Cornea

Follow-Up Care

Your surgery is only the beginning of the process toward regaining your sight. In order to make your transplant a success, you must keep your appointments with the doctor. At first you will need to be seen frequently, but as your eye heals, you will make less frequent visits.

You will always have to be aware of situations that could become a hazard to your new cornea. Rejection could happen at any time for the rest of your life. In addition, direct injury to your eye could always rupture the corneal wound. This is not stated to frighten you, but to help you realize that a corneal transplant is a lifelong commitment. Luckily, even if your cornea should be rejected or be injured, surgery can often be repeated successfully. Your best chance is the first transplant. Corneal transplant surgery is the safest of all transplant surgeries and the success rate from this procedure is now very high. While a guarantee of perfect vision cannot be made, surgery can, in most instances, restore useful vision.