Preface

**Section 3 Corneal Surgery 95**

**VI** Contents

**DSAEK, DMEK) 97**

Judith Alemán Hurtado

Chapter 8 **OCT in Lamellar Corneal Transplantation 115**

**and Refractive Surgery 133**

Achim Langenbucher

**Section 4 Cataract and Glaucoma 153**

Aydin Yildiz

Chapter 7 **Intraoperative OCT in Lamellar Corneal Transplants (DALK,**

Mehmet Cüneyt Özmen and Hüseyin Baran Özdemir

Chapter 9 **Imaging the Cornea, Anterior Chamber, and Lens in Corneal**

Chapter 10 **OCT in Glaucoma Diagnosis, Detection and Screening 155**

Chapter 11 **OCT Application Before and After Cataract Surgery 175**

Xiaogang Wang, Jing Dong, Suhua Zhang and Bin Sun

Timo Eppig, Stephanie Mäurer, Loay Daas, Berthold Seitz and

Jorge Luis Domene Hinojosa, Jorge L. Domene-Hickman and Nuria

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

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 transplant with OCT will be described.

To imagine corneas undergoing transplant or even after surgery could help to select the most appropriate procedure and to recognize early signs of any complication.

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

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

> **Michele Lanza, MD, PhD** Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Italy

**Section 1**

**Clinical Retina**

**Section 1**
