HOUSTON — Patients in Houston are some of the first in the country to be offered a new kind of corneal transplant as part of a clinical trial. The cornea is the clear outer layer at the front of your ...
A new study comparing Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) with penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), a more established procedure for cornea transplant, suggests that potential ...
Cornea disease and refractive surgery specialist, Majid Moshirfar, M.D., F.A.C.S., of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah performed the first ever laser-based cornea transplant in ...
The refinement of a procedure is giving fresh hope to people with eye diseases that affect the cornea and can lead to blindness. The cornea is a clear bubble that covers the front of the eye. An inner ...
A Conception Bay South man says the estimated five-year wait time for cornea transplants in Newfoundland and Labrador — one of only two provinces without an organ bank for eye tissue — is far too long ...
Dr. Michael Sumsion and Dr. Sean Sumsion detail ways patients can safeguard and preserve the results from their corneal transplant surgery. A corneal transplant, also known as keratoplasty, involves ...
In a groundbreaking medical achievement, surgeons at NYU Langone Health have successfully performed the world’s first whole human eye transplant, marking a significant advancement in the field of face ...
CLEVELAND - One year post-surgery, patients who underwent Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) experienced greater cell loss overall compared to those who underwent ...