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 ...

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 ...

Many eye banks won't accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant ...

A cornea implant made out of collagen gathered from pig skin has restored the vision of 20 volunteers in a landmark pilot study. Pending further testing, the novel bioengineered implant is hoped to ...

The cornea, the eye’s clear and transparent outer layer, is crucial for transmitting light and enabling vision. However, any ...

CABUSAO, Camarines Sur (PIA) – A hospital here successfully performed a cornea transplant on a 58-year-old man and the patient is doing well following the surgery. This achievement by the eye surgeons ...

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 ...

Researchers compared two methods of corneal transplant tissue preparation for a procedure that saves sight in patients with Fuchs' dystrophy. A newer technique for preparing corneal tissue for ...

If you can see by simply slipping on a pair of glasses, or if you don’t need glasses or contact lenses at all, the gift of sight is something we can easily take for granted. For millions of people ...

Chennai | Chairman of Dr Agarwals Eye Hospital Group, Dr Amar Agarwal, has recently introduced Pinhole Pupilloplasty (PPP) that offered a simple and highly effective alternative to corneal ...

Nov. 28—ANDERSON — Cloudy vision could be caused by an array of things, some benign, some not. For 65-year-old Mike Dauss, it was the latter. An abnormality was discovered during an annual eye exam in ...