cataract surgery
Phaco IOL With Iris Coloboma Repair
This older patient was born with a congenital inferior iris coloboma. Cataract surgery was routine and the coloboma was restructured with an iridoplasty and suture approximation of the pupil. This patient...
Catalys Phaco Post RK Toric IOL
This patient is approximately 20 years s/p 6 incision radial keratotomy. The cataract is treated with a femtosecond laser to create a centered capsulotomy and nuclear fragmentation and softening. Corneal...
Anterior Capsule Tear: IOL Implantation In The...
Dr Gimbel demonstrates his technique of optic capture as a way to still fixation an IOL in the bag in spite of an anterior capsule tear.
CATALYS: Beautiful Bubbles
This case is of a 37 year old man with a PSC cataract. During the lens softening and fragmentation by the OptiMedica Catalys femtosecond laser system, the gas bubbles formed are trapped within the soft...
Catalys Phaco With Toric IOL And Pseudoexfoliation
This patient with high astigmatism and pseudoexfoliation desired correction of the astigmatism during cataract surgery. During the Catalys procedure the capsulotomy size is adjusted because of less than...
Blunting An Anterior Capsule Tear
Dr Gimbel describes his rationale and technique of blunting an anterior capsule tear.
Conversion Of A Can-opener Capsulotomy Using...
Dr Gimbel describes two-staged capsulorhexis 2-CCC to convert a canopener capsulotomy in an intumescent cataract.
Traumatic Cataract Extraction: Keep The Bag?...
This patient is in his late 40s with a phthisical right eye and a dense subluxed cataract in this left eye. I knew preoperatively his zonular status would be an issue, but it became apparent that significant...
White Cataract, Shallow AC And Guttata
This patient presented with a mature white cataract, shallow anterior chamber and corneal guttata. Techniques are demonstrated which permit safe removal of the cataract and stable implantation of an...