The cornea is the clear layer on the front of your eye that helps focus with lighting so you can see clearly. If it gets harmed, you could need to have it replaced. The specialist will remove all or part of your cornea and replace it with a solid layer of tissue. The new cornea comes from individuals who decided to give this tissue when they died.
A cornea treatment, likewise called keratoplasty, can bring back vision, decrease torment, and conceivable work on the presence of your cornea in the event that it is white and scarred.
Who Needs One?
The light ray that passes through a harmed cornea can get destroyed and change your vision.
A corneal transplant rectifies a few eye issues, including:
- Cornea scarring in light of a physical issue or a disease
- Corneal ulcers or “sores” from an infection
- An ailment that makes your cornea swell out (keratoconus)
- Diminishing, obfuscating, or expanding the cornea
- Acquired eye illnesses, like Fuchs’ dystrophy and others
- Issues brought about by a prior eye activity
- Your primary care physician will tell you which explicit system is best for your condition.
Full Thickness Corneal Transplant
On the off chance that the specialist does an infiltrating keratoplasty (PK), every one of the layers of your cornea gets supplanted. The specialist sews the new cornea onto your eye with lines thinner than hair.
You could require this method on the off chance that you have a serious cornea injury or terrible protruding and scarring.
It has the longest mending time.
Partial Thickness Corneal Transplant
During profound front lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), the specialist infuses air to take off and isolate the flimsy outside and thick center layers of your cornea, then eliminate and replaces just those.
Individuals with keratoconus or a corneal scar that hasn’t impacted the inward layers might have this done.
The mending time with this system is more limited than a full-thickness transplant. Since your eye itself isn’t opened up, it’s impossible for the focal point and iris could be harmed, and there’s less opportunity of disease inside your eye.
Surgery
Before your activity, your PCP will presumably do a test and some lab tests to actually take a look at whether you’re in great general well-being. You might need to quit taking specific meds, like ibuprofen, two or three weeks before the method.
Normally, you’ll need to involve anti-infection drops in your eye the day preceding your transplant to help prevent in infection.
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