Post-operative Management
Fig. 8.1 Corneal vascularisation with graft failure secondary to graft rejection. Vascularisation of the recipient corneal bed is the most significant single risk factor for graft failure on multivariate analysis…
Technology: Femtosecond Laser in Keratoplasty
Platform Company Docking system Repetition rate Approximate energy pulse IntraLase iFS Abbott Medical Optics, USA Flat applanation 60–150 kHz 1000 nj LDV Z6 Ziemer, Switzerland Flat applanation 5 MHz <…
Post-keratoplasty Astigmatism
Manufacturer Material Power range (D) IOL Artisan® Ophtec, the Netherlands PMMA Sph. −23.0 to (+7.5) Cyl. ±1 to (±7.5) ICL™ Staar Surgical, USA Collamer Sph. −3.0 to (−23.0) Cyl….
Anterior Lamellar Surgery
Fig. 5.1 Classification of anterior lamellar keratoplasty Superficial Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty Automated Lamellar Therapeutic Keratoplasty (ALTK) Purpose and Indication The purpose of the automated lamellar therapeutic keratoplasty (ALTK) is visual…
Developments in Corneal Banking
Fig. 3.1 Human corneal endothelium. (a) Regular pattern of the corneal endothelium without any trypan blue-positive cells and (b) completely damaged corneal endothelium with large area of trypan blue-positive cells…
Immunology of Keratoplasty
Authors References n HLA loci Evidence level Remarks Hoffmann et al. [19] 20 A, B/DR II Beneficial Boisjoly et al. [11] 438 A, B II Beneficial CCTS [38] 419 A,…
The History of Corneal Transplantation
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Jesper Hjortdal (ed.)Corneal Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-24052-7_1 1. The History of Corneal Transplantation Gabriël van Rij1 and Bart T. H. van Dooren2 (1) Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2) Department of Ophthalmology, Amphia Hospital,…
Biomechanical Instrumentation in Refractive Surgery
Fig. 6.1 Loading condition for tonometry Several years ago, the tonometry has been reviewed due to some difficulties detected on its fundamentals: design of the equipment, theory behind its development,…
Biomechanics of Incisional Surgery
Fig. 3.1 The dioptric plot is color-coded so that steep and flat areas on the cornea can be easily visualized. An eye with irregular astigmatism is shown The corneal structural…
Biomechanics of Subtractive Surgery: From ALK to LASIK
Fig. 4.1 Individual lamella showing orientation of the collagen fibrils We then postulate that a strain energy density W for an individual lamella takes the form [4] where C is…
