Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology: PUK Surgery Video

We are pleased to announce that one of our surgical videos entitled: Novel Surgical Approaches for the Management of Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis (PUK) was accepted for presentation at the 2021 American Academy of Ophthalmology Meeting in New Orleans this November.

The video depicted two approaches for the surgical management of peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK). The first one involved essentially a deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) procedure, which utilized a full thickness donor tissue after removing the endothelium and Descemet membrane. The second procedure involved a crescentic lamellar keratoplasty using a freehand anterior lamellar graft. Specifically, the DALK procedure is a relatively novel surgical approach to the management of PUK. Although DALK and PUK have been described separately in the literature, there have been limited reports of DALK management for PUK.

Yanhan Ren, a fourth year medical student from Chicago Medical School, has been exploring the field of ophthalmology under the mentorship of Dr. Bouchard. This video is made possible by all members of the ophthalmology team at Loyola University.