corneal transplantation in the specialty of Taif at the hands of a Saudi doctor
King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital in Taif, represented by the ophthalmology department, succeeded in conducting the first case of stratified corneal transplantation. The Saudi doctor, Dr. Awad Al-Dhubaibi, was able to perform two operations for two cases that were suffering .... from corneal curvature, which causes visual impairment while they are in the prime of life and have coordinated with a hospital King Khaled Eye Specialist to send the corneas by express transport, which arrived in record time, and was the first case of a twenty-year-old man, as the cornea was implanted in a layer so that the lining of the patient''s cornea was preserved, which reduces the rate of rejection of the cornea after the operation and took about an hour and is considered the first case of its kind At the level of Taif Governorate.
The second case was a complete corneal transplant for his patient in her third decade of life, and it took about an hour and they left the hospital after two days of medical care and follow-up, which proved the success of the two operations. The director of the hospital, Dr. Matooq bin Muhammad Al-Osaimi, explained that this success reflects the development that medicine has reached in our homeland through specialized doctors and advanced devices that have contributed to the improvement of the quality of medical service, especially since the ophthalmology department of the hospital has witnessed an evolution and is in the process of performing major operations in the ophthalmology department through communication With King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh
Information: The cornea is the transparent part of the front of the eye ball and it is the only transparent place in the human body. Any change in the shape of the cornea affects vision and weakens it, and many patients may use eyeglasses, but 15% of them do not improve until after the required operation.
