A polymer film implant attached to the posterior corneal surface can treat corneal edema secondary to endothelial dysfunction and may be an alternative to endothelial keratoplasty.
“I started using it 2 years ago in two patients who were desperate cases of bullous keratopathy. They had had Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty and re-DMEK, and there was essentially nothing else we could do. The implant reduced the cornea from 700 µm to 800 µm down to 500 µm, took the pain away, and after 2 years, it is beautifully stable in its place,” Gerd Auffarth,