Femtosecond laser-assisted anterior lamellar keratoplasty with suboptimal outcomes: a case series
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2021 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
Artur William Caldeira Abreu Veloso +3 more
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Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2015 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Keratoplasty services in Saudi Arabia have progressed steadily in the past few decades. We sought to identify the leading indications and types of keratoplasty performed in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia over a six-year ...
Khalid M. Al-Arfai +4 more
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Limbal stem cell transplantation: clinical results, limits, and perspectives [PDF]
, 2018 Limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) is a clinical condition characterized by damage of cornea limbal stem cells, which results in an impairment of corneal epithelium turnover and in an invasion of the cornea by the conjunctival epithelium.
Bruscolini, Alice +3 more
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Effect of corneal light scatter on vision: a review of the literature [PDF]
, 2016 The cornea is the transparent connective tissue window at the front of the eye. The physiological role of the cornea is to conduct external light into the eye, focus it, together with the lens, onto the retina, and to provide rigidity to the entire ...
MARAONE, GIORGIA +4 more
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Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK)
, 2016 DMEK has dramatically changed the way we treat endothelial dysfunction. Every week, I perform DMEK on the second eye of multiple Fuchs’ dystrophy patients after treating their first eye the week before.
F. Price
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Femtosecond Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis Treatment of Residual Refractive Error following Femtosecond Laser-Enabled Keratoplasty. [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose:To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) in the treatment of residual myopia and astigmatism following femtosecond laser-enabled keratoplasty (FLEK).
Farid, Marjan +4 more
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Evaluation of interface quality in organ-cultured lamellar corneal transplants [PDF]
, 2012 Background: With increasing numbers of lamellar keratoplasties, eye banks are challenged to deliver precut lamellar donor tissue. In Europe, the most common technique of corneal storage is organ culture which requires a deswelling process before surgical
Grüterich, Martin +7 more
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American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2019 Purpose: we report a case of late spontaneous large detachment of Descemet's membrane in recurrent pellucid marginal degeneration after penetrating keratoplasty.
Jonathan Lin +5 more
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A double masked randomised 4-week, placebo-controlled study in the USA, Thailand and Taiwan to compare the efficacy of oral valganciclovir and topical 2% ganciclovir in the treatment of cytomegalovirus anterior uveitis: study protocol. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionCytomegalovirus (CMV) anterior uveitis is a recognised cause of anterior uveitis in immunocompetent patients and is preventable cause of vision loss.
Acharya, Nisha R +13 more
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Endothelial dysfunction in a child with Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome managed with Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty using a suture pull-through techniqu [PDF]
, 2019 A 4-year-old girl with a history of Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome presenting with severe, progressive photophobia was found to have bilateral, diffuse corneal thickening and peripheral pigmentary retinopathy. She underwent Descemet stripping automated
Areaux, Raymond G., Jr. +4 more
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