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Easy to use format with clear guidance on each topic
Recent advances summarized in a succinct style
Relevant to everyday clinical and surgical practice
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a practical guide to the most recent advances in the diagnostic management of corneal ectasia. Clear, concise chapters address new standardized nomograms of treatment of early progressive ectasia, new epithelium on future crosslinking with and without oxygen supplement, customized protocols, laser assisted corneal regularization protocols and the new femtolaser assisted lamellar corneal transplant. Clinicians and surgeons seeking a go-to guide on the topic of corneal ectasia will find this book to be an essential resource for the latest developments and predicted future trends in the field.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cosimo Mazzotta MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurosciences at the University of Siena, Consultant at the Anterior Segment Surgery Service, Ophthalmology Unit, Alta Val d’Elsa Hospital in Campostaggia Siena and Casentino Hospital in Bibbiena, Arezzo. He is Head and Founder of the Siena Crosslinking Center, Italy.
Dr. Mazzotta is an International Pioneer of Crosslinking who introduced the CXL therapy in Italy, developing many basic and advanced crosslinking protocols. He was awarded at ESCRS 2019 in Paris with the "Keratoconus Joseph Colin Prize" for his standardized treatment M nomogram for all thickness and thin ectatic corneas. Currently he is developing new enhanced accelerated Epi-on CXL protocols, new accelerated crosslinking (ACXL), excimer laser assisted ray-tracing guided central corneal regularization (CCR) with customized crosslinking based on stromal gradient map (SPG-CXL) and the crosslinking assisted donor-recipient deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DRXL-DALK).
Ashraf Armia, MD, MSc., FRCS (Glasgow), FACS., is a Consultant Eye Surgeon at Watany Eye Hospital (WEH), Cairo, Egypt and a shareholder at the same hospital. He is part of the Watany Research and Development Centre (WRDC), Cairo, Egypt. He is the CEO of AshrafArmiaEyeClinic, and CEO of Armia’s Ophthalmology Training Observership Academy AOTOA. Founder of Global Education and Research Society Of Ophthalmology GERSO.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Keratoconus
Book Subtitle: Current and Future State-of-the-Art
Editors: Ashraf Armia, Cosimo Mazzotta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84506-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84505-6Published: 21 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84508-7Published: 22 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84506-3Published: 20 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 250
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology