There are over 10 million people worldwide living with treatable blindness. However, the current number of keratoplasties should grow 70 times to meet the number of those who are in need.
The newest lamellar keratoplasty surgical techniques may consent to improve the pool of donor tissues; in fact one donor cornea can be used for more than one recipient. One donor cornea can provide one DALK graft, one DMEK graft, and even a KLAL or scleral patch graft...