Keratoplasty

A pre-Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty graft has numerous advantages over a Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty graft.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Priya Narang, MS, shares how to perform reverse four-throw pupilloplasty, which she helped develop.

SAN FRANCISCO — Although Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty is gaining popularity, Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty still has a place in challenging cases, according to an expert.

Looking back 20 years, there have been tremendous changes in how corneal transplants are performed.

VIENNA — Corneal regeneration was the topic of this year’s Binkhorst Medal Lecture at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.

Corneal transplantation for keratoconus has traditionally been performed as a full-thickness penetrating keratoplasty and generally is a very successful procedure.

In this column, we will describe a simple and novel method of performing a pupilloplasty procedure that allows adequate pupil reconstruction.

Eyes undergoing keratoplasty are often complex and may have already undergone previous surgery. In these cases, the iris may not be completely normal in shape, tone and/or structure.

It might be a completely pointless exercise to leave a large gas bubble in the eye at the end of DMEK or DSAEK surgery.

This case went south when posterior capsular rupture occurred.