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Corneal Transplants
What is a Corneal Transplant? A corneal transplant involves the surgical replacement of a diseased or injured donor cornea with a healthy portion of a donor cornea. The disease or injury causes blindness by interfering with the normal passage of light into the eye. The transplant of clear, healthy donor tissue restores the normal visual pathway. Most corneal transplant that have been performed are full thickness or “penetrating” corneal transplants. The medical term for a corneal transplant is “keratoplasty”. A penetrating keratoplasty is a “PK”, as shown below. Please click for the full image.
Bioengineered Cornea
The World Health Organization estimates over 10 million people in the world are blind in one or both eyes from corneal injury or disease and up to 45 million people could benefit from corneal transplants. According to data from eye banks and government health agencies, less than 150,000 corneal transplants are done annually worldwide due to a shortage of human cadaver corneas.