Multifocal Intraocular Lenses The Art and the Practice
This comprehensive 2nd edition will build on the highly successful first edition, providing an updated global perspective of the fundamentals of multifocal intraocular lenses. The varying outcomes, limitations, and the neuroadaptation process necessary fo
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Jorge L. Alió Joseph Pikkel Editors
Multifocal Intraocular Lenses The Art and the Practice Second Edition
Essentials in Ophthalmology Series Editor Arun D. Singh
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Jorge L. Alió • Joseph Pikkel Editors
Multifocal Intraocular Lenses The Art and the Practice Second Edition
Editors Jorge L. Alió Research & Development Department and Department of Cornea Cataract, and Refractive Surgery VISSUM Corporation and Miguel Hernández University Alicante Spain
Joseph Pikkel Department of Ophthalmology Assuta Samson Hospital Ashdod Israel Ben Gurion University School of Medicine Beer-Sheva Israel
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To our dear wives and children who follow us along the routes of medicine, encourage, and support us – the reason for all that we do and the joy of our lives, and to our patients from whom we have received the inspiration and expertise to build up the second edition of this book. Jorge L. Alió and Joseph Pikkel Alicante (Spain)/Safed (Israel) Fall 2019
Preface
In our modern world, now on the first quarter of the twenty-first century, medicine faces, more than ever before, the challenge of not only fighting diseases and saving lives but also improving quality of life. While life expectancy rises, patients’ activities remain at the same level that they were used to being young and hence their visual demands keep being high. While in previous decades older people tended to
