BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — A former Martins Ferry mayor and longtime and current business owner was experiencing blurry vision in one eye. He ended up having a successful cornea transplant, and in the ...

treatment and management of corneal conditions – including corneal transplant surgery, dry eye, infections, refractive errors, keratoconus, Fuch’s Dystrophy and more. Cornea disease or injury can ...

Cooper underwent complete cornea transplant surgery, a scary proposition for the family and for Cooper himself. "I didn't know how to help him," Jen said. I was definitely a little scared ...

Meet the transplant team: surgeons, physicians, nurses, administrators and staff. Every 10 minutes, another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. Each day, 21 people die from ...

These advances mean that corneal surgeons, for the first time, have to consider the ethical issues surrounding living donation that are familiar to other transplant specialists. Given the traditional ...

Typically, the original cornea is removed and a healthy one from a deceased donor is stitched into place, with stitches remaining in place for between a month and ... “It’s fundamentally no different ...

these healthy CSSCs can prevent trauma-induced corneal scarring, thereby reducing the need for invasive transplant surgery (Basu et al). One hundred patients have been treated to date. Our current ...

This delicate procedure requires technical skill for the preparation of AM with attached corneal epithelial cells ... of xenobiotic materials in the transplant, decreased risk of infection ...

With our Cancer Consortium partners at Seattle Children’s, we also specialize in pediatric BMTs. Learn more about Pediatric BMT Blood and marrow transplant (BMT) is often the best therapy for blood ...