CLEVELAND - One year post-surgery, patients who underwent Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) experienced greater cell loss overall compared to those who underwent ...

Since the first face transplant in 2005, there have been no more than 46 similar operations around the world. Now, a surgical team at NYU Langone Health has performed the first-ever full eye ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, surgeons at NYU Langone Health have successfully performed the world’s first whole human eye transplant, marking a significant advancement in the field of face ...

Reviewing this Healio | OSN cover story on eye banks prompted me to read again my quite controversial Lindstrom’s Perspective from the July 25, 2017, issue. The interested reader can find this ...

HOUSTON — Patients in Houston are some of the first in the country to be offered a new kind of corneal transplant as part of a clinical trial. The cornea is the clear outer layer at the front of your ...

STORY: Aaron James is the recipient of the first-ever whole-eye transplant in a human. Though he hasn't regained sight in it yet - it's an accomplishment that's being hailed as a major medical ...

I am a 74-year-old female who, about 8 years ago, developed glaucoma, and it was kept under control, with the guidance of my eye doctor. A year later, I developed cataracts, and I had successful ...

CLEVELAND—Many eye banks won’t accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail. The implication is that the number ...

The first time Phillip Durst saw the big A on the chart, he could hardly believe it. It was the first in a series of letters to check his vision in his left eye. “They keep flipping the chart and it ...

New York City-based NYU Langone physicians successfully completed the world’s first whole eye transplant for a survivor of a 7,200-volt electrical accident. Typically, cases of eye surgery transplants ...

OSN Cornea/External Disease Board Member Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, and a panel of experts examined a series of unusual ...

US surgeons have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye although the doctors caution that it remains unknown if the patient, Aaron James, will ever be able to see ...