Outcomes of corneal transplantation: a corneal surgeon vs the general ophthalmologist

Corneal transplantation.

Corneal transplantation or keratoplasty has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. Penetrating keratoplasty, a procedure consisting of full-thickness replacement of the cornea, has been the dominant procedure for more than half a century, and successfully caters to most causes of corneal blindness. The adoption by specialist surgeons of newer forms of lamellar transplantation surgery, which se...

corneal transplantation

extractdefective corneas are the leading cause of blindness world wide and the second leading cause, after diabetic retinopathy,of blindness in the united state , afflicting 30000 americans each year. happily, nearly 95 percent of those who have corneal transplantations( in 1985 they numbered,26300) regain their sight. the cornea is a transparent, a vascular, dim-sized tissue continious with th...

Evaluation of corneal transplantation.

Corneal transplantation in children.

The main purpose of the study was to describe the surgical success rate and visual results of penetrating keratoplasty in children. This retrospective study included children that underwent corneal transplantation at the Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital "Sveti Duh", in the period 1994-1999. Patients' age ranged from 6 to 16 years. Twenty-five corneal transplants were performed in 2...

Primary Corneal Keloid

Purpose: To report the clinical presentation, histopathologic findings, and surgical treatment in a series of cases with primary corneal keloid. Case Reports: Six Iranian patients (a father and two sons, a mother and her daughter, and one isolated male patient) without any history of corneal trauma or systemic diseases were clinically and histologically evaluated for a slowly-growing, white opa...