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Management of Complications in Refractive Surgery (Paperback)

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By Jorge L. Alio (Editor), Dimitri T. Azar (Editor)
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Description


The diversity of procedures that characterize modern refractive surgery makes it, both for the beginner and the experienced surgeon, necessary to have well established guidelines to face refractive complications. This lavishly illustrated guide is written by international opinion leaders with extensive experience in the practice of refractive surgery. It offers the reader practical pearls to the solution and prevention of the different complications of corneal and refractive surgery.

This book provides ophthalmic surgeons with appropriate solutions for the most frequent problems they would face in their daily practice.

Surgical complications are described and illustrated from their pathogenesis to various treatment modalities. Complications covered include: Intraoperative complications (e.g. those encountered during femtosecond laser, SMILE and LASIK, corneal refractive surgery, refractive lens exchange, and intraocular refractive procedures); early post-operative complications and late post-operative complications.

About the Author


Prof. Dr Jorge Alio has been Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology since 1987, first at the University of Alicante and since 2002 at the University Miguel Hernandez de Elche, also in Alicante, Spain.Dr. Dimitri T. Azar, is a renowned physician-scientist and expert on diseases of the cornea, and holds the position of dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

Product Details
ISBN: 9783319868899
ISBN-10: 3319868896
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: June 4th, 2019
Pages: 430
Language: English