DALK: The Game-Changing Keratoconus Treatment You Need To Know About
Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK) is a cutting-edge, targeted approach to corneal transplantation. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 1, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Say Goodbye To Traditional Transplants: The Superiority Of DALK In Treating Keratoconus
Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK) is a cutting-edge, targeted approach to corneal transplantation. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 1, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Transform Your Vision With The Next Generation Of Corneal Transplants
Corneal transplant surgery has come a long way since its inception in 1905. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
A Deeper Look At The Cornea And Corneal Transplants
Corneal transplant surgery has come a long way since its inception in 1905. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Key Data in Corneal Disorders From AAO 2023 Key Data in Corneal Disorders From AAO 2023
Key data in corneal disorders from AAO 2023 include improvements in and alternatives to corneal transplantation and a new rapid test for fungal eye infections.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: None ReCAP Source Type: news
Pediatric PKP Graft Failure More Likely at Younger Ages Pediatric PKP Graft Failure More Likely at Younger Ages
Performing other eye procedures during corneal transplantation in children may increase the odds of a poor outcome, according to research presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2023 annual meeting.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
The World ’ s First Whole-Eye Transplant Is Helping an Arkansas Man Recover From a Catastrophic Injury
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health have performed what they say is the world’s first whole-eye transplant, combined with a partial face transplant, in an important step forward for the fields of both transplantation and vision restoration.
In May, a team of more than 140 health care workers performed the 21-hour procedure on Aaron James, a 46-year-old Arkansas man badly injured in a workplace accident in 2021. James, a high-voltage power lineman and military veteran, suffered a massive electric shock when his face accidentally touched a live wire on the job. James was lucky to survive, but lost his left eye, much of h...
Source: TIME: Health - November 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Cornea Stem Cell Transplants Helped Restore Vision After Chemical Burns
(MedPage Today) -- 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 clinical study showed.
Four... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 23, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
A New Technique Uses a Patient ’ s Own Stem Cells to Restore Their Vision
One moment during the summer of 2020, Nick Kharufeh was enjoying an Independence Day party with his family in California. The next, he couldn’t see out of his left eye.
Kharufeh, now 26, was struck in the face by a malfunctioning firework, causing severe damage to and blindness in his left eye—damage his doctors said they could do little about. “I thought my life was over,” says Kharufeh, who until the accident had been training to become a pilot.
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Only a few months later, however, Kharufeh’s mother learned about an experimental trial in Bosto...
Source: TIME: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized embargoed study healthscienceclimate Innovation Source Type: news
Liberia: JFK Resumes Corneal Transplant
[New Dawn] The Liberian Eye Center at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Medical Center has announced the resumption of corneal transplant procedures. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 7, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Liberia West Africa Source Type: news
Cell-Based Regenerative Therapies for Corneal Disease Cell-Based Regenerative Therapies for Corneal Disease
What role could regenerative medicine have in the treatment of corneal diseases? Find out what ' s new in the field.Current Opinion in Ophthalmology (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - June 28, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Ophthalmology Journal Article Source Type: news
Consumer Health: What do you know about cornea transplantation?
A cornea transplant, or keratoplasty, is an operation to replace part of the cornea with corneal tissue from a donor. The cornea is the transparent, dome-shaped surface of the eye. Light enters the eye through the cornea. Nearly 80,000 corneal transplants were performed worldwide in 2021, according to the Eye Bank Association of America. More than 2 million people have recovered their sight through corneal transplants since 1961. Why it's done A cornea transplant most… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 27, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Bioengineered Corneas of Pig Skin Restore Vision Bioengineered Corneas of Pig Skin Restore Vision
New corneal transplants made from pig collagen, along with a simplified surgical technique, restores 20/20 vision in severely vision-impaired recipients.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplantation News Source Type: news
Carl Zeiss Meditec and Precise Bio Announce Partnership in the Development and Commercialization of Tissue-Based Implants for Ophthalmology
The companies will jointly develop 4D bio-fabricated corneal transplants for diseases that require endothelial keratoplasty and natural lenticule transplants
Carl Zeiss Meditec will invest in Precise Bio and fund the further development of Precise Bio's... Regenerative Medicine, Ophthalmology Precise Bio , Carl Zeiss Meditec (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - July 18, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
She needed a transplant to save her eye. Now she wants Ontarians to register as organ donors
Less than a month after being told she had pink eye, Madison Freeman had no idea she could lose her vision in one eye — but thanks to a cornea transplant her nightmare story is coming to an end and she wants more Ontarians to register to donate their organs. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - July 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
