What is Cornea Transplantation?
The cornea is the curved transparent layer of the eye located at the front of the eye, has the task of focusing light and protecting the eye from external factors, has a major role in visual function, and is the most important refractive lens of the eye. The transparency of the cornea can be impaired by many diseases. These diseases may be congenital, genetic or microbial. In the last stage of keratoconus, if vision is very poor and the patient cannot benefit from contact lenses or intracorneal rings, the treatment option is corneal transplantation.
Some diseases, such as keratoconus, may require corneal transplantation by changing the shape of the cornea.
Cornea Transplant Treatment
Corneal transplantation (Keratoplasty); Popularly known as eye transplantation, it is actually a surgery in which only the cornea of the eye, which has been damaged as a result of various diseases, is replaced with a donated cornea. In corneal transplant surgery, a circular piece with a diameter of 6 to 9 mm is removed from the donated healthy cornea, and a piece of the same size from the recipient’s (patient’s) cornea is removed and stitched to this area.
Why is Eye Transplantation More Successful at Asya Eye Medical Center?
- At Asya Eye Medicine Center, the latest developments in operation techniques and materials used are applied.
- At the Asya Eye Medicine Center, special cell-protective substances are used to protect the donor cornea.
- At Asya Eye Medicine Center, care is taken to ensure that the donor cornea is collected under healthy and sterile conditions.
- Tissue quality and suitability are definitely tested at the Asya Eye Medicine Center.
- Asya Eye Medicine Center employs the best physicians whose field of expertise is Cornea transplantation and who have thousands of medical and surgical Corneal Transplantation treatment experiences.
- At Asya Eye Medicine Center, your corneal transplant surgeries are performed in eye-specific operating rooms with surgery sets specially prepared for corneal transplantation. In our eye-specific operating rooms, LEICA imaging technologies and the hepafilter system, which is the ultimate in operating room hygiene in the world, are used.
- Medical supplies used in your corneal transplant surgeries at Asya Eye Medicine Center; All medical supplies, from surgical gowns to syringes and special medications used during your surgery, are special and one-time only for you. It is not used again under any circumstances. This provides the highest hygiene conditions achievable.
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