Table of Contents

Key elements in the risk evaluation.- Technology and devices involved in cataract surgery in special cases.- Managing Complications During Cataract Surgery.- The hard cataract.- Intumescent cataract and preventing the Argentinian flag sign.- Pediatric cataract.- The unstable lens in the adult patient.- IOL implantation with zonulopathy.- Cataract surgery in eyes with ocular surface problems and severe dry eye.- Cataract surgery in Steven Johnson’s and Pemphigo diseases.- Cataract surgery in keratoconus.- Cataract in cases with previous corneal graft surgery; high astigmatism.- Cataract surgery in eyes with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy.- The Posterior Polar Cataract.- Cataract surgery in the edematous partially opaque cornea and after corneal graft.- Cataract surgery in previous refractive corneal surgery cases.- Complications of phakic intraocular lenses.- Safety and Visual outcomes following phakic intraocular lens Bilensectomy.- Intra ocular lens explantation and exchange.- Cataract surgery in uveitis.- Prevention and treatment of negative and positive dysphotopsia.- Cataract surgery in the vitrectomized eye.- Combined cataract and PP vitrectomy.- Cataract surgery in high and extreme myopia.- Relative anterior microphthalmos, high hyperopia, nanophthalmos.- Relative anterior microphthalmos, high hyperopia, nanophthalmos.- Cataract surgery in aniridia.- Floppy iris syndrome.- Iris repair.- Artificial Iris.- Advanced iris repair.- Correction of severe iris defects and cases of traumatic Aniridia with Aphakia by Combined Scleral Fixated IOL and Keratopigmentation.- Cataract Surgery in the Traumatized Anterior Segment.- Traumatic Cataract.- Femtosecond laser in complex and complicated cases.- Complications of femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery.- Hard Cataract Management with Modern Extracapsular Cataract Surgery.- Dislocated IOLs.- Luxated nucleus.- The miscalculated IOL: postoperative refractive surprise.- MIGS in special cases.- EPILOGUE.

About the Author

Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, FEBOphth

VISSUM Corporation and Miguel Hernández University

Research & Development Department and Department of Cornea

Cataract, and Refractive Surgery

Alicante, Spain

Burkhard Dick, MD

Professor of Ophthalmology and Chairman, University Eye Hospital Bochum

In der Schornau 23-25

D-44892 Bochum, Germany

Robert H. Osher MD

Professor of Ophthalmology

University of Cincinnati

Medical Director Emeritus

Cincinnati Eye Institute

Founder and Editor

Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive, and Glaucoma Surgery