An abnormal or inadequate capsular architecture puts eyes at risk for IOL problems and presents a number of surgical obstacles. There are literally hundreds of methods for implanting IOLs when the capsular support is weakened. However, up until now there hasn’t been a thorough compilation of the most significant surgical strategies.

This much-needed resource, Advanced IOL Fixation Techniques:Strategies for Compromised or Missing Capsular Support, offers more than 70 chapters covering the wide range of surgical methods. Many of the original innovators of the most significant technologies and processes are among the contributors. These writers explain a particular surgical procedure as well as its background, justification, and practical applications.

Editor Dr. David F. Chang is well regarded and well-known for his two best-selling cataract textbooks, Advanced Phaco Techniques and Mastering Refractive IOLs and Phaco Chop. Dr. Chang has taken on this new, important topic with associate editors Drs. Bryan S. Lee and Amar Agarwal: how to optimally place IOLs when capsular support is impaired or nonexistent.

Capsular fixation with either zonulopathy or after posterior capsule rupture is covered in Part One. Use of standard and modified capsular tension rings, capsular tension segments or anchors, sulcus fixation, posterior capsulorrhexis, anterior and backward optic capture, and capsular membrane suture fixation are among the topics covered.
We discuss noncapsular fixation in Part Two. Topics covered include intrascleral haptic fixation with the Yamane double-needle or bonded IOL procedures, anterior chamber IOLs, iris claw IOLs, and iris and transscleral suture fixing of posterior chamber IOLs.
Sliding slip knots, suture pupilloplasty, anterior vitrectomy, and IOL power estimation for noncapsular IOLs are just a few of the subjects covered in Part Three.

The majority of chapters provide thorough, step-by-step explanations of the various strategies to aid in the transfer of abilities.

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