A Brighton man has become the first patient at Sussex Eye Hospital to undergo a "pioneering" artificial cornea transplant.

The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

When people’s corneas are scarred by serious injury or infection, doctors can usually treat it by transplanting healthy corneal tissue from a donor, also known as a corneal graft. But sometimes ...

Cross-linking CAIRS before implantation makes insertion easier, enhances the flattening effect and eliminates potential ...

The study evaluated 14 patients that were treated with cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC) and followed ...

Int Ophthalmol Clin. 2013;53(4):1-10. Delayed presentation of corneal trauma or severe injuries may result in corneal perforation and loss of corneal tissue. These injuries are more difficult to ...

which replaces a damaged or diseased cornea with donor tissue, researchers said. CALEC involves removing stem cells from a healthy eye and then expanding them into a tissue graft using a new ...

expanding them into a cellular tissue graft in a novel manufacturing process that takes two to three weeks, and then surgically transplanting the graft into the eye with a damaged cornea.

Marking a breakthrough in advanced ophthalmic care, Dr Agarwals Eye Hospital successfully performed a complex surgical ...

Corneal allogenic inlay implantation — or collagen implantation, as Kılıç refers to the technique — offers patients an organic, biological tissue addition technology that is highly ...