1st EuCornea Congress Venice 2010 June 17-19 Programme o r n C e u a E E u a e C o r n European Society of Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease Specialists in Joint Meeting - Società Italiana Cellulle Staminali e Superficie Oculare (S.I.C.S.S.O.) - Società Oftalmologica Universitaria (S.O.U.) - [email protected] Local Organiser: Giancarlo Caprioglio Scientific Co-ordinator: Paolo Vinciguerra REGIONE DEL VENETO 1st EuCornea Congress Buffet Dinner, Magic Show DJ and Dancing Friday 18 June Enjoy a beautiful dinner in the Arsenale de Venezia followed by a Magic Show performed by the famous Silvan Tickets: €55 each (Available at the EuCornea registration desk) ~ ACCESS BY PRIVATE BOAT ONLY ~ Private Boats will depart from the Molino Stucky Hilton at 7.00pm Private Boats will depart from St Mark’s Square at 7.10pm Private Boats will depart from the Arsenale to the Molino Stucky Hilton and St Mark’s Square at 11.30pm and 01.00am in Joint Meeting: Venice June 17-19 - Società Italiana Cellulle Staminali e Superficie Oculare (S.I.C.S.S.O.) - Società Oftalmologi Universitari (S.O.U.) 2010 - [email protected] COntentS EuCornea Board 2 Message from the President 3 General Information 4 Scientific Programme Overview 5 Plan of Congress Centre 6 List of Exhibitors and Exhibition Floorplan 7 Scientific Sessions – Thursday 8 Scientific Sessions – Friday 12 Scientific Sessions – Saturday 16 EuCornea Medal Lectures 16 Courses / Industry Symposia 17 Electronic Posters 19 Keynote Abstracts 25 Invited Speaker Abstracts 29 Free Paper Abstracts 39 Poster Abstracts 65 Vaporetto Map 76 Molino Stucky Hilton Shuttle Boat Timetable 77 Tours 78 Index 79 1 1st EuCornea Congress eUCORnea BOaRd PReSIdent: Vincenzo Sarnicola ITALY PReSIdent EleCt/ VICe PReSIdent: Harminder S. Dua UK SeCRetaRy: tReaSUReR: Beatrice Cochener FRANCE Ulf Stenevi SWEDEN Gunther Grabner AUSTRIA Leonardo Mastropasqua ITALY José Güell SPAIN Rudy Nuijts THE NETHERLANDS Friedrich Kruse GERMANY Thomas Reinhard GERMANY Frank Larkin UK Theo Seiler SWITZERLAND Jesus Merayo Lloves SPAIN Marie Jose Tassignon BELGIUM Francois Malecaze FRANCE Gabriel Van Rij THE NETHERLANDS 2 in Joint Meeting: Venice June 17-19 - Società Italiana Cellulle Staminali e Superficie Oculare (S.I.C.S.S.O.) - Società Oftalmologi Universitari (S.O.U.) 2010 - [email protected] MeSSaGe fROM the PReSIdent EuCornea Temple House Temple Road Blackrock Co. Dublin Ireland Dear Colleagues On behalf of the Board of EuCornea I am delighted to welcome you to the 1st Congress of the European Society of Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease Specialists. This first EuCornea meeting is a joint meeting with Società Italiana Cellulle Staminali e Superficie Oculare (S.I.C.S.S.O.), Società Oftalmologica Universitaria (S.O.U.) and [email protected]. I would like to express my appreciation to these organisations for joining with EuCornea for its first meeting. I would like to especially thank Paolo Vinciguerra for his tremendous contribution to the scientific programme which includes presentations and keynote lectures by many of the world’s leading ophthalmologists in field of cornea and ocular surface disease. In addition the programme includes two inaugural EuCornea Lectures delivered by Giancarlo Falcinelli and Claes Dohlman. I wish to thank all the presenters of courses and scientific sessions for their contributions to this 1st Congress of EuCornea. A special thanks is due to the Industry companies exhibiting here who have so generously supported our first EuCornea meeting. The magnificent city of Venice is the backdrop for our first Congress and I hope you will take some time to explore this wonderful city. Very special thanks go to our local organiser Prof Giancarlo Caprioglio for all of his support and the support the Congress has received from the City of Venice. Prof Caprioglio and his wife Giuliana have organised a fascinating schedule of tours and some wonderful social events for us. I hope you truly enjoy the EuCornea Congress and the city of Venice and that you will join us next year for the 2nd EuCornea Congress in Vienna. Yours sincerely, Vincenzo Sarnicola President, EuCornea 3 1st EuCornea Congress GeneRal infORMatIOn VenUe: Molino Stucky Hilton, Giudecca 810, 30133 Venice, Italy hOSt: EuCornea, Temple House, Temple Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 288 3674 Fax: +353 1 209 1112 Email: [email protected] Web: www.eucornea.org InSURanCe: Delegates are advised to take out travel insurance to cover medical expenses, accidents, loss, etc. No responsibility will be accepted by the Congress Organisers. OffICIaL LanGUaGe: The official language of the Congress is English. CURRenCy: The official currency of the Congress is Euro ReGIStRatIOn deSk: All participants will receive their Congress pack at the registration desk. The opening hours of the registration desk are: Wednesday 16 June 14.00 – 18.00 Thursday 17 June 07.30 – 19.00 Friday 18 June 07.30 – 18.30 Saturday 19 June 08.00 – 13.00 SPeakeR CheCk in ROOM: The speaker check in room is located at the back of the Exhibition area and is open as follows: Thursday 17 June 07.30 – 19.00 Friday 18 June 07.30 – 18.30 Saturday 19 June 08.00 – 13.00 exhIBItIOn: The congress is accompanied by a commercial exhibition which is open as follows: Thursday 17 June 09.00 – 18.00 Friday 18 June 09.00 – 18.00 Saturday 19 June 09.00 – 13.00 eCM: EuCornea is accredited by ECM. 4 in Joint Meeting: Venice June 17-19 - Società Italiana Cellulle Staminali e Superficie Oculare (S.I.C.S.S.O.) - Società Oftalmologi Universitari (S.O.U.) 2010 - [email protected] PROGRaMMe oveRVIew Sala A Sala B Course Room 1 Course Room 2 08.00 17 08.30 09.00 [email protected] Session OPD Seminar 09.30 Visual and Refraction Modern topography and aberrometry Endothelial Keratoplasty associated in corneal surgery and disease - 10.00 NIDEK Sponsored Symposium 10.30 [email protected] Session Improved Corneal Diagnostics 11.00 Refractive with Scheimpflug-Based Paediatric Cornea 11.30 Tomography (Pentacam) A reasoned step by step Achieving Excellence: Teamwork Stem Cells 12.00 approach for successful in Cataract and Refractive th and Corneal Biomechanics DSAEK surgery Surgery Achieve Excellence 12.30 and Reconstruction Ocular Surface Successful Cross-Linking: Patient Selection, URS Corneal Surgery with EUSOL 13.00 Management of Complications, Long-Term Follow Thin C and Intralase 13.30 up, Understanding Corneal Response to Treatment 14.00 DAY 14.30 LUNCH BREAK 15.00 15.30 The Ocular Surface Syndrome: 16.00 The Science of Pterygium Surgically Induced Dry Eye 16.30 Femtosecond and Laser Assisted Keratoplasty Eye Bank and High Risk Corneal Transplant Deep Anterior Lamellar 17.00 Ocular Surface and Glaucoma Keratoplasty Update 17.30 Optical Coherence Tomography 18.00 Endothelial Keratoplasty Customizing Cornea Surgery with the Intralase in Anterior Segment Corneal Infections 18.30 - AMO Symposium Eye Disorders 19.00 Sala A Sala B Course Room 1 Course Room 2 18 08.00 08.30 09.00 Endothelial Keratoplasty 09.30 Femtosecond laser Corneal surgery: Corneal Cross-linking for the treatment of From eye bank to the patients eye 10.00 Progressive Kerataconus in Children and SOU Course Cross-Linking Post-Excimer Laser Refractive Surgery Ectasia 10.30 Cornea and Ocular Surface 11.00 Investigations 11.30 WELCOME CEREMONY 12.00 f RI 12.30 Cornea Society / SOU Course Carl Zeiss Innovation Symposium: Ocular Surface Disorders New Technolgies in Corneal Surgery 13.00 Asia Cornea Society Ocular Surface DAY Symposium 13.30 14.00 14.30 LUNCH BREAK 15.00 15.30 Ocular Azithromycin, a new 16.00 antibiotic, new therapeutic DALK Ocular Surface strategies - Thea Sponsored Symposium 16.30 New and evolving surgical techniques in Endothelial Keratoplasty 17.00 Ocular inflammation New technologies to explore 17.30 - Bausch + Lomb Sponsored the cornea and the anterior DALK 18.00 Symposium segment of the eye Alcon Sponsored Symposium (in Italian) SOU Course Antibiotic Therapy in ocular surface infection: 18.30 Cornea and Ocular Surface a new perspective Transplants and Implants 19.00 19 Sala A Sala B Course Room 1 Course Room 2 08.00 S 08.30 AT 09.00 SOU - Challenging Ocular 09.30 Surface and Cornea Cases UR 10.00 Live Evaluation of Patients SOU Course DAY 10.30 Official inauguration of Corneal Dystrophies 11.00 incoming President and Degenerations. Key: Medal Lecture 11.30 C. H. Dohlman, MD, PhD USA Session 12.00 Medal Lecture Course G. Falcinelli, PhD ITALY 12.30 In - Office Corneal Industry Symposium 13.00 Procedures 5 1st EuCornea Congress PLan of conGRess centRe 6 in Joint Meeting: Venice June 17-19 - Società Italiana Cellulle Staminali e Superficie Oculare (S.I.C.S.S.O.) - Società Oftalmologi Universitari (S.O.U.) 2010 - [email protected] LISt of ExhIBItORS and exhIBItIOn fLOORPLan ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS B1 SOOFT B2 NIDEK CO., LTD. B3 CARL ZEISS S.p.A ITALY B4 ALCON LABORATORIES, INC. B5 ALFA INTES B6 BAUSCH + LOMB B7 THEA ITALY B8 VISUFARMA B9 FARMIGEA B10 CIO B11 EYELAB B12 NEWTECH B13 SOOFT B14 JAYPEE BROTHERS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD. B15 SOOFT B16 PESCHKE MEDITRADE GMBH B17 AESSE CHIRURGICA S.R.L. B18 7 1st EuCornea Congress thURSday 17 JUne [email protected] Sessions SaLA A 08.30 - 10.00 10.00 - 11.50 VISUaL and refRaCtIOn RefRaCtIVe Moderators: L. Módis HUNGARY, S. Santoro ITALY Moderators: G. Grabner AUSTRIA, F. Biratari ITALY 08.30 F. Malecaze FRANCE 10.00 P. Vinciguerra ITALY KEYNOTE LECTURE: Revision on corneal wound healing KEYNOTE LECTURE: Topography and tomography: Are those two technologies merging? A guide for an easy guide to maps interpretation InVIted SPeakeR (10 Minutes) 08.40 M. Belin USA InVIted SPeakeRS (10 Minutes) Evaluation of the Ectasia Risk Scoring System 10.10 V.