Refractive Surgery Atlas (eBook, PDF)

Surgical techniques and complications
Redaktion: Melki, Samir A.; Chanbour, Wassef; Brenner, Jason

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book will serve first as a review of latest technology and refractive surgical procedures. The book follows a case-based approach with respective management and learning points. It serves as a visual reference encompassing not only common but also rare complications of refractive surgery. Each chapter discusses a different pathologic entity, including a summary of the most recent updates (pathophysiology, presentations, risk factors, preventions, and management) followed by pictures showing these pathologies. Pictures are combined into cases that include patient history, clinical description of the pictures, management and leaning points. The end of each chapter includes take home messages that summarizes the leaning aspects of the aforementioned cases.

Refractive Surgery Atlas is a must-have resource for all cornea and refractive surgery specialists as well as medical students, ophthalmology residents, and fellows in cornea and refractive surgery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031606618
• Artikelnr.: 71918669

Autorenporträt

Samir Melki, MD, Ph.D., completed a fellowship in Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, (Harvard Medical School) in 2000. His previous education included an MD PhD from Vanderbilt University and an Ophthalmology residency at Georgetown University. Dr. Melki founded Boston Vision in 2000, an academically-oriented practice. He joined the Cornea service at Mass Eye and Ear (MEEI) in 2007 as a part-time faculty and continues to be involved in the training of residents and fellows. Dr. Melki was the Medical Director for Ophthalmology at the UK Specialist Hospitals from 2005 till 2013 where he established and managed quality controls for about 20,000 cataract procedures.  His other teaching activities include a fellowship program at Boston Vision and a collaboration with Boston University to tutor students undergoing a Masters in Health Sciences. His clinical practice is oriented towards refractive surgery as well as cataract and corneal surgery. He has performed thousands of refractive procedures since 1998. His academic activities have led to the publication of numerous peer-reviewed articles, 4 textbooks as well as regular participation in various courses at US and international meetings. Jason Brenner, MD, started his education at Lafayette College where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in biology with a minor in medical ethics. During his time at Lafayette College, he was also a full-time collegiate athlete in rowing. After his undergrad, he attended medical school at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington D.C. He then completed his residency training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, where he was also Chief Resident. Dr. Brenner is a board-certified ophthalmologist, specializing in refractive, cataract, cornea and anterior segment surgery.  Although his primary focus is clinical, he enjoys teaching which includes the fellowship program at Boston Vision as well as the cornea fellows from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.  Dr Brenner is a lecturer, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and mentors masters students from Boston University. Wassef Chanbour, MD, FICO, completed his Cornea and Refractive surgery fellowship in a b\Boston Vision center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching institution in Boston. He joined the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor in 2022. His practice includes all patients with different medical and surgical corneal and anterior segment diseases. He treats adults and children with the most advanced surgical techniques including corneal transplants with less invasive partial-thickness procedures like DALK, DSEK and DMEK. He has also been performing corneal cross-linking for keratoconus. In addition, Dr. Chanbour performs complex anterior segment surgeries including cataract surgeries, sutured intraocular lenses, iris repair and anterior segment reconstruction. His special interests include Keratoconus, LASIK, PRK, ICL

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Surgical Techniques.- Chapter 3. Flap Related Complications.- Chapter 4. Gas Related Events in LASIK.- Chapter 5. Flap Striae.- Chapter 6. Epithelial Disease in Refractive Surgery.- Chapter 7. Epithelial Ingrowth.- Chapter 8. Corneal Haze.- Chapter 9. Infectious Keratitis.- Chapter 10. Non-infectious Keratitis.- Chapter 11. Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis.- Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Refractive Surgery Complications.- Chapter 13. Complications of SMILE Surgery.- Chapter 14. Corneal Implants.- Chapter 15. Phakic Intraocular Lens Implants.- Chapter 16. Incisional Surgeries.- Chapter 17. Topographic and Tomographic Abnormalities.- Chapter 18. Ectasia after Small-Incision Lenticule Extraction: Management and Lessons Learned (Black-Box Thinking).