Standardized DMEK Technique: Reducing Complications Using Prestripped Tissue, Novel Glass Injector, and Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF 6) Gas

Cornea

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 845-852

  Terry, Mark A ^a   Straiko, Michael D ^a   Veldman, Peter B ^a   Talajic, Julia C ^a   Vanzyl, Cor ^a   Sales, Christopher S ^a   Mayko, Zachary M ^b  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Lions VisionGift   (United States)

Author keywords

corneal transplant; Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty; DMEK; DSAEK; DSEK; endothelial keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESTRIPPED TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DEVICES; ENDOTAMPONADE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTAMPONADE; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84937713395     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000000479     Document Type: Article

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