Category: Corneal Surgery
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How CXR operation for keratoconus is performed?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is done in a cross-linking operation? Is this operation really effective? The cornea is made of a network of collagen fibers. In this disease interlinking connections between the collagen fibers become week due to which the corneal thickness decreases and the cornea is weakened. In this treatment, the collagen fibers are activated and…
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How do you operate for keratoplasty?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How the cornea of other’s eye you fix to another’s eye? How do you perform keratoplasty? This is very important surgery in which we transplant another person’s eye to the patient. Look at following pictures it will help you in understanding the surgery. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=”external_link” external_img_size=”800×800″ alignment=”center” title=”The part of eye which has been…
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Keratoplasty
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Questions about keratoplasty
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Corneal diseases
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is appearance of cornea when it is damaged? What are symptoms other than its abnormal appearance? If there is a minor defect, the color of your eye may appear slightly greyish. If cornea has been significantly damaged, then the eye appears white in colour. Vision deterioration is proportional to the whiteness. If inflammation…
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What is corneal cross-linking?
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] ?Is keratoconus curable This depends upon the stage of disease at the time of initiating the treatment. Spectacles, hard contact lenses, and intacs all can be helpful at early stages of the disease. When the cornea becomes too thin or non-transparent, then only corneal transplantation is beneficial. However, the latest method for treating it…
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What are treatment methods for keratoconus?
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] ?What are other methods to treat the patients with keratoconus This depends on the stage of the disease at the time of initiation of treatment. The patients are periodically carefully monitored and different treatments are given and advanced according to the progress of the disease. Following methods are used. Glasses Initially, the glasses are…
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What is keratoconus?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The cornea of some has a weakness. A part of cornea starts thinning and then it starts bulging at a site slightly lower to the center of the cornea. As a result the central part of the cornea appears as a cone. From here the name keratoconus has been derived. The thinning of the…