Mastering Phaco Chop Techniques

Ashok Garg, MS, PhD, Chairman and Medical Director, Garg Eye Institute and Research Centre, Hisar India Jorge L. Alio, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman of Ophthalmology, VISSUM Instituto Oftalmologico de Alicante, Spain Robert J. Weinstock, MD, Director, Cataract and Refractive Services, Eye Institute of West Florida, Largo, FL Frank Joseph Goes, MD, Medical Director, Goes Eye Centre, Antwerp, Belgium Mark Packer, MD, FACS, Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Eugene, OR Keiki R. Mehta, MS, DO, FRSH, FIOS, Chairman and Medical Director, Mehta International Eye Institute & Colaba Eye Hospital, Mumbai, India Jerome Jean Bovet, MD, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon FMH, Clinique de L'oeil, Onex, Switzerland Boris Malyugin, MD, Chief of Department of Cataract & Implant Surgery, Dy. Director General, S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex State Institution, Moscow, Russia C.S. Dhull, MS, PhD, FIAO, Professor and Head, Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Rohtak, India Bojan Pajic, MD, Chief of the Cornea & Refractive Surgery Department, Klinik PallasLouis, Olten, Switzerland Robert Pinelli, MD, Director, Instituto Laser Microchirurgia, Oculare Crystal Palace, Brescia, Italy Cyres K. Mehta, MS, FSVH, FAGE, Director & Consultant, Mehta International Eye Institute & Colaba Eye Hospital, Mumbai, India

Section 1: Phacodynamics and Preliminary Considerations in Phaco Chop
1. Phaco Chop in Transition: An Introduction, Ashok Garg
2. Phaco Chop for the Beginners, Dewi Trini, Tarak Pujara
3. Biaxial Prechop Techniques: Avoiding the Use of Choppers and Prechoppers, Arturo Perez-Arteaga
4. Phacodynamics for Chopping, Jerome Bovet
5. Setting Your Phacomachine for Chopping, Jerome Bovet
6. Optimizing Machine Parameters for Phaco Chop Fluidics, David F. Chang
7. Optimizing Machine Parameters for Phaco Chop Ultrasound, David F. Chang
8. Update on Irrigating Choppers, Peter J. de Lint
Section 2: Various Phaco Chop Techniques
9. Prechopping in MICS, Anna Walewskan Szafran, Jorge Alio
10. The Strategies to Use Horizontal and Vertical Phaco Chop, Tsung-Jen Wang, I-Jong Wang11. Bimanual Vertical Chop Technique, Mark Packer, I. Howard Fine, Richard S. Hoffman
12. Phaco Chop for CoMICS (Coaxial Microincision Cataract Surgery), Jerome Bovet
13. Phaco Chop for BiMICS (Bimanual Microincision Cataract Surgery), Jerome Bovet, Paul Alexandre Rabineau
14. New Chopping Techniques in 0.7mm Bimanual Microphaco, Keiki R. Mehta, Cyres K. Mehta
15. The Scythe Chopper Technique in Phaco: It is Simply Marvelous, Keiki R. Mehta, Cyres K. Mehta
16. Chopping Techniques in Truly Endocapsular Microincision Cataract Surgery (TECMICS), Armando Capote, Eneida de la C. Perez, Marcelino Rio
17. Separate Irrigation and Coaxial Phaco Aspiration for Cleaning the Residual Cortex, Frederic Hehn
18. Managing Suprahard Cataracts with the Anteroposterior Chop: A New Technique, Cyres K. Mehta, Keiki R. Mehta
19. Vertical Phaco Chop: Tips & Tricks, C.S. Dhull, Sumit Sachdeva
20. Quick Chop Express for Suprahard Cataracts, Mohan Rajan, Sujatha Mohan, Priye Suman Rastogi
21. Chopping in Hard Cataracts: Burst Phaco, G.L. Arun Kumar, S. Sivagnanam
22. Vejaranois Safe Phaco Chop, L. Felipe Vejarano, Alberto Vejarano, Alejandro Tello
23. Microcoaxial Phacoemulsification with Torsional Ultrasound, Gordon K.O. Chau
24. Dynamics of Nucleus Emulsification, A.K. Grover, Shaloo Bageja
25. Locomotive Cored Technique for Rapid Fast Safe Phacoemulsification, Keiki R. Mehta, Cyres K. Mehta
26. Advanced Nucleotomy Techniques, Tanuj Dada, Vijay K. Dada, Harinder S. Sethi, Munish Dhawan
27. No Anesthesia Cataract Surgery with Karate Chop Technique, Athiya Agarwal, Sunita Agarwal, Amar Agarwal, Ashok Garg
28. Phaco Chopping for all Cataract Conditions, Rohit Omprakash
Section 3: Phaco Chop in Complicated Cases and Complications Management
29. Small Pupil with Phaco Chop with Malyugin Ring, Boris Malyugin
30. Managing Complications with Bimanual Microincision Cataract Surgery, Mark Packer, I. Howard Fine, Richard S. Hoffman
31. Pitfalls with the Phaco Chop Technique, Claes Feinbaum
32. Bag-in-the-Lens IOL Implantation and Pseudophakic Retinal Detachment, M.J. Tassignon, J. Van Looveren
33. Chandelier Illumination and Bimanual Vitrectomy Used to Remove a Dislocated IOL, Amar Agarwal, Soosan Jacob, Athiya Agarwal, Sunita Agarwal, Ashok Garg
Section 4: Recent Advances in Phaco Chop Techniques
34. Advanced Phaco Techniques in Challenging Cataract Cases, Bojan Pajic, Brigitte Pajic Eggspuehler
35. Bimanual Sleeveless Phaco Chop Using 3-D High Definition Heads-Up Visualization, Robert J. Weinstock, Stephen M. Weinstock
36. WhiteStar Signature™ Phaco System: A New Experience, Frank Joseph Goes
37. 1.8mm C-MICS Phaco Chop with Stellaris, Boris Malyugin
38. New Technologies in Bimanual Microphacoemulsification, G.M. Cavallini, C. Masini, L. Campi, A. Pupino, S. Pelloni
39. Microcoaxial Cataract Surgery State of the Art, Cyres K. Mehta, Keiki R. Mehta
40. Update on Phaco Chop Techniques, Kumar J. Doctor, Nita Shanbhag, Sumita Karandikar, Pooja Deshmukkh
41. Straight Phaco Chop Techniques, Yi Lu
42. Refractive Lensectomy: A New Concept Arising at the Horizon, Roberto Pinelli
43. Advances in Irrigating Choppers for Bimanual Phacoemulsification, Alessandro Franchini, Iacopo Franchini
Index