LIVE SURGERY
Internationally renowned surgeons will showcase the intricacies of their surgical techniques during a live procedure from their operating rooms and engage in a panel discussion.

Moderator: Kourous Rezaei

Panel: Grazia Pertile, Francesco Boscia, Alistair Laidlaw, Roxana Hiller, Aman Chandra, Mariantonia Ferrara, Martin Spitzer

Panel: Nur Acar, Francesco Faraldi, Madina Farziyeva, Heinrich Heimann, Rob Henderson, Nicole Eter, David Yorston, Ulrich Bartz-Schmidt

• Essen: Nikolaos Bechrakis
• Leuven: Peter Stalmans
• Hong Kong: Angie Fong
• Munich 1: Siegfried Priglinger, Flavio Rezende
• Munich 2: Vincenzo Ferrara, Siegfried Priglinger
• Ferrara: Marco Mura, Josè Vallejo
• Rome: Stanislao Rizzo, Tomaso Caporossi
• Sulzbach: Peter Szurman, Boris Stanzel, Karl Boden

Coffee and refreshments will be available from 10:00 AM. Please feel free to
help yourself at your convenience. The session in the main hall will continiue
without interruption.

WHAT’S NEW IN VITREORETINAL DISEASE INTERFACE DISORDERS?

Moderators: David Steel, Carl Awh

Panel: Stratos Gotzaridis, Hideyasu Oh, Marcin Stopa, Julian Klaas, Andrea Govetto, Siegfried Priglinger

ILM-Flap: What’s the evidence? – David Steel
Panel Discussion

Gas-less FTMH Surgery – my technique
1. Marcin Stopa
2. Stratos Gotzaridis
Panel Discussion

Innovative Approaches for large, persistent macular holes after previous
ILM peeling
• Macular Lift +/- Platelet Rich Plasma – Siegfried Priglinger
• Descemet Membrane – Marco Mura
Panel Discussion

Pathophysiology and Current Treatment Options of LMHs – Julian Klaas
Panel Discussion

Macular Pucker – Timing of surgery and biomarkers – Andrea Govetto

FOREVER CHEMICALS AND GREEN HOUSE GASES

Moderators: Mariantonia Ferrara, Mario Romano

Panel: Grazia Pertile, Stratos Gotzaridis, Ulrich Bartz- Schmidt

What do VR Surgeons need to know?
• EU EYE – EMA overview of the current situation and threats to current practice – Mario Romano
• What are the Greenhouse gas effects of fluorinated gases – Mariantonia Ferrara

How can we reduce the amount of fluorinated gases used?
• Suprachoroidal Viscopexie – Stratos Gotzaridis
• Which gas is better: SF6, C2F6, C3F6? – David Steel
• Usage of multi-dose ocular gas to reduce environmental impact and PFAS use – Peter Stalmans
• Do we really need to use gas? – Grazia Pertile
Panel Discussion

Lunch

HOW DO YOU DO IT

Moderator: Ehab El Rayes

Panel: Carlos Mateo, Claus Eckardt, Siegfried Priglinger, Stratos Gotzaridis, Donald D‘Amico, Nicole Eter, Jose García Arumí

HIGH MYOPIA

Moderators: Jose García Arumí, Patricia Udaondo

Panel: Carlos Mateo, Sengül Özdek, Marco Mura

• Treatment of pediatric high myopia–related macular hole retinal detachment – Sengül Özdek
• Management of retinal detachment in high myopic eyes – Marco Mura
• Surgical management of high myopic macular holes – Jose García Arumí
• Pitfalls in the management of tractional myopic maculopathy – Carlos Mateo
Panel Discussion

NEW DEVELOPMENTS – START UP SOLUTIONS
What’s going to change the way we treat our patients?

