KERATOPLASTY: MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AND PERSPECTIVES
The article is devoted to the theme of keratoplasty - surgical operation of grafting new corneal tissue or a part of it onto an eye. Several decades ago penetrating keratoplasty was a challenge to ophthalmic surgeons. Constant efforts by them to improve the results have led to revolutionary changes in the field of keratoplasty. It have led to the development of techniques that allow a surgeon to transplant individual layers of cornea depending on the affected layer in "component corneal surgery", use endothelial cells.