purpose: to evaluate the effect of posterior residual stroma on visual function after unsuccessful anwar's deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk). methoods: in this parallel historical cohort, visual acuity and refractive status were evaluated after descemetic dalk (group 1) and compared with those of pre-descemetic dalk (group 2). results: one hundred and ten keratoconic eyes were enr...

Background: Keratoconus is a progressive, non-inflammatory corneal ectasia with central thinning. The aim of this work was to evaluate intra and post-operative complications final visual outcome deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK).Methods: This prospective cohort interventional study carried out on 20 patients aged from 65 years old superficial stromal opacities based clinical examinatio...

purpose: to compare clinical outcomes of two methods of corneal transplantation, penetrating keratoplasty (pk) versus lamellar keratoplasty (lk), in patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk). methods: in this retrospective, comparative, interventional case series, 78 eyes of 55 victims of chemical warfare with delayed-onset mustard gas keratopathy who underwent pk or lk were enrol...