Table A10.

Tourkmani 2022 [32].

Methods	Type of study: Interventional study Study design: Retrospective case series
Participants	Country: the United KingdomNumber of individuals with keratoconus: 5 Number of eyes: 5 Subgroups: preoperative, 1 year postoperative Inclusion criteria: keratoconus stage III-IV, contact lens intolerance Exclusion criteria: unsuccessful, complicated surgery
Interventions	Donor tissue: artificial anterior chamber, scoring mark (30G needle), scrape edge of scoring mark (McPherson forceps or Morlett spatula), peeling Bowman layer (Moorfield forceps) Surgical technique: direct introduction of the BL graft into the host corneal pocket (without glide) Graft size: 8 mm
Outcomes	Visual acuity, Kmax and Kmean (front cornea), keratometric values 4.5 mm and 6.0 mm (Holladay report), corneal cylinder (front cornea), corneal thickness at thinnest point, complications, contact lens tolerance