Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive approach to the specialty of cataract surgery. Chapters are authored by an international group of experts who evaluate technology, recommend surgical technique, and review the management of both anticipated and unexpected complications. With more than 30 chapters, everyday challenges such as the white, mature, and uveitic cataract are included while the most difficult cases like the loose lens, posterior polar, aniridic, and the traumatic cataract are covered in detail. The editors have also included topics like IOL repositioning and exchange.
Cataract Surgery: Advanced Techniques for Complex and Complicated Cases offers the reader an encyclopedic collection of invaluable lessons that will help both the surgeon who is early in his career as well as the veteran cataract surgeon.
Table of Contents1 Key elements in the risk evaluation
2 Technology and devices involved in cataract surgery in special cases.
3 Managing Complications During Cataract Surgery
4 The hard cataract
5 Intumescent cataract and preventing the Argentinian flag sign
6 Pediatric cataract
7 The unstable lens in the adult patient
8 IOL implantation with zonulopathy
9 Cataract surgery in eyes with ocular surface problems and severe dry eye
10 Cataract surgery in Steven Johnson’s and Pemphigo diseases.
11 Cataract surgery in keratoconus
12 Cataract in cases with previous corneal graft surgery; high astigmatism
13 Cataract surgery in eyes with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy
14 The Posterior Polar Cataract
15 Cataract surgery in the edematous partially opaque cornea and after corneal graft
16 Cataract surgery in previous refractive corneal surgery cases
17 Complications of phakic intraocular lenses
18 Safety and Visual outcomes following phakic intraocular lens Bilensectomy
19 Intra ocular lens explantation and exchange
20 Cataract surgery in uveitis
21 Prevention and treatment of negative and positive dysphotopsia
22 Cataract surgery in the vitrectomized eye
23 Combined cataract and PP vitrectomy.
24 Cataract surgery in high and extreme myopia
25 Relative anterior microphthalmos, high hyperopia, nanophthalmos
26 Relative anterior microphthalmos, high hyperopia, nanophthalmos
27 Cataract surgery in aniridia
28 Floppy iris syndrome
29 Iris repair
30 Artificial Iris
31 Advanced iris repair
32 Correction of severe iris defects and cases of traumatic Aniridia with Aphakia by Combined Scleral Fixated IOL and Keratopigmentation
33 Cataract Surgery in the Traumatized Anterior Segment
34 Traumatic Cataract
35 Femtosecond laser in complex and complicated cases
36 Complications of femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery
37 Hard Cataract Management with Modern Extracapsular Cataract Surgery
38 Dislocated IOLs
39 Luxated nucleus
40 The miscalculated IOL: postoperative refractive surprise
41 MIGS in special cases
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