A Brighton man has become the first patient at Sussex Eye Hospital to undergo a "pioneering" artificial cornea transplant. David Orams said he began suffering vision loss six years ago and despite ...

In most cases, the therapy—a transplant of stem cells from the ... the researchers say. The cornea is the transparent frontmost layer of the eye that both protects it and helps us see clearly ...

Eye injuries that damage the cornea are usually irreversible and cause blindness. But a new clinical trial has repaired this damage in patients thanks to a transplant of stem cells from their ...

Bhopal: A 50-year-old gas victim from Raisen received a successful cornea transplant at the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) on Tuesday. The patient's vision was severely ...

The resulting limbal stem cell deficiency renders the eye with a permanently damaged surface where it can't undergo a corneal transplant, the current standard of care for vision rehabilitation.

Because of this deficiency, they are unable to undergo a cornea transplant, the current standard of care, and they are often left blind in the affected eye and in great pain.” Jurkunas is the ...

and then surgically transplanting the graft into the eye with a damaged cornea. The results of this new Phase I/II trial were published in Nature Communications in the paper, “Cultivated ...

The resulting limbal stem cell deficiency renders the eye with a permanently damaged surface where it can’t undergo a corneal transplant, the current standard of care for vision rehabilitation. People ...