Risk of corneal transplant rejection significantly reduced with Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 536-540

  Anshu, Arundhati ^a,b   Price, Marianne O ^a   Price Jr , Francis W ^b  

^a Lautert)   (United States)

^b PRICE VISION GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE PLUS TOBRAMYCIN; FLUOROMETHOLONE; LOTEPREDNOL ETABONATE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL TRANSPLANT REJECTION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84857914092     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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