DSAEK Cornea Layers (Photo)

This photo was taken on a patient postoperatively after a DSAEK (Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty) surgery. You can see the layers of the cornea in the slit-lamp beam of light, particularly the transplanted endothelial layer that has not adherred to the inner cornea.

This picture is pretty dark, and may be hard to interpret if you don’t perform much ophthalmology microscopy. Watch the DSAEK video to get a better idea what this cornea looks like. This photograph snapshot was taken from this vide.