Probably not. Surgery isn't usually needed for a corneal abrasion itself. But rare and severe cases, with large or deep scars from nonhealing abrasions, might need an operation called a ...

"What happens to the eye when you get UV exposure is that the epithelial layer loses its resilience. Some of it sloughs off," Akpek said. "Sometimes it might slough off fully, and that is very, very, ...

Corneal blindness is vision loss due to damage or scarring of the cornea, the eye's transparent outer layer. It can happen because of infections, injuries, and deficiencies like vitamin A.

Corneal disease is the primary cause of visual loss in allergic eye disease. It occurs almost exclusively in vernal keratoconjunctivitis and atopic keratoconjunctivitis. It is characterized by ...

The study focused on four patients with limbal stem-cell deficiency (LSCD), a condition that leads to blindness due to corneal scarring. These patients received corneal cell transplants derived ...

The indication for insertion of ProKera was nonhealing corneal ulcers of infective origin ... vascularization, or scarring but no epithelial defect; stage 2: neurotrophic keratopathy with ...