Sclera, pericardium, dura mater and cornea are available as a patch graft. Drawbacks of some of these materials may include high cost and poor appearance. The purpose of this study is to report ...

Scleral autoplasty has also been reported to successfully treat corneal perforations. An autologous scleral lamellar patch graft can be inlayed in the cornea where the perforation boundary was ...

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

The resulting limbal stem cell deficiency renders the eye with a permanently damaged surface where it can't undergo a corneal transplant, the current standard of care for vision rehabilitation.

Published in Nature Communications, results saw the study achieve success rates of 79% and 77% corneal repair with the cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC) graft, at the 12-month ...