Umbilical Cord Patch Transplantation for Corneal Perforations and Descemetoceles

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Reconstruction of perforated HSK. Case number 4. A 75-year-old female patient presented with a nonhealing corneal ulcer in her right eye caused by HSK. A deep corneal ulcer with a small perforation was noticed (a). One month after UCP transplantation, the anterior chamber formed (b) although a slight anterior synechiae of the iris was detected by OCT (c, arrow). The stromal thickness at the perforation site seemed normal (c). The UCP was completely epithelialized (d). Case number 6. A 70-year-old man had a 2 × 2 mm perforated corneal ulcer (e) secondary to HSK. One month after UCP graft, the cornea was successfully reconstructed with a well-formed anterior chamber (f). The cornea stayed stable (g) with a negative fluorescent staining (h) at the eighth-month visit.

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