Cornea disease and refractive surgery specialist, Majid Moshirfar, M.D., F.A.C.S., of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah performed the first ever laser-based cornea transplant in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Serious diseases affecting the transparent part of the eye, called the cornea, are very difficult to treat because this structure lacks blood vessels and has little capacity for regeneration and ...

The refinement of a procedure is giving fresh hope to people with eye diseases that affect the cornea and can lead to blindness. The cornea is a clear bubble that covers the front of the eye. An inner ...

The first-ever corneal stem-cell transplants in the U.S. proved feasible and safe, allowed patients to receive new corneas, and in some cases improved vision as a solo procedure, a small preliminary ...

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 ...

The Eye Bank at Guru Nanak Eye Centre (GNEC) has achieved a significant milestone by reducing the waiting time for corneal transplant for cornea-blind patients from six months to ...

Carolina Cataract & Laser Center (CCLC) announced on April 29 that David Vroman, M.D., is the first physician in South ...

The first time Phillip Durst saw the big A on the chart, he could hardly believe it. It was the first in a series of letters to check his vision in his left eye. “They keep flipping the chart and it ...

An expanded clinical trial that tested an experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and followed for 18 ...