Ashvin Agarwal, MD

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Ashvin Agarwal, MD, speaks about a surgical technique for the management of traumatic iridodialysis.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Ashvin Agarwal, MD, overviews his video on traumatic iridodialysis repair.

VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Ashvin Agarwal, MD, speaks about two presbyopia-correcting strategies.

SAN DIEGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Ashvin Agarwal, MD, discusses how to manage complications during SMILE surgery.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, Ashvin Agarwal, MS, gives advice on how to effectively treat difficult cases of trauma and injury in ocular surgery.

This case explains the method of performing a four-in-one combination procedure: IOL explantation, glued IOL implantation and single-pass four-throw pupilloplasty with an optical penetrating keratoplasty. The specialty of the procedure shown is that it reduces the open-sky time that one would normally employ.

This is a case of pseudophakic bullous keratopathy with a subluxated three-piece IOL. In this approach, repair with glued IOL and single-pass four-throw pupilloplasty is completed first, which lays a foundation upon which air tamponades and presses the donor PDEK graft onto the recipient host, thereby improving the results of pre-Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty surgery.

In this Healio video, Ashvin Agarwal, MD, discusses how the coronavirus has affected daily life under lockdown in Chennai, India, to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. He discusses the decisions made in the lead-up to the nationwide lockdown at the Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital system and what the future of the practice of medicine may look like after the pandemic.

This video showcases the steps involved in the surgical management of a case of persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous, or PHPV. After conjunctival peritomy and partial-thickness scleral flaps are done, capsulorrhexis is performed after injecting trypan blue dye. Removal of the soft cortical matter is done with a phacoemulsification probe.

This surgery showcases the steps involved in a complication management of coloboma cataract. The surgeon, while implanting the IOL, had a rhexis run posteriorly, and the surgeon salvages the situation by changing gears from plan A to plan B and eventually implanting a lens using the glued IOL technique and also closing the iris defect using the single-pass four-throw pupilloplasty technique. During the first part of the procedure, the surgeon also shows vitrectomy-assisted phacoemulsification, which is used to reduce positive pressure during such aqueous misdirection cases.