Cataract Surgery

I. EVALUATION 1. The Pathology of Cataracts 2. Surgical Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pathogenesis, and Classification of Cataracts 3. Preoperative Evaluation of the Patient with Visually Significant Cataract 4. Intraocular Lens Implant Power Calculation, Selection, and Ocular Biometry II. PREPARATION 5. Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices: Physical Characteristics, Clinical Applications, and Complications 6. Biomechanical Characteristics of Suture Materials and Needles in Cataract Sugery 7. The Phaco Machine: The Physical Principles Guiding Its Operation 8. Retrobulbar and Peribulbar Anesthesia for Cataract Surgery 9. Topical Intracameral Anesthesia III. EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION 10. Extracapsular Cataract Surgery: Indications and Techniques 11. Phacosection Cataract Surgery IV. PHACOEMULSIFICATION 12. Incision Construction 13. Capsulorrhexis 14. Hydrodissection and Hydrodelineation 15. Principles of Nuclear Phacoemulsification 16. Phaco Chop 17. Technique of Tilt and Tumble Phacoemulsification V. SPECIAL TECHNIQUES FOR CATARACT EXTRACTION 18. Pars Plana Lensectomy for Primary Extraction and Retained Fragments 19. Phacoemulsification in the Presence of a Small Pupil 20. Combined Cataract Implant and Filtering Surgery 21. Combined Cataract Extraction and Corneal Transplantation 22. Control of Astigmatism in the Cataract Patient 23. Cataract Surgery in Uveitis Patients 24. Surgical Management of Pediatric Cataracts 25. The Intumescent Cataract 26. Dense Brunescent Cataract 27. Surgical Management of the Congenitally Subluxed Crystalline Lens Using the Modified Capsular Tension Ring 28. Techniques and Principles of Surgical Management for the Traumatic Cataract 29. Iris Repair 30. High Myopia 31. Nanophthalmos, Relative Anterior Microphthalmos, and Axial Hyperopia 32. Cataract Surgery in the Presence of Other Ocular Comorbidities VI. INTRAOCULAR LENSES 33. The Evolution of the Intraocular Lens 34. Polymethylmethacrylate Intraocular Lenses 35. Foldable Intraocular Lenses 36. Multifocal Intraocular Lenses 37. Secondary Intraocular Lenses 38. Intraocular Lens-Related Opacifications VII. MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS 39. Intraoperative Complications of Phacoemulsification Surgery 40. Surgical Repositioning and Explantation of Intraocular Lens 41. Wound Dehiscence Following Cataract Surgery 42. Corneal Edema After Cataract Surgery 43. Glaucoma After Cataract Surgery 44. Neodymium:Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet Laser Posterior Capsulotomy 45. Neodymium:Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet Laser in the Management of Postoperative Complications of Cataract Surgery 46. Epithelial and Fibrous Invasion of the Eye 47. Macular Causes of Poor Postoperative Vision: Cystoid Macular Edema, Epiretinal Fibrosis, and Age-Related Macular Degeneration 48. Postoperative Endophthalmitis 49. Retinal Detachment 50. Prolonged Intraocular Inflammation 51. Lasers in Cataract Surgery 52. New Phacoemulsification Technologies 53. Endocapsular Vortex Emulsification for Cataract Removal