Lamellar Keratoplasty in Corneal Ectasias

Malbrán, E; Ştefani, Constantin

doi:10.1159/000306705

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Advantages Of Dalk Over Pk1

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

1977

2023

Publication Types

Select...

Article4

Book3

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent7

Authors

Journals

Cited by 17 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…[1][2][3] DALK has been enhanced by lamellar air or fluid injection, customized dissection blades, viscoelastic, microkeratomes, excimer laser, and, most recently, the femtosecond laser. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] DALK has been used as an alternative to penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), especially in keratoconus and corneal scarring.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Mushroom Configuration Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty

Chan

Ritenour

Kumar

et al. 2010

Cornea

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Mushroom Configuration Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty

Chan

Ritenour

Kumar

et al. 2010

Cornea

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…65 In DALK, the recipient's own healthy endothelium is retained, eliminating the risk for endothelial rejection. The risk for late endothelial failure is also reduced in DALK.…”

Section: Advantages Of Dalk Over Pkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty for Ectatic Disease

Ramos¹,

Schor²,

Luz³

et al. 2013

International Journal of Keratoconus and Ectatic Corneal Diseases

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recently, deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) has received attention for patients with ectatic diseases not affecting the endothelium. However, it was not always so. For years, DALK was overlooked due to the difficulty in achieving good visual results, which were considered weak in comparison with the results of penetrating keratoplasty (PK). DALK was proposed to retain a patient's healthy endothelium; thereby avoiding some possible complications of PK. Preservation of the endothelium contributes to prolonged survival of the button and thus overcomes a major cause of failure after PK. DALK is now accepted as a viable alternative to PK. With advances in surgical techniques, instruments, and imaging technologies, visual results obtained with lamellar keratoplasty are equivalent to visual outcomes with PK, in addition to providing a transplant cost benefit owing to a better transplantation survival rate.

show abstract