Keratoconus & keratoectasia: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

Over the recent years, keratoconus and keratoectasis have become increasingly important diseases in ophthalmic practice due to the increasing number of keratorefractive surgery cases and the availability of new treatment modalities other than corneal transplantation. For both the genetic form of the disease (keratoconus) and the acquired form (keratoectasia), new modalities of diagnosis and treatments have become available, enabling physicians to treat these two ecstatic corneal diseases earlier and effectively, delaying or even avoiding major surgeries such as corneal transplantation. This book is a concise, well-illustrated and clinically indispensable guide for treating these two important corneal diseases.

Anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology / Ashkan M. Abbey and Sonia H. Yoo -- Clinical biomechanics and the ocular response analyzer in ectatic disease / William J. Dupps Jr., Marcella Q. Salomāo, Renato Ambrósio Jr. -- Clinical characteristics of keratoconus / Stephen S. Khachikian and Michael W. Belin -- Clinical features of keratoectasia / J. Bradley Randleman -- Keratoectasia : preoperative risk factors and medical and legal considerations / J. Bradley Randleman -- Topography in the diagnosis of keratoconus and keratoectasia / Steven D. Klyce -- Posterior corneal changes / Dora Sztipanovits and Ming Wang -- Corneal evaluation using the artemis VHF digital ultrasound epithelial thickness profiles / Dan Z. Reinstein, Timothy J. Archer, and Marine Gobbe -- Studies of wavefront aberrometry in corneal ectasia / Thomas J. Dingle [and others].

Infrared photorefractive screening / Ying-Ling Ann Chen [and others] -- Assessment of visual performance in keratoconus / Konrad Pesudovs -- Non-surgical treatment of keratoconus using contact lenses / Shawna L. Hill -- Penetrating and lamellar keratoplasty techniques / Soosan Jacob [and others] -- Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy …