A higher specular cell count density can improve placement of the corneal graft during Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty, and a well-centered graft can decrease the rate of complications.
Several factors, including patient age, donor age, patient sex, donor sex and time from death to procurement of the eye, were analyzed in a study of 94 eyes that underwent DMEK at Vance Thompson Vision in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Postoperatively, 21 eyes required a rebubble procedure and 73 did not.
Of the eyes that needed a rebubble procedure, the only factors (Read more...)
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