FRANKFURT, Germany — A study evaluated the outcomes of three surgical procedures for advanced pellucid marginal degeneration, namely sliding keratoplasty, sliding keratoplasty with relaxing incisions and sector lamellar keratoplasty.
“In our 10-year experience, 89 patients were diagnosed with pellucid marginal degeneration, but only nine eyes were included in this study because they [underwent] these three types of surgery,” Matteo Mario Carlà, MD, said at the ESCRS winter meeting.
In sliding keratoplasty (SK), a crescent lamellar partial-thickness cut is performed in