VIDEO: Small relaxing incisions may allow easier DMEK surgery

Mark S. Hansen, MD, and David R. Hardten, MD, demonstrate a novel technique that facilitates performance of Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty.
The technique incorporates two small relaxing incisions placed approximately 4 clock hours apart at the peripheral edge of the graft tissue, forming an area where the graft can kink, thus aiding the creation of a triangular configuration of the graft. Air can then be easily placed under the graft to bring it up onto the posterior stroma.
In this video, after the paracentesis and main incisions are made, the (Read more...)

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