Ophthalmology and Vision Science

Eye Transplant

Early endeavours read like the journal of Mary Shelley: embedding a puppy's eye into a rodent's crotch, transplanting a rodent's eye onto the neck of another rodent, culling the eye of a sheep from one attachment and putting it into the other. In any case, never has an entire eye transplant been effectively done in a living individual. The eye's intricate web of muscles, veins, and nerves - associated specifically to the cerebrum-has bound past analyses to disappointment. Entire eye transplants would be of colossal advantage for a large number 180 million visually impaired or extremely outwardly crippled individuals around the globe, including about 3.5 million Americans, specialists say

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  Latest technological advancement


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  Lamellar keratoplasty


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  DSEK/DSAEK/DMEK


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  Biosynthetic corneas


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  Stem cells