DSEK:The Future of Cornea Transplants
For more than 50 years corneal transplantation, or complete replacement of the cornea with the cornea of a donor, has been the standard of care for treatment of patients with reduced vision or blindness due to corneal disease. Success rates with cornea trans-plantation continue to be very good, but patients are plagued with long recovery times (6-24 months), and the frequent need for contact lenses or strong prescription glasses to fully rehabilitate their vision.
Hypertention and Your Eyes
Systemic hypertension or “high blood pressure” affects more than 50 million Americans. Since hypertension is asymptomatic until late in its course, it remains undiagnosed in roughly half of those who have it. Hypertension is one of the main risk factors involved with atherosclerosis or “hardening of the arteries”, the process by which the arterial circulation becomes less elastic. Other risk factors for atherosclerosis include increasing age, male sex, elevated LDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, smoking, physical inactivity, stress, and family history of early coronary artery disease.
Bifocal Implants
Over fifty percent of people over the age of 60, and quite a few younger than that, suffer from cataracts. The decision to have cataract surgery or refractive lensectomy using the new ReZoom® or ReSTOR® lens is an important one that only you can make. The goal of a multifocal implant is to reduce or eliminate your dependence on glasses or contact lenses. In fact, 92% of those who receive the ReZoom® Multifocal lens report wearing glasses either “never” or “occasionally”. See full story.
Itchy, Burning Eyes
Are your eyes chronically irritated? “My eyes are red, irritated, dry, tearing, full of discharge and my vision is blurred”. Don’t feel as if you are alone. These are some of the most common symptoms that we hear of on a daily basis. Up until recently, bacteria were thought to be the main cause of blepharitis. The answer may be the Demodex mite.See full story.
Diabetes and Your Eyes
There are over 20 million people in the United States who have diabetes. While only about 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, there are an estimated 6.2 million people that are unaware that they have the disease. Cataracts, diabetes and not following up with routine eye exams can lead to blindness. The good news is that treatment can reduce the loss of vision by 94%.See full story.
Laser Vision Correcion
LASIK (laser assisted intrastromal keratomeilusis) is the most recent advance in laser vision correction. Today, with the advent of wavefront diagnostic technology, wavefront guided excimer lasers can now treat patients according to the uniqueness of their entire optical system, not just their prescription. Another option is monovision. Monovision is a technique where one eye (usually the dominant eye) is corrected for clear distance vision, and the other eye is corrected for comfortable near vision.See full story.
New Eye Surgery May Allow you to Reduce Your Dependence on Glasses
Would you like to have a full range of vision once again? Believe it or not, this may be possible with modern cataract and refractive lens exchange surgeries. efractive lensectomy is a surgical procedure that uses the same successful techniques of modern cataract surgery. Refractive lensectomy corrects nearsightedness or farsightedness by replacing the eye's natural lens, which has the wrong power, with an artificial intraocular lens (IOL) implant that has the correct power for the eye. Unlike cataract and refractive lensectomy surgery of just three years ago, there are new implants that can be used to reduce your dependence on glasses.See full story.