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Corneal Transplantation Surgery Cornea is a outermost transparent layer of your eye which acts as a window to the external world. It transmit light and helps to focus on Retina ie inner most nerve layer of the eye. Various diseases cause clouding of cornea, which leads to blindness, then Eye surgeon has to perform Corneal transplantation surgery to maintain it’s transparency. During a cornea transplant, an eye surgeon removes a portion of your cornea and replaces it with a new section of cornea from a donor. Types of cornea transplants include: Penetrating (full thickness) cornea transplant. This involves transplanting all the layers of the cornea from the donor Lamellar cornea transplant. During this procedure, the surgeon replaces only diseased layers of the cornea with the transplant. Surgeons at Orient eye hospital are well trained to do these newer surgical procedures . DALK, DSAEK, DMEK , these are some of the lamellar surgical procedure perform by our surgeon to help patient see the world again.

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