Urgent Therapeutic Keratoplasty

Therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty in keratomalacia.

Malnutrition is of special importance in infants and children in India, where secondary malnutrition due to dietetic and infective diarrhoea may lead to keratomalacia. Therapeutic keratoplasty was carried out in eight eyes in six cases of keratomalacia (Table). All the patients had a history ofdiarrhoea for 8 to I 5 days; they came from a poor socio-economic environment and were aged between 9 ...

Therapeutic keratoplasty for corneal perforation.

To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Gorovoy et al regarding the outcome of 2 patients who had secondary graft failure after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). Although the report documents the successful visual rehabilitation of the patients after late endothelial graft failure, we would like to request the clarification of several points arising from...

Therapeutic keratoplasty in Pseudomonas pyocyaneus corneal ulcers.

Sloughing virulent corneal ulcers are still very common in India. Even with the best medication they often fail to respond and in such cases the eyes are invariably lost. This is especially true in the case of ulcers caused by Pseudomonas pyocyaneus, when the clinical course is so fulminating that only a bold and timely decision can save the eye. Keratoplasty has been found to be a potent eye-s...

Therapeutic keratoplasty in fungal corneal ulcers.

Therapeutic keratoplasty using preserved corneas from keratoconus eyes.

PURPOSE To report and discuss cases of lamellar keratoplasty using corneas obtained during previous penetrating keratoplasty in keratoconus eyes. METHODS Corneal buttons were obtained from 7 keratoconus patients and stored in a preserving solution for 7-60 days (average, 32.4 days) before use. The recipient eyes comprised recurrent pterygium 3 eyes, primary pterygium 1 eye, pseudopterygium 1 ...