[Cardona keratoprosthesis as ultima ratio (author's transl)].
In a 61-year-old patient affected with degenerative keratopathy after attacks of interstitial keratitis a Cardona keratoprosthesis was successfully implanted in the right eye after two fruitless optic corneal grafts in the left eye.
D003315:Cornea / Q000601:surgery*; D003317:Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary / Q000601:surgery*; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007635:Keratitis, Dendritic / Q000150:complications; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010969:Plastics; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
D010969:Plastics
Keratoprothese nach Cardona als Ultimo ratio