It was suggested that the lack of complete success was due to the failure of the glycerol–saline technique to protect the corneal endothelium. It was therefore decided to investigate directly ...

Human corneal endothelial cells (HCECs) do not reproduce in vivo: A person is born with a finite number of HCECs that over time will degrade or deteriorate due to age, disease or surgical trauma.

At the same time, keratic precipitates (Fig. 1A) were seen in 12 eyes as discrete hyperreflective spots attached to the cornea endothelium, and fibrinous membrane (Fig. 1B) were detected in 4 eyes ...

studied 29 eyes of 16 patients who had undergone LASIK or PRK. Photographs of the cells lining the cornea (endothelial cells) were taken and analysed before and nine years after surgery.