CHAPTER 12 JACOB PAPERCLIP CAPSULE STABILIZER (GLUED CAPSULAR HOOK) Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB Subluxated cataracts may be iatrogenic, post-traumatic, or secondary to ocular or systemic conditions. They can be…
CHAPTER 24 REVERSE OPTIC CAPTURE Thomas A. Oetting, MS, MD Reverse optic capture can be a very useful IOL fixation technique to salvage a case when the posterior capsule is…
CHAPTER 10 CAPSULAR ANCHOR FOR SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF SUBLUXATED LENSES Ehud I. Assia, MD and Michael E. Snyder, MD Subluxation of the lens, either the natural crystalline lens or an…
CHAPTER 25 CAPSULAR MEMBRANE SUTURE FIXATION OF IOLS Howard V. Gimbel, MD, MPH and Hala Marzouk, MD There has been tremendous progress in cataract surgery since intraocular lens (IOL) implantation…
CHAPTER 50 COMPLICATIONS OF DOUBLE-NEEDLE FLANGED INTRASCLERAL HAPTIC FIXATION Jason Jones, MD Implanting an intraocular lens (IOL) in the absence of capsule support is complex surgery with many different…
CHAPTER 5 HENDERSON CAPSULAR TENSION RING Brett P. Bielory, MD and Bonnie An Henderson, MD Background (Capsular Tension Ring Modifications) Capsular tension rings (CTRs) are curvilinear, horseshoe-shaped, polymethylmethacrylate or silicone…
CHAPTER 20 POSTERIOR CAPSULORRHEXIS TO PREVENT OR MANAGE IOL COMPLICATIONS Howard V. Gimbel, MD, MPH and Hala Marzouk, MD Posterior continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis (PCCC) is a technique that uses the…
CHAPTER 9 CAPSULAR TENSION SEGMENT TECHNIQUE FOR IOL FIXATION AND CENTRATION Seng-Ei Ti, FRCS(Ed), MMed(S’pore) and Soon-Phaik Chee, FRCOphth, FRCS(G), FRCS(Ed), MMed(S’pore) Subluxated intraocular lenses (IOLs) may occur as an…
CHAPTER 60 IOL POWER CALCULATION WITH SULCUS OR NONCAPSULAR FIXATION Warren E. Hill, MD, FACS The most common scenario where standard capsular fixation is not possible follows a large,…
CHAPTER 2 CAPSULAR TENSION RING IMPLANTATION AND RATIONALE Lisa Brothers Arbisser, MD Capsular tension rings (CTRs) are devices intended for implantation into the capsular bag of the crystalline lens for…
