The abrasion affects your cornea, which is the clear layer that covers the iris — the colored part of your eye. It also shields the pupil, which is the black circle in the middle of your eye.

Narrator With the help of an innovative procedure known as dsaek, Jolie will have the damaged portion of his cornea replaced by eye surgeon Rick Fraunfelder of Portland's Casey Eye Institute.

The cornea is the dome-shaped window to the eye and needs to be smooth and regular shaped to see well. In certain conditions, the cornea has areas that become weak. When this occurs, the cornea starts ...

Ophthalmologists must embrace corneal diagnostics to select the proper patient for premium multifocal IOLs, according to a ...

OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis.A few thoughts after decades of treating these ...

Years ago, a young patient's mother told Emily McCourt, MD, associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of ...

BACKGROUND: Shield-shaped corneal ulcers and corneal plaques in ... Spectacle-corrected visual acuity of 20/30 or better was obtained in each eye. CONCLUSIONS: In selected patients, excimer ...