Medically reviewed by Johnstone M. Kim, MD A coloboma is a missing piece of tissue in a person's eye. It is a congenital ...

Collagen has been used in ophthalmology since the 1990s, particularly in the treatment of corneal defects. However, why and ...

Randomized 87 patients to date in Phase 2b CHASE trial of KPI-012 in Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defect (PCED) ---- Continuing enrollment ...

Two common defects of the eyes are myopia (short-sightedness) and hyperopia (long-sightedness). In both cases, rays of light do not focus on the retina so a clear image is not formed. These two ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Research is advancing treatments for rare eye diseases, which are a leading cause of untreatable blindness in Europe. Seven rare ocular conditions affecting the ...

If your child is constantly changing the power of their eyeglasses, there could be a serious eye problem in the offing. About 300,000 children suffer from Keratoconous — a degenerative disorder ...

Complete success was defined as improvement in corneal surface integrity (decrease in epithelial defect or decrease in corneal surface staining if no defect at baseline). The proportion of ...

Sutureless amniotic membrane (ProKera) was found to be partially or completely effective in corneal healing or symptomatic ... keratopathy without epithelial defect. Our study shows less ...

Before placement of the ProKera, punctal plugs had been placed in five eyes, three eyes had BSCL placement, one eye had suture tarsorrhaphy twice but there was recurrence of epithelial defect ...