EyeWorld India March 2014 Issue

Letter from the Editor 3
Table of contents 4
Phaco & Vitrectomy 8
Doing the two-step: Combined phacoemulsifi cation and pars plana vitrectomy 8
Limbal, pars plana approaches useful in complicated cataract cases 12
Phaco in post-vitrectomy cases 14
Using triamcinolone in the anterior chamber 18
Cataract/ IOL 21
Can femtosecond lasers live up to the hype? 21
Is this IOL centered? Angle kappa and multifocal IOLs 25
Back to the future: Ultrasound gets replaced by laser, again 26
Take it to the limit: A surgical training cataract dilemma 28
Posterior corneal astigmatism’s role increasingly recognized 32
Toric IOL properties 36
Refractive 39
Raindrop corneal inlay shows promise for all degrees of vision correction 39
Quality of vision – comparison between ReLEx SMILE and Femto LASIK 40
Cornea 42
Pre Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty (PDEK): A novel method of endothelial transplantation 42
Postoperative management of corneal crosslinking patients 44
Devices 48
Diode lasers not just for endstage treatments 48
Pharma focus 50
Setting cataract sights on Omidria™ 50

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