- Mon. June 20, 1330-1500 What’s new in uveitis?
- Mon. June 20, 1545-1715 Symposium: Special considerations in uveitis
Canadian Uveitis Society
What’s new in uveitis?
Monday, June 20, 1330-1500
Room 206, Shaw Centre
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Assess the need of immunosuppression in severe chronic uveitis
- Describe the possible complication of immunosuppressive treatment in uveitis
- Differentiate infectious and non-infectious uveitis
- Describe new modalities of treatment in uveitis
GUEST SPEAKERLourdes Arellanes, MD FACULTYChloe Gottlieb, MD |
MODERATORSMarie-Josée Aubin, MD |
Schedule
| 1330 | Immunosuppresive therapy in acute VKH disease · Lourdes Arellanes |
| 1340 | Evidence for using immunosuppressive treatments when treating idiopathic non-infectious uveitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis · William Hodge, Hargurinder Singh, Omar Akhtar, Francie F. Si |
| 1350 | Complications of immunosuppression in pediatric uveitis: a ten-year retrospective study · Marwan Elfekhfakh, Kinda Najem, Charles-Edouard Giguère, Éric Fortin |
| 1400 | Ocular syphilis: case series (2000-2009) from two tertiary-care centres in Montréal · Kinda Najem, Laurence Jaworski, Annie-Claude Labbé, Claude Fortin, Éric Fortin, Marie-Lyne Bélair, Bouchra Serhir, Marie-Josée Aubin |
| 1415 | Wait times for uveitis consultations and assessment of the content of uveitis referral letters · Kay Lam, Panos Christakis, Amandeep S. Rai, Theodore Christakis, Nupura Bakshi, Efrem D. Mandelcorn, Theodore Rabinovitch, Radha Kohly, Larissa A. Derzko-Dzulynsky |
| 1430 | A review of Ozurdex for the treatment of intraocular inflammation · Chloe Gottlieb |
| 1440 | Panel discussion and closing remarks |
| 1500 | Adjourn |
Symposium: Special considerations in uveitis
Monday, June 20, 1545-1715
Room 206, Shaw Centre
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Assess the need for biologic treatment in severe uveitis
- Apply diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma associated with uveitis
- Describe the implication of cataract surgery in uveitis
- Apply diagnostic ultrasound in uveitis
GUEST SPEAKERLourdes Arellanes, MD MODERATORSJean Deschênes, MD |
FACULTYJean Deschênes, MD |
Schedule
| 1545 | Current status of anti-TNF therapy for uveitis · Chloe Gottlieb |
| 1555 | Uveitis in children · Lourdes Arellanes |
| 1605 | Glaucoma in pediatric uveitis patients · Nasrin Tehrani |
| 1615 | Pre and post-operative considerations in uveitis patients with cataract · Karin Oliver |
| 1625 | Diagnosing rare infectious causes of uveitis in Canada: HTLV-1 and others · Failal Malik, Annie Linh Thao Ho, Claire Béliveau, Marie-Josée Aubin, Marie-Lyne Bélair, Éric Fortin |
| 1635 | UBM in uveitis · Jean Deschênes |
| 1645 | Outcomes of rituximab in ocular inflammatory disease · Amin Kherani, Olga Ziouzina, Geoff Williams |
| 1655 | Panel discussion and closing remarks |
| 1715 | Adjourn |
Lourdes Arellanes, MD