Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes
Amar Agarwal,
MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Product Description
Even the most experienced refractive surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. Be prepared to manage unavoidable and challenging complications with Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes by your side.
Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with contributions from 67 of today's leading refractive surgery experts, explains all there is to know about refractive surgery techniques in Refractive Surgery Nightmares to help you stay in control when facing unique surgical challenges.
Refractive Surgery Nightmares provides surgeons with a solid understanding of preoperative examinations, surface ablation procedures, LASIK, and lens based surgeries and the tricky situations that can arise and turn into every surgeon's worst nightmare.
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Refractive Surgery Complications Include:
- DLK and corneal infections
- Topographic and wavefront aberrometry disasters
- Femtosecond laser complications
- Post LASIK Ectasia
- Decentered ablations
- Iatrogenic keratectasia
More than 250 illustrations and clinical photographs supplement the important information presented, providing visual as well as textual references. Also included is an accompanying video CD-ROM with 45 minutes of instructional video techniques that supplements the text.
Video CD-ROM Includes:
- Post LASIK Iatrogenic Keratectasia
- Flap Complications
- Bimanual phacoemulsification
- Phakic IOL
- Hyperopic shifts after Radial keratotomy
- Cataract after radial keratotomy
This distinctive text and video CD-ROM will make its mark with everyone involved in refractive surgery, from the resident to the experienced surgeon. Feel competent and comfortable in the operating room no matter what challenge comes your way with Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes.
From the Foreword:
"A copy of this book belongs in the reference library of every refractive surgery center - and, so to speak, under the pillow of every refractive surgeon."
— Prof. Thomas Neuhann, MD
Winner!
Refractive Surgery Nightmares Video CD-ROM presented by Dr. Amar Agarwal, received the best video award for the video Battle of the Bulge, presented during the Video Symposium on Challenging Case, Corneal Refractive Surgery held at the Videocataractrefractive 2006 in Italy.
Refractive Surgery Nightmares Video CD-ROM presented by Soosan Jacob, received the second best award for the video Battle of the Bulge, presented during the 2006 American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Annual Meeting.
Flap Wars Video, presented by Dr. Amar Agarwal, received first prize in the video awards held at the 2007 European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons conference in Sweden.
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Contents
- Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Contributing Authors
Preface
Foreword
- Section I: Preoperative Examinations Preventing Nightmares
- Chapter 1:Understanding the Orbscan to Prevent Nightmares
- Athiya Agarwal, MD, DO
- Chapter 2:Anterior Keratoconus
- Sunita Agarwal, MD, DO
- Chapter 3:Posterior Corneal Changes in Refractive Surgery
- Smita Narasimhan, MBBS, FRSH, FERC and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
- Chapter 4:New Techniques for Exploring the Eye's Anterior Segment: Carl Zeiss Meditec Visante OCT
- Georges Baïkoff, MD
- Chapter 5:Pupil Size and Refractive Surgery
- Francesco Carones, MD
- Section II: Surface Ablations: PRK, LASEK, Epi-LASIK, PTK
- Chapter 6:Corneal Haze
- Noel Alpins, FRACO, FRCOphth, FACS and George Stamatelatos, BscOptom
- Chapter 7:Photorefractive Keratectomy Complications
- Samuel Boyd, MD and Raymond Stein, MD, FRCSC
- Chapter 8:LASEK Complications
- Massimo Camellin
- Chapter 9:Epi-LASIK
- Vikentia J. Katsanevaki, MD, PhD; Maria I. Kalyvianaki, MD; Dimitra S. Kavroulaki, MD; and Ioannis G. Pallikaris, MD, PhD
- Chapter 10:The Use of Mitomycin-C in Laser Refractive Surgery
- Francesco Carones, MD
- Chapter 11:Nightmares With Phototherapeutic Keratecomy
- Jes Mortensen, MD
- Section III: LASIK and Wavefront-Guided LASIK
- Chapter 12:Flap Complications
- Melania Cigales, MD; Jairo Hoyos-Chacón, MD; and Jairo E. Hoyos, MD, PhD
- Chapter 13:Decentered Ablation
- Helen Boerman, OD; Tracy Swartz, OD, MS, FAAO; and Ming Wang, MD, PhD
- Chapter 14:Post-LASIK Iatrogenic Ectasia
- Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth; Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, FERC, Dip NB; and Vladimir Pfeifer, MD
- Chapter 15:Sands Of Sahara or Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis: The Refractive Emergency
- Alexander Hatsis, MD, FACS
- Chapter 16:Post-LASIK Infections
Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, FERC, Dip NB; Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth; and Nibaran Angopadhyay, MS Chapter 17:Epithelial Ingrowth
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth and Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, FERC; Dip NB Chapter 18: Dealing With Irregular Astigmatism: State of the Art
Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD and José I. Belda, MD, PhD Chapter 19:Glare And Halos After Refractive Surgery
Guillermo Simón-Castellví, MD; Sarabel Simón-Castellví, MD; José María Simón-Castellví, MD; Cristina Simón-Castellví, MD; and José María Simón-Tor, MD Chapter 20:Complications Creating LASIK Flaps With the Intralase Femtosecond Laser
William W. Culbertson, MD Chapter 21: LASIK Over- and Undercorrections
