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Part corneal transplant proves to be a visionary procedure
Chennai :: India | 5 months ago
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February 4, 2013 One eye donor can help not two persons without vision, but now, four people, thanks to techniques that exist to split each cornea into two layers, and skilled surgeons, to use these split layers on different patients. In a scenario
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Strides made towards corneal transplants (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 7 months ago
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Strides made towards corneal transplants Newstalk ZB staff, Newstalk ZB November 25, 2012, 11:29 am Researchers from New Zealand and Australia are at the forefront of making corneal transplants possible. In New Zealand at least 2000 people each year
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Fuchs' corneal dystrophy: Dealing with slowly going blind
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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I was recently diagnosed with Fuchs' corneal dystrophy (Fuchs) in my right eye...According to the Mayo Clinic, Fuchs' dystrophy (fooks DIS-truh-fee) is an uncommon, slowly progressive disorder that affects the cornea the transparent front surface of
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Time turns a blind eye to her plight
Mumbai :: India | 9 months ago
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Ganesh Kondkar's heart sinks each time he sees his sister, Chanda Gupta, fumbling around and bumping into furniture as she goes about doing chores in her house in a Borivli chawl. Forty-year-old Gupta suffers from corneal dystrophy, a hereditary
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Sight for sore eyes
Medford :: OR :: USA | 1 year ago
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Three patients at the Medford Eye Center received a renewed outlook on life Thursday. For the first time in Southern Oregon, new high-speed laser technology was used in corneal transplant surgery. In the past, ophthalmologists used a scalpel-like
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An Affliction Of The Cornea Gets A Closer Look
Washington :: DC :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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She was just 17, sitting in her history class, when she realized she suddenly couldn't read what was written on the white board. Nor could she make out the faces of her classmates. "It was really scary," she says, "It was kind of like looking through
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Artificial cornea helps Delano man regain some vision
Fresno :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Since a chemical burn 22 years ago damaged the cornea in his left eye, David Simental of Delano had learned to live with blurry vision...His cornea, the clear part of his eye that covers the iris and pupil, was too scarred for a successful transplant
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FDA Approves First Implantable Miniature Telescope to Improve Sight of AMD patients
Device designed to help those with end-stage, age-related macular degeneration The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it has approved the Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) to improve vision in some patients with
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Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells — a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field,
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Gift of sight for ex-teacher
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | 3 years ago
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Retired teacher Mohd Dali Mohd Yatim has received the gift of sight again. The 75-year-old former teacher from SMK Ave Maria in Ipoh underwent five corneal transplants twice on his left eye and three times on his right eye between 1972 and 2009. The
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