Publications by authors named "Carlo Maria Villani"
Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcomes and in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) features of keratoconus patients who underwent deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK).
Methods: DALK was performed using the big bubble technique in all the patients. If the bubble was not successful to bare the descemet membrane, a manual dissection layer-by layer was performed to expose a deep stromal plane close to the DM.
Purpose: To explore and compare the influence of optic disc size on the diagnostic accuracy of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and optic nerve head (ONH) quantitative assessment.
Design: Observational, cross-sectional evaluation of diagnostic tests.
Participants: We included 120 eyes from 50 normal subjects and 70 glaucomatous patients classified by the presence of a repeatable visual field defect for the analysis.
Purpose: To determine the epithelial phenotype in patients with a limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) after ocular surface reconstruction with autologous cultured stem cells. To correlate the epithelial phenotype with the clinical outcome.
Methods: Six eyes affected by LSCD, verified and graded by impression cytology, were treated with an autologous fibrin-cultured limbal stem cell graft.
Aims: To compare two different techniques for preparation of pre-cut lamellar corneal tissue for Descemet stripping automated keratoplasty.
Background/methods: Eight donor lenticules were created with a full pass of the microkeratome blade, which resulted in a posterior lamella and a free cap (anterior lamella off group (AL-off)). Contralateral donor lenticules were created with an incomplete pass of the microkeratome blade, which resulted in a posterior lamella and a hinged anterior cap (anterior lamella on group (AL-on)).