2007 ABSTRACT SCHEDULE
 
Tuesday - Residents' Forum Abstract Title Presenter's Name
8am-8:15am RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF CANINE CONJUNCTIVAL MAST CELL TUMORS  Matthew Fife
8:15am-8:30am EFFECTS ON TEAR FILM DYNAMICS OF EXPERIMENTAL FELINE HERPESVIRUS INFECTION  Christine Lim
8:30am-8:45am TREATMENT OF FELINE EOSINOPHILIC- PROLIFERATIVE KERATITIS WITH TOPICAL CYCLOSPORINE: 30 CASES  Amelie Spiess
8:45am-9am BIOCHEMICAL AND IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CANINE CORNEAL CELLS CULTURED IN TWO DIFFERENT MEDIA  Jamie Schorling
9am-9:15am DOXYCYCLINE LEVELS IN PREOCULAR TEAR FILM OF HORSES FOLLOWING ORAL ADMINISTRATION Amy Baker
9:15am-9:30am PROLIFERATION OF STREPTOCOCCUS ZOOEPIDEMICUS AND PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA WITHIN SILICONE TUBING (MILA®) FLUSHED WITH EQUINE SERUM Susan Jacobi
9:30am-9:45am THE EFFECT OF A SINGLE DOSE OF TOPICAL 0.005% LATANOPROST AND 2% DORZOLAMIDE/0.5% TIMOLOL COMBINATION ON THE BLOOD AQUEOUS BARRIER IN NORMAL DOGS Nancy Johnstone McLean
9:45am-10am THE EFFECTS OF 2% DORZOLAMIDE ON CORNEAL SENSITIVITY, SCHIRMER TEAR TEST AND CORNEAL THICKNESS ON NORMAL FELINE EYES  Rustin Sturgeon
10:30am-10:45am IDENTIFICATION OF OCULAR MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES (MMPS) PRESENT WITHIN THE AQUEOUS HUMOR AND IRIDOCORNEAL DRAINAGE ANGLE TISSUE OF NORMAL AND GLAUCOMATOUS CANINE EYES William Weinstein
10:45am-11am STAGED AHMED VALVE AND DIODE LASER CYCLOPHOTOCOAGULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY GLAUCOMA IN THE DOG John Warren
11am-11:15am COMPARISON OF INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS FOLLOWING PHACOEMULSIFICATION  USING THE TONO-VET AND TONO-PEN  Amy L. Thompson
11:15am-11:30am INFLUENCE OF LENS DESIGN AND MATERIAL ON CAPSULAR OPACIFICATION AND REFRACTIVE STATUS AFTER PHACOEMULSIFICATION CATARACT REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANTATION IN DOGS Barrett Gift
11:30am-11:45am OCULAR EFFECTS FOLLOWING AQUEOCENTESIS IN DOGS USING VARIABLE NEEDLE SIZES: FLUOROPHOTOMETRIC AND TONOMETRIC EVALUATION Rachel Allbaugh
11:45am-12pm THE EFFECTS OF MEDETOMIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE ON THE ELECTRORETINOGRAM OF NORMAL DOGS  Joanna Norman
12pm-12:15pm NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING FOR THE MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A GENE (Tfam) IN MINIATURE SCHNAUZER DOGS AFFECTED WITH INHERITED RETINAL DYSPLASIA AND PERSISTENT HYPERPLASTIC PRIMARY VITREOUS Bianca Bauer
12:15pm-12:30pm EVALUATION OF A NEWLY DEVLOPED NESTED PCR TEST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF CANINE AND FELINE OCULAR COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS Marcella Ashton
Wednesday - General Scientific Sessions  Abstract Title Presenter's Name
1pm-1:15pm OCULAR TOXICITY OF SUBCONJUNCTIVAL AND INTRAVITREAL RAPAMYCIN IN HORSES   Laura Douglas
1:15pm-1:30pm THE EFFECT OF 1% TOPICAL NALBUPHINE ON CORNEAL SENSITIVITY IN NORMAL EQUINE EYES Mary Utter
1:30pm-2:45pm sPECIAL tOPIC: Compounded Ophthalmic Preparations in Animals: Pearls and Perils Gigi Davidson
3:15pm-3:30pm A CASE OF SUSPECTED IRIDOCORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL (ICE) SYNDROME CAUSING SECONDARY GLAUCOMA IN A DOG  Lynne Sandmeyer
3:30pm-3:45pm TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR β2 IN THE AQUEOUS HUMOR OF NORMAL DOGS AND DOGS WITH GLAUCOMA  Tammy Michau
