Synthetic corneas

Israel has approved the first-in-human synthetic corneal transplants. Surgeons at Israel’s Beilinson Hospital will operate to restore the sight of 10 Israelis using KPro implants from Israel’s CorNeat Vision (reported here previously). If OK, Canada, the US, France, China and the Netherlands will follow.

https://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-to-perform-first-synthetic-cornea-transplant-returning-sight-to-blind/

https://www.corneat.com/news/CorNeat-Vision’s-Synthetic-Cornea-Approved-for-First-in-Human-Implantation

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