As scary as it might sound, cornea transplant surgery is actually very safe. Advances in the past 10 years have even allowed eye surgeons to shorten recovery time for some procedures from six months ...

Dr. Michael Sumsion and Dr. Sean Sumsion detail ways patients can safeguard and preserve the results from their corneal transplant surgery ...

Newer cornea transplant surgery shows short- and long-term promise Initially high cell loss in Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty tapers quickly ...

A 54-year-old man was referred in late 2014 for a consultation for corneal transplant surgery in the left eye.The patient had been diagnosed with keratoconus a few years earlier. His optometrist ...

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 ...

Cornea and eye donation is the first step in the cornea transplant process. A cornea transplant is a surgical procedure where surgeons implant the cornea from a deceased donor into a recipient who has ...

The topic of corneal transplant surgery can quickly evolve to alphabet soup with all of the acronyms involved.Our next few blog entries will address corneal transplants, so this is a brief outline ...

Irvine, Calif., May 3, 2005 -- A UC Irvine ophthalmologist and his team have invented a new laser-surgery technique to perform cornea-transplant surgery that can replace the use of traditional ...

Some forms of blindness and visual impairment can be cured with a corneal transplant surgery using donated eye tissue. However, federal regulations in the United States and Canada severely ...

THE Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has announced the successful completion of 14 corneal transplant surgeries as part of a “groundbreaking” ...

On Aug. 5, Flathead County welcomed Dr. Caleb Morris to its rapidly expanding pool of specialty surgeons, a newcomer to the Glacier Eye Clinic in Kalispell who recently performed the valley’s ...

A Viroqua man regains his woodworking hobby after receiving Mayo Clinic's first corneal transplant in the La ... While Rolfe benefited from clear vision in one eye with his first surgery, ...