Endoilluminator-assisted Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty and endoilluminator-assisted pre-Descemet endothelial keratoplasty

Abstract

Soosan Jacob,1,2 Amar Agarwal,1 Dhivya Ashok Kumar1 1Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital and Eye Research Centre, 2Dr Agarwal’s Refractive and Cornea Foundation (DARCF), Chennai, IndiaWe read with great interest the article by Kobayashi et al on the use of endoillumination probe-assisted Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) for bullous keratopathy secondary to argon-laser iridotomy.1 We would like to bring to the author’s notice that one of us (SJ) described the use of external endoillumination for DMEK, and the same was published under our names in 2014 as endoilluminator-assisted transcorneal illumination for DMEK,2 with study patients included from January 2013.  Read the original article by Kobayashi et al