Moderators: Siegfried Priglinger, Lyndon Da Cruz

Panel: Thomas Wolfensberger, Maurizio Mete, Max Hammer, Bence Gyoergy, Andrea Cusumano

• Modern Vitreous Replacement – Max Hammer
• Optogenetics – Bence Gyoergy
• RPE sheets – Lyndon Da Cruz
• Next-Generation Adaptive Optics: A New Horizon for Early Cellular Diagnosis and Advanced Retinal Therapies – Andrea Cusumano

Coffee break

GENE THERAPY 

Moderators: Bart Leroy, Rob Henderson

Panel: Fanny Nerinckx, Lejla Vajzovic, Siegfried Priglinger, Ulrich Bartz-Schmidt

• Assessing Outcomes in Gene Therapy: Measures, Limits, and Failures – Bart Leroy
• Next-Generation Gene Therapies: What’s in Trials and What’s Coming Next – Marco Mura
• From Hope to Evidence: Long-Term Follow-Up in Pediatric Gene Therapy – Siegfried Priglinger
• Surgical Pearls and Pitfalls: What to Do and What to Avoid – Rob Henderson
Panel Discussion

EVIDENCE BASED TIMING OF RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENT

Moderators: Roxane Hillier, David Yorston

Panel: Aman Chandra, Emilia Maggio, Julian Klaas

• How urgent are RRD – David Yorston
• New OCT biomarkers – Emilia Maggio
• When is a Maculla off detachment off – Julian Klaas
• Temporising Vitrectomy – Aman Chandra
Panel Discussion

TAMPONADE COMPLICATIONS
Intraoperative and postoperative complications

Moderators: Grazia Pertile, Thomas Wolfensberger

Panel: Mario Romano, Nicolaos Bechrakis, Francesco Faraldi

• Prospective trial on Silicone Oil emulsification – Mario Romano
• Silicone Oil related visual loss – Grazia Pertile
• PFCL complications – Thomas Wolfensberger
• Gas complications – Francesco Faraldi
• Densiron Complications – Nicolaos Bechrakis

Social Event at Augustiner-Keller Munich (incl. Shuttle)

NEAR LIVE SURGERY
The surgeons will present extended segments of surgical videos with the aim of engaging in detailed discussions on the instrumentation and techniques employed.

Moderator: Donald D’Amico

Panel: Grazia Pertile, Hideyasu Oh, Colin McCannel, Rodolfo Mastropasqua, Zhao Peiquan, Siegfried Priglinger, José García Arumí, Carlos Mateo, Roxane Hillier, Chien Wong, Rob Henderson

Hot Seat VR Surgery – What would be your next move?
Through carefully selected, step-by-step surgical video sequences, participants will be taken right into the operating room – facing real-life complications and decision points. At critical moments, the audience will be invited to answer interactive multiple-choice questions: “What would you do now?”

Moderators: Nikolaos Bechrakis, Heinrich Heimann

Panel: Lars-Olof Hattenbach, Sengül Özdek, Umberto Lorenzi, Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk

Coffee break

PVR PROPHYLAXIS

Moderators: Martin Zinkernagel, Boris Stanzel

Panel: Armin Wolf, Chien Wong, Andreas Stahl

• Vitreoschisis and its role in PVR – Koen van Overdam
• Proteomics and PVR: Can We Predict Re-Detachment Before It Happens? – Tommaso Rossi
• Role of methotrexate in PVR treatment – Boris Stanzel
• New proposed PVR staging scheme – Martin Zinkernagel

RETINAL DETACHMENT: ONE CASES – DIFFERENT APPROACHES
How would you do it?

