Management of Complications in Refractive Surgery

Part I. Overview

1. Refractive Surgery Outcomes and Frequency of Complications
Wallace Chamon, Norma Allemann, Jorge L. Alio, Ahmed A. Abdelghany

2. Influence of Refractive Surgery Complications on Quality of Life
Konrad Pesudovs

Part II. LASIK Intraoperative Complications

3. Thin, Irregular, Buttonhole Flaps
O. Bennett Walton, Stephen G. Slade

4. Intraoperative Flap Complications in LASIK: Prevention and Management of Free Flaps
Mauro Tiveron, Jorge L. Alió

5. Management of the Distorted Flap
David R. Hardten, Adeline G. Hardten, Sophia A. Hardten

Part III. LASIK Postoperative Complications

6. Scarring
Almutez M. Gharaibeh, Eric E. Gabison, Jorge L. Alió-del Barrio, Jorge L. Alió

7. Infections After Refractive Surgery
U. Andrea Arteaga, Jose Cruz, Joelle Hallak, Dimitri Azar, Sandeep Jain

8. Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis (DLK)
David R. Hardten, Richard L. Lindstrom

9. Pressure-Induced Interlamellar Stromal Keratitis and Persistent Epithelial Defect (PED) Masquerade Syndrome
Sadeer B. Hannush, Michael W. Belin, Dimitri Azar

10. Prevention and Management of Flap Striae After LASIK
Roger F. Steinert, Jorge L. Alio del Barrio

11. Marginal Sterile Corneal Infiltrates After LASIK and Corneal Procedures
Renato Ambrósio, Ramon Hallal, Isaac Ramos, Fernando Faria-Correia

12. Melting
Jose L. Güell, Merce Morral, Daniel Elies, Oscar Gris, Javier Gaytan, Felicidad Manero

13. Dry Eye
Andre A. M. Torricelli, Jerome C. Ramos-Esteban, Steven E. Wilson

14. Post-LASIK Corneal Dysesthesia
Jorge L. Alio, Miguel A. Teus, Jorge L. Alio del Barrio, Andreas Katsanos

15. Epithelial Ingrowth
Gustavo Tamayo, Claudia Castell, Pilar Vargas

16. Corneal Ectasia
Julie M. Schallhorn, J. Bradley Randleman, R. Doyle Stulting

17. Ptosis
Pete Setabutr, Bryan Sires

Part IV. Refractive Miscalculation

18. Refractive Miscalculation with Refractive Surprise: Sphere
Arturo S. Chayet, Luis F. Torres, Javier Lopez

19. Astigmatism Surprise After Refractive Surgery
Noel Alpins, George Stamatelatos

Part V. Optical Aberrations and Corneal Irregularities

20. Causes of Higher-Order Aberrations Induction in Excimer Laser Surgery
Vikentia J. Katsanevaki, Veronica Vargas Fragoso, Jorge L. Alio

21. Night Vision Disturbances Following Refractive Surgery: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment
Sina Bidgoli, Jorge L. Alio

22. Decentration
Jonathan H. Talamo, Dimitri T. Azar

23. Corneal Irregularity Following Refractive Surgery: Causes and Therapeutic Approaches
Jorge L. Alio, Jorge L. Alio del Barrio

Part VI. Optic Nerve, Retinal and Binocular Vision

24. Optic Neuropathy and Retinal Complications After Refractive Surgery
Alice Yang Zhang, Reinaldo A. Garcia, Fernando A. Arevalo, J. Fernando Arevalo

25. Effect of Refractive Surgery on Strabismus and Binocular Vision
Bhairavi Kharod-Dholakia, Natalie A. Afshari

26. Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) Complications
Jorge L. Alio, Felipe Soria, Juan Carlos Serna-Ojeda, Enrique O. Graue-Hernández

27. Complications Related to Femtosecond Laser-Assisted LASIK
Renan F. Oliveira, Karl G. Stonecipher, Teresa S. Ignacio, Ramon C. Ghanem, Vinicius C. Ghanem, Jose Cruz, Dimitri T. Azar

Part VII. Surface Ablation: Complications

28. Complications of Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis (LASEK)
David P. S. O’Brart

29. Corneal Haze After Refractive Surgery
David Fahd, Jose Cruz, Sandeep Jain, Dimitri Azar

Part VIII. Phakic Intraocular Lens Complication

30. Complications of Anterior Chamber Angle-Supported Phakic Intraocular Lenses: Prevention and Treatment
Antonio Renna, Jorge L. Alió

31. Complications of Iris-Supported PhakicIOLs
Antonio A. P. Marinho

32. Complications of Posterior Chamber Phakic IOLs
Carlo F. Lovisolo, Roger Zaldivar

33. Retinal Detachment
Marta S. Figueroa, Andrea Govetto

34. Refractive Lens Exchange and Choroidal Neovascularisation
Emanuel Rosen

35. Complications of Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
Roberto Fernández Buenaga, Jorge L. Alio

36. Refractive Surprise After Cataract Following Corneal Refractive Surgery
Béatrice Cochener, Jean Louis Arne

Part IX. Other Refractive Surgical Procedures

37. Complications of Refractive Keratotomy
Carlo F. Lovisolo, Antonio Renna, Jorge L. Alió

38. Management Complications of Intracorneal Ring Segment Implantation
Alfredo Vega-Estrada, Jorge L. Alio

39. Corneal Inlays: Complications
M. Emilia Mulet, Jorge L. Alio

40. Complications of Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking
Antonio Renna, Jorge L. Alio

41. CXL for Post-LASIK Ectasia
George Kymionis, Konstantinos Andreanos, Konstantinos Oikonomakis, Andreas Mouchtouris, Konstantinos Droutsas

Part X. The Patient

42. Predicting the Unhappy Patient and Patient Expectations
Soraya M. R. Jonker, Nayyirih G. Tahzib, Rudy M. M. A. Nuijts

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Ophthalmology, Minimally Invasive Surgery