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"Even the most experienced refractive surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. Be prepared to manage unavoidable and challenging complications with ""Refractive Surgery Nightmares"" by your side. Dr. Amar Agarwal explains all there is to know about refractive surgery techniques in ""Refractive Surgery Nightmares"" to help you stay in control when facing unique surgical challenges. More than 300 illustrations and clinical photographs supplement the important information presented, providing visual as well as textual references. An accompanying video CD-ROM with 60 minutes of live video techniques supplements the text. ""Refractive Surgery Nightmares"" provides surgeons with a solid understanding of preoperative examinations, surface ablation procedures, LASIK, and lens based surgeries and the tricky situations that can arise and turn into every surgeon's worst nightmare. Refractive surgery complications include: DLK and corneal infections; Topographic and wavefront aberrometry disasters; Femtosecond laser complications; Flap complications; Decentered ablations; and, Iatrogenic keratectasia."

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A copy of this book belongs in the reference library of every refractive surgery center - and, so to speak, under the pillow of every refractive surgeon. -- Prof. Thomas Neuhann, MD Chapters are concise, well-written and comprehensive. The large number of contributors serves to provide a well rounded and up-to-date perspective. There is good selection of photographs and illustrations throughout, so very little is left to the imagination when it comes to understanding the authors' point. This text is more comprehensive than its title suggests and provides an excellent primer for any refractive surgeon. In summary, Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes is a useful, comprehensive and up-to-date textbook providing an experienced approach to safe and successful refractive surgery. -- Natalie A. Afshari, MD, Durham, North Carolina, American Journal of Ophthalmology It is very clever of Amar Agarwal to have edited this volume whose selling pint is th

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Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth is the pioneer of the phakonit procedure, which is phako with needle incision technology. This technique became popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS) or microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7-mm tip with the technique called microphakonit. He has also discovered no anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The use of an air pump, which was the simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco, has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. Dr. Aga was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his four volume Textbook of Ophthalmology. He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia. He is the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700-micron cataract surgery) with a 25-gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible for cataract and vitrectomy. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Agarwal has received many awards for his work in ophthalmology most significant being the Barraquer Award and the Kelman Award. He has also written more than 33 books that have been published in various languages including English, Spanish, and Polish. In his center, he also trains doctors from all over the world on phaco, bimanual phaco, LASIK, and the retina. Dr. Agarwal was recently appointed as Professor of Ophthalmology at Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai, India.

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