Endothelial keratoplasty is now favored over full-thickness penetrating keratoplasty for corneal decompensation secondary to endothelial dysfunction. Although endothelial keratoplasty has evolved as surgeons strive to improve outcomes, fewer patients than expected achieve best corrected visual acuity of 20/20 despite healthy grafts and no ocular comorbidities. Reasons for this remain unclear, w...

Endothelial keratoplasty is at present the gold standard for surgical treatment of corneal endothelial pathologies not associated with significant corneal scar. Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in improving the technology of endothelial keratoplasty techniques, such as descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty. ...

Department of Ophthalmology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang Univ Abbreviations and Acronyms: CDS 1⁄4 Cornea Donor Study; DMEK 1⁄4 Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty; DSEK 1⁄4 Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty; ECD 1⁄4 endothelial cell density; EK 1⁄4 endothelial keratoplasty; FECD 1⁄4 Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy; MCMC 1⁄4 Markov chain Monte Carlo; PACE 1⁄4 pseudo...

purpose: to investigate the biomechanical features of transplanted corneas after penetrating keratoplasty (pk), deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk), and descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek) and compare these measurements with those of a normal group. methods: forty-five eyes of 36 patients underwent pk, 23 eyes of 21 patients received dalk using anwar’s big bubbl...

purpose : to compare the outcome of surgery and postoperative complications between using manually dissected cornea in descemet’s stripping with endothelial keratoplasty (dsek) and using eye bank automated precut cornea in descemet’s stripping with automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek) methods : forty eyes with indication of endothelial keratoplasty (ek) were included in this randomized pr...

PURPOSE To report the explantation of a detached and opaque donor disc as an alternative to secondary keratoplasty in a case of persistent graft detachment followed by spontaneous clearance of the recipient cornea after non-Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (non-DSAEK). RESULTS Four months after graft explantation, BSCVA was 0.5 and endothelial cell density (ECD) was 1,221...

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY EUROPE 23 F ull-thickness penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) has been the preferred corneal transplantation technique since the procedure was first described in 1905 by Eduard Zirm.1 Today, PKP generally results in clear corneal grafts, with a graft survival rate of up to 72% at 5 years.2 However, the procedure is frequently complicated by ...