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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 142-148 |
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Management of upside-down descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty: A case series
Ahmed Shalaby Bardan1, Mohamed B Goweida2, Hesham F El Goweini2, Christopher S Liu3
1 Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
2 Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
3 Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom; Tongdean Eye Clinic, Hove, United Kingdom
Correspondence Address:
Ahmed Shalaby Bardan
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | 4 |
DOI: 10.4103/JOCO.JOCO_102_20
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Purpose: To present the management of upside-down Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) following combined phacoemulsification with DMEK (phaco-DMEK) in cases of Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED).
Methods: This is a comparative interventional case series extracted from a prospective interventional case series (clinical outcome of DMEK combined with phacoemulsification for FED). We report five cases of upside-down DMEK. Two cases of upside-down DMEK were managed with re-orientation and the other two with repeat DMEK. The 5th case underwent an initial re-orientation and then a subsequent repeat graft. Graft re-orientation and repeat surgery were performed 9–20 days after initial phaco-DMEK. All the five cases were followed up over a 6-month period, and the following outcomes were assessed: best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity (CS), central corneal thickness, endothelial cell density (ECD), and central macular thickness.
Results: At the final 6-month postoperative follow-up, all the five cases achieved good outcomes in terms of BCVA and CS. Overall, the results were comparable to 32 control cases. One case of re-orientation and the case of re-orientation with subsequent repeat DMEK performed slightly less well than control cases in terms of postoperative ECD.
Conclusions: Re-orientation of the original DMEK scroll in cases of upside-down DMEK can be a safe and cost-effective alternative to repeat DMEK. If re-orientation does not result in corneal deturgescence, a repeat DMEK may be done subsequently.
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