COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Glaucoma was strongly associated with higher failure rates after Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty, according to a poster presented at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
In a 7-year retrospective chart review, Jefferson Berryman, MD, and colleagues at University of California, Davis, reported an overall failure rate of 17% in 241 eyes that underwent DSAEK performed by a single surgeon; 116 of those eyes were diagnosed previously with glaucoma or ocular hypertension. DSAEK failed in 38 of the glaucomatous eyes (32.8%; P <
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