• Minckler: Overview of non-RCT
• Coleman: Definition of a population based study
• Thessaloniki: Eye Study: A Population-based Study in Greece
• Thomas: Prevalance of Glaucoma in a South Indian Population
  - More Info (2.55 Mbyte)
  • Discussion
• Zangwill: Definition of a cohort study
• Zangwill: DIGS cohort study - More Info (198 kbyte)
• Jonas: Cohort studies on optic discs - More Info (55 kbyte)
  • Discussion
  • Break
• Mills: Definition of meta-analyses and comparative studies
• Mills: Cross-sectional comparative study in Seattle - More Info (6.73 Mbyte)
• Minckler: Meta-analyses in glaucoma - More Info (690 kbyte)
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion

1200 - 1330 : Lunch

• Chauhan: Central corneal thickness and progression of the visual field and optic disc in glaucoma
• Grehn: The influence of central corneal thickness on Dynamic Contour Tonometry as compared to Goldmann applanation tonometry
• Garway-Heath: The effects of corneal biomechanical properties on intraocular pressure measurement
• Cronemberger: Ocular rigidity after refractive surgery with excimer laser
• Pillunat: The effect of corneal thickness, axial length and corneal curvature on IOP measurements taken by applanation tonometry, tonopen, and OBF
• Hatanaka: Intraocular pressure in supine position and after water drinking test
• Jonas: Anatomical relationship between the lamina cribrosa, intraocular space and cerebrospinal fluid space in non-highly myopic eyes and highly myopic eyes

1515 - 1545 : Refreshment Break

• Liebmann: Disc hemorrhage in the Low-Pressure Glaucoma Treatment Study
• Heijl: The long-term risk of manifest glaucoma after optic disc haemorrhages
• Calixto: Intraocular pressure, axial length, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness and horizontal corneal diameter in normal children
• Abe: Microcirculation of the optic nerve head and visual field loss in glaucoma
• Tamm: Transgenic studies on the role of myocilin and optineurin in the eye

• Tomita: Scanning laser polarimetry in open-angle glaucoma with hemifield defects
• Yamamota: HRT findings of superior segmental optic hypolaasia for differentiating glaucoma
• Viswanathan: The suitability of rate-based methods of visual field progression analysis for outcome measurement in randomized controlled trials
• Orgul: Does the human choroids have a vascular autoregulation?

1030 - 1100 : Refreshment Break

• Goldberg: Hyperhomocystenaemia in open-angle glaucoma

Medical

• Zeyen: Results of the European Glaucoma
  Prevention Study
• Costa: Blood-aqueous barrier changes following the use of prostaglandin analogs in pseudophakic and aphakic patients: a six-month, randomized trial
• Kuwayama: Is timolol really not effective at night?
• Araie: Time-course of change in optic nerve
  head circulation after acute reduction in intraocular pressure
• Vessani: Comparison of Stratus OCT parameters to detect glaucomatous damage

Surgical

• Sherwood: Glaucoma drainage implant surgery has a higher survival role as a primary procedure in a rabbit model

• Sampaolesi: Correlation between surgical technique and functional results in non-penetrating deep sclerectomy
• Da-Wen Lu: The changes of aqueous humor pH values after anterior chamber paracentesis in patients with acute angle closure glaucoma
• Palmberg: How much of the glaucoma damage is pressure-dependent?
• Wilensky: Indications for trans-scleral laser cyclotherapy
• Shirato: Surgical outcome of non-penetrating deep sclerectomy with mitomycin C in primary open-angle glaucoma in Japanese patients
• Camras: Novel glaucoma drainage device to the external ocular surface
• Nicolela: Is central corneal thickness associated with the development of hypotonous maculopathy?
• Minckler: Results with the Trabectome for treatment of open angle glaucoma

1030 - 1100 : Refreshment Break

1100 - 1300 : Symposium

Evidence based approach to the medical and surgical treatment of Glaucoma
Moderator Franz Grehn, MD

• Ivan Goldberg: Beneficial effects of pressure lowering IOP
• Anders Heijl: Individualized management: Risk factors and rate of progression
• Tetsuya Yamamoto: Initiation of therapy
• Dale Heuer: Results and complications of conventional filtering surgery versus non penetrating surgery
• Remo Susanna: PRO and CONS for early versus late treatment

Panel discussion and Case Presentations