3:45pm-4pm COMBINED EFFECT OF TOPICAL FLURBIPROFEN AND LATANOPROST ON NORMAL CANINE EYES. A CONTROLLED STUDY  Chris Pirie
4pm-4:15pm PENETRATING LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY FOR CORNEAL STROMAL ABSCESS IN THE HORSE: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 21 CLINICAL CASES  Amy Baker
4:15pm-4:30pm PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY IN THE HORSE: VISUAL OUTCOME AND OCULAR SURVIVAL IN 25 CASES (2004-2007)   Sarah Blackwood
4:30pm-4:45pm DEEP LAMELLAR ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY FOR EQUINE CORNEAL STROMAL ABSCESSES: 57 CASES (2003-2007)  Caryn Plummer
4:45pm-5pm ETIOLOGIC TESTING OF DEEP CORNEAL STROMAL ABCSESS FOLLOWING PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY IN THE HORSE Tammy Michau
Thursday - General Scientific Sessions  Abstract Title  Presenter's Name
8:30am-8:45am CANINE LENS INSTABILITY SURGICAL OPTIONS – PART 1:  CAPSULAR TENSION RING USE FOR PHACOEMULSIFICATION AND INTRAOCULAR LENS PLACEMENT Sarah Stone
8:45am-9am CANINE LENS INSTABILITY SURGICAL OPTIONS – PART 2: A MODIFIED AB-EXTERNO APPROACH FOR SUTURE FIXATION OF AN INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANT IN THE DOG David Wilkie
9am-9:15am INTRACAPSULAR LENSECTOMY WITH SULCUS INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANTATION IN DOGS WITH PRIMARY LENS LUXATION OR SUBLUXATION Charles Stuhr
9:15am-9:30am A QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON OF POSTERIOR CAPSULAR OPACIFICATION IN CANINE PATIENTS FOLLOWING INTRAOCULAR IMPLANTATION WITH POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE AND FOLDABLE ACRYLIC LENSES Jesse Watson
9:30am-9:45am PHACOEMULSIFICATION AND IMPLANTATION OF A +14 DIOPTER FOLDABLE INTRAOCULAR LENS IN AN ADULT HORSE Wendy Townsend
9:45am-10am DETERMINATION OF THE RISK FACTORS INVOLVED IN LENS DISEASES IN CAPTIVE PINNIPEDS Carmen Colitz
10am-10:15am MEASUREMENT OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS IN AQUEOUS HUMOR FOLLOWING PARACENTESIS OF THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER IN DOGS Chantale Pinard
10:45am-11:45am Memorial Lecture: Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices, and techniques to use them to their full potential. Dr. Steve Arshinoff
Friday - General Scientific Sessions #8  Abstract Title Presenter's Name
12pm-12:15pm ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL IN-VIVO MRI OF THE RAT OPTIC NERVE  Douglas Esson
12:15pm-12:30pm BILATERAL RETINOSCHISIS IN A DOG: A VETERINARY CLINICAL APPLICATION FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) Jacqueline Pearce
12:30pm-12:45pm CHRONIC OCULAR LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MICROBEAM RADIATION THERAPY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL RAT STUDY Lynne Sandmeyer
12:45pm-1pm OCULAR LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION IN DOGS Rachel Mathes
1pm-1:15pm A MUTATION IN CEP290 DISCOVERED CAUSATIVE FOR FELINE HEREDITARY ROD CONE DEGENERATION (rdAc) REPRESENTING A NEW GROUP OF DISEASES AFFECTING THE CONNECTING CILIUM Kristina Narfström
1:15pm-1:30pm DETECTION OF VIRULENT FELINE HERPESVIRUS -1 IN THE CORNEAS OF CLINICALLY NORMAL CATS Jean Stiles
1:30pm-1:45pm THE EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED FELINE HERPESVIRUS 1
(FHV-1) INFECTION ON FELINE CILIARY AND TRIGEMINAL GANGLIA 
Wendy Townsend
