Mastering Phaco Chop Techniques

The most comprehensive book available on all aspects of this revolutionary technique!"Small incision cataract surgery is arguably the most gratifying and efficient procedure currentely practiced in all of medicine. Moreover, it likely yields the best cost to benefit ration of all surgical procedures....I anticipate that all cataract surgeons, and in turn their patients, will benefit from this epic work, as a result we are indebted to Dr. Garg and his co-editors."--Samuel Masket, MD, Clinical Professor, Jules Stein Institute, UCLA Center for Health Services (from the foreword)This unique textbook is dedicated to the art and science of the chop procedure. Contributors with vast experience and varied geographic practice settings offer their individual perspectives on the technique. The reader can benefit not only from the written words, but also from the a DVD containing videos of the various techniques discussed.

Section 1: Phacodynamics and Preliminary Considerations in Phaco Chop 1. Phaco Chop in Transition: An Introduction,Ashok Garg 2. Phaco Chop for the Beginners,Dewi Trini, Tarak Pujara 3. Biaxial Prechop Techniques: Avoiding the Use of Choppers and Prechoppers,Arturo Perez-Arteaga 4. Phacodynamics for Chopping,Jerome Bovet 5. Setting Your Phacomachine for Chopping,Jerome Bovet 6. Optimizing Machine Parameters for Phaco Chop Fluidics,David F. Chang 7. Optimizing Machine Parameters for Phaco Chop Ultrasound,David F. Chang 8. Update on Irrigating Choppers,Peter J. de Lint Section 2: Various Phaco Chop Techniques 9. Prechopping in MICS,Anna Walewskan Szafran, Jorge Alio 10. The Strategies to Use Horizontal and Vertical Phaco Chop,Tsung-Jen Wang, I-Jong Wang11. Bimanual Vertical Chop Technique,Mark Packer, I. Howard Fine, Richard S. Hoffman 12. Phaco Chop for CoMICS (Coaxial Microincision Cataract Surgery),Jerome Bovet 13. Phaco Chop for BiMICS (Bimanual Microincision Cataract Surgery),Jerome Bovet, Paul Alexandre Rabineau 14. New Chopping Techniques in 0.7mm Bimanual Microphaco,Keiki R. Mehta, Cyres K. Mehta 15. The Scythe Chopper Technique in Phaco: It is Simply Marvelous,Keiki R. Mehta, Cyres K. Mehta 16. Chopping Techniques in Truly Endocapsular Microincision Cataract Surgery (TECMICS),Armando Capote, Eneida de la C. Perez, Marcelino Rio 17. Separate Irrigation and Coaxial Phaco Aspiration for Cleaning the Residual Cortex,Frederic Hehn 18. Managing Suprahard Cataracts with the Anteroposterior Chop: A New Technique,Cyres K. Mehta, Keiki R. Mehta 19. Vertical Phaco Chop: Tips & Tricks,C.S. Dhull, Sumit Sachdeva 20. Quick Chop Express for Suprahard Cataracts,Mohan Rajan, Sujatha Mohan, Priye Suman Rastogi 21. Chopping in Hard Cataracts: Burst Phaco,G.L. Arun Kumar, S. Sivagnanam 22. Vejaranois Safe Phaco Chop,L. Felipe Vejarano, Alberto Vejarano, Alejandro Tello 23. Microcoaxial Phacoemulsification with Torsional Ultrasound,Gordon K.O. Chau 24. Dynamics of Nucleus Emulsification,A.K. Grover, Shaloo Bageja 25. Locomotive Cored Technique for Rapid Fast Safe Phacoemulsification,Keiki R. Mehta, Cyres K. Mehta 26. Advanced Nucleotomy Techniques,Tanuj Dada, Vijay K. Dada, Harinder S. Sethi, Munish Dhawan 27. No Anesthesia Cataract Surgery with Karate Chop Technique,Athiya Agarwal, Sunita Agarwal, Amar Agarwal, Ashok Garg 28. Phaco Chopping for all Cataract Conditions,Rohit Omprakash Section 3: Phaco Chop in Complicated Cases and Complications Management 29. Small Pupil with Phaco Chop with Malyugin Ring,Boris Malyugin 30. Managing Complications with Bimanual Microincision Cataract Surgery,Mark Packer, I. Howard Fine, Richard S. Hoffman 31. Pitfalls with the Phaco Chop Technique,Claes Feinbaum 32. Bag-in-the-Lens IOL Implantation and Pseudophakic Retinal Detachment,M.J. Tassignon, J. Van Looveren 33. Chandelier Illumination and Bimanual Vitrectomy Used to Remove a Dislocated IOL,Amar Agarwal, Soosan Jacob, Athiya Agarwal, Sunita Agarwal, Ashok Garg Section 4: Recent Advances in Phaco Chop Techniques 34. Advanced Phaco Techniques in Challenging Cataract Cases,Bojan Pajic, Brigitte Pajic Eggspuehler 35. Bimanual Sleeveless Phaco Chop Using 3-D High Definition Heads-Up Visualization,Robert J. Weinstock, Stephen M. Weinstock 36. WhiteStar Signature� Phaco System: A New Experience,Frank Joseph Goes 37. 1.8mm C-MICS Phaco Chop with Stellaris,Boris Malyugin 38. New Technologies in Bimanual Microphacoemulsification,G.M. Cavallini, C. Masini, L. Campi, A. Pupino, S. Pelloni 39. Microcoaxial Cataract Surgery State of the Art,Cyres K. M