Cornea

Keratoconus is a progressive eye disease in which the cornea thins and bulges forward into a cone shape, causing increasing irregu...

Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy is a progressive disease of the corneal endothelium, the single layer of cells on the inner su...

A corneal transplant, or keratoplasty, replaces damaged or diseased corneal tissue with donor tissue. In penetrating keratoplasty,...

Corneal collagen cross linking, CXL, is a treatment that strengthens the cornea to halt the progression of keratoconus and other c...

Keratitis is inflammation of the cornea, the clear front window of the eye. Infectious keratitis can be caused by bacteria, viruse...

A corneal abrasion is a scrape of the corneal epithelium, the thin outer cell layer of the cornea, caused by fingernails, makeup b...