Saturday - General Scientific Session Abstract Title Presenter's Name
8:45am-9am OCULAR FINDINGS IN SERVALS AND WESTERN COUGARS   Dan Ward
9am-9:15am DURATION OF CORNEAL ANESTHESIA WITH OPHTHALMIC 0.5% PROPARACAINE HYDROCHLORIDE USING A COCHET-BONNET AESTHESIOMETER IN CLINICALLY NORMAL  HORSES Mary Utter
9:15am-9:30am OCULAR DISTRIBUTION AND TOXICITY OF INTRAVITREAL INJECTION OF TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE IN NORMAL EQUINE EYES  Nayoung Yi
9:30am-9:45am EXAMINATION OF NORMAL EQUINE EYES FOR THE PRESENCE OF LEPTOSPIRES  Stefan Gesell
9:45am-10am TRANSCLERAL VITRECTOMY FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF LEPTOSPIRA AND TREATMENT OF EQUINE RECURRENT UVEITIS IN A HORSE IN THE UNITED STATES Eric Storey
10:30am-10:45am OCULAR MANIFESTATION OF DISSEMINATED HISTIOCYTIC SARCOMA IN A DOG  Pamela Mouser
10:45am-11am FELINE UVEAL NEUROGLIAL TUMOURS  Patricia Mundy
11am-11:15am ROUND CELL VARIANT OF FELINE OCULAR POST-TRAUMATIC SARCOMA: RETROSPECTIVE STUDY  Carolina Naranjo
11:15am-11:30am CANINE OPTIC NERVE AND RETINAL GLIOMA: A RETROPSPECTIVE CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC STUDY OF 19 CASES Richard Dubielzig
11:30am-11:45am MULTIPLE OPHTHALMIC LESIONS AND MELANOCYTIC NEOPLASIA IN WHITE DOBERMAN PINSCHERS  Joshua Bartoe
11:45am-12pm OPHTHALMIC MANIFESTATIONS OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE IN DOGS: CLINICAL FINDINGS AND PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE  Elizabeth Giuliano
Tuesday - Poster Session  Abstract Title Presenter's Name
1 IMAGE FUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR IMPROVED ORBITAL AND OCULAR SOFT TISSUE RESOLUTION IN THE DOG Douglas Esson
2 LIMITED ORBITOTOMY WITHOUT TRANSSECTION OF THE ORBITAL LIGAMENT FOR ZYGOMATIC MUCOCELE IN THREE BRACHYCEPHALIC DOGS  Yeon Jung Hong
3 CANINE LATERAL CANTHAL HAMARTOMA: A DESCRIPTION OF 7 CASES  Christiane Kafarnik
4 DACRYOPS (LACRIMAL CYST) IN FOUR LABRADOR RETRIEVERS  Juri Ota
5 FLUORESCEIN NASOLACRIMAL TRANSIT TIME IN OPHTHALMICALLY NORMAL DOGS AND CATS Daniel Binder
6 KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS ASSOCIATED WITH TOXOPLASMA GONDII IN A DOG Robert Swinger
7 MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED MUCINS ON CANINE CONJUNCTIVA  Yasuyoshi Umeda
8 TWO CANINE CASES WITH EPIPHORA DIAGNOSED AS MEIBOMIAN GLANDS DYSFUNCTION (MGD)  Akihiko Saito
9 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE LISSAMINE GREEN AND ROSE BENGAL VITAL STAINING Naoaki Takiyama
10 EFFECT OF DEXMEDETOMIDINE-BUTORPHANOL COMBINATION ON SCHIRMER 1 TEAR TEST (STT1) READINGS IN DOGS  Sari Jalomäki
11 TEAR FILM ANALYSIS OF ORCINUS ORCA  Carmen Colitz
13 ISOLATION OF OBLIGATE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA FROM ULCERATIVE KERATITIS IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS  Eric Ledbetter
14 REFERENCE VALUES FOR OPHTHALMIC DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, COMPARISON OF TEAR TEST METHODS, AND CONJUNCTIVAL FLORA AND CYTOLOGY IN THE HEALTHY GUINEA PIG (CAVIA PORCELLUS)  Martin Coster
15 CORNEAL EPITHELIAL INCLUSION CYST IN A LLAMA. A CASE REPORT  Chris Pirie
16 MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS OF CHINCHILLA (Chinchilla lanigera) USING SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY  João Pigatto
17 SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF THE CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM IN THE RED-EARED TURTLE (Trachemys scripta)  João Pigatto
