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Last year, with eyes from the eye bank, 333 corneal graft operations were performed, 90% of them successful. The operation can restore sight only when blindness is caused by damage to the cornea. Among conditions the operation cannot cure is glaucoma...
...corneal operation is "a relatively simple procedure," according to Manhattan Ophthalmologist R. Townley Paton, one of the bank's founders. Chief requirements are a skilled surgeon and good eye material to work with. One eye will restore sight to three others because all the corneal tissue can be used (the cornea covers the whole iris), but each transplant needs to be only about average pupil size (see cut). Bandages come off in three or four days; stitches are out in a week...
...will solicit funds and healthy eyes. (Eyes are given by bequest and arrangements with surviving relatives, or by gift from people who must lose them by surgery.) The money will be used to provide scholarships to doctors all over the U.S. who want to learn the corneal grafting technique, and to establish bank branches wherever they are needed...
...Francisco last week Dr. Martin Icove Green, 39, surgeon of a busy eye hospital, wishing to emulate the Russian example, asked-with considerable circumspection-for authority to take corneas from the eyes of the dead. Hitherto in the U. S. such corneal transplants have come from living eyes (removed because of tumors, etc.) and coreas for transplanting have usually been available only when a patient whose eye was removed goodheartedly offered it to another sufferer...
...ophthalmologists enucleated the old man's left eye, stripped it of part of its transparent cornea which they immediately substituted for the young man's opaque cornea. So commonplace has this eye operation become (corneal grafts may be taken from the eyes of stillborn babies or persons who have just died) that Charity Hospital surgeons assured Frank Chabina that within two weeks he would probably see as well as ever. Commented the grateful old donor: ''It looks a lot different to an old man like me than to a young fellow with all his life ahead...