WASHINGTON — The best candidates for corneal tissue addition keratoplasty fit certain topographical and visual criteria, according to a speaker at Cornea Day at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.
Steven Greenstein, MD, of the Cornea & Laser Eye Institute, said surgeons initially performed corneal tissue addition keratoplasty (CTAK, CorneaGen) as a lamellar procedure, but it has transformed into a more personalized procedure.
“We moved to a more visual-sparing technique,” he said. “Originally, we were putting full circumferential inlays into the cornea and