CRST's Virtual Textbook of Cataract Surgery. 
David F. Chang, MD, Editor

Strategies for Complicated Cases


Chapter 1. Complicated Cases Overview

Jan 04 / Stratifying Cataract Patients.
Mohammed Muhtaseb, BSc, MBBs, MRCOphth, Usmle

Chapter 2. OVD/Viscoelastic Choices

Jul 02 / Surgical Success With Healon5.
Robert M. Kershner, MD, FACS

Apr 02 / Using Air to Remove Residual Viscoelastic.
By Steven H. Dewey, MD

Mar 02 / Viscoelastic Choice.
Steven H. Dewey, MD; Satish Modi, MD; Douglas A. Katsev, MD; and Douglas K. Grayson, MD

Chapter 3. Crowded Anterior Chamber

Apr. 05 / Shallow Anterior Chamber
By William J. Fishkind, MD, FACS

Jun 02 / Cataract Challenge. High Hyperopia With a Shallowing Chamber.
By Mitchell Gossman, MD

Jun 02 / Surgery With a Shallow Anterior Chamber.
By Rosa Braga-Mele MD, FRCSC
 

Chapter 4. High Myopia

Apr. 05 / Lens-Iris Diaphragm Retropulsion Syndrome
By Robert J. Cionni, MD

Feb 02 / Cataract Challenge. Rare Extreme Myopia. 
Harry Grabow, MD, FACS

Mar 04 / Challenging Cases. Refractive Lens Exchange for High Myopia.
Mark Packer, MD

Jun 03 / Cataract Challenge. Unilateral Cataract With History of Trauma.
George Beiko, BM, BCh, FRCSC

 

Chapter 5. Small-Pupil Management

Apr. 05 / The Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome
By David F. Chang, MD

Mar 02 The Small Pupil and Compromised Zonule.
Howard Fine, MD; Mark Packer, MD; and Richard S. Hoffman, MD

May 04 / Cataract Challenging Case. Surgery in a Small Pupil.
Robert M. Kershner, MD, MS, FACS

Jan 04 / Cataract Challenging Case. Cataract Associated With Severe Uveitis.
Joel K. Shugar, MD, MSEE

Chapter 6. Capsular Dye

Mar. 05 / Focus on Capsular Staining Trypan Blue Versus Indocyanine Green
By David F. Chang, MD

Mar. 05 / Mixing a Viscoelastic and a Capsular Dye
By Takayuki Akahoshi, MD

Mar. 05 / Indocyanine Green and Healon5
By Mitchell C. Shultz, MD

Mar. 05 / Trypan Blue and Healon5
By Robert H. Osher, MD

Mar. 05 / Retrospective on Staining With Trypan Blue
By Minas Coroneo, MD, MS, MSc, FRACS, FRANZCO

Mar. 05 / Bringing Trypan Blue to Market
By Gillian McDermott, Editor-in-Chief

Nov 03 / Confronting the White Cataract.
Robert H. Osher, MD, and James M. Osher, MS

Nov 01 / Update on VisionBlue.
Amy Oravec, Managing Editor

Chapter 7. Cataracts With Iris Defects

May 04 / Iris Prosthesis/IOL Implantation.
Kenneth J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS

Jul 03 / Cataract Challenge. Congenital Cataract With Sectoral Iridectomy.
Marcílio G. Barros, MD, and Robert H. Osher, MD

Chapter 8. Polar Cataract

Apr 05 / Approaches to a Posterior Polar Cataract
By Abhay R. Vasavada, MBBS, MS, FRCS, and Shetal M. Raj, MBBS, MS

Sept 03 / Cataract Challenging Case. A Case for Routine Phacoemulsification?
Parag A. Majmudar, MD

 

Chapter 9. Traumatic Cataract

Apr 05 / Weak Zonules
By Robert H. Osher, MD

Jun 04 / Surgical Management of the Traumatic Cataract.
Peter A. Zakrzewski, MD, And Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC

Nov/Dec 03 / Cataract Challenge. Cataract From a Paintball Injury.
Lisa Brothers Arbisser, MD

Jun 03 / Cataract Challenge. Unilateral Cataract With History of Trauma.
George Beiko, BM, BCh, FRCSC

May 03 / Managing a Traumatic Cataract With Vitreous Prolapse.
Tal Raviv, MD

Feb 03 / Cataract Challenge. Absent Superior Zonules.
Robert J. Arleo, MD

Jan 03 / Cataract Challenge. Traumatic Iris Coloboma.
Steven B. Siepser, MD, FACS, and Michael Young, COA

Mar 02 / Cataract Challenge. Sever Blunt Trauma.
Alan Crandall, MD

Chapter 10. Capsular Tension Rings/Capsular Retractors

Mar. 05 / Zonular Instability
By Tania Paul, BSc, and Rosa Braga-Mele, MD, MEd, FRCSC

Jan 04 / The CTR’s US Debut.
Robert H. Osher, MD

Jan 04 / Implanting the Capsular Tension Ring.
Howard V. Gimbel, MD, MPH, FRCSC, AOE, FACS, CABES

Jan 04 / The Capsular Tension Ring: Indications for Use.
I. Howard Fine, MD

Jan 04 / Capsular Tension Rings Versus Capsule Retractors.
David F. Chang, MD

Jan 04 / Rings Versus Segments.
Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC

Jan 04 / Capsular Tension Rings and Pseudoexfoliation.
Alan S. Crandall, MD

Feb 04 / Peer Review. Capsular Tension Rings.
Ming Wang, MD, PhD; Tracy Swartz, OD, MS. Panel Members: Helen Abdelmalak, OD; Y. Ralph Chu, MD; Arun Gulani, MD; Walid Haddad, MD; Paul Karpecki, OD; and Jay Pepose, MD. Reviewer: Walid Haddad, MD

Chapter 1. Iris Prolapse

Apr. 05 / The Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome
By David F. Chang, MD

Chapter 2. Positive Pressure

Chapter 3. Fluid Misdirection Syndrome

Apr. 05 / Shallow Anterior Chamber
By William J. Fishkind, MD, FACS

Chapter 4. Posterior Capsular Rupture and Vitreous Loss

Apr. 05 / Triamcinolone-Assisted Anterior Vitrectomy
By Scott E. Burk, MD, PhD; Andrea P. Da Mata, MD;
Robert H. Osher, MD; and Robert J. Cionni, MD

Apr. 05 / Point/Counterpoint: Should Anterior Segment
Surgeons Perform Pars Plana Anterior Vitrectomy?
By Louis D. “Skip” Nichamin, MD, and J. Michael Jumper, MD


Chapter 5. Dropped Nucleus

Apr. 05 / Intraoperative Capsular Block Syndrome
By Kensaku Miyake, MD

Chapter 6. IOL Selection for the week or Abnormal Capsular Bag

Chapter 7. Cataract Complications Management: Case Reports

Chapter 8. Overview

Apr. 05 / Weak Zonules
By Robert H. Osher, MD

Apr. 05 / Lens-Iris Diaphragm Retropulsion Syndrome
By Robert J. Cionni, MD

Apr. 05 / Complications of Bimanual Microincisional Phacoemulsification
By Mark Packer, MD, FACS; I. Howard Fine, MD; and Richard S. Hoffman, MD