Sociedad Panamericana de Enfermedades Inflamatorias Oculares (SPEIO)

Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Grand Ballroom 5
Sunday, October 16, 2005
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Keynote Speaker: Howard Tessler, M.D.


Introduction
Careen Y. Lowder, M.D., Ph.D.

Session 1
Moderators: Fernando Arevalo and Janet Davis

12:30- 12:40
Anterior uveitis in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis
Victor Perez, USA

12:40- 12:50
Anterior segment inflammation and hypotony after posterior segment surgery
J. Fernando Arevalo, Reinaldo A. Garcia, and Carlos F. Fernandez, Venezuela

12:50-13:O5
Seeing Spots: Unusual white spots in the retina
Ramana Moorthy, USA

13:05-13:15
Use of whole-body PET-CT to aid in the diagnosis of suspected occult sarcoidosis
BL Tannen and D. Chu, USA

13:15-13:25
New treatment of refractory scleritis
Lourdes Arellanes- García and Patricia Navarro López, México

13:25-13:35
New Approaches to Managing Uveitic Choroidal Neovascularization: Bevacizumab.
Quan Dong Nguyen, USA

13:35-13:45
Differential effectiveness of infliximab and enbrel in the treatment of patients with uveitis.
Careen Y. Lowder, USA

13:45-13:55
Update on cataract surgery in patients with uveitis
Lincoln Freitas, Brazil

13:55-14:05
Chemoattraction of ophthalmic medications and IOL’s
Jean Deschenes, Canada

Session 2
Moderators: Emilio Dodds and Jean Deschenes

14:05 – 14:15
Fiction Writing
Gil Smolin, USA

14:15-14:25
Intraocular clindamycin and triamcinolone for ocular toxoplasmosis
Emilio M. Dodds, Argentina

14:25-14:40
Systematic Literature Review: Vitrectomy as part of the step-ladder approach in the treatment of uveitis
Janet Davis, USA

14:40-14:50
Atypical presentations of punctate inner chorioretinopathy
Alfredo Adan, Spain

14:50-15:00
Retinal vasculopathy/vasculitis
Albert Vitale, USA

15:00-15:10
Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injections in patients with and without uveitis
Anat Galor, Careen Y. Lowder, Scott Smith, Victor Perez and Peter K. Kaiser

15:10-15:20
Resolution of macular edema after vitrectomy and internal limiting membrane peeling in Eales Disease patients with persistent macular edema
Berkant Kaderli, Remzi Avci, Levent Akduman, USA

15:20-15:30
Atypical mycobacterial disease
Dmitry Pyatetsky, Debora Goldstein, Howard Tessler


5:30-15:55
Keynote Lecture
Sympathetic Ophthalmia.
Howard Tessler, USA

16:00 Adjournment