S.I.C.S.S.O. CONGRESS 2017

“PK is the past, DALK and DMEK are the present, are “cells” the future?” is the title of the the XVI SICSSO Congress edition, that will take place in Grosseto, in the beautiful region of Tuscany, where the tradition of the S.I.C.S.S.O. meeting first began.

Why this title?

After several years, and not without struggles, DALK has finally became the gold standard technique to treat stromal diseases that require a keratoplasty, also thanks to S.I.C.S.S.O. contribution.

The adoption of DMEK is constantly increasing every day, thanks to the functional results and the lower rejection.

The potential of endothelial cultivated cells for the treatment of endothelial diseases is extremely fascinating. The “creator” of this technique will be one of the 2017 Medal Lectures.

After the great success of the past edition, this year the program will be focused again on live surgery sessions and debates. The aim is to give the opportunity to Surgeons and Chairs to share and discuss their experience in the operating room with the audience.

There will also be keynote lectures, round tables, and wet labs on Eye Bank tissues, with the involvement of some of the main opinion leaders of our field. A special session will be dedicated to reconstruction of the ocular surface, and another one to keratoprosthesis.

As is traditional, S.I.C.S.S.O. will recognize two colleagues who distinguished themselves in the field of corneal and ocular surface diseases: we will have the honor to award Mark Mannis and Shigeru Kinoshita with 2017 SICSSO Medal Lectures.

During the meeting  S.I.C.S.S.O. will assigne 3 Awards to young ophthalmologist, under the age of 40 years old, thanks to the renewed cooperation with the London Moorfields Eye Hospital, with the IMO – Instituto Microcirugía Ocular in Barcelona, and with and Clinica degli Occhi Sarnicola of Grosseto (Italy).

Looking forward to welcoming you in Grosseto,

S.I.C.S.S.O. President
Vincenzo Sarnicola