CORNEAL TRANSPLANT

Corneal grafts (transplants) generally are performed for two reasons, to restore eye integrity and to restore vision. The successful outcomes enjoyed by patients who undergo modern penetrating keratoplasty (full thickness corneal graft) and lamellar keratoplasty (partial thickness graft) are the result of advances in operating microscopes design, suture technology, surgical techniques, and corneal topography, and of the availability of carefully preserved corneal tissue.

Patients who undergo these surgeries achieve significant improved vision in the majority of cases. Complications after the corneal transplant includes: graft rejection, postoperative glaucoma and endophthalmitis (severe eye infection).

Patient, who recovered her vision with a corneal transplant after 10 years of blindness.	Clear corneal graft