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TWO TRIPS TO GORILLA LAND (AND THE CATARACTS OF THE CONGO) --- WITH LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS TWO TRIPS TO GORILLA LAND (AND THE CATARACTS OF THE CONGO) --- WITH LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat.

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Cataract Cataract On Risthmus, the Landing Pact was law: felines were off limits. And for ten years Tsia, the rogue guide, had tried to honor that Pact and ignore the irresistible pull of her forbidden link to the cats.

For ten years, she had hidden among the mercenaries. But now her latest mission was going awry. A crash landing was followed by one deadly mishap after another. The cougar cub Tsia had rescued from a storm refused to leave her -- even when she tried to send it away.

Tsia could save the mission -- if she deliberately broke the Landing Pact to enter the mind of the cat and command his help. But if she was found out, punishment would be the loss of her biogate, her telepathic link with the felines. Her past was about to catch up with her, and only if she faced it -- and used it -- could she hope to forge a new future...with the cats!

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Cataract: What You Need To Know Cataract: What You Need To Know Cataract is a massive problem, affecting nearly three million people in the UK. This book offers support and guidance. This book explains the nature of cataracts and the latest treatment, giving practical tips on how to prepare for an operation, recovery and post-op complications, possible co-existing eye conditions, and the question of glasses. Today's patients are faced with confusing choices when it comes to treatment, and this book would steer them and their families clearly through this.

Management of Cataracts and Glaucoma Management of Cataracts and Glaucoma For patients with both cataracts and glaucoma, the ophthalmic surgeon has a number of options to consider depending on disease states, age of the patient, and number of medications being prescribed preoperatively. Combined surgery addresses cataract and glaucoma problems simultaneously and helps to reduce the risk of an early intraocular pressure spike. Management of Cataracts and Glaucoma explores the problems faced by the ophthalmic surgeon and provides excellent advice on patient management. The authors are recognized experts in the field and address the problems and provide excellent advice on patient management.

Quality of Vision: Essential Optics for the Cataract and Refractive Surgeon Quality of Vision: Essential Optics for the Cataract and Refractive Surgeon

Good vision is more than 20/20 on a Snellen visual acuity chart. The modern ophthalmologist understands that contrast sensitivity, near and distance vision, performance under light and dark conditions, and the brain’s interpretation of input from the sensory apparatus, are all important elements in patients’ quality of vision.

In Quality of Vision: Essential Optics for the Ophthalmic Surgeon, ophthalmologist and optics expert Dr. Jack T. Holladay explores the elements of vision that lie beyond Snellen testing. He explains the “whys” behind the machinery, instruments, technology, and procedures commonly used to assess vision before and after cataract and refractive surgery. With a better understanding of these tools, ophthalmologists can deliver better vision for their cataract and refractive surgery patients.

Quality of Vision addresses:
• Measuring and treating astigmatism in corneal and IOL surgery
• The importance of correcting spherical aberration in cataract and refractive surgery
• IOL calculations after refractive surgery
• Promising approaches to the correction of presbyopia
• Other practical topics the clinician can use every day

Recognized as the leader in ophthalmic optics, Dr. Holladay incorporates practical aspects of daily practice into each chapter as he expertly explains the scientific principles, mathematical formulas, and theories behind these important issues. Additionally, Quality of Vision includes numerous color illustrations to provide visual representations of the text’s key points.

Dr. Holladay discusses what’s on everyone’s mind:
• How to take the best measurements and perform the best calculations to ensure good outcomes in cataract and refractive surgery
• How neural adaptation can improve outcomes
• How today’s excimer laser systems deliver excellent optical correction, and why tomorrow’s systems will perform even better

Quality of Vision: Essential Optics for the Ophthalmic Surgeon is the most complete and practical reference for ophthalmologists looking to increase their understanding of optical physics and their ability to deliver good vision to their patients after cataract and refractive surgery.

Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes

Even the most experienced cataract surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. Be prepared to manage unavoidable complications with Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes.

Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with over 35 of today’s cataract surgery leaders, explains all there is to know about phacoemulsification in Phaco Nightmares to help the cataract surgeon stay in control when facing unique and complicated surgical challenges.

Some Phaco Nightmare cases include:
• Subluxated cataracts
• Managing dislocated lens fragments
• Suprahard cataracts
• Posterior polar cataracts
• Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome
• Posterior capsular rupture
• Intraocular lens opacifcation
• Infectious endophthalmitis
• Miotic pupils

Additionally, cutting edge information is included inside Phaco Nightmares on how to remove dropped endocapsular rings, nuclei or IOL’s. This distinctive book and video CD-ROM will make its mark with everyone involved in cataract surgery, from the resident to the experienced phaco surgeon.

More than 300 illustrations and photographs supplement the important information presented, providing visual as well as textual references. Additional material and visual learning is achieved with an accompanying video CD-ROM with over 45 minutes of live video that demonstrates many of the techniques discussed inside the pages of Phaco Nightmares.

Video CD-ROM Includes:
• Sub 1 mm Cataract Surgery
• Cliffhanger
• Posterior Polar Cataract
• Subluxated Cataract
• Small Pupil
• Incredible Disasters

Feel competent and comfortable in the operating room, no matter what challenge comes your way with Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes by your side.

Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision Through Cataract Elimination Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision Through Cataract Elimination Unoperated cataract is the cause of millions of cases of visual impairment and blindness in poor populations throughout both the developing and the developed world. This wonderfully written volume shares the experiences of a team of surgeons who have demostrated how the surgical procedures canbe simplified and made more efficient, accessible, and far less expensive. It is a step-by-step manual to solving the problem where adequate surgeons can be trained to follow suit.

Cataracts: A Patient's Guide to Treatment Cataracts: A Patient's Guide to Treatment Providing prospective patients with an understandable account of the diagnosis and treatment of cataracts, this book thoroughly explores the issues surrounding this condition. Surgical treatment and postoperative processes are described in detail, including the risks and possible complications. The emotional side of sight loss and its effect on the patient's life is discussed. Answering questions frequently asked by individuals with cataracts, this comprehensive reference covers the causes of cataracts; prevention and treatment; intraocular lenses; deciding when cataracts should be removed; and whether cataract surgery eliminates the need for glasses.

Sight Gags: Cartoons for Eye Doctors and Their Patients Sight Gags: Cartoons for Eye Doctors and Their Patients Sight Gags takes a look into the world of vision through the eyes of an artist-turned-optometrist. This collection of 92 cartoons shows that eyeballs are not just the windows to your soul, but are also directly connected to your funny bone (it's a complicated neurological pathway, but that's another book entirely). Optometrists, ophthalmologists, opticians, and anybody with eyes will enjoy the off-the-wall humor in this book whether it be at home or in a doctor's waiting room.

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Cataracts Research Today Archive:

Volume 1 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2006)
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  Issue 3 (March)
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  Issue 5 (May)
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Volume 3 (2007)
  Issue 1 (January)
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  Issue 4 (April)
  Issue 5 (May)
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  Issue 11 (November)
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Volume 4 (2008)
  Issue 1 (January)
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  Issue 4 (April)
  Issue 5 (May)
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Volume 5 (2009)
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  Issue 4 (April)
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  Issue 6 (June)
  Issue 7 (July)
  Issue 8 (August)
  Issue 9 (September)
  Issue 10 (October)
  Issue 11 (November)
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Volume 6 (2010)
  Issue 1 (January)
  Issue 2 (February)
  Issue 3 (March)



Cataracts Books

Management of Cataracts and Glaucoma

Management of Cataracts and Glaucoma