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Immune Reactions and Dry Eye After Posterior Lamellar Keratoplasty

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Posterior lamellar keratoplasty has been demonstrated to be a successful, increasingly applied surgical method to replace diseased endothelial cells of the human cornea. Potential immune reactions may occur following DMEK or DSAEK with different clinical phenotypes, reasons, and risk factors that accompany graft failure. In addition in this chapter the clinically relevant yet only rudimentarily investigated development of dry eye disease following posterior lamellar keratoplasty is outlined.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Cologne, Germany

    Philipp Steven MD, Sebastian Siebelmann, Deniz Hos, Franziska Bucher & Claus Cursiefen

  2. Cluster of Excellence: Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Disease (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Philipp Steven MD & Sebastian Siebelmann

  3. Ocular Surface Group, Ocular GvHD Competence Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany

    Philipp Steven MD & Sebastian Siebelmann

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Steven, P., Siebelmann, S., Hos, D., Bucher, F., Cursiefen, C. (2017). Immune Reactions and Dry Eye After Posterior Lamellar Keratoplasty. In: Cursiefen, C., Jun, A. (eds) Current Treatment Options for Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43021-8_15

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