corneal transplantation

Corneal transplantation.

Corneal transplantation or keratoplasty has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. Penetrating keratoplasty, a procedure consisting of full-thickness replacement of the cornea, has been the dominant procedure for more than half a century, and successfully caters to most causes of corneal blindness. The adoption by specialist surgeons of newer forms of lamellar transplantation surgery, which se...

Corneal transplantation in children.

The main purpose of the study was to describe the surgical success rate and visual results of penetrating keratoplasty in children. This retrospective study included children that underwent corneal transplantation at the Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital "Sveti Duh", in the period 1994-1999. Patients' age ranged from 6 to 16 years. Twenty-five corneal transplants were performed in 2...

Evaluation of corneal transplantation.

Corneal transplantation and infectious hepatitis.

Current Trends in Corneal Transplantation

Corneal transplantation, as full-thickness transplantation, is an old surgical procedure which has been successfully performed for more than 100 years. However, in a last decade significant changes in surgical technique(s) have been implemented. The reason for such changes is the current trend to replace only the diseased part of the recipient cornea, not the whole cornea. Therefore, if the ant...

Paradigm shifts in corneal transplantation.

Conventional corneal transplantation, in the form of penetrating keratoplasty (PK), involves full-thickness replacement of the cornea, and is a highly successful procedure. However, the cornea is anatomically a multi-layered structure. Pathology may only affect individual layers of the cornea, hence selective lamellar surgical replacement of only the diseased corneal layers whilst retaining una...