Relationship of visual acuity and lamellar thickness in descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Woodward, Maria A ^a   Raoof Daneshvar, Duna ^a   Mian, Shahzad ^a   Shtein, Roni M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cornea; endothelial keratoplasty; Optical coherence tomography; transplantation; vision; visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CELL DENSITY; COMORBIDITY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYEBANK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84876293380     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318271fc99     Document Type: Review

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