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  • Title: [Triple surgery. Keratoplasty combined with cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation].
    Author: Messmer EM, Dotse S, Müller A, Kampik A.
    Journal: Ophthalmologe; 2004 Jun; 101(6):549-53. PubMed ID: 15133707.
    Abstract:
    Since the 1980s, combined perforating keratoplasty and extracapsular cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation (triple procedure) has been performed with increasing success for patients with corneal disease and cataract. Advantages include prompt visual rehabilitation, protection of the transplanted endothelium from sequential cataract surgery, and similar up to superior functional results following triple procedures. In the following review article, the authors discuss advantages and disadvantages of triple procedures, alternative surgical techniques, problems in intraocular lens power calculation, intraoperative pitfalls, and postoperative results of combined keratoplasty, cataract removal, and intraocular lens implantation.
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