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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cover story on LASIK brings back a lot of memories for me. I engaged in corneal refractive surgery in a ...

SS-1000 Casia Tomey Spectral-domain OCT 10 µm Prepares anterior and posterior corneal elevation maps and 3D images of the anterior segment SH Yoo is speaker/consultant for Carl Zeiss Meditec. The ...

Patient selection is vital for safety and management considerations and should be guided by the risk profile gathered from the elicited history, pre-operative tear and corneal function, and choice of ...

A corneal transplant is a routine surgical procedure that replaces a damaged cornea with a healthy one from a donor. The cornea is the thin, transparent membrane that sits in front of the iris and ...

Two types of laser surgery — photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis — are currently used to correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness. However, little is known about how ...

A new study comparing Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) with penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), a more established procedure for cornea transplant, suggests that potential ...

The Cornea Society has awarded Jonathan Lass, MD, the Castroviejo Medal, its highest honor. Dr. Lass, an ophthalmologist at University Hospitals Eye Institute at UH Cleveland Medical Center and ...

Some forms of blindness and visual impairment can be cured with a corneal transplant surgery using donated eye tissue. However, federal regulations in the United States and Canada severely restrict ...