Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty: Different Strokes

Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) is the current preferred technique of Endothelial Keratoplasty and involves replacing only the inner endothelial cell layer, rather than the whole thickness of the cornea, as happens in a conventional full-thickness graft (ChadRostron.co.uk).

This reference is a guide to the technique of DSAEK. Beginning with an introduction to the procedure and pre-operative evaluation, the following chapters discuss in detail different surgical techniques, including pre-operative preparation, anaesthesia, the procedure, post-operative follow up and complications.

Authored by recognised specialists in Australia, Hong Kong and India, this comprehensive manual includes more than 230 full colour illustrations and radiographic images, as well as a DVD demonstrating surgical techniques.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to technique of DSAEK
• Features more than 230 full colour illustrations and radiographic images
• Includes DVD demonstrating surgical techniques

Dermot Cassidy BSc (Hons) MBBS FRANZCO
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Namrata Sharma MD DNB MNAMS
Cornea and Refractive Surgery Services, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Vishal Jhanji MD
Cornea and External Eye Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Rasik B Vajpayee MS FRCS(Edin) FRANZCO
Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi, India; Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia

Dermot Cassidy BSc (Hons) MBBS FRANZCO
Consultant Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Namrata Sharma MD DNB MNAMS
Additional Professor of Ophthalmology, Cornea and Refractive Surgery Services, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Vishal Jhanji MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Cornea and External Eye Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Rasik B Vajpayee MS FRCS(Edin) FRANZCO
Professor of Ophthalmology, Head of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Services, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia