LASIK Eye Surgery - Raleigh, Cary, Durham » cornea transplants http://www.visionauthorities.com/blog Laser Eye Center of Carolina provides LASIK and other laser eye surgery procedures for the Raleigh / Durham area. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:28:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 LASIK after Corneal Transplants http://www.visionauthorities.com/blog/2009/07/26/lasik-after-corneal-transplants/ http://www.visionauthorities.com/blog/2009/07/26/lasik-after-corneal-transplants/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:15:53 +0000 drdornic http://www.visionauthorities.com/blog/?p=71 Many patients have high amounts of nearsightedness or astigmatism after a corneal transplant. The disparity between the transplanted eye and the patients other eye may be so great that it can be hard to wear glasses or contact lenses. In some cases, LASIK is the answer. A study sought to find out if wavefront-guided LASIK was effective after corneal transplants (penetrating keratoplasty) for an eye disease known as keratoconus.

At 3 years follow-up, standard LASIK and topographically guided two-step LASIK showed good results following penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus, a study found.

“After a long follow-up period, both topographically guided two-step LASIK and standard LASIK could be considered effective and safe tools in the correction of refractive errors after successful [PK] for keratoconus,” the study authors said.

At the Laser Eye Center of Carolina, we perform corneal transplants and concur with the results of this study that show that LASIK can be useful after successful surgery. Many Raleigh, NC area patients have benefitted from our experience in cornea transplants and LASIK.

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