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 ...

There is a new treatment for damaged corneas called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells, or CALEC. File Photo by skeeze/Pixabay Sight-robbing injuries to the cornea can be repaired using a ...

Reviewing this Healio | OSN cover story on eye banks prompted me to read again my quite controversial Lindstrom’s Perspective from the July 25, 2017, issue. The interested reader can find this ...

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 ...

An experimental stem cell therapy can successfully treat blinding cornea damage The therapy kick-starts the eye’s ability to maintain its smooth surface Cells are taken from a person’s healthy eye, ...

I am a 74-year-old female who, about 8 years ago, developed glaucoma, and it was kept under control, with the guidance of my eye doctor. A year later, I developed cataracts, and I had successful ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND—Many eye banks won’t accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail. The implication is that the number ...

Since the first face transplant in 2005, there have been no more than 46 similar operations around the world. Now, a surgical team at NYU Langone Health has performed the first-ever full eye ...

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 ...

Sight-robbing injuries to the cornea can be repaired using a groundbreaking experimental stem cell treatment, a new study ...