Presbyopia

Ioannis G. Pallikaris is a Greek ophthalmologist who in 1989 performed the first LASIK procedure on a human eye. Pallikaris also developed Epi-LASIK. Professor Palikaris was the rector of the University of Crete between 2003 and 2011. He is also the founder and director of the Institute of Vision and Optics in the same university. The institute focuses on providing high-quality specialised health services, such as refractive surgery, photodynamic therapy and the evaluation of vision operation through specialised diagnostic techniques.| Sotiris Plainis completed an MSc (in 1994) and a PhD (in 1999) studies at the Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK. Since 2002 he has been working as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO), School of Health Sciences, University of Crete.|Following doctoral and postdoctoral work on visual microscopy at Imperial College, London, Neil Charman moved first to Canada where he worked on photographic systems and then 2 years later returned to UK and Harwell where he spent 6 years pursuing a wide range of high-energy astrophysical studies. In 1970, he moved to Manchester, and UMIST, where he has happily resided ever since.

Dedication
About the Editors
Contributing Authors
Preface
Section I General Background
Chapter 1 Demographics: Vision Impairment Due to Uncorrected Presbyopia
Chapter 2 Overview of Clinical Aspects
Chapter 3 Depth of Focus of the Human Eye
Section II The Accommodation System
Chapter 4 Physiology and Behavior of the Accommodation System
Chapter 5 Accommodation Dynamics
Chapter 6 Cues for Accommodation
Section III The Aging Eye
Chapter 7 Structure and Physiology of the Eye Lens
Chapter 8 Role of the Ciliary Muscle and Zonula in Accommodation and Presbyopia
Chapter 9 Optical and Related Changes in the Aging Eye
Chapter 10 Neural Changes in Vision Affecting the Presbyopic Eye
Section IV Presbyopia, Accommodation, and Vergence
Chapter 11 Theories of Presbyopia
Chapter 12 Presbyopia and the Vergence System
Section V Presbyopia Correction by Spectacles and Contact Lenses
Chapter 13 Correction of Presbyopia With Spectacle Lenses
Chapter 14 Correction of Presbyopia With Contact Lenses
Section VI Presbyopia Surgery
Chapter 15 Presbyopia Surgery: Introduction
Chapter 16 Correction of Presbyopia With Monovision
Chapter 17 Cataract Surgery and Monofocal Intraocular Lenses: Refractive and Presbyopia Considerations
Chapter 18 Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
Chapter 19 Accommodating Intraocular Lenses
Chapter 20 Light-Adjustable Intraocular Lenses
Chapter 21 Presbyopic LASIK
Chapter 22 Laser Blended Vision for Presbyopia Correction
Chapter 23 Intracorneal Inlays for Presbyopia
Chapter 24 Cornea 'Shrinking' Techniques: Conductive Keratoplasty, Laser Thermal Keratoplasty, and Intrastromal Femtosecond Laser-Based Procedures
Chapter 25 Scleral Expansion Bands
Chapter 26 Laser Scleral Matrix Microexcisions (LaserACE/Erbium YAG Laser)
Chapter 27 Femtosecond Laser Photodisruption of the Crystalline Lens for Restoring Accommodation
Chapter 28 Lens Refilling
Chapter 29 Presbyopia Surgery: Decision Making, Particularly in Patients Who Have Previously Undergone Refractive Surgery
Section VII Evaluating the Effectiveness of Presbyopia Correction
Chapter 30 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Presbyopia Corrections: Subjective Methods
Chapter 31 Presbyopia Correction: Evaluating Success Using Behavioral Methods
Chapter 32 Objective Measurement of Accommodation
Chapter 33 Evaluation of Image Quality Using Computational Wavefront Metrics
Chapter 34 Ocular Imaging Techniques and Their Applications in Presbyopic Correction
Section VIII Finale
Chapter 35 Synthesis
Glossary
Financial Disclosures
Index