Contents
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
