title: Retrocorneal membrane after Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a retrocorneal membrane after Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK).
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report and review of the medical literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 73-year-old woman diagnosed with bilateral pseudophakic bullous keratopathy underwent DMEK in her left eye. Her preoperative best-spectacle-corrected visual acuity OD was 20/500 and OS was 20/500. After DMEK, graft detachment was found on the first and second postoperative days. Graft repositioning with air was performed 2 times. One month after DMEK, a membranous structure was identified behind the cornea by slit-lamp examination. The patient was applying topical levofloxacin 0.5% (Cravit; Santen, Japan) and prednisolone acetate 1% (Pred Forte; Allergan, Irvine, CA) 4 times per day. Two months after DMEK, the retrocorneal membrane disappeared, and the patient's best-corrected visual acuity OS improved to 20/40.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report the first case of retrocorneal membrane formation after DMEK surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: Hae Ri
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Yum
authors.forename: Man Soo
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Eun Chul
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003317:Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary / Q000601:surgery; D003886:Descemet Membrane / Q000473:pathology*; D057111:Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology