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Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) is a method of corneal transplantation that involves the removal of a thin sheet of tissue from the posterior (innermost) side of a person's cornea to replace it with the two posterior (innermost) layers of corneal tissue from a donor's eyeball.
Corneal transplantation, also known as corneal grafting, is a surgical procedure where a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by donated corneal tissue (the graft). When the entire cornea is replaced it is known as penetrating keratoplasty and when only part of the cornea is replaced it is known as lamellar keratoplasty .
Tissue transplantation is a surgical procedure involving the removal of tissue from a donor site or the creation of new tissue, followed by tissue transfer to the recipient site. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The aim of tissue transplantation is to repair or replace tissues that are missing, damaged, or diseased, thereby improving patients' survival ...
The authors concluded patients with long-standing coronary artery disease have some degree of cognitive dysfunction secondary to cerebrovascular disease before surgery; there is no evidence the cognitive test performance of bypass surgery patients differed from similar control groups with coronary artery disease over a 12-month follow-up period.
The recipient of a face transplant will take life-long medications to suppress the immune system and fight off rejection. [1] The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out in France in 2005. [2] The world's first full face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010. [3]
More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. Pig organ transplants so far have been “compassionate use” cases, experiments the ...
Organ transplantation and allocation is mired in ethical debate because of this limited availability of organs for transplant. In the United States in 2016, there were 19,057 kidney transplants, 7,841 liver transplants, 3,191 heart transplants, and 2,327 lung transplants performed.
Szurman's area of expertise is minimally invasive eye surgery, including retinal vitrectomy, treatment of macular degeneration, corneal transplantation with laser and partial grafts (DMEK), stem cell therapy for corneal surface healing disorders after corrosive injuries and burns, trauma reconstruction, glaucoma surgery with microcatheters (canaloplasty), and laser surgery for cataracts.