NEW ORLEANS — Children younger than 14 years of age who had partial-thickness corneal pathologies benefited long term from deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, according to a presentation.
Muralidhar Ramappa, MD, and colleagues analyzed outcomes of 171 eyes of 151 patients (median age, 4.3 years) who underwent DALK between 2007 and 2021.
DALK was performed for keratoconus in 58 eyes, acquired infections in 57 eyes, corneal keloid in 15 eyes, mucopolysaccharidosis in 15 eyes, limbal dermoid in 11 eyes and other indications in 15 eyes. Manual lamellar separation was used in (Read more...)