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  • Fish Tail Technique

    Fish Tail Technique Brian Little MD, Romesh Angunawela MD

    Brian Little, MD, and Romesh Angunawela, MD, present one of the first executions of the Fish Tail Technique, an alternative to CTR injection if the leading haptic snags against the capsular bag. In this case, the iris of 93 y…

  • Completing Surgery With a Compromised Rhexis

    Completing Surgery With a Compromised Rhexis Brian Little MD

    If the capsulorhexis has been torn during cataract surgery while the nucleus is still in the bag, then you are faced with the sizeable challenge of completing surgery without the tear extending around to the posterior caps…

  • Vitreous Management in Cataract Surgery

    Vitreous Management in Cataract Surgery Bill Alyward MD, Brian Little MD

    Brian Little, MD, and Bill Alyward, MD, review the important anatomy and vitrectomy fluidics concerning vitreous management. The amount of tension on the vitreous that can cause a retinal detachment is nearly imperceptible bu…

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Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today

  • Travel the Globe on Eyetube.net

    Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today - May 2010

    Abeautiful thing about the Internet is that doctors from around the world can easily communicate with each other. For example, Eyetube.net features excellent international videos that are relevant to US eye care professionals. This month’s column highlights a few of those videos, which present challenging cases, showcase new techniques, or preview technologies that are currently on the horizon. COMPLICATED SURGERY IN ENGLANDIn a series of videos based on Cataract and Refractive Surge…

  • Teaching the Capsulorrhexis Technique

    Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today Europe - November 2008

    … realistic for the capsulorrhexis. The simulator is particularly good at helping residents learn to keep the eye centered during the capsulorrhexis, which is hard to simulate with porcine eyes. The device even allows simulation rescue manuvers, like Brian Little MD's retrieval maneuver for continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis tear-out technique. BACKING INTO CASES I think that backing into cases is a great technique to safely gain control over instruments in the anterior chamb…

  • Retrieval Maneuver for CCC Tear-Out

    Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today - October 2007

    One of the most disheartening ways to start any phaco operation is with a tear-out of the capsulorhexis. It happens to every surgeon at some point, and retrieving a tear-out is always a technical challenge that, unfortunately, is all too often unsuccessful. This article describes a simple yet highly effective technique for salvaging this situation. It works reliably even when the tear has gone out into the zonules, and it can retrieve tears that appear impossible to recover by any other means. T…

  • Strategies for Managing the Difficult Capsulorhexi…

    Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today - October 2007

    There are four general conditions that increase the risk of a radial capsulorhexis tear: poor visibility, eye movement, chamber shallowing, and increased capsular elasticity. These situations may arise either because of the ocular anatomy or due to poor surgical technique.POOR VISIBILITYA good red reflex and visibility are important in order to manipulate the flap and monitor the direction of the tear as it develops. A surgeon's delayed recognition of a peripherally escaping tear may preclude an…