ORLANDO — Dehydrated corneas were noninferior to standard donor corneas for deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, according to a study.
At Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, 2025 Troutman Prize recipient Cristina Bovone, MD, said the research done by her team was based on their experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. During 2 months of complete lockdown in Italy, they could not perform surgery.
“At the same time, the eye bank had the problem to not waste so much tissue and cornea that they had in the bank,” she said. “From this starting point,