Visual acuity, refractive error, and endothelial cell density six months after Descemet stripping and automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK)

Cornea

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 670-674

  Koenig, Steven B ^a,c   Covert, Douglas J ^a   Dupps Jr , William J ^b   Meisler, David M ^b  

^a EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Descemet stripping and automated endothelial keratoplasty; Endothelial cell density; Fuchs dystrophy; Posterior lamellar keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DISLOCATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPATHY; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTION INDEX; REFRACTIVE KERATOPLASTY; REOPERATION; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REOPERATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34447538252     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3180544902     Document Type: Article

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