OPERATION

Message of common value




SHOW YOUR EYES ...
WITH LENSES !!!


LENSES....
SO EASY !



ARE THERE...
DISCREET MAGNIFIERS?



YES,  SUCH AS EASYPOCKET
WHY DO YOU REGULAR NEED
EYE EXAMINATION WHEN YOU
HAVE GLAUCOMA? 



YOU DON'T FEEL ANYTHING
BUT YOUR EYE CAN GET BLIND
SLOWLY
WHEN THE EYE PRESSURE
IS TO HIGH!




METAMORPHOSIS
(=curved lines)




THIS MAY INDICATE AGE
RELATED MACULA
DEGENERATION



YOU ONLY HAVE  2 EYES:

CHECK YEARLY !

SEE CLEARLY  !

WHAT IS CATARACT?



CLOUDING OF THE LENS





DAILIES: SAY IT WITH
YOUR EYES!


HOLIDAYS = LENSES

new cornea from a donor (for example keratoconus)
  • FREQUENT REASON FOR TRANSPLANTATION: BULGING OF THE CORNEA (= keratoconus)

  • SOMETIMES A CIRCULAR SUTURE IS USED

  • FREQUENT REASON FOR TRANSPLANTATION: CICATRISATION OF THE CORNEA

  • ESSENCE OF THE TRANSPLANTATION: REPLACEMENT OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE BAD CORNEA BY A NORMAL PIECE OF CORNEA FROM A DONOR

  • THE NEW PIECE OF CORNEA CAN BE FIXED BY INDIVIDUAL SUTURES

  • THE RESULT: AGAIN A CLEAR CORNEA FOR BETTER VISION

CORNEAL TRANSPLANT

FUNCTION OF THE CORNEA

The cornea is like the "window" of the eye, that allows the light on the retina, where initial processing of visual information begins. When the  "window" is cloudy, one can't look outside anymore. Cause : virus, earlier operations, early wear, abnormal thinning (keratoconus). A cloudy cornea can be replaced easily by a bright cornea coming from a donor. We speak of a corneal transplant.
 
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS DURING THE OPERATION?

Because the reparing and saving of the donorcornea needs special, the surgery takes place in a university-hospital. Because those special cases are collected there, those hospitals have the most experience in this type of surgery. This kind of transplantation became a routine surgery, with less problems (than kidney or heart transplantation) the repulsion danger isn't taht big (5 % of the cases), because of the absence of blood vessels. There is taken a round disk out of the middle of a cloudy cornea.
The intersection is mostly about 7.5 mm. This cloudy disk get replaced by a clear cornea, just as big or a little bigger.
The new piece get sewed to your own cornea edge that is left with very thin nylon thread. The thread digest in one to two years.
Sometimes it's better to remove the wire.


AFTERCARE

During a year after surgery, it's needed to use eyedrops. The eyedrops contains two active componants: cortisone that protects the cornea of rejection. The second is a antibiotic that protects the eye from infections. It has to be clear that you may never stop with your eyedrops, even if you're on holiday or in a hospital. If you're bottles are unexpacted empty, it's for the best that you get another bottle without prescription! Becomes your clear image cloudy or red, than you have to think of rejection. In that case you consult your ophtalmologist as soon as possible (don't wait for your next appointment, even if that appointment is in a few days).
In general, you may resume your allday pursuits after you've been dismissed from the hospital. A little bit of reading, handwork or watching TV aren't harmful. Heavy lifting and bending are discouraged. Dirty and/or dusty work and sports may be resumed after consulting your ophtalmologist. It's prescriben to wear an eyecub at night during the first month after surgery, so you can't rub your eyes when you're a sleep. Evoid dangerous sports (oa squash) or wear protection glasses. 
The biggest problem by cornea transplantation is: the slowly recovery of your vision, because the sewing of the new cornea transplant can lead to strong deformations (“astigmatism") . This can be solved, by removing the sutures after 6 months and afterwards wearing glasses with a strong cilinder correction. Sometimes hard contactlenses can give a better vision.  If the vision shows too much deformation after one year, it can be retouched with laser, what improves the vision!  
 
 
IS EACH DONOR CORNEA GOOD FOR EVERYONE ?

The most cornea transplantations can be fulfilled without paying attention to blood- and  tissuegroups of the donor and receiver. Sometimes  the cornea of the patient is growed in with bloodvessels by the disease. Than it is usefull to use a donor cornea,
that +- has the same blood- and tissue group as the receiver.
 
  A CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION, WHEN?

Because the operation demands a lot of aftercare and the vision isn't always perfect due to tensive sutures ("astigmatism), we advise the operation only when the vision is less than 4/10 and especially when the other eye isn't optimal!
By keratocone patients, it's for the best to wait untill the contactlenses aren't tolerated anymore or falling out too much!
 

 
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