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  2. Corneal transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Cornea transplant one day after surgery. Cornea transplant after one year of healing, two stitches are visible On the day of the surgery , the patient arrives to either a hospital or an outpatient surgery center, where the procedure will be performed.

  3. Keratoprosthesis - Wikipedia

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    While conventional cornea transplant uses donor tissue for transplant, an artificial cornea is used in the keratoprosthesis procedure. The surgery is performed to restore vision in patients with severely damaged cornea due to congenital birth defects, infections, injuries and burns.

  4. Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty - Wikipedia

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    Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) is a method of corneal transplantation that involves the removal of a thin sheet of tissue from the posterior (innermost) side of a person's cornea to replace it with the two posterior (innermost) layers of corneal tissue from a donor's eyeball.

  5. Eye transplant recovery leaves doctors "truly amazed" - AOL

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    Doctors say they're amazed by how well a veteran has recovered more than a year after a whole-eye transplant surgery. Aaron James lost most of his face after touching a live wire.

  6. Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis - Wikipedia

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    Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP), also known as "tooth in eye" surgery, [1] is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or a donor.

  7. Pre-Descemet's endothelial keratoplasty - Wikipedia

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    PDEK is different from the whole cornea transplantation in which the transplantation of entire donor cornea to the recipient is done. [2] [3] Normal corneal thickness is about 520 to 540 microns in the centre and 600 to 620 microns in the periphery. [4] Pre descemet's layer which is dissected in PDEK, measures about 10.15±3.6 microns thick. [5]

  8. Eye surgery - Wikipedia

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    Laser eye surgery or laser corneal surgery is a medical procedure that uses a laser to reshape the surface of the eye to correct myopia (short-sightedness), hypermetropia (long-sightedness), and astigmatism (uneven curvature of the eye's surface). Importantly, refractive surgery is not compatible with everyone, and people may find on occasion ...

  9. Dad Who Received First-Ever Face and Eye Transplant Shares ...

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    A year after Aaron James became the world's first face and eye transplant recipient, ... chairman and professor of plastic surgery at NYU Langone Health, tells PEOPLE. "The results are phenomenal.