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Keratoprostheses for corneal blindness: a review of contemporary devices [PDF]

, 2015
According to the World Health Organization, globally 4.9 million are blind due to corneal pathology. Corneal transplantation is successful and curative of the blindness for a majority of these cases. However, it is less successful in a number of diseases
Avadhanam, Venkata, Liu, Christopher, Smith, Helen   +2 more
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Are Corneal Patients Accepting the Transplantation? The Cases of University of Gondar, Tertiary Eye Care and Training Center, Ethiopia

Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019
Background. For so long, corneal diseases have been known as one of the leading causes to blindness in the global. This blindness might be due to failure to accept the corneal transplantation.
Yordanos Tsehai Jemberu, Yared Assefa Woldie, Wossen Mulugeta, Destaye Shiferaw Alemu, Getasew Mulat Bantie   +4 more
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A native-like corneal construct using donor corneal stroma for tissue engineering. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Tissue engineering holds great promise for corneal transplantation to treat blinding diseases. This study was to explore the use of natural corneal stroma as an optimal substrate to construct a native like corneal equivalent. Human corneal epithelium was
Jing Lin, Kyung-Chul Yoon, Lili Zhang, Zhitao Su, Rong Lu, Ping Ma, Cintia S De Paiva, Stephen C Pflugfelder, De-Quan Li   +8 more
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Herpes simplex keratitis: Challenges in diagnosis and clinical management [PDF]

, 2017
Herpes simplex virus is responsible for numerous ocular diseases, the most common of which is herpetic stromal keratitis. This is a recurrent infection of the cornea that typically begins with a subclinical infection of the cornea that establishes a ...
Azher, Tayaba N, Huang, Andrew JW, Stuart, Patrick M, Tajfirouz, Deena, Yin, Xiao-Tang   +4 more
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Substrates for Expansion of Corneal Endothelial Cells towards Bioengineering of Human Corneal Endothelium

Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 2015
Corneal endothelium is a single layer of specialized cells that lines the posterior surface of cornea and maintains corneal hydration and corneal transparency essential for vision.
Jesintha Navaratnam, Tor P. Utheim, Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar, Aboulghassem Shahdadfar   +3 more
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High-Risk Corneal Graft Rejection in the Setting of Previous Corneal Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)-1 Infection [PDF]

, 2016
Acknowledgments The authors thank M. Robertson and R. Fordyce for technical support during the duration of the study. The work performed in Aberdeen was supported by grant from Action Medical Research UK (SP4328; London, England, UK), NHS Grampian ...
Amescua, Guillermo, Forrester, John V., Hendricks, Robert L., Knickelbein, Jared E., Kuffova, Lucia, Medina, Carlos, Rowe, Alexander M., Yu, Tian   +7 more
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Трансплантация суспензии эндотелиальных клеток в эксперименте ex vivo

Офтальмохирургия, 2023
Relevance. Corneal transplantation with entire cornea or anormal layers replacement remains the only treatment option for patients with corneal endothelium pathology.
B.E. Malyugin, S.A. Borzenok, O.P. Antonova, D.S. Ostrovskii, Z.R. Ebzeeva   +4 more
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Biomarkers in ocular chronic graft versus host disease: tear cytokine- and chemokine-based predictive model. [PDF]

, 2016
Producción CientíficaPurpose: To develop a tear molecule level-based predictive model based on a panel of tear cytokines and their correlation with clinical features in ocular chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD).
Caballero, Dolores, Calonge Cano, Margarita, Cocho, Lidia, Enríquez de Salamanca y Aladro, Amalia, Fernández Martínez, Itziar, García Vázquez, Carmen, González García, María Jesús, López Corral, Lucía, Martínez, Verónica, Stern, Michael E., Vázquez, Lourdes   +10 more
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Efficacy of different amniotic membrane transplantation techniques in patients with inflammatory and degenerative pathology of the cornea

Journal of Ophthalmology, 2016
Introduction. Due to its unique properties, amniotic membrane transplantation took its place in reconstructive surgery of ocular surface. The standard technique for amniotic membrane transplantation does not exist. Purpose.
E. V. Sereda, G. I. Drozhzhina, T. B. Gaidamaka, E.V. Ivanovskaia, V.L. Ostashevskii, O.N. Ivanova, B.M. Kogan   +6 more
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Repeated penetrating corneal transplantation in patients with a previous tectonic transplant

Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2015
Objective: To analyze, in a university hospital of reference, the rate of a new penetrating corneal transplantation in patients that had previously undergone a tectonic keratoplasty and analyze the results after one year of surgery.
Paulo Rodolfo Tagliari Barbisan, Rosane Silvestre de Castro   +1 more
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