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Intrastromal Ring Implantation by Surgeons in Training: Complications Author: Nicolas Cesário Pereira Co-authors: Luciene Barbosa de Souza Leon Grupenmacher.

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1 Intrastromal Ring Implantation by Surgeons in Training: Complications Author: Nicolas Cesário Pereira Co-authors: Luciene Barbosa de Souza Leon Grupenmacher Pedro Bertino Moreira Alexandre Paratela Gama No financial interest in the subject

2 PURPOSE Access intraoperative and postoperative complications after implantation of intrastromal corneal ring segments (Keraring R ) in patients with corneal ectasia, performed by surgeons in training. SETTING Sorocaba Eye Bank (HOSBOS), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil

3 METHODS Retrospective review of 67 eyes of 67 patients with corneal ectasia (64 with keratoconus and 3 with pellucid marginal degeneration) submited to intrastromal corneal ring segments (Keraring R ) implantation, performed by surgeons in training at HOSBOS, using the manual technique. Patients were examined at 1 and 3 months after surgery.

4 No patient had infectious keratitis, bleeding, segment decentration, hydrops or healing defects as described in other studies.

5 CONCLUSIONS The rate and type of intraoperative and postoperative complications of intrastromal corneal ring implantation (Keraring R ), performed by surgeons in training at HOSBOS, using the manual technique, remained within the expected compared to those found in previous studies.

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