XIII Annual VRSI Conference 2005, OOTY

Day 1 : Feb 24' 2005

18:00   P Namperumalsamy: Prevention of Visual Impairment  in  Diabetic Retinopathy 

20. Amod Gupta: Revised strategy to improve visual outcome with laser photocoagulation in  diabetic Macular edema

18.30 Teleconferencing with Prof. Stanley Chang and Discussion

19.00 S Natarajan: Application of self retaining twin light endoillumination in diabetic  retinal detachment.

19.10 Indu Singh: Management of  difficult situations in diabetic retinopathy

19.20 Biju Raju Initial experience with bimanual vitrectomy techniques

19.30 General Body meeting

20:00 Dinner  

8.15   Inauguration. President Raj V Azad & Secretrary Gopal Verma Inaugural address By Dr M Natarajan  

9.00 -10.30  Symposium :  Pediatric retinal diseases & related free papers Chair Person: Pran N Nagpal, Moderator: Vishali Gupta

13:00  Retinal evaluation of child with nystagmus – Nitin Shetty

15.   Management of pediatric RD – Pramod Bhende
30.   FEVR – Dhananjay Shukla
45.   Coats’ disease and phacomatoses – Amod Gupta

3. related free papers

10.00     Parag K Shah et al. Anatomical outcome following surgery on stage 4 & 5 ROP

10.10 Anand Vinekar et al. Severe ROP in Indian babies weighing greater than 1250 gms at birth.

10.20 B L Sunitha, et al. Patterns and management of ROP in referral centers. 

Orations & Guest Lectures

Chair: Cyrus Shroff

Tea served in the Hall 

30.                 Nataraja Pillai Oration (Prof. Michael Tresse)

11.00                Presidential address:  Prof. Raj V Azad . My travelogue with ROP

30. Guest lecture: Au Eong Kah Guan, Singapore
45.                Guest Lecture. Use and abuse of intraocular steroid. Rajiv Anand, Dallas, USA

3 related free papers

12.00 Ankur Gupta et al. Transscleral fixated IOL in pediatric age group

10. Satyen Deka et al. Traumatic RD in pediatric population- Characteristics and surgical

      outcome

12.20 Manb J Barman et al. Juvenile rhegmatogenous RD - Chacteristics and surgical outcome.

Day 3 :Feb 26' 2005

ROP in India

Chair Person: Vatsal Parekh 

30. India ROP Experience. Screening: V. Narendran
45. India ROP Experience. Laser: Mangat R Dogra

9.00 India ROP Experience. Surgery: Pramod Bhende 

9.00 –10.30 am Free papers for J.M.Pawha Medal

            Judges: Gopal Verma, Bijayanand Pattnaik, Chandran Abraham

9.00 Milan D Thakkar.  Visual outcome and prognostic factors after vitrectomy for

      posterior segment IOFB.

9.10 Harsha Bhattacharjee et al. Retined IOFB - a retrospective review of 32 cases.

20. Kolluru Chandramohan et al. TTT for treatment of idiopathic subfoveal CNV
30.      Hemanth Murthy et al. Detoxification using lysine ion the treatment of hyperornithimic

      gyrate atrophy of retina and choroid.

40. N S Muralidhar et al. CNVM assocaited with juxtafoveal telanectasia.
50. Shobhit Chawla et al. Complications of macular surgery; are they preventable?

10.00 Manish Nagpal et al. Surgical decompression (shethotyomy) for BRVO

10.10  Vishali Gupta, et al. OCT in type 2A juxtafoveal telengiectasis.

20. Mangat R Dogra, et al. OCT following successful management of exogenous

      endophthalmitis.

(Only the free papers presented in the J M Pahwa session will be eligible for the award. This has to be presented by the member of the society only.) 
 
 

 
 10.30 - 11.00       Poster Session

Chair person: Taraprasad Das & Ajit B Majji

14 posters

Each poster is summarized by the Chair. The presenter answers 2 questions from the audience

Time: 2 minutes each

Tea served in the hall 

11.00-12.30    Ant segment complication of post segment surgery Symposium

                  Chair Person: Karobi Lahiri, Moderator: V Narendran

11.    Post SB/PPV hyphema – Cyrus Shroff

15. Post vitrectomy fibrin – Atul Kumar

30.    Intraoperative lens touch – Kim Ramaswamy
45.    Neovascular glaucoma – Annie Mathai

12.    Postoperative hypotony – N.S. Muralidhar

15.    Small pupil management – S. Natarajan 
    

12.30 - 13.30   Choroidal Neovascular Membrane

Case Discussion

Moderator: Amod Gupta

(Case presentation & Discussion, each 5 minutes)

      12. 30 - 13.05: Case presentations pertaining to CNV

                  7 cases. Each case 5 minutes and discussion 2 minutes

      The program committee currently solicites case presentations from the VRSI members and delegates. Please write to Taraprasad Das <tpd@lvpei.org> 

10. Invited talk: Macugen in CNV. Rajiv Anand, Dallas, USA

      13.20. Invited talk:    Au Eong Kah Guan, Singapore 

13.30. Valedictory and Close till we meet in Khajurah

Posters

1. Avinash Pathengay et al. Is intravitreal trimcinolone acetonide useful in the management of exogenous bacterial endophthalmitis?
2. Padmaja K Rani, et al. Diabetic retinopathy awareness and screening model for rural population- interim analysis.
3. Sangeet Mittal, et al. Scleral buckling without surures- possibility and limitations.
4. Mohit Khemchandani et al. Visual result of macular surgery. Havce we reached a solution?
5. Rakesh D Shah et al. Plana vitrectomy for retinal detachment in cases of choroidal coloboma.
6. Ded D Chakraborty, et al. Causes of  ERM formation and visual outcome after surgical intervention- retrospective analysis of 30 cases.
7. Tiakumzuk Sangtam et al. Intravitreal injection of  triamcinolone acetonide in the management of idiopathic group A juxtafoveal telangectasis.
8. Benu Dubey et al. Indications for use of triamcinolone in vitreous surgery.
9. Soumyava Basu et al. Polymicrobial infections in post cataract surgery endophhtalmitis.
10. Ramandeep Singh et al. Incidence and course of post scleral buckle subfoveal retinal detachment: An OCT study.
11. Pukhraj Rishi. Hemi CRAO in young adults.
12. Shalabh Sinha et al. Vitrectomy for live subretinal juxtamacular cysticercosis in an eye with 6/6 vision.
13. Bhagavathula V Ratnakumari et al. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) for the treatment of bilateral choroidal hemangioma with Sturge-Weber syndrome
14. Shamik A Ambatkar et al. Congenital simple hamartomw of the retinal pigment epithelium.