Word: corneas
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...landscape of unremitting horror, one bright spot marked the holiday season. As darkness fell on another grim Christmas Eve in West Beirut, a black Mercedes cruised through the seaside district of Ramlet al Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...
...next day Cornea was flown home to Paris aboard a French air force jet. There he was greeted by his wife, by two colleagues who had been freed by their Lebanese kidnapers last June and, finally, by Premier Jacques Chirac. "I cannot believe I am in Paris. I still think it is a dream," Cornea said as he spoke tearfully of his homecoming and of his friend and colleague Jean-Louis Normandin, 34, who remains captive in Lebanon...
...factory performs a variety of operations, including cataract removal, glaucoma surgery and the implantation of lenses. But the most popular procedure is radial keratotomy, in which a series of fine spokelike incisions are made on the cornea to correct myopia. In a recent two-month period, boasts Fyodorov, 20 institute surgeons handled 1,600 such operations "with only four minor complications." The treatment, which he helped develop, is still controversial...
...presentation on R/K by the gregarious Fyodorov was eagerly anticipated, especially by those U.S. doctors who practice his technique in the face of skepticism from their colleagues. The procedure takes only 15 minutes. First, the patient's eyes are anesthetized with eyedrops. Next, the cornea, the clear outermost portion of the eye, is marked with six to 16 lines radiating outward from the pupil, like spokes of a wheel. Finally, careful incisions are made along each line, altering the shape of the cornea and changing the spot at which light is focused inside the eye. In nearsightedness, light...
...that radial ks improve vision at least temporarily-although not to any great extent-many patients seem to be bothered by glare at night. Also, as much as half of the initial improvement vanishes within three months. Moreover, because the surgeon is cutting through almost nine-tenths of the cornea's thickness, there is the risk of perforation, an injury that could lead to blindness. Declaring that the operation is still experimental, an advisory body to the National Eye Institute has urged doctors to avoid this surgery until its results have been fully evaluated...