Moderators: Roxane Hillier, Shohista Saidkasimova

Panel: Nicole Eter, Grazia Pertile, Lejla Vajzovic, Fanny Nerinckx

SCLERAL-FIXATED IOLS MADE SAFER: TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CARLEVALE AND YAMANE TECHNIQUESOL
Learning from Experts’ Failures: A Video-Based Session on Avoiding
Complications

Moderators: Shohista Saidkasimova, Fabio Patelli

Panel: José García Arumí, Fanis Pavlidis, Francesco Boscia, Peter Szurman, Jakob Siedlecki

• Carlevale IOL – José García Arumí, Francesco Boscia, Fabio Patelli
• When Carlevale Gets Difficult: Surgical Rescue Techniques – Lars Hattenbach
• Transtrocar intrascleral 27g IOL fixation – Fanis Pavlidis
• Yamane – Shohista Saidkasimova
• Sutured IOL – Martin Zinkernagel

IOL Dislocation: Anterior vs Full Vitrectomy?
Panel Discussion

AMNION IN VR SURGERY

Moderators: Grazia Pertile, Francesco Boscia

Panel: Umberto Lorenzi, Carlos Mateo, Marco Mura, Tomaso Caporossi, Francesco Boscia

• Introduction – Grazia Pertile
• My technique for introducing and unfolding the amniotic membrane – Tomaso Caporossi
Discussion

• Amniotic Membrane in optic pit – Francesco Boscia
Discussion

• MH with Descemet Membrane – Marco Mura

• Macular Hole – Tomaso Caporossi
• Macular Hole – Carlos Mateo
Discussion

• RD/PVR – Umberto Lorenzi
• Post Trauma – Grazia Pertile
Discussion

Lunch

WHAT TO DO IN HYPOTONY

Moderators: Grazia Pertile, Stratos Gotzaridis

Panel: Peter Szurman, Louisa Wickham

• Suturing ciliary body – Grazia Pertile
• Air in the anterior chamber – Stratos Gotzaridis
• YPermanent tamponades – Peter Szurman
• Visco-Tamponades – Louisa Wickham 

TUMORS

Moderators: Jens F. Kiilgaard, Nikos Bechrakis

Panel: Rumana Hussain, Siegfried Priglinger, Mario Romano, Marcin Stopa, Paul Foerster

• Endoresection: When and how to do it – Case presentation
Panel Discussion

• Toxic tumor Syndrom – when does it occur, how do we avoid it
Panel Discussion

WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT DR AND DIABETIC
Vitrectomy and News

Moderators: Alistair Laidlaw, Nicolas Feltgen

• Suprachoroidal Surabgene Lomparvovec, GLP-1 receptor agonist, novel glucose-lowering medication – Lejla Vajzovic
• Angiofibrotic Switch: Pathology of PDR, role of anti-VEGF – Focke Ziemssen
• Benefits and Tricks in Tamponades – Felicitas Bucher
• Thresholds and Timing for intervention – Alistair Laidlaw

Surgical Pearls of PDR Surgery – Videos with Panel Discussion
Moderator: Louisa Wickham

Panel: Alistair Laidlaw, Marco Mura, Francesco Boscia, Patricia Udaonda, Andreas Stahl

WHAT I HAVE CHANGED / STOPPED DOING IN MY PRACTICE DURING THE LAST 2 YEARS
Progress in surgery consists of small or significant changes, sometimes
requiring the courage to abandon familiar approaches and introduce new techniques aimed at achieving better outcomes.rogress in surgery consists of small or significant changes, sometimes requiring the courage to abandon familiar approaches and introduce new techniques aimed at achieving better outcomes.

Moderators: Carlos Mateo, Grazia Pertile

Panel: Diego Ruiz Casas, Fabio Patelli, José García Arumí, Claus Eckardt

RETINAWS – VITREORETINAL NIGHTMARES
The moderator will lead the panelists in discussing significant events that occurred during vitreoretinal surgery procedures.

Moderator: Kourous Rezaei

Panel: Nur Acar, Madina Farziyeva, Roxane Hillier, Marco Mura, Fanis Pavlidis, Siegfried Priglinger, Shohista Saidkasimova, Peter Szurman, Daniele Tognetto, Koorosh Faridpooya, Grazia Pertile

Closing Remarks