EPOS

European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society

Program

Thursday, 2.10.03

from 18.30 h	Runtinger Saal, Keplerstr.	Registration for pre-registered participants only
18.30 h	Runtinger Saal, Keplerstr.	Little Oktoberfest, informal come together

Firday, 3.10.03

from 8.00 h	Registration for pre-registered participants and onsite registration	In front of Main Lecture Hall, Klinikum of the University of Regensburg
8.30 h – 9.00 h	Opening Session	Main Lecture Hall
	Birgit Lorenz	Welcome by the President of EPOS
	Helma Gusseck	Welcome by the Commissioner of Research Promotion, Pro Retina Deutschland e.V.
	Christina Fasser	Welcome by the President of Retina International

9.00 h – 10.30 h	1st scientific session – Papers	Cataract and Glaucoma
9.00 h	Saverio Frosini	Outcome of congenital cataract
9.15 h	N. Kilangalanga	Childhood cataract in Kinshasa (D.R.Congo): surgical results and therapeutical problems
9.30 h	Aylin Yaman	Results Of Treatment In Patients With Congenital And Developmental Cataract
9.40 h	Neil Rowe	PMMA vs acrylic IOLs in children
9.55 h	Michael O'Keefe	Use of Ahmed Valve in the management of aphakic glaucoma in children
10.10 h	Jane Ashworth	Congenital glaucoma in association with pancreatic insufficiency, growth retardation, hypothyroidism and bone marrow dysfunction
10.20 h	Alicia Serra	Clinical findings in primary pediatric glaucoma

10.30 – 10.50 h	Coffee break	In front of Main Lecture Hall
10.50 – 12.20 h	2nd scientific session – Lectures	Treatment Perspectives In Retinal Dystrophies
10.50 h	Pete Humphries	Mutation-independent approaches to therapy for degenerative retinopathies
11.20 h	Robin Ali	Gene therapy for childhood eye disease: how and when
11.50 h	Michael Young	Stem cell transplantation in animal models of retinal degeneration

12.20 h – 13.50 h	Lunch break + Visit of Poster Exhibition	Casino of the Klinikum
13.50 h – 15.50 h	3rd scientific session – Lectures	Towards Clinical Treatment Trials of Retinal Dystrophies
13.50 h	Ludger Honnefelder	Ethical aspects of gene therapy in orphan blinding diseases
14.20 h	Gabriele Dreier	Current status of the regulation of gene therapy in Europe – how to get through an application process
14.50 h	Kristina Narfström	Expected and unexpected findings after gene transfer in the RPE65 null mutation dog, a model for human Leber's congenital amaurosis
15.20 h	Birgit Lorenz	Methods to evaluate the ocular effects of gene therapy in human RPE65 trials.

15.50 h – 16.20 h	Coffee break	In front of Main Lecture Hall
16.20 h – 18.10 h	4th scientific session – Papers	Genetic Disorders Of The Retina And Optic Nerve
16.20 h	Maciej Krawczynski	Genetic counseling in retinal dystrophies and optic nerve atrophies
16.35 h	Branka Stirn Kranjc	Diagnosing macular dystrophies
16.50 h	Michel Michaelides	Genetic heterogeneity in the North Carolina macular dystrophy phenotype
17.05 h	Rita Sitorus	Screening of three genes in LCA in Indonesian patients
17.15 h	Karina Paunescu	Longitudinal and cross sectional studies on patient s with RPE65 mutations
17.30 h	Sharola Dharmaraj	Peroxisomal Disorders: Retinal findings and DHA therapy
17.40 h	Pierre Bitoun	Clinical electrophysiologic and molecular genetic study of blue cone monochromacy in two families
17.50 h	Luisa Pinello	Congenital achromatopsia. report of seven cases
18.00 h	Markus Preising	Screening of 2 genes controlling hypoxia related vascularization in ROP patients

