PURPOSE To compare the measurement of contrast sensitivity at a distance in patients submitted to penetrating keratoplasty versus patients submitted to deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty for keratoconus treatment. METHODS Contrast sensitivity of fourteen subjects submitted to penetrating keratoplasty and fourteen subjects submitted to deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty have been analyzed th...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to demonstrate the publication trends of corneal transplantation in the last decade. METHODS All of the keratoplasty research articles, letters, case reports, reviews and meeting abstracts published between January 2006 and December 2015 indexed on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge were evaluated. A bibliometric filter was used to capture keratoplasty related publica...

Objective To identify preoperative clinical characteristics of patients undergoing femtosecond laser-assisted anterior lamellar keratoplasty who failed to achieve optimal postoperative visual outcomes. Methods In this single-center, retrospective case series, underwent between 2013 and 2018 were included if they required graft revision, subsequent corneal procedure, or additional visits for a k...

Endothelial keratoplasty is now favored over full-thickness penetrating keratoplasty for corneal decompensation secondary to endothelial dysfunction. Although endothelial keratoplasty has evolved as surgeons strive to improve outcomes, fewer patients than expected achieve best corrected visual acuity of 20/20 despite healthy grafts and no ocular comorbidities. Reasons for this remain unclear, w...

Endothelial keratoplasty is at present the gold standard for surgical treatment of corneal endothelial pathologies not associated with significant corneal scar. Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in improving the technology of endothelial keratoplasty techniques, such as descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty. ...

PURPOSE To report formation of corneal iron ring deposits after conductive keratoplasty. DESIGN Observational case report. METHODS Case report. RESULTS A 54-year-old woman underwent conductive keratoplasty for hyperopia. One year after conductive keratoplasty, iron ring pattern pigmentation was detected at the corneal epithelium of both eyes. CONCLUSIONS This is the first report of the ...

A 70-year-old male patient had previously underwent trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C in the left eye because of high intraocular pressure. The was needled 5 fluorouracil 2 weeks after operation. Seven days needling procedure, complained pain, redness, stinging, and decreased vision eye. Abiomicroscopic examination performed. corneoscleral infiltration area, including bleb detected at 12 clock po...

Department of Ophthalmology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang Univ Abbreviations and Acronyms: CDS 1⁄4 Cornea Donor Study; DMEK 1⁄4 Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty; DSEK 1⁄4 Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty; ECD 1⁄4 endothelial cell density; EK 1⁄4 endothelial keratoplasty; FECD 1⁄4 Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy; MCMC 1⁄4 Markov chain Monte Carlo; PACE 1⁄4 pseudo...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects on astigmatism after penetrating keratoplasty with three different suture techniques. In this prospective study, 38 eyes of 38 patients underwent penetrating keratoplasty with three suturing techniques: interrupted, single running, and double running. Topographic astigmatism was measured at 2, 6, 12, and 18 months after keratoplasty. During 1...

background: astigmatism is the leading complication in visual recovery after penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) and deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk); in this study, we evaluated the outcome of femtosecond laser arcuate keratotomy (flak) after dalk and pkp in iranian keratoconic patients. materials and methods: in this prospective interventional case series, refractive and keratometric pre...