Publisher's Synopsis
Presbyopia Surgery: Pearls and Pitfalls is an innovative text presented in an interview style format that systematically provides each of the surgical approaches for the treatment of presbyopia and the practical details for the clinical management of presbyopic patients.
Edited by Drs. J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith, Presbyopia Surgery brings together 23 of today’s leading surgeons to share their clinical experiences in a question and answer format. Each surgeon explains his or her areas of expertise in a highly structured survey, which is designed to elucidate the most important aspects of the surgical technique and decision-making for each surgical procedure.
Contributing surgeons include: Amar Agarwal; Georges Baikoff; Francesco Carones; D. Jackson Coleman; Elizabeth A. Davis; Angel Pineda-Fernandez; Jose Guell; James C. Hayes; Bruce W. Jackson; Herbert E. Kaufman; Michael C. Knorz; Antonio Leccisotti; Edward Manche; Shareef Mahdavi; Stefano Pintucci; Louis Probst; Ronald A. Schachar; Suni Shah; Jonathan Siems; Barrie D. Soloway; Spencer Thornton; and Gene Zdenek.
Surgical procedures discussed include:
• Lens exchange multifocal IOL
• Lens exchange accommodating IOL
• Phakic multifocal IOL
• Anterior ciliary sclerotomy
• Laser anterior ciliary sclerotomy
• Scleral expansion bands
• Conductive keratoplasty
• Intracorneal inlay
• Multifocal LASIK
• Monovision LASIK
By presenting many surgical techniques from all of approaches toward presbyopia surgery, and by having several surgeons from different backgrounds respond to the same questions independently, Presbyopia Surgery allows the reader to objectively compare the different surgical techniques and management strategies.
Topics discussed include:
• Patient selection
• Preoperative care
• Surgical techniques
• Postoperative care
• Complication management
• Leading theories of accommodation
• Marketing
Presbyopia Surgery: Pearls and Pitfalls combines detailed information from the world’s leading surgeons for presbyopia with an easy to use interview style format to make this the most complete and practical reference for ophthalmologists looking to increase their skills or their understanding of presbyopic surgery.
