536 Index
polyglactin, 449 polyglactin 910, 478 poly(glycerol sebacate), 384
poly(glycerol-succinic acid), 423 poly(hexafluoroisopropyl methacrylate),
310 poly(hydroxyalkanoates), 488 poly-3-hydroxybutyrate, 488 poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-
hydroxyvalerate), 399 poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)
(PHEMA), 267, 282, 313, 332, 461, 496
poly-3-hydroxyhexanoate, 488 poly-3-hydroxyvalerate, 488 polyisobutylene, 312 poly(lactic acid), 382
poly(lactic acid)-based LactoSorb, 478 poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), 399 poly(lactide-co-glycolide), 225, 382, 488,
489–90 poly(L-lactic acid), 399
poly(methyl methacrylate), 3–4, 19, 21, 198, 282, 313, 384, 400, 443, 476, 497, 515
opacification and degeneration, 36–9 snowflake degeneration, 37
poly(MPC-co-MTAC), 270 poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), 228, 401 poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-butyl
methacrylate), 229 poly(N-vinylphthalimide), 515 poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone), 329, 517 polysiloxane, 273
polystyrene, 397 poly(tetrafluoroethylene), 224, 478
chemical structure, 479 polyurethanes, 486 poly(vinyl acetate), 226
poly(vinyl alcohol), 201, 226–7, 269 poly(vinyl alcohol-co-vinyl amine), 426 poly(vinylidene difluoride), 228 poly(vinylnaphthalene), 515 porosigens, 520
porous choriocapillaris, 391 porous hydroxyapatite, 448 post-enucleation socket syndrome,
438, 457
posterior capsule opacification, 20 posterior lamellar keratoplasty, 424
Presbylens, 92 presbyopia, 76, 243, 257
primary baseball implant, 459 Proclear, 268
proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), 374
proliferative vitreoretinopathy, 374 propionic succinimidyl ester plus PEG-NH2, 427
Proplast, 480
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 264, 268 PTFE-based Proplast, 489
pulsed argon-ion laser, 424 PureVision, 222, 271, 326, 328
Quad motility implant, 455 quadratic Scheffe model, 352 quasi-integrated implant, 446
radial keratotomy, 77 ranibizumab, 391 recoverin, 384 re-epithelialisation, 167–8
corneal wound healing model, 169 human tissue-engineered corneal
wound healing model, 169 macroscopic aspect of human tissue-
engineered corneal wound healing model, 170
refractive error, 75–7
alternative treatment approaches, 76–7 corneal implants, 82–99
biological tissue, 83–5 current technologies, 91–6
ideal implant characteristics, 99 impermeable synthetic materials,
85–7
implant materials, 82–3 intracorneal rings, 96–8 outcomes, 98–9
permeable synthetic materials, 87–91
refractive surgery, 77–81 ablative refractive surgery
techniques, 78–81 incisional refractive surgery
techniques, 77 refractive errors, 254, 257 refractive index, 515 regenerative medicine, 7–10