A year after surgery, the patients who had undergone DSAEK showed greater cell loss compared with those who had undergone PKP, but operation and recovery time were shorter for DSAEK patients, according to the release.
Jonathan H. Lass, MD, a senior study author and professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Eye Institute, said in the release that the results showed promise for DSAEK because these transplants were less susceptible to trauma.
Demand for the newer procedure has been fueled by a faster recovery of vision and fewer activity restrictions than are necessary with the PKP procedure, according to the release.
Read Case Western Reserve University’s press release on cornea transplant surgery.
