Near complete visual recovery and refractive stability in modern corneal transplantation: Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK)

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-21

  van Dijk, Korine ^a   Ham, Lisanne ^a   Tse, Win Hou W ^a   Liarakos, Vasilios S ^a   Quilendrino, Ruth ^a   Yeh, Ru Yin ^a   Melles, Gerrit R J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bullous keratopathy; Corneal transplantation; Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK); Fuchs endothelial dystrophy; Posterior lamellar keratoplasty; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA INFILTRATE; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GRAFT DETACHMENT; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; KERATOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA MACULA HOLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84871001540     PISSN: 13670484     EISSN: 14765411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clae.2012.10.066     Document Type: Article

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