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Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
During pandemic, eye banks worldwide faced drastic reduction of corneal retrieval. Since precut tissues are uncommon in India, the onus is on corneal surgeons to maximize the donor corneal usage. The stumbling block making the stromal part unusable in the graft preparation of the Descemet membrane e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35225570 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2252_21 |
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author | Narayanan, Niveditha Dubey, Amber |
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description | During pandemic, eye banks worldwide faced drastic reduction of corneal retrieval. Since precut tissues are uncommon in India, the onus is on corneal surgeons to maximize the donor corneal usage. The stumbling block making the stromal part unusable in the graft preparation of the Descemet membrane endothelial Keratoplasty is the stromal window creation to place the orientation mark on the stromal side of the folded graft. To overcome this, we simply marked directly on the folded Descemet graft, after partly stripping it from the donor cornea. Then, we unfolded, punched, and created two grafts after completely stripping it, retaining the Descemet part for the endothelial Keratoplasty and the stromal part for lamellar Keratoplasty. Initially, we used a special F marker, and later we marked an L using just a spatula. This simple technique needing no extra donor tissue or instrumentation maximizes the tissue utility with proper patient selection. |
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spelling | pubmed-91145812022-05-19 Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty Narayanan, Niveditha Dubey, Amber Indian J Ophthalmol Surgical Technique During pandemic, eye banks worldwide faced drastic reduction of corneal retrieval. Since precut tissues are uncommon in India, the onus is on corneal surgeons to maximize the donor corneal usage. The stumbling block making the stromal part unusable in the graft preparation of the Descemet membrane endothelial Keratoplasty is the stromal window creation to place the orientation mark on the stromal side of the folded graft. To overcome this, we simply marked directly on the folded Descemet graft, after partly stripping it from the donor cornea. Then, we unfolded, punched, and created two grafts after completely stripping it, retaining the Descemet part for the endothelial Keratoplasty and the stromal part for lamellar Keratoplasty. Initially, we used a special F marker, and later we marked an L using just a spatula. This simple technique needing no extra donor tissue or instrumentation maximizes the tissue utility with proper patient selection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-03 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9114581/ /pubmed/35225570 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2252_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Surgical Technique Narayanan, Niveditha Dubey, Amber Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
title | Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
title_full | Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
title_fullStr | Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
title_full_unstemmed | Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
title_short | Resource maximization during COVID-19 crunch – A novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
title_sort | resource maximization during covid-19 crunch – a novel graft marking technique to use one cornea for two recipients for either descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty or deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty |
topic | Surgical Technique |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35225570 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2252_21 |
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