA AND TIMELY TREATMENT: 2 CASE REVIEWS

HOUR

17:21

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF EYE CONTUSION COMBINED WITH CYCLODIALYSIS: А СASE REPORT

HOUR

17:26

COMBINED IMPLANTATION OF ARTIFICIAL IRIS WITH CARLEVALE SCLERAL FIXATED INTRAOCULAR LENS AS A SINGLE PROCEDURE

HOUR

17:31

DISCUSSION

EGYPTIAN SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM: WHAT I AM DOING DIFFERENTLY AT THE MOMENT

Moderator: Ahmed El-Sawy

HOUR

17:40

A NOVEL ILM FLAP FOR IDIOPATHIC MACULAR HOLES

HOUR

17:45

A NOVEL WAY OF PREVENTING POST VITRECTOMY MACULAR FOLDS

HOUR

17:50

MY WAY IN MACULAR SURGERY VIEWING, CONTACT LENS WITH DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT

HOUR

17:55

IOCT, MY NEW ‘I” COMPANION

HOUR

18:00

DISCUSSION

MACULAR DISORDERS
The Retina Oscars: Best Drama in the OR

Chair: Ahmed Sallam
Moderators: Mohamed Moghazy, Vaibhav Sethi

HOUR

18:08

MANAGEMENT OF OPTIC DISC PIT-ASSOCIATED MACULOPATHY: RESULTS FROM THE LAST 19 CASES AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTER AND LITERATURE REVIEW

HOUR

18:13

10 Years Audit of Optic Disc Pit Mystery ; Surgical Management

HOUR

18:18

VITRECTOMY FOR MULTILAYERED HEMORRHAGE IN SICKLE CELL RETINOPATHY

HOUR

18:20

CENTRAL RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION AFTER A MEDICAL-AESTHETIC PROCEDURE

HOUR

18:22

DISCUSSION

HOUR

18:30

LONG TERM FOVEATION PROCESSES AFTER EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE SURGERY

HOUR

18:35

VITREORETINAL COMPLICATIONS SECONDARY TO FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY (FAP): DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

HOUR

18:40

POSSIBLE COMBINED DYE TOXICITY AND PHOTOTOXICITY IN TWO CASES FOLLOWING EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE REMOVAL SURGERY

HOUR

18:45

DISCUSSION

EUROLAM SYMPOSIUM: SPECIAL AND DIFFICULT VITREO RETINAL CASES OF DIAGNOSTIC AND RESOLUTION

Chairs: RENE CANO, DAVID E. PELAYES

HOUR

18:51

Case Report

HOUR

18:56

Discussion

HOUR

18:58

Case Report

HOUR

19:03

Discussion

HOUR

19:05

Case Report

HOUR

19:10

Discussion

HOUR

19:12

Case Report

HOUR

19:17

DISCUSSION

HOUR

19:20

End of session

Friday, 15th Nov

HOUR 07:15

OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW: WHY THINKING "DIFFERENT" IS BETTER WHEN IT COMES TO PRACTICE GROWTH

Chairs & Speakers: Amanda Cardwell Carones, Jean Claude Muscat

PEDIATRIC RETINA 1
The Young Retina Hunger Games

Chair: Susana Teixeira
Moderators: Şengül Özdek, Mariam Al-Feky

HOUR

08:30

APPEARANCE OF NEW RETINAL HEMORRHAGES FOLLOWING RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY EXAMINATION

HOUR

08:35

MANAGEMENT OF MACULAR HEMORRHAGE IN RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY

HOUR

08:40

MANAGEMENT OF VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE IN INFANTS

HOUR

08:45

INJECT OR NOT TO INJECT PRIOR TO SURGERY FOR ACTIVE STAGE 4 RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY

HOUR

08:50

ROP MANAGEMENT: WHERE DID WE GO WRONG?

HOUR

08:52

DISCUSSION

HOUR

09:02

THE IMPORTANCE OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IN RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY

HOUR

09:07

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF REFERRAL DIAGNOSIS FOR STAGE 4-5 RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY

HOUR

09:12

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR FINDINGS IN FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY AFTER PRIMARY BEVACIZUMAB TREATMENT FOR ROP AND IN SPONTANEOUSLY REGRESSED ROP

HOUR

09:17

THE ROLES OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY INDEXES IN THE PROGNOSIS AND DIAGNOSIS OF RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY

HOUR

09:22

HOW MANY PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY TYPE 1 ACTUALLY HAVE TYPE 1 RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY?

HOUR

09:27

DISCUSSION

HOUR

09:37

PHENOTYPIC SIMILARITY OF PERSISTENT FETAL VASCULATURE AND CONGENITAL HYPERTROPHY OF THE RETINA AND RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM: DISTINCT ENTITIES OR A POTENTIAL CONNECTION?

HOUR

09:42

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CONGENITAL HYPERTROPHY OF THE RETINA AND RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM

HOUR

09:47

“MACULAR PUCKER” AS THE LEADING SYMPTOM OF CONGENITAL HYPERTROPHY OF THE RETINA AND RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM IN YOUNG PATIENTS: DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

HOUR

09:52

DISCUSSION

PEDIATRIC RETINA 2
Who said "the smaller the better?"

