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Aphakia is the absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, such as in cataract surgery, a perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly. It causes a loss of ability to maintain focus ( accommodation ), high degree of farsightedness ( hyperopia ), [ 1 ] and a deep anterior chamber .
A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea. Indications include treatment of keratoconus, refractive errors like myopia and high hypermetropia including aphakia, which cannot be corrected with conservative methods. [2]
Cancer Treatment Centers of America – Tulsa; Carl Albert Community Mental Health Center – McAlester; Carnegie Tri-County Municipal Hospital – Carnegie, Oklahoma; Cedar Ridge Hospital – Oklahoma City; Chickasaw Nation Medical Center – Ada; The Children's Center Rehabilitation Hospital – Bethany; Choctaw Memorial Hospital – Hugo
CityPlex Towers, originally known as City of Faith Medical and Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma There are three triangular towers with over 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2 ) of office space. [2] The tallest is the 60-story CityPlex Tower which at 648 feet (198 m) is the third tallest building in Oklahoma (after Devon Tower and BOK Tower ).
Oklahoma CyberKnife is a cancer treatment center based in Oklahoma. The center treats malignant and benign tumors in the lungs, spine, brain, liver, pancreas, eye, prostate and kidney using CyberKnife technology. Oklahoma CyberKnife has treated patients from around Oklahoma as well as patients from bordering states. Oklahoma CyberKnife opened ...
The hospital became a non-profit and was renamed Tulsa Regional Medical Center. It was sold to Columbia/HCA, a for-profit company from Nashville, Tennessee in 1996, which sold it to Hillcrest Medical Center in 1999. It became part of the Oklahoma State University Medical Center in 2006.
Aphakic patients do not have a crystalline lens. The crystalline lens is often removed because of opacities called cataracts. The absence of this lens left the patient highly hyperopic (farsighted) in that eye. For some patients the removal was only performed on one eye, resulting in the anisometropia / aniseikonia.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson following the death of his mother, Mary Brown Stephenson, who died from lung cancer. [3] Stephenson purchased the American International Hospital in Zion, Illinois , in 1988 and expanded the hospital to include a radiation center, the Mary Brown Stephenson ...