Yamane Technique

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

BARCELONA, Spain — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Michael Amon, MD, discusses a “saloon door” technique used during an open-sky IOL exchange, which won an award in the video competition.

TAMPA, Fla. — In a presentation from Telling It Like It Is, María H. Berrocal, MD, FASRS, uses surgical footage to showcase techniques for repositioning an IOL, including in patients with uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema syndrome.

FRANKFURT, Germany — In children’s eyes with insufficient capsular support, intrascleral IOL fixation with the Yamane technique leads to good visual outcomes and few intraoperative and postoperative complications.

ORLANDO — Using surgical videos, Steven G. Safran, MD, gives a comprehensive overview of pearls he has learned in performing the Yamane double-needle intrascleral haptic fixation technique in his presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is.