Moderators: Subhadra Jalali, Eleonora Lavaque, Alajandra Daruich

HOUR

10:00

SHORT TERM OUTCOMES OF A NOVEL TECHNIQUE OF COMBINED BUCKLE AND SCLERAL IMBRICATION FOR COMPLEX RETINAL DETACHMENTS

HOUR

10:05

PEDIATRIC RETINAL DETACHMENT MANAGEMENT OPTIONS (OUR RESULTS IN 150 CASES)

HOUR

10:10

MORNING GLORY SYNDROME RELATED RETINAL DETACHMENT: DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES

HOUR

10:15

TREATMENT OF INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI RELATED RETINAL PATHOLOGIES

HOUR

10:20

DISCUSSION

HOUR

10:28

A SIMPLIFIED SCLEROCORNEAL TUNNEL APPROACH IN PERFORMING PEDIATRIC CATARACT SURGERY

HOUR

10.35 FAMILIAL EXUDATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY

HOUR

10.37 SUTURELESS PERITOMY SPARING SCLERAL BUCKLE IN A PEDIATRIC PATIENT

HOUR

10:39

A CURIOUS CASE OF FAMILIAL EXUDATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY AND EYE: CASE PRESENTATION

HOUR

10:41

DISCUSSION

HOUR

10:48

COFFEE BREAK

INNOVATIONS / SURGICAL INSTRUMENTATION / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The retina time machine

Chair: Ron Adelman
Moderators: Francesco Barca, Armin Wolf

HOUR

11:10

AN EASY WAY TO PREVENT VELOCITY-RELATED COMPLICATIONS DURING DEXAMETHASONE IMPLANT INJECTION IN VITRECTOMIZED EYES

HOUR

11:15

IMPACT OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLM) AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ON THE PRACTICE OF RETINA

PRELIMINARY TIMETABLE

Main Hall "Patria"

PROGRAM

HOUR

08:00

Welcome

MACULAR HOLES 1 Macula mania: The Hole Story

Chair: Stratos GotzaridisModerators: Remzi Avci, Sangeet Mittal

HOUR

08:05

SPONTANEOUS CLOSURE OF MACULAR HOLE: CASE SERIES

HOUR

08:10

PRE AND POSTOPERATIVE OCT MARKERS AND THEIR VALUE AS PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN FULL THICKNESS MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

08:15

CONVENTIONAL MACULAR HOLE SURGERY OUTCOMES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

HOUR

08:20

IS THERE A RIGHT SIZE OF INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE PEELED AREA IN MACULAR HOLE SURGERY?

HOUR

08.25

DISCUSSION

HOUR

08:33

TEMPORAL FLAP “NO PINCH” TECHNIQUE FOR MACULAR HOLE REPAIR

HOUR

08:38

INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE/EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE FLAP COMPLEX IN FTMH. CHALLENGING THE OBVIOUS

HOUR

08:43

GAS-FREE MINI-FLAP TECHNIQUE FOR MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

08:48

TAMPONADE-FREE MACULAR HOLE SURGERY USING INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP WITH DISPERSIVE VISCOELASTIC

HOUR

08:53

FAILED MACULAR HOLE SURGERY: WHAT'S NEXT?

HOUR

08:58

DISCUSSION

HOUR

09:08

AUTOLOGOUS RETINAL TRANSPLANT: BRIDGING THE GAP IN REFRACTORY MACULAR HOLE

HOUR

09:13

AUTOLOGOUS NEUROSENSORY RETINA FLEE FLAP TRANSPLANTATION FOR REFRACTORY HIGHLY MYOPIC MACULAR HOLES: A LONG-EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE FOLLOW-UP

HOUR

09:18

A NOVEL SURGICAL TECHNIQUE FOR GIANT AND REFRACTORY MACULAR HOLES: AUTOLOGOUS TENON CAPSULE PLUG

HOUR

09:23

SHORTFALLS OF FREE AUTOLOGOUS INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION FOR HIGHLY MYOPIC REFRACTORY MACULAR HOLES IN A LONG EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE FOLLOW-UP

HOUR

09:28

MACULAR RETINAL PATCH FOR RECURRENT MACULAR HOLE

HOUR

09:30

DISCUSSION

HOUR

09:40

COFFEE BREAK

MACULAR HOLES 2 Zen and the Art of Retina Maintenance

Chair: MOHAMED ALHAZZAZI Moderators: Jayant Guha, Felipe Scala

HOUR

10:10

INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE PEELING IN VITREOMACULAR TRACTION SYNDROMES. A REAL FUNCTIONAL AND ANATOMICAL BENEFIT OR AN ATTRACTIVE VIDEO CLIP

HOUR

10:15

THIRD EYE AND THIRD HAND IN CHALLENGING MACULAR HOLE SURGERY

HOUR

10:20

TRAUMATIC MACULAR HOLE: TO OPERATE OR TO OBSERVE?

HOUR

10:25

MACULAR HOLE SURGERY IN RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA

HOUR

10:30

SEQUENTIAL PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY AND INVERTED INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE FLAP TECHNIQUE FOR RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENTS WITH PERIPHERAL BREAKS AND CONCOMITANT NON-CAUSATIVE MACULAR HOLE IN NON-HIGHLY MYOPIC PATIENTS

HOUR

MACULAR HOLES 1
Macula mania: The Hole Story

Chair: Stratos Gotzaridis
Moderators: Remzi Avci, Sangeet Mittal

MACULAR HOLES 2
Zen and the Art of Retina Maintenance

Chair: MOHAMED ALHAZZAZI
Moderators: Jayant Guha, Felipe Scala

SURGICAL TIPS & TRICKS / MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS (MY WAY)
Don’t Try This at Home: Retina Edition

Chair: Mahmoud Soliman
Moderators: Hussain Khaqan, Murat Öncel