title: Microsurgical treatment of Mooren's corneal ulcer.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Eye Center, SouthWestem Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. Xiehanping@163.net
authors.forename: Hanping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Jiaqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiangming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Chunmao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Longshan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yuesheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: 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