PREVIOUS MEETING

ISOPP IV
28.2-3.3.2002
Seville, Spain

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Inflammation and Infection Section 
 
Biologicals
Chairperson: C.S. Foster
   
       
  Biologic therapy for ocular inflammatory diseases: introduction
C.S. Foster
 
 
   
  Zenapax therapy for uveitis    
  B. Nussenblatt    
 
   
  Ocular Inflammatory Disease Prevalence
A. Heiligenhaus
 
 
 
  The clinical use of tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors for ocular inflammation    
  E. Kim    
 
   
  Emerging biologic therapies for immune-mediated diseases    
  J. Rosenbaum  
 
 
  Summary and conclusions  
  D. Jabs  
     
Uveitis
Chairperson: C.S.Foster
 
  Prevalence of noninfectious ocular inflammatory disease
A. Heiligenhaus
 
 
 
  Prevalence of blindness despite steroid therapy
R.B. Nussenblatt
 
 
 
  The side effects of steroid treatment
W. Ayliffe
 
 
 
  Immunomudulatory therapy for inflammatory external eye diseases
M. Filipec
 
 
 
  Immunomudulatory therapy for ocular inflammatory disease - literature review
A. Okada
 
 
 
  Side effects of oral corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drug therapy for ocular inflammation
D. Jabs
 
 
 
  Non-steroidal immunodulatory therapy for ocular inflammatory disease - impediments to progress
C.S. Foster
 
     
Ocular Allergy
Chairperson: S. Bonini
 
 
 
  Cells, Mediators and Cytokines and their importance in Ocular allergy
N. Barney
 
 
 
  Current therapeutic approach
S. Bonini
 

 
  Ocular allergic diseases
R. Neumann
 
     
Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms and Magnitude in Ophthalmology
Chairpersons: T. O’Brien and I. Barequet
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Introduction
T. O’Brien
 

 
LasA Protease as a therapeutic agent in Staphylococcal Keratitis
I. Barequet
 

 

Comparison of minimal inhibitory and mutant prevention drug concentration of various fluoroquinolones against ocular isolates: a strategy for minimizing the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance
J. Blondeau

 

 
Class preservation strategies
G. Tillotson
 

 

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