When Sir Harold Ridley implanted the first intraocular lens in 1949, he irrevocably coupled lens extraction with refractive surgery. The purpose of the implant remains essentially refractive to this day. However, we are now witnessing an unprecedented flowering of technology for pseudophakia.

Elimination of defocus and astigmatism, implantation of accommodative intraocular lenses and pseudophakic correction of higher-order aberrations require systematic preoperative evaluation and meticulous surgical technique. Surgeons must meet the challenges of understanding and implementing this new technology if they are to ride the coming demographic tidal wave of baby boomers desiring excellent vision without relying on spectacles.

Refractive Lens Surgery

• Represents a compilation of the best cutting edge practices for achieving success with refractive lens exchange

• Provides the essential information you need to succeed during the current renaissance of intraocular lens technology

• Serves as both a textbook and a reference guide to this exciting and rapidly growing segment of ophthalmology

  From mastering biometry and lens power calculations in eyes that have had prior keratorefractive surgery to learning the latest micro-incision lens extraction techniques, this book is an invaluable resource that makes sense of the myriad of new developments in this field.

  Zusammenfassung

Surgeons must meet the challenges of understanding and implementing the new technology for pseudophakia if they are to ride the coming demographic tidal wave of baby boomers desiring excellent vision without relying on spectacles. Refractive Lens Surgery represents a compilation of the best cutting edge practices for achieving success with refractive lens exchange. From mastering biometry and lens power calculations in eyes that have had prior keratorefractive surgery to learning the latest micro incision lens extraction techniques, this well known group of authors will take you step by step into the exciting new world of intraocular lens technology. Refractive Lens Surgery will serve as both a text book and a reference guide to this exciting and rapidly growing segment of ophthalmology, an invaluable resource that makes sense of the myriad new developments in this field.

Inhalt
The Crystalline Lens as a Target for Refractive Surgery.- Refractive Lens Exchange as a Refractive Surgery Modality.- Biometry for Refractive Lens Surgery.- Intraocular Lens Power Calculations: Correction of Defocus.- IOL Calculations Following Keratorefractive Surgery.- Correction of Keratometric Astigmatism: Incisional Surgery.- Correction of Keratometric Astigmatism: Staar Toric IOL Refractive Lens Surgery.- Correction of Keratometric Astigmatism: AcrySof Toric IOL.- Wavefront Technology of Spherical Aberration.- The Eyeonics Crystalens.- Presbyopia Cataract Surgery with Implantation of the Accommodative Posterior Chamber Lens 1CU.- Synchrony IOL.- Sarfarazi Elliptical Accommodative Intraocular Lens.- AcrySof ReSTOR Pseudo-accommodative IOL.- The Tecnis Multifocal IOL.- Blue-Light-Filtering Intraocular Lenses.- The Light-Adjustable Lens.- Injectable Polymer.- The Vision Membrane.- Bimanual Ultrasound Phacoemulsification.- Low-Ultrasound Microincision Cataract Surgery.- The Infiniti Vision System.- The Millennium.- The Staar Sonic Wave.- AMO Sovereign with WhiteStar Technology.- Refractive Lens Exchange in High Myopia: Weighing the Risks.- Conclusion:The Future of Refractive Lens Surgery.