Contents

**Preface XI**


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Chapter 7 **Intraoperative OCT in Lamellar Corneal Transplants (DALK, DSAEK, DMEK) 97** Jorge Luis Domene Hinojosa, Jorge L. Domene-Hickman and Nuria Judith Alemán Hurtado

Preface

The 11 chapters of this book are organized to show the management of different kinds of diseases thanks to OCT. The first chapters will focus on macular disease and will illustrate the data and information that both standard and angio-OCT devices are able to provide. Physicians will be able to recognize the most significant signs of the most important macular diseases to better handle them, making both earlier diagnosis and appropriate therapies possible. Particular attention has been payed to new tools regarding the latest version of

As previously mentioned, today OCT is not just about macular disease diagnosis and man‐ agement: it is also about surgery. Other chapters will show how the OCT application in guiding macular surgery could be extremely useful in finding better results from both an anatomical and a functional point of view. Currently, this kind of approach is not universal‐ ly used but it is hard to imagine that it will not represent the gold standard in years to come. Together with macular surgery, anterior segment surgery, mostly as femtosecond laser-as‐ sisted cataract surgery, will be described, underlining the crucial role of OCT in this new approach to cataract surgery. Also the advantages of imagining corneas undergoing corneal

To imagine corneas undergoing transplant or even after surgery could help to select the

Glaucoma patients are now undergoing OCT to recognize early defects of the disease before visual field defects appear. Moreover, to study retinal nerve fiber layers in these patients is helpful especially for those who have very deep visual impairment or other problems that do not allow them to perform a reliable visual field test. Chapters related to this topic will

At the end of the book readers will have the chance to evaluate the usefulness of OCT in every ocular field and will have an idea of the new frontiers that are going to be overcome. I would like to thank all the authors and coauthors who worked hard in providing very

**Michele Lanza, MD, PhD**

Italy

Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

most appropriate procedure and to recognize early signs of any complication.

guide readers through the usefulness of OCT in evaluating glaucoma patients.

high-quality chapters, and the editorial staff who made this book possible.

OCT to guide the physician in the selection of which OCT version to buy.

transplant with OCT will be described.

