Lasers in ophthalmology : basic, diagnostic and surgical aspects : a review / editors, Franz Fankhauser, Sylwia Kwasniewska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fankhauser, Franz, 1924-

Kwasniewska, Sylwia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasers in ophthalmology.

Eye--Laser surgery.

Eye.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Kugler Publications, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is impossible to imagine ophthalmology today without lasers, so ubiquitously and thoroughly do they dominate the field. Just 25 years ago, virtually all of what we rely upon today was in its infancy. Not only were lasers new on the scene, but also computers, intraocular lenses, and microsurgical instrumentation. Intracapsular cataract extraction was the standard, and ocular imaging devices, gene therapy, and stem cells had not yet even been conceptualized. A rapid explosion of argon laser techniques occurred in the late 1970's and early 1980's, and during this time, laser iridotomy, peripheral...

Contents:

Contents; Ophthalmic laser safety; The purposes of surgery; Contact lenses for ophthalmic laser treatment; Fundamentals of optical fibers; On the application of optical fibers in ophthalmology; Laser speckle; Laser Doppler techniques in ophthalmology-Principles and applications; Principles of optical coherence tomography; From physical energy to biological effect- How retinal laser treatment affects diabetic retinopathy; High-resolution multiphoton imaging and nanosurgery of the cornea using femtosecond laser pulses; Selective absorption by melanin granules and selective cell targeting

Mechanisms of short-pulsed plasma-mediated laser ablation and disruption The first clinical application of the laser; Selective retinal pigment epithelium laser treatment-Theoretical and clinical aspects; Confocal microscopy of the eye; Imaging in ophthalmology; Different methods of refractive surgery-The advantages and risks, and their relationship to professional ethics and morals; Corneal laser surgery for refractive corrections; Selective laser trabeculoplasty; Photocoagulation, transpupillary thermotherapy and photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization

Photodynamic therapy: basic principles and mechanisms The concept and experimental validation of photodynamic therapy in neovascular structures in the eye; Photodynamic therapy: clinical status; Controversial aspects of photodynamic therapy; Lasers in diabetes; Retinal Photocoagulation with Diode Lasers; Central Serous Chorioretinopathy; Scanning Laser Polarimetry of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in the Detection and Monitoring of Glaucoma; The Glaucomatous Optic Nerve Staging System with Confocal Tomography; Principles of Photo disruption

Ultrastructual Effects of Laser Irradiation at the Anterior Chamber Angle Erbium: YAG Laser Trabecular Ablation; Laser Cyclo destructive Procedures of the Ciliary Body; Laser Uveoscleroplasty: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Experience; Transpupillary Laser Phototherapy for Retinal and Choroidal Tumors. A Rational Approach; Lasers in Intraocular Tumors; Erbium: YAG Laser Vitrectomy; Lasers in Small-Incision Cataract Surgery; Some Applications of the Neodymium: YAG Laser Operating in the Thermal and Photo disruptive Modes. Vitreolysis

The Neodymium: YAG Laser in Strabismus and Plastic Surgery of the Face. Wound Repair Hemostasis, Hemodynamics, Photodynamic Therapy, Transpupillary Thermotherapy: Controversial Aspects; Lasers in Lacrimal Surgery; Index

Notes:

Two columns to the page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610739127

9781280739125

1280739126

9789062997008

9062997007

OCLC:

182733151