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Top VII EVER Meeting
September 2000, Mallorca, Spain
Jost Jonas
It was a very nice and informative meeting covering all fields of ophthalmology, with ample time for discussion during the sessions and during the coffee breaks. Many participants compared this year's EVER meeting with the ARVO meeting about twenty years ago.
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New implantable systems for continous telemetric measurement of intraocular pressure are on the way.
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Intravitreal injection of crystalline triamcinolone may be helpful as adjuncitve treatment of neovascular secondary angle-closure glaucoma.
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Learning effects are more marked for conventional perimetry than for flicker tests in glaucoma diagnosis.
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Optic disc hemorrhages are not well detectable on polarimetric images of the retina.
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Beneficial effect of treatment of chronic open-angle glaucoma with timolol not yet fully proven.
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Out of a variety of techniques for morphological monitoring of the optic nerve, conventional fundus photography and confocal laser scanning tomography may be the most appropriate ones at the moment.
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Dysregulation of ocular perfusion may be more important than just decreased ocular perfusion for the pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic nerve damage.