18 EFFECTS OF GLAUCOMA ON THE CANINE CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM: A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY STUDY  João Pigatto
19 COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT), OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT), SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY (SLO) CORRELATION TO GROSS AND HISTOLOGIC EXAM OF THE EYES OF PIGS AND RABBITS J. Scot Estep
Wednesday - Poster Session Abstract Title Presenter's Name
20 EFFECT OF THE ETHYL-CYANOACRYLATE OR THE
OCTHYL-CYANOACRYLATE IN EXPERIMENTAL  CORNEAL LESIONS IN RABBITS
Jose Luiz Laus
21 OCULAR SIGNS, PROTEIN OF AQUEOUS HUMOUR, SEROLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF DOGS (Canis familiaris) (LINNAEUS, 1758), INFECTED EXPERIMENTALLY BY THE CONJUNCTIVAL ROUTE OF EXPOSURE WITH Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi (CUNHA & CHAGAS, 1937) Jose Luiz Laus
22 HISTOPATHOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ALTERATIONS IN THE EYES OF DOGS INFECTED WITH Leishmania chagasi  Jose Luiz Laus
23 EFFECTS OF CARPROFEN ADMINISTERED BY DIFFERENT ROUTES TO CONTROL EXPERIMENTAL UVEITIS IN DOGS Jose Luiz Laus
24 SPONTANEOUS LENS CAPSULE RUPTURE IN THE CANINE CATARACT PATIENTS  Hiromi Koyama
25 ANTIBODIES AGAINST ALPHA A- AND BETA-CRYSTALLINS IN NORMAL AND CATARACTOUS DOGS Nobuyuki Kanemaki
26 RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF INTRACAPSULAR LENS EXTRACTION IN THE DOG Carrie Boroughs Breaux
27 ANALYSIS OF BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR AND ITS TRKB AND P75 RECEPTORS EXPRESSION IN THE RETINA OF NORMAL AND GLAUCOMATOUS DOGS Simone Iwabe
28 EXAMINATION OF CUP-TO-DISC DIAMETER AND AREA RATIO IN DOGS Ayako Yamasaki
29 SUDDEN ACQUIRED RETINAL DEGENERATION, ASSOCIATED PATTERN OF ADRENAL ACTIVITY, AND HORMONE REPLACEMENT IN THREE DOGS—A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY  Caroline Levin
30 SUDDEN ACQUIRED RETINAL DEGENERATION, ASSOCIATED PATTERN OF ADRENAL ACTIVITY AND HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN A BRITTANY SPANIEL—CASE REPORT  Caroline Levin
31 RETINAL DEGENERATION CHARACTERIZED BY DECLINE OF CONE RESPONSE IN FOUR MINIATURE LONG-HAIRED DACHSHUNDS Seiya Maehara
32 COMPARISON OF TWO ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY SYSTEMS USED IN DOGS: THE RETIcom AND THE HMs-ERG  Man Bok Jeong
33 THE EFFECT OF PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY ON SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA IN A MURINE MODEL: AN EVALUATION OF TIME BETWEEN INTRALESIONAL INJECTION TO LASER IRRADIATION Laura Barnes
37 CASE REPORT: CANINE MELANOMA OF THE NICTITANS GLAND Wakiko Onuma
35 TERATIOD MEDULOEPITHELIOMA IN A DOMESTIC SHORTHAIRED CAT:  A CASE REPORT  J. Scot Estep
36 OPHTHALMIC DISEASES IN 543 SAPSAREE DOGS  KangMoon Seo
37 INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF AMMONIA AND LIGHT INTENSITY ON OCULAR, FEAR AND LEG HEALTH IN BROILER CHICKENS William Miller
38 IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL DETECTION AND THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES (MMP)-2 AND -9, MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN -2 (MIP-2), AND TISSUE INHIBITORS OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES (TIMP)-1 AND -2 IN EQUINE FUNGAL KERATITIS Shannon Boveland