Temporary Use of a Customized, Glued-on Hard Contact Lens Before Penetrating Keratoplasty for Descemetocele or Corneal Perforation

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging Retina - Tập 34 Số 3 - Trang 226-229 - 2003
Akira Kobayashi1, Yutaka Shirao, Yasunori Segawa, Kazuo Kawasaki, Toshiro Tanahashi, Miki Komata, Hiroko Deguchi, Kosaku Tagawa, Scheffer C.G. Tseng
1Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Ishikawa, Japan

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Abstract. Descemetocele or corneal perforation makes it difficult to perform penetrating keratoplasty (PKP). To circumvent this difficulty, a polymethylmethacrylate hard contact lens with a diameter of 4.0 mm was customized and applied to the cornea with tissue adhesive prior to PKP in three patients, one with corneal perforation and two with descemetoceles. The results showed that this modified method facilitated trephination during PKP without complications in all three patients, suggesting that it may be applicable to other similar clinical situations. [Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging 2003;34:226-229.]

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Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging Retina

Tập 34 Số 3

226-229

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