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SightLife is an eye bank, a non-profit organization that obtains, medically evaluates and distributes corneas donated by individuals for use in corneal transplantation, research, and education. Since 2009 it has been the leading eye bank in the United States. SightLife provides volunteer services in India, Paraguay and Nepal. [1]
The first successful cornea transplant was performed in 1905 and the first eye bank was founded in 1944. Currently, in the United States, eye banks provide tissue for over 80,000 cornea transplants each year [1] to treat conditions such as keratoconus [2] and corneal scarring.
An abnormality was discovered during an annual eye exam in 2007. He was diagnosed with Fuchs' dystrophy, a genetic disease in which the inner cells of the cornea, or "endothelium," die.
The Lions Eye Bank collects and distributes corneal tissue, scleral tissue and supplies thousands of corneal transplants throughout Western Australia. [7] The Institute initiated the Pilbara Aboriginal Eye Health Program, a strategy targeting indigenous people who suffer from diabetes and associated blinding eye diseases prevalent within the ...
The Lions NSW Eye Bank in Sydney provides over 350 grafts to the people of NSW each year. [3]The Lions Eye Donation Service Melbourne is a collaboration between The Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, the University of Melbourne, and the Lions Clubs of Victoria and Southern New South Wales.
According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, "Ocular melanoma (melanoma in or around the eye) is a type of cancer that develops in the cells that produce pigment. Pigment gives color to ...
An eye bank which undertakes cornea harvesting activity to provide corneas for corneal transplant operations and awareness programs for overcoming resistance to eye donation. A manufacturing facility [9] which specializes in the production of intraocular lenses (IOLs).
As of 2020, LVPEI Eye Bank Network has been performing over 2,000 corneal transplant surgeries every year. [27] As of February 2023, total corneas collected were 1,19,279 and over 69,964 corneal transplant surgeries have been performed at the institute, which may be the highest at a single institute anywhere in the world. [27] [28]