Eyes with severe infectious keratitis unresponsive to topical, systemic and injection treatment can benefit from lamellar surgery rather than penetrating keratoplasty, according to one specialist.
“There is a window period where instead of doing PK, it is possible to do deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, and this can offer some significant advantages,” Jodhbir S. Mehta, MD, PhD, said at the virtual EuCornea congress.
Conventionally, after everything else has failed, these eyes are treated with PK, but studies have shown poor results because a graft implanted in a highly inflamed,
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