Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty

A surgical procedure or KERATOPLASTY involving selective stripping and replacement of diseased host DESCEMET MEMBRANE and CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM with a suitable and healthy donor posterior lamella. The advantage to this procedure is that the normal corneal surface of the recipient is retained, thereby avoiding corneal surface incisions and sutures.

Year introduced: 2010

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Tree Number(s): E02.095.147.725.262, E04.540.825.374.112, E04.936.580.262

MeSH Unique ID: D057111

Previous Indexing:

• Corneal Diseases (2008-2009)
• Keratoplasty (2006-2009)

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Therapeutics
Biological Therapy
Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy
Tissue Transplantation
Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
Refractive Surgical Procedures
Corneal Transplantation
Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Transplantation
Tissue Transplantation
Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty