Comprehensive and clinically focused, Refractive Surgery, 3rd Edition, brings you the knowledge and expertise of leading ophthalmology experts and refractive surgeons from around the world. Together they provide practical coverage of the latest advances in this fast-changing field, including improved optics and biomechanics, improved diagnostics, new surgical techniques, and more. Hundreds of high-quality photographs guide you from patient selection to mastery of surgical techniques.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction
1. Terminology, classifications and definitions of refractive surgery
2. Corneal wound healing following refractive surgery
3. Influence of Wound Healing on Refractive Surgery Revealed Through In Vivo Confocal Microscopy
4. Corneal diseases of importance to the refractive surgeon
5. Patient evaluation for refractive surgery
6. Preoperative Selection of Refractive Surgical Procedures
II. Optics, Topography and Wavefront
7. Physiological Optics for Keratorefractive Surgery
8. Corneal topography
9. Wavefront analysis
III. Lamellar Refractive Surgery
10. LASIK: History and update
11. Mechanical and Laser Microkeratomes
12. Excimer Lasers
13. LASIK strategies in myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism
14. Custom LASIK, topography and guided lasers
15. LASIK complications and management
IV. PRK, LASEK, and Epi-LASIK
16. PRK
17. LASEK
18. Epi-LASIK
V. PTK and Topographically-guided Therapeutic Ablations
19. Phototherapeutic keratectomy
20. Intralamellar PTK
21. Topolink and pachylink
22. Pachylink
VI. Incisional Refractive Surgery
23. Radial keratotomy
24. The incisional management of astigmatism
VII. Corneal Healing, Corneal Inclusions, Orthokeratology
25. Conductive Keratoplasty (CK)
26. LTK and custom LTK
27. The intrastromal corneal ring for the correction of myopia and keratoconus
28. Intracorneal alloplastic inclusions
29. Epikeratoplasty and synthetic epikeratoplasty
30. Orthokeratoplasty
VIII. Refractive Intraocular Lenses and Phakic IOLs
31. Phakic and piggyback IOL power calculations
32. Preoperative Evaluation of the Anterior chamber phakic IOLs
33. Anterior Phakic IOLs
34. Iris-fixated phakic IOLS
35. Posterior chamber phakic IOLs
36. Complications of Phakic IOLs
IX. Presbyopia Surgery
37. Scleral expansion and relaxation surgery (scleral surgery)
38. Monovision and near vision conductive keratoplasty
39. PresbyLASIK
40. Multifocal IOLs
41. Lens filling procedures
42. Accommodating IOLs
X. Systemic Associations
43. Ocular and systemic associations of ametropia
44. Refractive surgery in the patient with ocular disease
XI. Refractive Surgery after Eye Surgery
45. IOL calculations after keratorefractive surgery
46. Refractive surgery for postkeratoplasty astigmatism
47. Combined sequential refractive surgical procedures
