VT48 : Auro Keratoprosthesis for the general ophthalmic surgeon – See it, attempt it!”.

Dr.Quresh B. Maskati

Most general ophthalmologists and many corneal surgeons shy away from doing keratoprosthesis (Kpro) surgery assuming it requires an institutional set up and years of experience and the Kpros are very expensive. This is true for many kpros but not for the Auro kpro, which is made in India under license from Boston. It costs less than 100 USDollars and can be easily learnt by watching a few cases. The author of this video, who has been doing this surgery since past 9 years has been teaching instruction courses in various aspects of corneal surgery since past 30 years and is keen to get more general ophthalmologists to attempt the Auro kpro in select cases. Hence he has specially added easy to follow text for each step to the video so that a novice ophthalmic surgeon loses his fear of the word “kpro”.