CASE REPORT
A New User-Friendly and Affordable Method in Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty
Mohammad Soleimani*, Seyed Ali Tabatabaei, Reza Mirshahi
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 242
Last Page: 246
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-12-242
DOI: 10.2174/1874364101812010242
Article History:
Received Date: 7/04/2018Revision Received Date: 21/6/2018
Acceptance Date: 6/07/2018
Electronic publication date: 29/08/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Aims:
To describe a new technique in Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK).
Materials and Methods:
In this technique, we use easily available materials (mainly a Nelaton tube) to make an injector for loading DSAEK lenticule and also easily pulling it (using a gauge 23 needle) into the eye. In this paper, we report outcomes of this technique in four cases.
Results:
Using these available instruments could easily lead to a clear postoperative cornea. Mean Endothelial Cell Density (ECD) loss at sixth postoperative month was 26%.
Conclusion:
We proposed a novel effective user-friendly and affordable technique to perform DSAEK.