Experienced DSAEK Surgeon's Transition to DMEK: Outcomes Comparing the Last 100 DSAEK Surgeries With the First 100 DMEK Surgeries Exclusively Using Previously Published Techniques.

Purpose: To compare outcomes of Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) when an experienced DSAEK surgeon transitions to DMEK while following 2 published endothelial keratoplasty surgical techniques.

Methods: This is a retrospective review of 200 eyes of 132 patients with Fuchs corneal dystrophy that underwent endothelial keratoplasty performed by one surgeon. Published, standardized techniques were followed for both DSAEK and DMEK.

Preoperative graft thickness measurements do not influence final BSCVA or speed of vision recovery after descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty.

Purpose: To evaluate the influence of preoperative graft thickness (GT) on final visual acuity and speed of vision recovery after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK).

Methods: The best spectacle-corrected acuity (BSCVA) was measured after DSAEK was performed at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months. A regression analysis was performed to determine whether GT predicted the BSCVA across each time gate.

"Ultrathin" DSAEK tissue prepared with a low-pulse energy, high-frequency femtosecond laser.

Purpose: To evaluate the endothelial cell survival and stromal bed quality when creating deep stromal cuts with a low-pulse energy, high-frequency femtosecond laser to produce "ultrathin" tissue for Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty.

Methods: Seventeen corneas were used for this study. Five corneas were cut with the laser at a depth of 420 to 500 μm to produce a tissue thickness of approximately ≤70 μm.

Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty: six-month results of the first 100 consecutive surgeries performed solo by a surgeon using 1 technique with 100% follow-up.

Purpose: To determine the outcomes and complication rates achieved by a novice cornea surgeon when performing Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) while precisely following a previously described forceps insertion technique.

Methods: Prospective, noncomparative interventional case series including 100 eyes of 74 patients with endothelial decompensation. An institutional review board approved, prospective, DSAEK series was initiated.

Central corneal thickness and measured IOP: a clinical study.

Purpose: We have attempted to document that the pachometer used in primary eye care practices will show the same corneal thickness relationship with measured intraocular pressure (mIOP) as the research studies. A second purpose of the study is to determine what role, if any, corneal thickness has on the increase in mIOP with age.

Methods: Sonogage Corneo-Gage Plus ultrasound central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements were taken on 101 white ocular hypertensive (OHT) patients with mIOP at or above 21 mmHg, as measured by Goldmann tonometry, and compared with age-matched controls with mIOP of 16 mmHg or less.