19.30 h	Dinner	Herzogssaal in „Der Andechser“, Domplatz

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Saturday, 4.10.03

8.00 h – 9.00 h	5th scientific session – Posters	In front of Main Lecture Hall
Poster 1	Viktoria Szabo	Diagnosis of ocular chlamydia trachomatis infection in newborns and children
Poster 2	Michael Schittkowski	Are self-inflating hydrogel expanders a therapeutical option for congenital blind microphthalmos ? - case report
Poster 3	Elzbieta Samochowiec-Donocik	Transscleral fixated introcular lenses in children
Poster 4	Natalie Boyle	Blindsight in a paediatric population – clinical features and electrophysiology
Poster 5	Elzbieta Cymerys	Familial adenomatous polyposis in children
Poster 6	Jadwiga Bernardczyk-Meller	Rare pathological changes in visual organ in children with chronic renal insufficiency.
Poster 7	Stefanie Van Wagenen/Ana Luisa Pina	Protein expression of pigment epithelial derived factor and vascular endothelial growth factor (PEDF) during postnatal development in pigmented and albino rats eyes.
Poster 8	I.Gonzalez Viejo	Diode laser treatment in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP): one decade of experience (1992-2002)
Poster 9	Loresa Kriauciuniene	Ultrasonic changes of ocular accommodation in childrens myopic eyes
Poster 10	Anna Gotz-Wieckowska	The frequency of occurence and the type of congenital abnormalities of the pupil
Poster 11	Lyudmila Gorlacheva	The effectiveness of conservative and surgical treatment of patients with horizontal nystagmus
Poster 12	Malgorzata Mrugacz	Morning glory disc anomaly- clinical features and prognosis
Poster 13	Malgorzata Mrugacz	Ocular manifestations of the Cohen syndrome
Poster 14	Maria Elisabetta Zannin	Activity And Severity Criteria Of Uveitis In Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Italian Multicenter Survey

9.00 h – 10.25 h	6th scientific session – Lectures	Examination Methods - Neuroophthalmology
9.00 h	Sarah Meredith	Full-field ERGs recorded with skin electrodes give valid data for the diagnosis of retinal dystrophy in unsedated children
9.15 h	Lyudmila Gorlacheva	Meridional asymmetry in visual acuity and visual evoked potentials amplitude in children with astigmatism
9.25 h	Bettina Wabbels	Static and kinetic visual field testing in children
9.40 h	David Jones	The development of a ten minute consultation strategy of cerebral visual impairment – the ten year experience of a paediatric vision assessment clinic
9.55 h	Sandra Guimaraes	Low vision: which optical devices?
10.10 h	Dienke Wittebol-Post	(Congenital) Ocular Motor Apraxia. Child neurological aspects

10.25 h – 11.00 h	Coffee break	In front of Main Lecture Hall
11.00 h – 11.55 h	7th scientific session – Papers	Inflammation, tumours, phakomatoses
11.00 h	Michael O’Keefe	Neonatal pseudomonas endophthalmitis
11.10	Nicoline Schalij-Delfos	Prenatal ultrasound: an unprecedented finding of orbital rhabdomyosarcoma
11.20	Joan Prat	Orbital fibrous dysplasia associated with aneurysmal bone cyst
11.30	Annie O'Donnell	A study of the ophthalmic complications in neurofibromatosis type 1 children.

11.45 h – 12.45 h (EPOS members)	EPOS General Assembly	Main Lecture Hall
11.45 h (non-members) 12.45 h – 13.45 h (EPOS members)	Lunch break	Casino of the Klinikum
13.45 h – 16.00 h	8th scientific session – Papers	Syndromes
13.45 H	Dominique Bremond-Gignac	Prenatal diagnosis of a congenital cataract in a Lowe syndrome
14.00 h	Günter Rudolph	Lowe Syndrome. Clinical and genetic findings with reference to corneal keloids
14.15 h	Ingele Casteels	Heterochromia of the irides and a motility disorder of the esophagus: a coincidence or a defect during embryogenesis?
14.25 h	Andrea Müllner-Eidenböck	Ocular features of the CCFDN-Syndrome
14.40 h	Magdalena Sildatke-Bauer	Monozygotic twins discordant for Duane’s syndrome – case study.
14.50 h	Thomy de Ravel	The Oculo-Digito-Esophago-Duodenal (Oded) Syndrome And Bilateral Epibulbar Dermoids
15.00 h	Anuradha Ganesh	Immunohistochemical Analysis of Conjunctival Fibrillin in Marfan Syndrome
15.15 h	Michael Forrest	A Novel Mutation in the Norrie Disease Gene in a Child with Severe Retinal Dysplasia
15.25 h	Natalya Fomina	Ocular Aspects of Down's Syndrome

15.35 h – 16.05 h	Coffee break	In front of Main Lecture Hall
16.05 h – 17.30 h	9th scientific session – Papers	ROP and other vascular diseases
16.05 h	Aylin Yaman	Retinopathy of prematurity in Turkey: audit of screening and treatment
16.20 h	Heike Elflein	The Regensburg Telemedicine Project for Improved Screening for Acute ROP - Present Status.
16.35 h	Alicia Serra	Is it better to treat pre-threshold rop disease?
17.50 h	Gerd Holmström	Refraction in 10 year old prematurely born and full-term children
17.00 h	Ayse Tulin Berk	Refractive errors, strabismus in premature infants without ROP
17.10 h	Oliver Ehrt	Relative amblyopia and slow progression of a foveal vascular loop in retinal AV-malformation
17.20 h	Besch Dorothea	Advanced Coats' disease in children: indication for vitreo-retinal surgery?

17.30 h	EPOS Award for Young Presenters	Main Lecture Hall
17:45 h		End of Meeting – Final Remarks
19.15 h	Havanna, Posthof, Galgenbergstr.	Informal Dinner

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