A new procedure for corneal transplantation was performed successfully by doctors at Duke Eye Center last week.

Miracles In Sight, an eye bank-based in Winston-Salem, provided the ocular tissue for the surgery and prepared the graft for the transplant.

The procedure, called Pre-Descemet Endothelial Keratoplasty surgery, involves injecting an air bubble into a cornea that has been donated. The air bubble separates the cornea’s endothelium, descemet’s membrane, and the new Dua’s layer. Doing this creates a graft that is about 35 micrometers in thickness, according to the news release.

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