Course 19

Number of Candidates: 40 candidates
Aim of Course: To discuss different surgical techniques and challenges in surgical management of advanced PDR
Course Directors: Ahmed Magdy Bedda, Wael Soliman
Instructors: Ahmed Abdel Baki, Mahmoud Khalil, Samir El Baha

Course Details:

16:00 – 16:04
Course overview and self-Assessment Questions
16:04 – 16:09
Indications for diabetic vitrectomy

Ahmed Abdel Baki

16:09 – 16:14
Instruments of diabetic vitrectomy

Ahmed Abdel Baki

16:14 – 16:19
Different scissors and its advantages

Samir El Baha

16:19 – 16:24
Preoperative systemic, ocular considerations and preoperative antiVEGF

Mahmoud Khalil

16:24 – 16:39
En bloc dissection, peeling, delamination, visco dissection & segmentations

Samir El Baha, Wael Soliman, Mahmoud Khalil (5 minutes each )

16:39 – 16:57
Unimanual, Bimanual, and Trimanual techniques

Samir El Baha (8 minutes)
Wael Soliman, Mahmoud Khalil (5 minutes each )

16:57 – 17:02
In/Out technique for adherent posterior vitreous in diabetic vitrectomy

Wael Soliman

17:02 – 17:07
Combined tractional & rhegmatogenous RD

Samir El Baha

17:07 – 17:12
PRP settings in diabetic vitrectomy

Ahmed Abdel Baki

17:12 – 17:17
ILM peeling in diabetic vitrectomy

Ahmed Abdel Baki

17:17 – 17:22
Triamcinolone use during diabetic vitrectomy

Mahmoud Khalil

17:22 – 17:37
Diabetic vitrectomy without tamponades

Ahmed Magdy Bedda

17:37 – 17:45
Vitrectomy for tractional and non-tractional diabetic macular edema

Wael Soliman

17:45 – 17:50
Management of recurrent vitreous cavity hemorrhage post diabetic vitrectomy

Mahmoud Khalil

17:50 – 18:00
Panel discussion & participants Q&A