Luis Escaf Jaraba, MD; Alejandro Tello, MD; and Victor Rojas Hernandez, MD Chapter 22:Topographic and Wavefront Aberrometry Disasters
Tracy Swartz, OD, MS, FAAO and Ming Wang, MD, PhD Chapter 23:Customized LASIK After Previous Refractive Surgery
Roberto Pinelli, MD; Patrizia Portesi, OT; and Cristian Bacchi, OD
Section IV: Lens-Based Refractive Surgery Chapter 24:Accurate Biometry and Intraocular Lens Power Calculations
Noel Alpins, FRACS, FRCOphth, FACS and Gemma Walsh, B Optom Chapter 25:MIRLEX
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth; Mahipal S. Sachdev, MD; and Clement K. Chan, MD, FACS Chapter 26:Refractive Shift After Pediatric Cataract Surgery
Rupal H. Trivedi, MD, MSCR and M. Edward Wilson, Jr, MD Chapter 27:Vitreoretinal Complications Associated With Refractive Surgery
Clement K. Chan, MD, FACS; Steven G. Lin, MD; and Astha S.D. Nuthi, DO Chapter 28:Nightmares With Presbyopic Correcting Implants
Robert Jay Weinstock, MD Chapter 29:Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome
Simon P. Holland, MB, FRCSC; Douglas W. Morck, DVM, PhD; Gina Chavez, BSc; Yumi G. Ohashi, BSc; and Tracy L. Lee, BSc Chapter 30: Phakic Intraocular Lens Complications
Benjamin F. Boyd, MD, FACS; Samuel Boyd, MD; Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, FERC, Dip NB; and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Section V: Miscellaneous Chapter 31: Conductive Keratoplasty and Potential Complications
Roberto Pinelli, MD Chapter 32:Corneal Surgery for the Correction of Irregular Astigmatism After Corneal Refractive Surgery
Jose L. Güell, MD; Javier A. Gaytan Melicoff, MD; and Felicidad Manero Vidal, MD Chapter 33:Intracorneal Rings: KeraRings And Intacs
Jaime R. Martiz, MD; Carlos Manrique De Lara, MD, FACS; and Ramon Naranjo Tackman, MD Chapter 34:Refractive Surgery and Intraocular Pressure
Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, FERC, Dip NB, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth Chapter 35:Dry Eye and Refractive Surgery
Ahmad M. Fahmy, OD and David R. Hardten, MD Chapter 36:Postrefractive Surgical Fitting Of Contact Lenses
Kenneth Daniels, OD, FAAO Index
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Reviews
"Chapters are concise, well-written and comprehensive. The large number of contributors serves to provide a well rounded and up-to-date perspective. There is good selection of photographs and illustrations throughout, so very little is left to the imagination when it comes to understanding the authors’ point. This text is more comprehensive than its title suggests and provides an excellent primer for any refractive surgeon. In summary, “Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes” is a useful, comprehensive and up-to-date textbook providing an experienced approach to safe and successful refractive surgery."
— Natalie A. Afshari, MD, Durham, North Carolina, American Journal of Ophthalmology
"It is very clever of Amar Agarwal to have edited this volume whose selling pint is the prevention and management of stressful situations in theatre. It is clever because stressful situations are common….So by producing a book that looks at these situations from a constructive, educational perspective, Agarwal has done a service to his readership… I like the subtitle - "Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes" - as well. It is positive and implies that setbacks can be overcome….Dr. Agarwal's book should help refractive surgeons, both in training and fully fledged practitioners, to avoid being either too careless or too anxious."
— Seamus Sweeney MD, Eurotimes
"The accompanying one-hour CD-ROM has excellent surgical footage. . .This is the most complete book on the market covering virtually all refractive procedures and their complications. It is well written and easy to follow. . . I am not aware of a book as comprehensive as this one that covers most of the modern day refractive procedures.”
— Michael E. Sulewski, MD, Doody Enterprises
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About the Editor
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth is the pioneer of the phakonit procedure, which is phako with needle incision technology. This technique became popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS) or microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7-mm tip with the technique called microphakonit. He has also discovered no anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The use of an air pump, which was the simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco, has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. Dr. Aga was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his four volume Textbook of Ophthalmology. He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia. He is the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700-micron cataract surgery) with a 25-gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible for cataract and vitrectomy. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration.
Dr. Agarwal has received many awards for his work in ophthalmology most significant being the Barraquer Award and the Kelman Award. He has also written more than 33 books that have been published in various languages including English, Spanish, and Polish. In his center, he also trains doctors from all over the world on phaco, bimanual phaco, LASIK, and the retina. Dr. Agarwal was recently appointed as Professor of Ophthalmology at Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai, India.
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