Table 4.

Clinical outcomes of patients with inflammatory or autoimmune keratitis undergoing lamellar patch graft surgery using gamma-irradiated corneal lenticules

Patient	Age (years)	Sex	Indication for surgery	Histopathology	Duration of follow-up (months)	Clinical outcome
19	80	Female	Systemic lupus erythematosus with secondary Sjögren’s syndrome.	Acute inflammation and necrosis, no e/o infection.	96	Never epithelialised, graft melted <1 month. Underwent several subsequent tectonic PKs—all melted. Eventually cornea epithelialised, scarred and vascularised after achieving adequate immunosuppression.
20	81	Female	Rheumatoid arthritis.	Acute inflammation and necrosis, no e/o infection.	53	Graft intact and epithelialised, but developed other intraocular complications due to retinal surgery. Eventually eye became phthisical.
21	32	Male	Sterile keratolysis with unknown aetiology.	Acute inflammation and necrosis, no e/o infection.	36	Graft initially intact with under Gunderson conjunctival flap done simultaneously, then melted within 3 months. Underwent KPro implantation which failed. Eventually cornea scarred and KPro left in place.
22	75	Female	Sterile keratolysis with unknown aetiology.	Acute inflammation and necrosis, no e/o infection.	29	Graft intact, epithelialised and remained clear.
23	13	Female	Sterile inflammatory corneal lesion with unknown aetiology.	Stromal lymphoplasmacytic inflammation with granulomatous features.	8	Graft intact, epithelialised and remained clear.

e/o, evidence of; KPro, Boston type 1 keratoprosthesis; PK, penetrating keratoplasty.