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Publication Exclusive: DMEK will eventually show superiority in hands of expert surgeons
The Eye Bank Association of America was founded in 1961 with 25 member eye banks. Today, 78 member eye banks harvest approximately 120,000 corneas per year in a high-quality, highly regulated and expensive undertaking. With this network of eye banks and modern transportation capability, along with advanced corneal preservation media that sustain endothelial viability for up to 14 days, corneal transplantation, at least in the U.S., is now an elective procedure. The days of waiting lists and weekend emergency transplants are long gone.