This column is the latest article in the ongoing series “I wish I hadn’t done that.” Past submissions can be read here.
Full-thickness corneal transplants are becoming rarer in the United States, largely because of the overwhelming success of lamellar procedures, especially DSAEK and DMEK.
For these latter operations, the most feared postoperative complication might be fungal keratitis, which is usually disastrous and always necessitates immediate removal of the implanted graft.
Last year, I made the fateful decision to try a penetrating keratoplasty on a 26-year-old patient