2623: preparing your own DMEK graft

Close-up of a DMEK graft preparation with pearls for better visual outcomes. A yellow arrow points to the graft ready for injection.

If you can order a DMEK graft from your cornea bank that is already the desired size, already stained with Trypan blue dye, and orientation marked in advance, then consider yourself lucky. Because in many parts of the world, surgeons have to prepare their own DMEK graft. This video shows our guest surgeon doing that and carefully placing the graft in position. Please comment below if you have good tips and tricks for preparing your own DMEK graft.

video link here

https://youtu.be/OJE_lM97_ps

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