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When a Descemetocele Rescues 2 Eyes
April 2018
Meeting: 2018 Annual Meeting
Presenter: Mohammad Soleimani, MD
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In this video, we are showing a technique for deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) in a patient with descemetocele and saving the donor`s descemet for an other patient with fuchs endothelial dystrophy and cataract (combined phacoemulsification and descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK)) who was operated in the next day (the day after DALK for descemetocele).
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This film was submitted to the 36th Annual ASCRS Film Festival within the 2018 ASCRS ASOA Annual Meeting. 

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