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Moderate vision gains after lamellar keratoplasty over long-term

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CHANDIGARH, India — Over the long-term, vision gain after lamellar keratoplasty remains moderate, results of a long-term study suggest.

Jagjit S. Saini, MD, and colleagues here at the Advanced Eye Center retrospectively reviewed the charts of 130 eyes that underwent optical partial thickness lamellar keratoplasty over a 22-year period. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 174 months.

Of the eyes, 93% of the grafts remained transparent. One hundred eyes had 6/60 or less preoperatively. Twenty eyes had vision worse than 6/60 postoperatively. Mean best-corrected visual acuity (VA) postop was 0.58; 22 eyes had a postop VA of better than 6/12. Complications were minor, and included presumed rejection, nonhealing epithelial defect and graft infection.

The study is published in the February issue of Cornea.