Customized Ablations
University
Vienna (ESCRS) Sep 9th, 2023
Course Director:
A.Jonh Kanellopoulos, MD
A 4-hour course and hands-on workshop on topography,wavefront & ray-tracing customized corneal ablations. Corneal and total eye diagnostics overview, custom ablation design on-site and implementation.
08:00-10:00
Cornea Diagnostics
- Introduction to current cornea diagnostics and their relative differences: Placido Topography, Scheimpflug tomography, Anterior segment OCT, LED color reflection topography.
- Corneal epithelial mapping and its clinical relevance in diagnosis and treatment
- Basic principles in employing topography data (Scheimpflug based and/or Placido-based) in the customization of an excimer corneal ablation.
- Topography astigmatism, centroid and angle kappa considerations for possible revision of the clinical refraction used in each ablation.
- Overview and case presentations with the Wavelight, Schwind and Ivis platforms.
10:00-12:00:
Customized Treatments
- Topography customized methodology for virgin myopic and hyperopic eyes. Practice hands-on on the workshop laptops.
- Topography customized methodology for irregular corneas (previously treated: RK, decentered and/or irregular ablations, as well as irregular and ectasia cases). Practice on-site, hands-on.
- Anticipating asphericity and sphere compensatory nomograms for better spherical correction and emmetropia.
- Participants will gain advance access online to over 200 cases examples (pre-op data, treatment design, treatment video, postop data and overview of successful and even problematic cases).
- Complications assessment and management.