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Endothelial Keratoplasty

Ophthalmology, 2010
Endothelial keratoplasty (EK) is a new surgical method in treatment of corneal endothelial keratopathy, which retains healthy portions of a patient's cornea while replacing diseased endothelium with healthy donor tissue. In the past decade EK has been used increasingly and has shown better results over standard penetrating keratoplasty.
Ioannis Athanasiadis, Anant Sharma
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Endothelial keratoplasty versus penetrating keratoplasty for Fuchs endothelial dystrophy

2011
Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED), first described by Ernst Fuchsis in 1910, is a condition in which there is premature degeneration of corneal endothelial cells. When the number of endothelial cells is reduced to a significant degree fluid begins to accumulate within the cornea.
Mayank A, Nanavaty, Alex J, Shortt
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Endothelial keratoplasty – a review

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2010
AbstractFrom its inception over a century ago, penetrating keratoplasty grew to become the most common and most successful form of solid tissue transplantation. Yet clinicians have long recognized the limitations of full‐thickness corneal transplants, including prolonged visual rehabilitation, unpredictable refractive changes, susceptibility to ocular ...
Marianne O, Price, Francis W, Price
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