**Meet the editor**

Dr Luigi Mosca (MD, PhD) graduated in Medicine at the University La Sapienza of Rome. He held a residency then research post at the Eye Clinic of the University of L'Aquila before gaining his degree in Ophthalmology and becoming a practicing Ophthalmologist – first at the Department of Ophthalmology of the A. Gemelli Polyclinic of the Catholic University of "Sacro Cuore"

of Rome, then as Chief of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service. He is Professor of the School of Ophthalmology of Catholic University of Sacro Cuore. He is author of several scientific works in the field of Ophthalmology, refractive surgery, and corneal transplantation.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 3 **Keratoplasty in** 

**Part 1 Penetrating Keratoplasty 1** 

Chapter 1 **Clinical Indications for Penetrating Keratoplasty** 

**and Epidemiological Study in Teaching Hospitals of Birjand Medical University from 1999 to 2006 3** 

**Contact Lens Related Acanthamoeba Keratitis 31** 

Mohammad Hossien Davari and Hoda Gheytasi

Chapter 2 **Therapeutic Keratoplasty for Microbial Keratitis 11**  Ana Lilia Pérez-Balbuena, Diana Santander-García, Virginia Vanzzini-Zago and Diego Cuevas-Cancino

Chapter 4 **Manual Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty 55** 

Chapter 5 **Femtosecond Laser Assisted Lamellar Keratoplasties 77**  Luigi Mosca, Laura Guccione, Luca Mosca, Romina Fasciani and Emilio Balestrazzi

> **Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) in Patients with Black Diaphragm Intraocular (BDI) Lens 93**

Hui-Jin Chen, Yan-sheng Hao and Jing Hong

Beata Kettesy, Laszlo Modis Jr., Andras Berta and Adam Kemeny-Beke

Chapter 6 **Descemet's Stripping with Automated** 

**Part 3 Complications of Keratoplasties 99** 

Patricia Durán Ospina

Chapter 7 **The Complications After Keratoplasty 101** 

**Part 2 Lamellar Keratoplasties 53** 

Farid Daneshgar
