Cornea transplant today is no longer as invasive as it used to be, in most cases it is a selective cornea transplant where the entire cornea is no longer replaced but only the diseased part of the cornea, leaving the patient’s healthy part of the cornea with recovery times. extremely fast recovery. The news on […]
I am 23 years old and I had a cornea transplant 4 months ago due to keratoconus. During the surgery I didn't feel anything because it was carried out under total anesthesia and, contrary to what they say, I didn't wear the bandage after the transplant except for a few hours. From the day after […]
After two stem cell transplants for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, I had a cutaneous and a eye rejection, with corneal ulcers in both eyes and a corneal perforation in the left eye. I underwent 14 operations at other facilities and contacted 8 well-known Italian professors, but all my hope was gone as everybody refused to perform surgery, […]
Treating keratoconus with corneal transplant is an option when keratoconus is in an advanced phase.Traditional corneal transplant is today not that frequent, in favor of the more innovative DALK technique. Traditional corneal transplant consists in substituing the whole central cornea with a new cornea portion (about 8mm) coming from a donor. This portion is going […]
