PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY: INDICATION, OUTCOMES, AND COMPLICATION.

Pawann Jarwal,Partha Leuva,S.S Ganvit

doi:10.21474/ijar01/4111

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15May 2017 PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY: INDICATION, OUTCOMES, AND COMPLICATION. Pawan N. Jarwal , Parth A. Leuva and S.S. Ganvit Third year resident doctor, department of ophthalmology, ssg hospital Vadodara. Senior resident doctor, department of ophthalmology,ssg hospital Vadodara. Associate professor department of ophthalmology, ssg hospital Vadodara.

Highlights

There are around 12 million blind persons in the country
At times when severe corneal infection due to any reason jeopardize the structural integrity of eye ball and all other conservative measures fail, its penetrating keratoplasty, once again that comes to rescue[4]
Inclusion criteria:1)All the patients with visual acuity of minimum, light perception and projection of light rays in all quadrants.2)All cases with non healing corneal ulcers, recurrent corneal ulceration, perforated corneal ulcer and corneal ulcers not responding to any medical line of treatment were taken for therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty.3)All cases of leucomatous corneal opacities following any reason like trauma, ulcer, and chemical burns etc. but having at least good perception and projection of light and posterior segment anomaly ruled out on USG B-Scan.4)All case of corneal dystrophies and degeneration.5)All cases of keratoconus and ectasias

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Introduction

There are around 12 million blind persons in the country. Out of these 10% is due to corneal blindness including 2, 70,000 childhood blindness cases[1]. Visual rehabilitation with corneal transplantation may be a possibility in many of these corneal blindness cases. At times when severe corneal infection due to any reason jeopardize the structural integrity of eye ball and all other conservative measures fail, its penetrating keratoplasty, once again that comes to rescue[4]. Outcomes, including failure and complication of procedure, are well known and appear dependent on several factors i.e. recipient etiology, preoperative comorbidity and health of donor tissue. Modern day success in Corresponding Author:- Dr Pawan N.

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