Sunday 25 May 2025 - Programme

Sunday 25 May

Note:  This programme is subject to change

Room 1
Meridian

Room 2
Tycho/Kepler

Room 3
Stella

09:00 – 10:00
Free Paper Session 5
Imaging/Corneal Graft


Moderators: TBA

09:00 – 09:12
Diego Ponzin, Italy,
KEYNOTE Keratoplasty from the Eye Bank Perspective

09:12 – 09:17
Furkan Özdemir, Turkey
Association Between Baseline Corneal Densitometry and Future Progression Across Age Groups in Keratoconus

09:17 – 09:22
Eda Nur Gönültaş Özkan, Turkey
Corneal Epithelial Thickness Map Analysis of Unilateral Suspect Keratoconus with Optical Coherence Tomography

09:22 – 09:27
Lional Raj, India
Cortical Stimulation Therapy Using Gabor Patches Improves Vision And Contrast Sensitivity In Crosslinked Stable Keratoconus: Results Of RCT

09:27 – 09:32
Corantin Maurin, France
3D atlas of the different descemetic lesions of Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy using laser scanning microscopy and interferometry

09:32 – 09:37
Rafael Whitfield, Portugal
Tomographic Criteria in Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy: Endothelial Keratoplasty or Cataract Surgery Alone?

09:37 – 09:42
Stefan Georgiev, Austria
Ray-traced corneal wavefront aberrations from long ranged SS-OCT-based data: optical zone repeatability.

09:42 – 09:47
Antonia Carmen Sangregorio, Italy
Topographic Astigmatism after Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty: Orientation, Power, and Correlation with Preoperative Values

09:47 – 09:52
Andrea Taloni, Italy
Impact of Residual Stromal Thickness on the Outcomes of Manual Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty

09:52 – 09:57
Joanna Wasielica-Poslednik, Germany
Post-DMEK IOP Management: Insights from a Standardized Surgical Approach

09:57 – 10:02
Yusuf Samet Atlıhan, Turkey
Long term outcomes of keratoplasty: Evaluation of factors affecting glaucoma and graft survival

10:02 – 10:07
Gahan Reddy, India
Knowledge, attitude, and practices in relation to eye donation awareness among personnel in a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi, India.

10:07 – 10:12  
Umberto Rodella, Italy 
A Novel Hybrid Software-Assisted Method to Evaluate Quantitatively Corneal Endothelium from Light Microscopy Images


10:12 – 10:15

Discussion

09:00 – 10:00
Instructional Course
DMEK Made Easy: Step By Step Descemet's Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty

Course Instructors
Ritika Mukhija, UK
Mayank Nanavaty UK

Each didcatic presentation will be followed by a 5 minute Q & A and discussion

09:00 – 09:15
Ritika Mukhija, UK
Patient and graft preparation.
This presentation will discuss patient selection for DMEK and various techniques and considerations for preparing the donor and recipient for transplant.

09:15 – 09:30
Hatch Mukherjee, UK
Graft Insertion & Handling.
This talk will focus on various graft insertion techniques and tips and tricks on how to unfold the graft.

09:30 – 09:45
Alfonso Vasquez Perez, UK
DMEK in challenging scenarios.
This talk will discuss about tips and tricks of performing DMEK in challenging scenarios such as in aphakia and eyes with anterior chamber IOLs.

09:45 – 10:00
Mayank Nanavaty, UK
Intra- and post-operative complications and management.
The speaker will talk about management in tricky situations and when things do not go as per plan.

09:00 – 10:00
Presented Poster Session 8
Surgical Treatment of OSD


Moderators: TBA

09:00 – 09:07
Mayank Nanavaty, UK
Modified Transepithelial Phototherapeutic Keratectomy for Band Keratopathy

09:07 – 09:14
Francois Majo, Switzerland
Aniridia Associated Keratopathy and Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency: A New Surgical Procedure including KERATECTOMY AND SCET (Simple Conjunctival Epithelial Transplantation) Performed in two eyes with a long follow-up

09:14 – 09:21
Ozer Sakin, Turkey
Demonstration of Subclinical Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency in Donor Eyes for Limbal Tissue Transplantation with Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography

09:21 – 09:28
Marc Bautista Cortiella, Spain
Clinical experience with therapeutic photokeratectomy for the management of corneal pathologies – a 5-years review

09:28 – 09:35
Bernardo Monteiro, Portugal
AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION IN OCULAR SURFACE DISEASE: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE

09:35 – 09:42
Andrea Pastor Asensio, Spain
NOVEL SURGICAL TECHNIQUE OF AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE GRAFT FOR CORNEAL PERFORATION

09:42 – 09:49
Haoyu Wang, UK
Amniotic membrane transplant in corneal pathologies: 10-year case series from a teaching hospital in the UK

09:49 – 09:56
Çisil Erkan Pota, Turkey
Evaluation of Ocular Outcomes in Patients with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Results of Sutureless Amniotic Membrane Transplantation Using Suction Catheters

09:56 – 10:03
Carolin Elhardt, Germany
A neural network trained with the knowledge of corneal specialists to decide whether to perform surgery for pterygium.

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Symposium
Corneal Healing: Understanding & Management Symposium

Moderators:
Nuno Moura Coehlo, Portugal,
Harminder Dua, UK
Anna Randag, The Netherlands

10:30 – 10:42
Jean-Louis Bourges, France
In Trauma

10:42 – 10:54
Friedrich Kruse, Germany
In Auto-Immune Disease

10:54 – 11:06
Julia Chan, Hong Kong
In Infections

11:06 -11:18
Antonio Moramarco, Italy
In Herpectic Disease

11:18 – 11:30
Hong-Kyun Kim, Korea
In Corneal Dystrophy & Generations

11:30 – 11:42
Emilio Pedrotti, Italy
In Cornea Refractive Surgery

11:42 – 12:00
All Panel Discussion

10:30 – 11:15
Instructional Course
Recent Guidelines In the Management of Complications in DALK
10.30 – 11:30
Presented Poster Session 9




12.00 – 12:30
Free Paper Awards & Closing Remarks