Main description:

Posterior Capsular Rupture: A Practical Guide to Prevention and Management addresses a nightmare of every cataract surgeon: a posterior capsular rupture. The book details each aspect of the process, from prevention of a posterior capsular rupture to management and IOL placement.

Dr. Amar Agarwal and his contributors, leading international ophthalmic surgeons, discuss the latest techniques in easy-to-understand text and format and include more than 250 high-quality photographs that enhance reader comprehension.

Posterior Capsular Rupture: A Practical Guide to Prevention and Management presents a variety of complicated cases and complications such as posterior polar cataracts, IOL scaffold & glued IOL, sutured IOLs, management of dislocated IOLs, and corneal damage & posterior capsule rupture, to name a few. &

Additionally, a video website accompanies Posterior Capsular Rupture: A Practical Guide to Prevention and Management and allows readers to gain a better understanding of the subject. As a bonus, readers will be able to submit questions and receive clinical answers from Dr. Agarwal through the video website.

Practising ophthalmologists, residents, and post-graduate students alike will benefit from this book's clear portrayal of this difficult medical issue.

Contents:

Dedication
Acknowledgment
About the Editors
Contributing Authors
Preface
Foreword by Sadeer B. Hannush, MD

SECTION I PREVENTION OF POSTERIOR CAPSULAR RUPTURE
Chapter 1 Understanding the Phacoemulsification Machine: Instrumentation
and Techniques to Prevent and Manage Rupture of the Posterior Capsule
William J. Fishkind, MD, FACS
Chapter 2 Posterior Capsular Rupture
Dhivya Ashok Kumar, MD and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Chapter 3 Small Pupils and Intraoperative Floppy-Iris Syndrome
Boris Malyugin, MD, PhD
Chapter 4 Posterior Polar Cataracts
Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS and Shetal M. Raj, MS
Chapter 5 Subluxated Cataracts
Kevin M. Miller, MD and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
SECTION II MANAGEMENT OF POSTERIOR CAPSULAR RUPTURE
Chapter 6 Posterior Capsulorrhexis and Triamcinolone in
Posterior Capsular Rupture
Vaishali A. Vasavada, MS and Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS
Chapter 7 Technique of Anterior Vitrectomy for the Cataract Surgeon
Som Prasad, MS, FRCSEd, FACS, FRCOphth
Chapter 8 Intraocular Lens Scaffold and Glued Intraocular Lens Scaffold Techniques
Athiya Agarwal, MD, DO and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
SECTION III INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANTATION STRATEGIES IN
POSTERIOR CAPSULAR RUPTURE
Chapter 9 Iris Claw Intraocular Lens
Marko Ostovic, MD and Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO
Chapter 10 Sliding Internal Knot Technique for Late in-the-Bag
Intraocular Lens Decentration
Thomas A. Oetting, MS, MD
Chapter 11 Iris-Fixated Surgical Technique of an Acrylic Intraocular Lens
in the Absence of Capsular Support
Yassine Daoud, MD and Walter J. Stark, MD
Chapter 12 Iridal and Scleral-Sutured Intraocular Lenses
Brian C. Stagg, MD; Bryce R. Radmall, MD;
and Balamurali Krishna Ambati, MD, PhD
Chapter 13 Glued Intraocular Lens: Glued Intrascleral Haptic Fixation
of a Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens
Ashvin Agarwal, MS and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
SECTION IV SPECIAL CASES AND COMPLICATIONS OF POSTERIOR
CAPSULAR RUPTURE
Chapter 14 Femtosecond Laser Refractive Cataract Surgery and
Posterior Capsular Rupture
Zoltan Z. Nagy, MD, PhD, FEBO, DSc and
Michael Lawless, MBBS, FRANZCO, FRACS
Chapter 15 Management of Dislocated Intraocular Lenses
Garry P. Condon, MD; Clement K. Chan, MD, FACS;
and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Chapter 16 Corneal Damage and Posterior Capsular Rupture
Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, MNAMS and
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Chapter 17 Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema
J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS; Carlos F. Fernandez, MD;
and Fernando A. Arevalo, BS
Chapter 18 Postoperative Endophthalmitis
Clement K. Chan, MD, FACS
Financial Disclosures
Index