Corneal Transplant

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Francis W. Price Jr., MD, provides an overview of upcoming developments in corneal transplant surgery.

A 54-year-old man was referred in late 2014 for a consultation for corneal transplant surgery in the left eye.

Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research has entered into an agreement to acquire SightLife, according to a press release.

Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty, Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty and pre-Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty have changed the cornea transplant game.

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

NEW ORLEANS — Children younger than 14 years of age who had partial-thickness corneal pathologies benefited long term from deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, according to a presentation.

NEW ORLEANS — With an international shortage of donor corneal tissue, a procedure that uses a patient’s own cells to repair the endothelium may be a viable alternative for transplantation, according to an expert here.

The IOTA study and a phase 2 risuteganib trial led recent cornea/external disease coverage on Healio/OSN.

LAS VEGAS — Instead of using one donor cornea for one patient, endothelial cell therapy may allow tissue from one donor to be used by as many as 100 patients, according to a study.

A new corneal transplant nomogram can predict medium- to long-term graft survival after penetrating keratoplasty, according to a speaker at the virtual American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.