{"id":27682,"date":"2024-01-11T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/keratoconus-corneal-transplants\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:11:42","slug":"keratoconus-corneal-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/keratoconus-corneal-transplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Keratoconus &#8211; Corneal transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A corneal transplant is a process that involves a long waiting period. Poor vision during the waiting period, setbacks due to the body&#8217;s natural rejection and complications during the operation must be taken into account when making a decision. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curing keratoconus with a transplant?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What many people do not realize at first is that the entire cornea is not replaced. A central area of the cornea is removed and the transplant inserted. The peripheral area of the cornea &#8211; which is also affected by keratoconus &#8211; is not removed.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years, keratoconus can spread from the peripheral area to the transplant and cause symptoms again &#8211; this happens within 10 years in 10-15% of corneal transplants for keratoconus.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treatment through crosslinking<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If keratoconus recurs in the transplant, timely treatment using crosslinking (CXL) has proven to be promising. This can stop the disease, preserve vision and protect the valuable transplant. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is keratoconus? Dr. Victor Derhartunian explains what keratoconus is and what treatment options are available. Read more&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-27682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs-en","tag-keratoconus-glossary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}