Safety and Effectiveness of Collagen-phosphorylcholine Bioengineered Cornea in Patients Requiring Lamellar Keratoplasty

Patients will undergo surgery using conventional anterior lamellar keratoplasty technique: diseased cornea will be trephined to approximately 50-90% of corneal thickness (depending on corneal ulcer or scar depth) and then a lamellar dissection will be created. Trephine diameter will depend on ulcer or leukoma maximal size. Alternatively a femtosecond laser may be used to create the dissection. A collagen-phosphorylcholine cornea 250-500 microns thick and equal or 0.25 mm larger diameter is placed and sutured. The sutures are superimposed and the implant and the sutures covered with a bandage contact lens. The sutures and bandage lens will be removed later after the initial healing period of 4 weeks or as determined by physician depending on the implant epithelial coverage.