Aims To investigate the relative risk of pretransplant corneal vascularisation on rate of rejection and graft failure within 5 years of surgery when categorised by indication for transplantation. We ...

The grafts come from deceased donors. Corneal therapies are now being developed that rely on tissue from living-related donors. This presents new ethical challenges for ophthalmic surgeons, who have ...

Long-term complications and effectiveness of the ... Rick Fraunfelder, MD I do think it's a major evolution in corneal transplant surgery and if doctors learn how to do it they will become ...

Patients urgently need an alternative to restore their vision without being exposed to the risks and complications of cornea transplantation, which requires lifelong immunosuppressive therapy.

Consequently the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was established. Eight months later she died of respiratory complications. Thirty years earlier the patient had undergone corneal ...

What Complications Can Occur After ... organ procurement organization LiveOnNY. In the transplant surgery, the team ...