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 (TM) 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 (TM): 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