Cleveland Clinic performs UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant
ABU DHABI, December 28, 2020 Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala’s network of healthcare providers, have performed the UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant in an effort to restore a patient’s eyesight. The cornea is the clear, dome-shaped window that protects the eye and helps the lens focus light. This vital part of the eye can become clouded or damaged due to eye disease or injury, causing vision loss and even blindness. To overcome this, corneal transplants replace the damaged cornea with tissue from a donor, restoring or improving vision significantly.
UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant done in Abu Dhabi
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The operation takes a little over an hour and patients are usually able to leave the hospital on the same day.
Surgeons at an Abu Dhabi hospital have performed the UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant to restore the eyesight of a patient whose eye disease was so advanced that the usual transplant from a human donor would not work.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s specialists removed the patient’s diseased cornea and replaced it with a three-part prosthetic composed of a titanium backplate, a clear artificial cornea, and a ring of donor tissue to help secure it in place.
Abu Dhabi: The UAE’s first artificial corneal transplant has been successfully performed at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD).
In a statement, the Abu Dhabi Government’s Mubadala-owned hospital said on Monday that doctors now expect to perform several artificial corneal transplants each year. The sight-restoring procedure takes a little over an hour, and is usually treated as a day case, with patients able to be discharged on the same day.
Cornea transplants
The cornea is the clear, dome-shaped window that protects the eye, and helps the lens focus light. This vital part of the eye can become clouded or damaged due to eye disease or injury, causing vision loss and even blindness. To overcome this, corneal transplants replace the damaged cornea with tissue from a donor, restoring or improving vision significantly.
UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant done in Abu Dhabi December 28, 2020
Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala’s network of healthcare providers, have performed the UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant in an effort to restore a patient’s eyesight. WAM photos
ABU DHABI Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala’s network of healthcare providers, have performed the UAE’s first artificial cornea transplant in an effort to restore a patient’s eyesight.
The cornea is the clear, dome-shaped window that protects the eye and helps the lens focus light. This vital part of the eye can become clouded or damaged due to eye disease or injury, causing vision loss and even blindness. To overcome this, corneal transplants replace the damaged cornea with tissue from a donor, restoring or improving vision significantly.