International Uveitis Study Group
Sociedad Panamericana de Enfermedades Inflamatorias Oculares
Joint Meeting
IUSG/ SPEIO
Saturday, November 16, 2013
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
JW Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana
Program Coordinators: Careen Y. Lowder, MD, PhD, Emilio M. Dodds, MD
Session 1 - Anterior and Orbital Inflammation
Moderators: Chee Soon Phaik, MD, Cristina Muccioli, MD, PhD, MBA
9:00
Anterior Segment OCT for Scleritis
André Romano, MD, Eduardo Novais, MD, Heloisa Nascimento, MD, Cristina Muccioli,MD,
PhD, MBA, Rubens Belfort Jr., MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
9:10
Anterior Segment OCT
Sunil Srivastava, MD, Sumit Sharma MD, Careen Y Lowder, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Cole
Eye Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
9:20
The Diagnostic Utility of Anterior Chamber Paracentesis with Polymerase Chain Reaction in
Anterior Uveitis
Thomas Albini, MD, Zane Anwar, MD, Anat Galor, MD, Darlene Miller, MD, Victor Perez,
MD, Janet L. Davis, MD, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, FL
9:30
Hypertensive Anterior Uveitis
Chee Soon Phaik, MD, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute
9:40
Orbital Pseudotumor Secondary to Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) in
Whipple’s Disease
Diana Leitner,MD, Vincent Baldassano, MD, Tamara Vrabec, MD, Geisinger Medical Center,
Danville, PA
Session 2 - Masquerade Syndromes
Moderators: Cristobal Couto, MD, Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos Santos, MD, PhD
9:50
Bilateral Ophthalmic MALT Lymphoma Masquerading as Panuveitis
Jorge Arturo Aguilera-Partida MD, Lourdes Arellanes-García MD, Universidad Nacional
Autonóma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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10:00
Unilateral Panuveitis and a History of Cancer
Wendy M. Smith, MD, Jose S. Pulido, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
10:10
Bilateral Fuchs Syndrome Associated with a Suspicion of Intraocular Lymphoma
Cristobal Couto, MD, Erika Hurtado MD, Carmen Demetrio MD,Marcelo Zas MD PhD, Ariel
Schlaen MD, Dana Faingold MD PhD, Jorge Zarate MD PhD, Miguel Burnier MD PhD,
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
10:20
Granulomatous Panuveitis in HTLV-1-Associated Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma
Breno da Rocha Lima, MD, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,
Bowden Eye & Associates, Jacksonville, FL
10:30
Sclerochoroidal Calcifications Simulating Tuberculous Multifocal Choroiditis
Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos Santos, MD, PhD, Carolina Ferreira Costa MD, Flavia Leão Carvalho
MS, Wesley R. Campos, MD PhD, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,
Brazil
10:40
Mystery Case
Arun Singh, MD, Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
Session 3 - Surgery, Uveitis Studies and Pathology
Moderators: Lourdes Arellanes Garcia, MD, J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS
10:50
Targeted B-cell Therapy with Rituximab for the Treatment of Autoimmune Retinopathy: Results
of a Pilot Clinical Trial.
H. Nida Sen, MD, MHSc, Monica Dalal, MD, Landon Grange, BA, John Heckenlively, MD,
Patti Sherry, RN, BSN, Yujuan Wang, MD, PhD, Chi Chao Chan, MD, Robert Nussenblatt, MD,
National Eye Institute, NIH
11:00
Abatecept for Uveitis?
Eric Suhler, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University, Casey Eye Institute and VA
Hospital, Portland, Oregon
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Retinal Detachment and Uveitis
J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS 1,2 Andres F. Lasave, MD,* Ammar M. Al-Mahmood, MD,2
Sulaiman Mohammad Al Sulaiman, MD,2 Abdulaziz Adel Al Rushood, MD,2 Yahya A AlZahrani, MD,2 Hassan A. Al Dhibi, MD,2 and The KKESH Uveitis Survey Study Group, The
Retina Division, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,
MD, USA, 1 the Vitreoretinal and Uveitis Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital,
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.2 Retina and Vitreous Service, *Clínica Privada de Ojos, Mar
del Plata, Argentina.
11:20
Exudative Retinal Detachment and Posterior Scleritis Treated with Vitrectomy
Daniella Socci, MD, Oswaldo Ferreira Moura Brasil, MD, PatriciaCorrea, MD, Instituto
Brasileiro de Oftalmologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Session 4 - Uveitis Studies and Pathology
Moderator – Sunil K. Srivastava, MD
11:30
Impact of Tertiary Uveitis Care on Visual Outcomes of Non‐Infectious Uveitis
John H. Kempen, MD, PhD, Maxwell Pistilli, MEd, MS, Marshall M. Joffe, MD, MPH, PhD,
Sapna S. Gangaputra, MD, MPH, Siddharth S. Pujari, MBBS, MPH, Douglas A. Jabs, MD,
MBA, Grace A. Levy-Clarke, MD, Robert B. Nussenblatt, MD, MPH, James T. Rosenbaum,
MD, Eric B. Suhler, MD, MPH, Jennifer E. Thorne, MD, PhD, C. Stephen Foster, MD, FACS,
FACP, SITE Cohort Study Research Group
11:40
The SUN Project: Current Status and Future Plans
Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA, for the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working
Group, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
11:50
Ocular Pathology without a Microscope
Miguel N. Burnier. Jr. MD, PhD, FRCSC, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch
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Session 5 - Infectious Uveitis
Moderators: Janet L. Davis, MD, Emilio M. Dodds, MD
12:30
Infection Versus Inflammation?
Andrew McClellan, MD, Anat Galor, MD, Raquel Goldhardt, MD, Ninel Gregori, MD, Bascom
Palmer Eye Institute, Miami VAMC and University of Miami, FL
12:40
Bilateral Blindness Following Consecutive Cataract Surgery
Carmen Santos, MD, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
12:50
Serpiginous-like and Serpiginous Choroiditis
Michal Kramer,MD1,2, Jaime Levy MD2 , Radgonde Amer MD 3, Marina Shneck MD 2,
1
Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Sackler School of
Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Soroka
University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer-Sheva, Israel, 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical
School, Jerusalem, Israel
1:00
Steroids Don’t Treat Everything in Uveitis!
Lana Rifkin, MD, Debra Goldstein, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Session 6 - Infectious Uveitis
Moderators: H. Nida Sen, MD, MHSc, Emmett T. Cunningham, MD, PhD, MPH
1:10
The ARN Challenge – A Case Report
Michal Kramer, MD1,2, Orly Gal-Or1, Rita Ehrlich1, Ruth Axer-Siegel1,2, Dov Weinberger1,2
1
Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel
2
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
1:20
A Case of Bilateral Human Herpes Virus-6 Panuveitis with Genomic Viral DNA Integration
Jasmina Bajric, MD, Wendy M. Smith, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
1:30
Treatment of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis with clindamycin injection: A Case and Review of
Literature.
Leila Kump, M.D., Argos Vision and Eye Care Center, Gaithersburg, MD
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1:40
A Young Woman with Outer Retinal Lesions and a Search for a Worm
Kristin Biggee, MD, Eric Suhler, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University, Casey Eye
Institute and Legacy Health, Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon
1:50
Posterior segment findings in syphilis
Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr., MD, PhD, MPH, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Session 7 – Non Infectious Uveitis
Moderators - Manfred Zierhut, MD, Debra Goldstein, MD
2:00
All that Flashes is Not Optic Neuritis
Neda Nikpoor, MD, Raquel Goldhardt MD, Ninel Gregori MD, Anat Galor MD, Joshua Pasol
MD, University of Miami – Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
2:10
OCT Findings in a Case of “Idiopathic” Choroidal Neovascular Membrane
Rodrigo Meirelles MD, IOP (Instituto Oftalmológico Piracicaba) - Piracicaba -SP Brazil
Federal University of São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
2:20
An Ampiginous Mystery Case
Francesco Pichi, MD, Chiara Veronese MD, Mariachiara Morara MD, Antonio P Ciardella MD,
Paolo Nucci MD, San Giuseppe Hospital – University Eye Clinic, Milan (Italy)
2:30
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy: Autoimmune and/or Infection
Niloofar Piri, MD, Henry J. Kaplan, MD, University of Louisville, Kentucky
2:40
Is Fundus Autofluorescene Helpful to Detect Posterior Pole Reactivation in Vogt Koyanagi
Harada Patients?
Lilia Margarita Gómez Valdez, MD, Lourdes Arellanes García, Dra. Luz Elena Concha Del Río,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México, México, Asociación
para Evitar la Ceguera en México Dr. Luis Sánchez Bulnes
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Session 8 - Non Infectious Uveitis
Moderators: Careen Y. Lowder, MD, PhD, Emilio M. Dodds, MD
2:50
Current Trends on Blau Syndrome
Heloisa Nascimento, MD, Eduardo Novais, MD, Délia Gonzalez, Tiago Arantes, Cristina
Muccioli, Rubens Belfort Jr., Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
3:00
VKH treatment with Corticosteroids and Cyclophosphamide
Emilio M. Dodds, MD, Laura Echandi, MD, Lucia Valenzuela, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
3:10
Long Term follow up of intravitreal fluocinolone acetonide implants– What to Look for?
Pooja Bhat M.D, Debra A. Goldstein M.D., Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Feinberg School
of Medicine, Chicago, IL
3:20
Adjournment and Announcements
Careen Y. Lowder, MD, PhD
3:30 – 5:00
IUSG Business Meeting
Manfred Zierhut, MD