Abstract
Any surgery has some potential complications. Awareness of these can help to develop strategies to avoid them or – if they happen – to react appropriately. If the surgeon is aware of potential complications, and ways to mitigate them or recover from them, it is easy to react quickly during and after surgery. Moreover, relative to LASIK or Femto-LASIK, the SMILE procedure requires more surgical dexterity and more skill. This can lead to complications from which it is not easy to recover. In the present chapter we give a short overview of the hitherto known complications and our subjective opinion on their management. It is obvious that despite our best efforts, this chapter cannot raise a claim to cover all the complications or to give the best possible solutions. Rather, it should be treated as a useful guide and starting point.
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Video 10.1
Flap creation after suction loss during posterior lenticule pass (MPEG 1 kb)
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Repeat SMILE after suction loss during posterior lenticule pass (MPEG 1 kb)
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Suction loss during anterior lenticule pass (MPEG 1 kb)
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Suction loss just before final incision pass (MPEG 1 kb)
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SMILE rescue with atraumatic hook (MPEG 1 kb)
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SMILE rescue with atraumatic rake (MPEG 1 kb)
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SMILE rescue with atraumatic wedge (MPEG 1 kb)
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Opening a FLAP for “Circle” enhancements (MPEG 1 kb)
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Shah, R. (2015). Complications After SMILE and Its Management Including Re-treatment Techniques. In: Sekundo, W. (eds) Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18530-9_10
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