In recent years, endothelial keratoplasty has been commonly used as an alternative to penetrating keratoplasty as a surgical treatment for corneal endothelial pathologies. The most common form of endothelial keratoplasty is Descemet membrane stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK), which involves stripping the host’s Descemet membrane and endothelium and replacing them with donor p...

purpose: to evaluate the visual outcomes and complications of deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty (dlek) for management of corneal endothelial disorders. methods: from 2003 to 2005, nine eyes of nine patients with severe bullous keratopathy due to endothelial dysfunction underwent dlek. uncorrected (ucva) and best-corrected (bcva) visual acuity were evaluated pre- and one week, 1, 3 and 6 mo...

PURPOSE To evaluate the intraoperative changes in the donor lenticule, recipient cornea, and the reduction of interface fluid thickness during Descemet's stripping and automated endothelial keratoplasty with EndoGlide™ (Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc, Vancouver, Canada) donor insertion, using intraoperative spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. METHODS Prospective observational case se...

343 The emergence of endothelial keratoplasty (EK) represents the beginning of a new era in the treatment of corneal endothelial disorders which continues to evolve. Fifteen years ago we were performing penetrating keratoplasty for Fuchs’ dystrophy and bullous keratopathy but nowadays we are performing selective replacement of the diseased endothelial layer. In recent years two techniques of EK...