Penetrating keratoplasty for pseudophakic bullous keratopathy. Visual results.
Thirty-six patients with pseudophakic bullous keratopathy had penetrating keratoplasties with one immediate graft failure and two subsequent rejections. Fifty-four percent of the patients saw 20/40 or better, and 79% saw 20/80 or better. These results are much better than reported for aphakic bullous keratopathy. Endothelial counts in the other eyes showed that 17% of these patients have unexpectedly very low cell counts, which were not appreciated on slitlamp examination and were probably a contributing factor to their corneal decompensation.
D002452:Cell Count; D003317:Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D004727:Endothelium / Q000166:cytology; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014792:Visual Acuity