Wound healing process after corneal stromal thinning observed with anterior segment optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to observe the wound healing process after corneal stromal thinning by using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and a slit lamp.

Methods: Four patients with corneal stromal thinning (2 patients: corneal iron foreign bodies; 2 patients: keratitis) were included. Serial AS-OCT and slit-lamp examinations were used to follow up the progress of these patients.

Therapeutic keratoplasty for corneal perforation: clinical results and complications.

Purpose: To report the clinical results, postoperative progress, and complications after therapeutic keratoplasty for corneal perforation.

Methods: Twenty consecutive eyes (20 patients) that underwent therapeutic keratoplasty between December 2003 and May 2006 were included. The eyes were evaluated retrospectively for the cause of the corneal perforation, the type of surgical technique and intraoperative complications, anatomic cure rates, graft clarity, visual prognosis, and postoperative complications.