Refractive Surgery

SECTION ONE: BASICS, INSTRUMENTATION AND PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT.


1. The History of Refractive Surgery.


2. Corneal Topography and the Orbscan


3. Anterior Keratoconus


4. Posterior Corneal Changes in Refractive Surgery


5. Pentacam


6. Visante Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography in Evaluation of Patients for Refractive Surgery.


7. Corneal Topographers and Wavefront Aberrometers: Complementary Tools.


8. Aberrometry and Topography in the Vector Analysis of Refractive Laser Surgery.


9. Endothelial Evaluation Role in Refractive Surgery.


10. The Importance of a Preoperative Examination in LASIK and PRK.SECTION TWO: SURFACE ABLATIONS


11. Excimer Laser: Fundamental Concepts.


12. Painless Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK)


13. From LASEK to Epi-LASEK


14. Advanced Surface Ablation in Thin Corneas


15. Phototherapeutic Keratectomy (PTK)


SECTION THREE: ABERROPIA.


16. Aberropia: A New Refractive Entity


17. Differences between Various Aberrometer Systems


18. Corneal Wavefront-guided Excimer Laser Surgery.


19. Ocular Higher-order Aberration Induced Decrease in Vision: Aberropia


SECTION FOUR: LASIK, CUSTOMISED LASIK AND FEMTOSECOND LASER.


20. Predictive Formulas for LASIK


21. Microkeratomes for LASIK


22. Automatic Corneal Shaper


23. Care and Handling of Microkeratomes


24. LASIK: The Technique


25. Down-up LASIK


26. Pediatric LASIK.


27. Femtosecond Lasers


28. Ziemer FEMTO LDV™ Femtosecond Laser


29. Presbyopic LASIK


30. Presbyopia Correction with Central PresbyLASIK Techniques.


31. SBK (Sub-Bowman Keratomileusis): Thin Flap LASIK.(Technique and Enhancement Procedure)


32. Topographic and Aberrometer-guided Laser.


33. NAVWave: Nidek Technique for Customised Ablation.


34. Pearls for Successful Refractive Surgery


SECTION FIVE: LENS-BASED REFRACTIVE SURGER Y.


35. Mirlex- Bimanual Phaco/Phakonit/MICS: Surgical Technique.


36. Microphakonit Cataract Surgery with a 0.7 mm Tip


37. Correcting Astigmatism through the Use of Limbal Relaxing Incisions.


38. Refractive Cataract Surgery.


39. IOL Power Calculation in Standard and Refractive Surgery Cases


40. No Anesthesia Cataract/Clear Lens Extraction.


41. Phakic IOL


42. Posterior Chamber Implantable Collamer Lens ICL and Toric ICL.


43. Bioptics


SECTION SIX: COMPLICATIONS


44. Flap Complications


45. Flap Complications and Mitomycin C


46. Post-LASIK Iatrogenic Ectasia


47. Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis


48. Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis: Making the Correct Diagnosis and Preventing Treatment Errors


49. Decentered Ablation


50. Femtosecond Laser-associated Complications


51. Vitreoretinal Complications of Refractive Surgery.SECTION SEVEN: MISCELLANEOUS.


52. Conductive Keratoplasty


53. Intacs™: Refractive Correction with an Intracorneal Device.


54. Surgical Reversal of Presbyopia


55. Presbyopic Inlays.


56. Use of Platelet-rich Plasma in Ophthalmology and Refractive Surgery.


57. General Medicine Diseases and Refractive Surgery.Index