Bimanual Phaco: Mastering the Phakonit/MICS Technique

Director of a group of eye hospitals in India, Agarwal is the pioneer of Phakonit—Phako with Needle Incision Technology—a technique begun in 1998 and popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS), or microphaco. He presents a collection of papers authored by himself and 30 international experts in cataract surgery addressing all aspects of the technique. Written for surgeons new to bimanual phaco, the coverage includes an introduction to and basics of bimanual phaco, instrumentation and machines, surgical techniques and complications, and ultrasmall incision intraocular lenses. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs and diagrams. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth is the pioneer of Phakonit—Phako with Needle Incision Technology. This technique became popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS), or microphaco. He also discovered no anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The use of an air pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco has helped prevent surge and built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and published the details in his four volume textbook of ophthalmology. His latest discovery is a new refractive error called Aberropia.

Dr. Agarwal has received many awards for his work done on bimanual phaco, the most significant being the Barraquer Award. He has also written more than 20 books that have been published in various languages—English, Spanish, and Polish.

In his center, he also trains doctors from all over the world in phaco, bimanual phaco, LASIK, and retina surgery. Dr. Amar Agarwal is the director of Dr. Agarwal's Group of Eye Hospitals. He practices at Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital in Chennai, India.