Real-time assessment of corneal endothelial cell damage following graft preparation and donor insertion for DMEK.

To establish a method for assessing graft viability, in-vivo, following corneal transplantation.Optimization of calcein AM fluorescence and toxicity assessment was performed in cultured human corneal endothelial cells and ex-vivo corneal tissue. Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty grafts were...

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Main Authors: Maninder Bhogal, Chan N Lwin, Xin-Yi Seah, Elavazhagan Murugan, Khadijah Adnan, Shu-Jun Lin, Gary Peh, Jodhbir S Mehta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5627903?pdf=render