Dear Colleagues:

            We are pleased to invite you to participate in the
     5^th Annual Course and Workshop on software-aided Standardized Ophthalmic Echography.
     This year the course is offered at the Augen-Beleg-Klinik Prof. Hasenfratz - Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brueder in Regensburg, Germany.

            The purpose of this course and workshop is to inform participants both at the beginning and the advanced levels about the method
     of Standardized Echography, the most advanced and useful ultrasonographic method in ophthalmology. This will be achieved through lectures,
     patient demonstrations and examinations, DVD movies and discussions. Special emphasis will be placed on revolutionary new software
     which transforms Standardized Echography into a much easier, faster and still more reliable and precise diagnostic and biometric method
     and allows for automated diagnoses and measurements.

            We will be pleased if you decide to participate in the Regensburg Course and also the Workshop.

     With kind regards,                                                                                                                                                    Course Faculty

                                                     INTRAOCULAR LESIONS

            Vitreous Conditions:
                              PVD (posterior, anterior), vitreo-schisis, adhesions, (sub) vitreal hemorrhages, posterior hyphemas, fibro-vascular membranes, 
                              asteroid hyalosis, foreign body tracts, inflammatory infiltrations, abscesses, luxated lens

            Retinal Diseases:
                              RD's (rhegmatogenous, exudative, hemorrhagic, tractional), breaks, opercula, disinsertions, folds,  cysts, retinoschisis, 
                              disciform lesions (dry, exudative, hemorrhagic), cystoid macular degeneration, edema, macular holes, Berlin's edema,
                              tumors, (automated - A₁) differentiation of retinal detachments from dense fibro-vascular membranes

            Choroidal Diseases:
                              Detachments (exudative, hemorrhagic, kissing), folds, thickening (hyperemia, infiltration), , calcifications, tumors

            Trauma and Foreign Bodies

              Inflammation / Endophthalmitis (early diagnosis)

            Malignant Melanomas and Pseudo-melanomas:
                               (elevated choroidal nevi, melanocytomas, metastatic carcinomas, choroidal hemangiomas, lymphomas, osteomas, etc.)

            Retinoblastomas and Pseudo-gliomas (Leukokoria):
                               PHPV, Coats' disease, endophthalmitis, ROP, toxocariasis, tuberous sclerosis, retinal dysplasia, etc.
                              

            Diseases of Ocular Wall :
                               staphylomas, colobomas, scleritis (anterior, posterior), panophthalmitis, phthisis

            Lesions of Anterior Eye Segment:
                               synechiae, subluxated lenses, iris tumors, flat chamber, hyphaemas, glaucomatous changes, etc. 

  
ORBITAL and PERIORBITAL LESIONS

            Inflammation:
                            orbital cellulitis, sinusitis, orbital abscesses

            Trauma and Foreign Bodies:
                            emphysema, sub-periosteal hematomas

            Tumors:
                              lymphomas, pseudolymphomas, metastatic carcinomas, adenoid-cystic carcinomas, cavernous hemangiomas (adult), 
                                    infantile hemangiomas, rhabdomyosarcomas, benign mixed tumors of the lacrimal glands, cysts (dermoid cysts, serous cysts), 
                                    muco (pyo)celes,sarcomas of orbital bones, meningiomas, carcinoid metastases,congenital dacryoceles, hematomas, etc. 

            Diseases of Extraocular Muscles, e.g.:
                                      Graves' Orbitopathy (diagnosis, measurement of muscle index, detection of optic nerve compression, management)
                                      myositis, tumors, pareses

            Diseases of the Optic Nerve, e.g.:
                                      Optic Neuritis, Optic Atrophy, Tumors (gliomas, meningiomas, lymphomas, carcinosis, leucemic infiltrates), 
                                      papilledema vs. papillitis, optic disc drusen, colobomas, optic nerve compression, Increased intra-cranial pressure (IIH, Tumors)

            Diseases of Periorbital Sinuses:
                                     sinusitis, tumors (carcinomas, sarcomas, muco(pyo)celes,)

 
Thursday, June 5, 2008

                8:00  AM         Registration
                8:40                Welcome and Introduction
                8:45                Lecture 1
                9:45                Coffee Break
              10:05                Lecture 2
              11:05                Break
              11:20                Lecture 3
              12:20  PM         Lunch Break
                1:20                Lecture 4 
                2:20                Break&Refreshments 
               2:40                Lecture 5
                3:40                Break
                3:50                Lecture 6
                5:00 - 6:00      Demonstration I

 

Friday, June 6

                8:30    AM       Lecture 7
                9:30                Coffee Break
                9.50                Lecture 8
              10:50                Break
              11:00                Lecture 9
              12:00    PM       Lunch
                1:00                Demonstration II
                2:00                Lecture 10
                3:00                Break&Refreshments
                3:20                Lecture 11
                4:20                Break
                4:35                Lecture 12
                5:35                Break
                5:45  -  6:30     Lecture 13

Saturday, June 7

                8:30    AM       Lecture 14
                9:30                Coffee Break
                9.50                Lecture 15
              10:50                Break
              11:00                Lecture 16
              12:00    PM       Lunch Break
                1:00                Demonstration III
                2:00                Lecture 17
                3:00                Break&Refreshments
                3:20                Lecture 18
                4:20                Break
                4:30 - 5:30      Lecture 19
                7:00                Course Dinner

COURSE INSTRUMENTS:

                          Cine-Scan S (Quantel Medical, France), newest fully standardized, digital A & B scan instrument with analog screen display and  
                                            digital processing, complete with cine-loops, sensitivity (gain) adjustments of frozen images, and newest software 
                                            allowing for various automated settings (e.g., measurements, quantitative results, angle kappa) and  
                                            automated diagnoses (e.g., retinal detachments, membranes).

          Standardized A-scans for diagnosis and biometry of anterior and posterior eye segments and entire orbit 
                      B-scans: low- frequency (10 MHz) & high-frequency (20 MHz) for diagnosis of anterior and posterior eye segments
                                        and anterior orbit Ultrasound Biomicrocopy: UBM (Humphrey-Zeiss, USA): 50 MHz, 
                                       AVISO (Quantel, France): 50 MHz,  VuMAX (Sonomed, USA):  35 and 50MHz,  for evaluation of anterior eye segment. .   

 
for WORKSHOP DETAILS  CLICK HERE