Several factors associated with early and long-term success of DSAEK

CHICAGO — Diabetic graft donors, pseudophakic/aphakic corneal edema and operative complications were the three biggest predictors of graft failure in Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty, according to a speaker here.
“DSAEK success in the early and entire postoperative period is more likely when the donor did not have diabetes, where there were no operative complications and in the longer-term postoperative period in recipients with Fuchs’ dystrophy compared to those that had pseudophakic or aphakic corneal edema,” Mark A. Terry, MD, said at the

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Several factors associated with early and long-term success of DSAEK

CHICAGO — Diabetic graft donors, pseudophakic/aphakic corneal edema and operative complications were the three biggest predictors of graft failure in Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty, according to a speaker here.
“DSAEK success in the early and entire postoperative period is more likely when the donor did not have diabetes, where there were no operative complications and in the longer-term postoperative period in recipients with Fuchs’ dystrophy compared to those that had pseudophakic or aphakic corneal edema,” Mark A. Terry, MD, said at the

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