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 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — An El Paso doctor introduced the Corneal Tissue Addition Keratoplasty procedure at Buena Vista Eye Care to restore vision. Renowned ophthalmologist Dr. Ruben Ramirez ...

An EndoArt artificial corneal graft was implanted for the first time in a patient suffering from severe corneal edema, after he rejected 3 biological grafts from donors.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...