Microsurgical treatment of Mooren's corneal ulcer.
This study evaluated the effect of microsurgery of lamellar keratoplasty (LKP) on Mooren's corneal ulcer. The surgical effect, postoperative astigmatism, postoperative vision, postoperative ulcer recurrence, and surgical complications of 2 groups of consecutive Mooren's ulcer inpatients treated respectively by non-microsurgery of LKP and microsurgery of LKP were analyzed. There were significant differences of the effect, postoperative astigmatism, postoperative vision, postoperative ulcer recurrence, and surgical complications between the 2 groups. The effect and postoperative vision of the microsurgery-treated group were better than those of the non-microsurgery-treated group. The postoperative astigmatism, postoperative ulcer recurrence, and surgical complications of the microsurgery-treated group were less than those of the non-microsurgery-treated group. Microsurgery of LKP of Mooren's corneal ulcer can greatly improve the cure rate of the disease and postoperative vision, and reduce surgical complication and postoperative ulcer recurrence.
Xie
Hanping
H
Eye Center, SouthWestem Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. Xiehanping@163.net
Chen
Jiaqi
J
Wang
Zhen
Z
Yang
Bing
B
Gong
Xiangming
X
Feng
Chunmao
C
Chen
Longshan
L
Lin
Yuesheng
Y
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011336:Probability; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity