The cornea is the clear layer on the front of your eye that helps focus light so you can see clearly. If it gets damaged, you might need to have it replaced. The surgeon will remove all or part of ...

Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) is the gold standard for the surgical treatment of corneal endothelial diseases. Following its introduction over the last decade, DSAEK ...

Corneal transplantation or keratoplasty is the surgical replacement of a partial or full thickness portion of the diseased cornea in a patient with a healthy donor cornea from another individual.

The rapidly growing return to lamellar keratoplasty to treat most patients who require corneal transplant surgery is nothing short of amazing. Penetrating keratoplasty has been the dominant method ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lamellar techniques have introduced a paradigm shift in corneal transplantation, especially in the United States ...

A retrospective study of 107 eyes with coexisting corneal and vitreoretinal diseases that underwent combined PKP and vitreoretinal surgery using TKP. Corneal graft clarity, intraocular pressure, and ...

Pre-descemet endothelial keratoplasty is one of the methods of endothelial keratoplasty (EK), a procedure that removes and transplants the affected layer of the cornea rather than transplanting the ...

David J. Schanzlin, MD - Cataract and Refractive Surgeon in San Diego Click here for high-resolution version SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2014) - David J. Schanzlin, MD of ...

For patients with ectatic diseases a technique that can maintain the patient's healthy endothelial layer and replace the entire anterior stromal layer with the addition of superior wound-edge healing ...

Gordon-Weiss-Schanzlin Vision Institute in San Diego announced that its eye surgeon, David J. Schanzlin, MD, recently performed the first corneal transplant during endothelial keratoplasty surgery ...