New discovery paves way to future improvements in Descemet’s graft implantation

PARIS — New discoveries in the field of lamellar keratoplasty illuminate why endothelial grafts scroll with the Descemet’s membrane inside and endothelial cells outside.
“This scrolling pattern of the Descemet’s membrane is crucial to our DMEK and PDEK procedures. We rely on this consistent scrolling with the endothelial cells outside when we unscroll and attach the tissue to the posterior surface of the cornea,” Harminder Dua, MD, PhD, chair of ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham, U.K., said in an interview with Ocular Surgery News at the European