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If your condition gets worse, you may need a cornea transplant. A procedure called corneal collagen cross-linking may help to slow or stop keratoconus from ...
A clinician teams up with basic scientists to learn how toxic RNA short-circuits corneal cells. The eye's outermost tissue, the cornea, is a bit more ...
Astigmatism occurs when the cornea or lens is curved more steeply in one direction than in another. You have corneal astigmatism if your cornea has mismatched ...
But with Fuchs' dystrophy, the endothelial cells gradually die or do not work well, resulting in fluid buildup (edema) within the cornea. This causes corneal ...
He or she will then assess your cornea for swelling and stage your condition. Corneal thickness. Your doctor might use a test called corneal pachymetry to ...
Cornea transplant ... The purpose of this study is to model the relationship between corneal swelling and cell density and determine how this relationship differs ...
The cornea is important to vision because it lets light into the eye. When ... That leads to a deposit of pigment granules on tissue located at the angle where ...
In astigmatism, the cornea or lens is curved more steeply in one direction than in another. Vision is distorted or blurry at all distances. Risk factors.
A cornea and lens with such curvature bend (refract) all incoming light to make a sharply focused image directly on the retina, at the back of your eye. A ...
About this study. In Fuchs endothelial dystrophy, the function of the inside lining (endothelium) of the cornea is not normal. Determining the function of ...
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