Main description:

For general ophthalmologists looking to expand their surgical skillsets, anterior segment surgery specialists wishing to learn new techniques, and residents looking to separate themselves from the pack, Illustrated Advanced Anterior Segment Surgery: A Step-by-Step Guide for Challenging Cases provides a wide range of advanced anterior segment surgery techniques, presented in a highly designed graphic style.

Editors Iqbal 'Ike' Ahmed, Xavier Campos-MOEller, Manjool Shah, and Arsham Sheybani have created a dynamic visual guide that emphasizes images and diagrams and includes step-by-step illustrations to help readers understand the optimal hand positions for certain surgical maneuvers.

Each chapter focuses on an individual technique, allowing readers to consult specific chapters as needed. There is significant emphasis on both foundational concepts and advanced surgical techniques, including:

Ergonomics, hand positioning, and instrument grips
How to insert and remove iris hooks
Capsulorhexis in the setting of weak zonules
How to perform intrascleral haptic fixation of a three-piece IOL
How to repair an iridodialysis cleft

With its unique graphic approach and easily digestible format, Illustrated Advanced Anterior Segment Surgery: A Step-by-Step Guide for Challenging Cases will help surgeons take their skills to the next level and tackle some of the most challenging cases in anterior segment surgery.

Contents:

Dedication
About the Authors
Foreword by Barry Seibel, MD
Chapter 1 Introduction-How to Use This Book and Plotting Out a Flight Plan
Chapter 2 Ergonomics, Hand Positioning, and Instrument Grips
Chapter 3 Incisions
Chapter 4 How to Perform a Capsulorrhexis Through a Small Pupil
Chapter 5 How to Insert and Remove Iris Hooks
Chapter 6 How to Insert and Remove Malyugin Rings
Chapter 7 Capsulorrhexis in the Setting of Weak Zonules
Chapter 8 Other Challenging Capsulorrhexis Situations
Chapter 9 How to Use Capsule Retractors
Chapter 10 How to Insert a Capsular Tension Ring
Chapter 11 How to Implant Capsular Tension Segments
Chapter 12 How to Implant a Modified Capsular Tension Ring
Chapter 13 Vitrectomy Pearls
Chapter 14 How to Optic Capture an Intraocular Lens
Chapter 15 How to Posterior Optic Capture
Chapter 16 How to Reverse Optic Capture a Single-Piece Intraocular Lens
Chapter 17 How to Insert an Angle-Supported Anterior Chamber Intraocular Lens
Chapter 18 How to Implant an Iris Claw Artisan Intraocular Lens
Chapter 19 How to Suture an Intraocular Lens to Iris
Chapter 20 How to Perform Intrascleral Haptic Fixation of a Three-Piece IOL
Chapter 21 How to Fixate an IOL to Sclera With the Yamane Double-Needle Flanged Haptic Technique
Chapter 22 How to Suture an Intraocular Lens to Sclera
Chapter 23 How to Implant a Piggyback Intraocular Lens
Chapter 24 How to Explant an Intraocular Lens From the Capsular Bag
Chapter 25 How to Reposition an Intraocular Lens by Scleral Suturing
Chapter 26 How to Suture Iris
Chapter 27 How to Perform Goniosynechialysis
Chapter 28 How to Perform Pupilloplasty in Corectopia
Chapter 29 How to Perform an Iris Cerclage
Chapter 30 How to Insert Aniridia Implants
Chapter 31 HumanOptics and Intrascleral Haptic Fixation of a Three-Piece IOL
Chapter 32 How to Repair an Iridodialysis
Chapter 33 How to Repair a Cyclodialysis Cleft
Chapter 34 How to Prevent and Treat Malignant Glaucoma-Irido-Zonulo-Hyaloido-Vitrectomy
References
Financial Disclosures
Index