COMBINED AUTOLOGOUS TRANSPLANTATION OF NEUROSENSORY RETINA, RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM, AND CHOROID FREE GRAFTS.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the feasibility and initial functional and anatomical outcomes of transplanting a full-thickness free graft of choroid and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), along with neurosensory retina in advanced fibrosis and atrophy associated with end-stage exudative age-related macular degeneration with and without a concurrent refractory macular hole.

Methods

During vitrectomy, an RPE-choroidal and neurosensory retinal free graft was harvested in nine eyes of nine patients. The RPE-choroidal and neurosensory retinal free graft was either placed subretinally (n = 5), intraretinally to cover the foveal area inside an iatrogenically induced macular hole over the RPE-choroidal graft (n = 3) or preretinally (n = 1) without a retinotomy wherein both free grafts were pla

SUBMITTER: Parolini B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5966319 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature