Case Western Reserve University

Newer Cornea Transplant Surgery Shows Short- and Long-term Promise

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 ...
Forbes

Transform Your Vision With The Next Generation Of Corneal Transplants

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...
KHOU 11

'It's disruptive technology' | Clinical trial testing new corneal transplant procedure

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 ...
WTOL

'It's a miracle': Ohio man receives cornea transplant

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Columbus Division of Police Lt. Fred Bowditch spent his career keeping citizens safe from danger. “I worked organized crime for 10 years,” he said. But when he went for a ...
Case Western Reserve University

Transformative eye research expands donor pool for corneal transplant patients

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. “We also found the severity of the donor’s ...
Science Daily

Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery

Researchers are developing a futuristic alternative to LASIK that reshapes the eye without lasers or incisions. Using mild electrical pulses and platinum contact lenses, they temporarily soften the ...
Forbes

DALK: The Game-Changing Keratoconus Treatment You Need To Know About

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...
Yahoo

Breakthrough stem cell therapy repairs cornea damage once deemed untreatable

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is a new treatment for damaged corneas called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells, or CALEC. File Photo by ...
Healio

Surgeons weigh best method to treat corneal dystrophies

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and ...
Healio

BLOG: Five reasons to avoid corneal transplant in patients with keratoconus

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Corneal transplants are costly, often fail in the long term, and have serious risks and lengthy recovery periods ...
Becker's ASC

Study: Newer Cornea Transplant Surgery Shows Promise in Long Term

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 ...