The innate immune system releases multiple inflammatory cytokines in response to pathogens, and these cytokines directly combat the infectious agent and recruit additional immune responses.

AS-OCT is very useful in the postsurgical period in Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty ... level of the anterior segment. Slit lamp picture (A) and Stratus optical coherence ...

Preoperatively, patients can be assessed by examining for guttata at the slit lamp. In PXF, guttata are more diffuse, in contrast to central guttata seen in Fuch's endothelial dystrophy.