Books By Amar Agarwal - Author

Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth, is the pioneer of phakonit, which is phaco with needle incision technology. This technique became popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS), or microphaco. He was the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7-mm tip with the technique called microphakonit. He also discovered no-anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. This technique is now called sleeveless phaco tip–assisted levitation (SPAL). The air pump, which was a simple idea of using a fish aquarium pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco, has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion like active fluidics for small incision cataract surgery. He also discovered a new refractive error called aberropia. He was also the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700-micron cataract surgery) with a 25-gauge vitrectomy in the same patient, thus having the smallest incisions pos