High risk corneal grafting

Corneal Grafting in India

The Corneal Grafting Act, 1952.

AFrER World War II the impetus of interest in keratoplasty quickened again, and with the advent of new technique and new methods an adequate reservoir of donor grafts became imperative. In the United Kingdom the expansion of this branch of ophthalmic surgery had been sadly hampered by the impact of two wars, the lack of instruments, and the absence of trained personnel. Even when these difficul...

High-risk Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Mitral Valve Replacement in a HIV Positive Patient

Certain subsets of high-risk mitral valve patients are not suitable candidates for transcatheter therapies. The objective of this report is to present a young patient with combined mitral valve and coronary artery disease to illustrate these challenges.In this report, we present a 47-year-old man with longstanding HIV infection who was referred with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and profound...

Corneal Grafting in India: Its Difficulties

THE SCOPE OF CORNEAL GRAFTING*t

IN considering corneal grafting it must surely be in the thoughts of all of us that we are offering our own special tribute as ophthalmologists to the pioneer work of our colleague and President, Mr. Tudor Thomas. For it was in Cardiff that he carried out that experimental and clinical work which not only inspired ophthalmic surgeons in many parts of the world to study corneal grafting, but whi...