Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) - Pull Through Technique

View this free surgical video demonstrating and explaining the Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) transplant procedure using the Pull-Through Technique. DSAEK is a partial thickness cornea transplant procedure where the patient's endothelium is isolated and removed and replaced with a healthy endothelium from a donor. The procedure is performed and narrated by Joshua Hou, MD, from University of Minnesota and Lions Gift of Sight.

Joshua H. Hou, MD

Associate Professor

University of Minnesota/Lions Gift of Sight

Joshua Hou, MD, is an Associate Professor and the Lyon Chair of Ophthalmology in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences at the University of Minnesota. He received a BS in Chemistry from Duke University (Durham, NC), where he graduated summa cum laude. He received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO). He then completed an ophthalmology residency and a fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at the University of Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary. Dr. Hou currently serves as the Cornea Fellowship Director at the University of Minnesota and maintains a busy tertiary referral practice specialized in complex corneal transplantation and severe ocular surface disease. He is currently the Medical Director of the Lions Gift of Sight Eye Bank, serves as Chair of the EBAA Scientific Programs Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the Eye Banking and Corneal Transplantation Journal. He leads an NIH funded laboratory at the University of Minnesota and his research interests include eye banking, tissue processing, and limbal stem cell deficiency.