Corneal transplant

A cornea transplant is a surgical procedure to restore vision, which is performed for people who have lost their vision due to injury or eye disease. The cornea serves as a transparent protective layer in our eyes. It protects the anterior chamber from dust, infection and damage, and also allows vision through the light rays passing through it to the retina. Therefore, its damage can lead to blindness, so all patients with such injuries must undergo surgical treatment.

At first, keratoplasty was performed only by transplanting a donor cornea, but in the 60s of the twentieth century, new methods were developed, such as corneal tissue engineering. Thus, a new method has emerged, based on the use of the patient’s own tissues – the end-to-end corneal transplant (SEK) technique.

A cornea transplant is a surgical operation during which a damaged area of ​​corneal tissue is replaced with a special implant. Keratoplasty (from the Greek kéra, gen. krathos - horn + plássein - to do, create) is a medical procedure that uses a conjunctival or donor cornea graft to restore damaged tissue.

Like any other surgical procedure, a Cornea transplant may have a number of possible complications, such as infections, implant rejection, scarring of the eye, etc. However, if the process was carried out