Sunday 26 May
Note: This programme is subject to change
Auditorium
Salle De Conference 109
Building 44
Speakers Corner Forum
Foyer Auditorium
09:00 – 10:00
Free Paper 4: Infections
Moderators:
Maria Phylactou, Cyprus
Jean-Louis Bourges, France
09:00 Rita Texeira Martins, Portugal A 12-Year Retrospective Analysis Of Fungal Keratitis In A Tertiary Care Hospital – Predicting Risk Factors And Ocular Complications
09:05 Katie Curro-Tafili, The Netherlands Diagnosing and monitoring the characteristics of Acanthamoeba keratitis using slitscanning and laser scanning in vivo confocal microscopy
09:10 Boris Knyazer, Israel Accelerated high fluence photoactivated chromophore for infectious keratitis—corneal cross-linking (PACK-CXL) at the slit lamp: a pilot study
09:15 Maria Laura Passaro, Italy The incidence of severe complications in acanthamoeba keratitis: qualitative and quantitativesystematic assessment
09:20 Shokufeh Tavassoli, UK Microbial keratitis trends over 16-years in Bath
09:25 Nandita Trivedo, India To study the epidemiological profile and laboratory Vitamin A levels in paediatric infectious keratitis cases at tertiary teaching hospital in North India
09:30 Clara Bertret, France Bacterial keratitis: predisposing factors, clinical and microbiological review of 354 cases. An update from a French Academic Center
09:35 William Trask, Canada Cytomegalovirus as a cause of recurrent corneal endotheliitis in the Western population and response to chronic low-dose valganciclovir therapy
09:40 Discussion
08:30 – 09:30
Forum 6: Imaging
Moderators:
Sebastian Siebelmann, Germany,
Ingemar Gustafsson, Sweden
08:30
Gilles Thuret, France
Revisiting Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy clinical classification using innovative high-resolution, far-red, reflexion-free retroillumination
08:37
Luca Lucchino, Italy
Tomographic and Topographc Predictive Factors of Big Bubble Formation during Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty in Keratoconus
08:44
Ozge Saritas, Turkey
Comparison of Corneal Topographic and Ocular Surface Parameters of Ocular Rosacea Patients According to Different Skin Subtypes
08:51
Carolin Elhardt, Germany
The quality of life in patients with corneal dystrophy compared to visual acuity, higher order aberrations and corneal densitometry in Pentacam
08:58
Shafi Balal, UK
Evaluating repeatability of corneal curvature and thickness on MS-39 anterior segment OCT through the measurement range
09:05
Vito Romano, Italy
Novel Ocular Surface Imaging System for standardized color photography: clinical evaluation
09:12 Nihat Eratilgan, Turkey
Alterations in corneal sensitivity according to age and gender in the healthy population
09:19
Mert Mestanoglu, Germany
Fibrillar Layer Positive Eyes with Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy Demonstrate Scheimpflug Tomography Features of Corneal Edema
09:26
Sameena Sheriff, UK
Characterization of corneal infections by AS-OCT
10:30 – 12:00
Symposium: What’s New in Corneal Infection?
Moderators:
Jesper Hjortdal Denmark,
Bruce Allan UK
10:30 Thomas Fuchsluger Germany
State-of-the art sampling and culture
10:42 Francois Majo, Switzerland
Microbiomes and Keratitis:what is it about?
10:54 Sophie Deng USA
Value of corneal imaging on management of keratitis.
11:06 Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer USA
VZV treatment and recommendation for vaccination
11:18 Paolo Rama Italy
New medical treatment for acanthamoeba and fungal keratitis
11:30 Harminder Dua UK
What to do when the Drugs Fail?
11:42 Discussion
12:00 End of session
10:30 – 11:30
Instructional Course: Corneal Imaging
Béatrice Cochener-Lamard France
The basis of Topography and Tomography
Sebastian Siebelmann Germany
Anterior segment OCT: a new dimension
Vito Romano, Italy
Ultrastructure of the Cornea: Confocal and Specular Microscopy and sensitivity)