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Donating Corneas

Emma Hart and Alyssa Novelli

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About Corneas

corneas are in your eyes the functions are to bend light rays

that go into the eyes cornea lense does fine tuning to

vision

1/2 millimeter thick contains 5 layers (epithelium,

Bowmans membrane, stroma,bescemets membrane, andendothelium)

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Transplants

40,000 corneal transplants eachyear

93% of corneas function after 1year of transplant

72% function after 5 years no risk of death can occur loss of vision/ whole eye may occur

irregular pupil

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Waiting list

no one can die while waiting forcorneas

can lose vision 1-3 month waiting period for

corneas 20,000 wait for cornea transplants only 500 can be helped

The procedure is estimated to take1 hour

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Donating Corneas

Anyone between the ages of 6 to70 who died of a unatural causelike car crashes or gun shotwounds or natural causes likeheartattack or strokes can donate

their corneas. People who havereceived previous laser surgery orinfections such as HIV, TB andLeukemia unfortunantly can notdonate their corneas.

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Medical Conditions

Adults, children and some babiesneed transplants for various

reasons. When a person has acornea disease, when the corneabecomes cone-shaped or they have

scarring after infection or injury youcan be put on a waiting list for acornea transplant. There are nomedical conditions that wouldrestrict someone from receicving a

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Restrictions

The restrctions on lifestyles aftersurgery are not too major. Notwearing contact lenses for the firstfew weeks after the surgery is theonly major restrctions on

someones lifestyle. Also, for thefirst six weeks people must avoidheavy exercise.

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Cornea Transplant

Expenses For someone to donate their

cornea the cost is around $2,800

and for someone to receive acornea the cost is around $7,000

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Hospitals

Most hospitals do the procedure of transplanting corneas, but theHopsital of California and Hospitalof Ohio are two main hospitalsknown for transplanting corneas.

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Post Operative Therapy

For the donor there is no postoperative therapy because thedonor must be dead to donatetheir corneas. For the recipientthey must get some bed rest the

nights leading up to their surgery. There is no major therapy thatmust be done.

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Works Cited

http://www.opt.indiana.edu/lowther/html/kerat http://www.cnib.ca/en/support/gift-sight/defaul

http://healthgrades.com/procedures/profile/co http://www.yorku.ca/eye/corneafn.htm

http://www.opt.indiana.edu/lowther/html/keratoconus_transplant.htmhttp://www.cnib.ca/en/support/gift-sight/default.aspxhttp://healthgrades.com/procedures/profile/cornea_transplanthttp://www.yorku.ca/eye/corneafn.htmhttp://www.yorku.ca/eye/corneafn.htmhttp://healthgrades.com/procedures/profile/cornea_transplanthttp://www.cnib.ca/en/support/gift-sight/default.aspxhttp://www.opt.indiana.edu/lowther/html/keratoconus_transplant.htm