Visual outcomes after descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty versus descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty-comparison of specific matched pairs

Cornea

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 765-771

  Droutsas, Konstantinos ^a,b   Lazaridis, Apostolos ^a,b   Papaconstantinou, Dimitrios ^b   Brouzas, Dimitrios ^b   Moschos, Marilita M ^b   Schulze, Stephan ^a   Sekundo, Walter ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corneal transplantation; Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty; Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty; Fuchs endothelial dystrophy; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE REFRACTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTACLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; ADULT; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY; VISION DISORDERS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84962048154     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000000822     Document Type: Article

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