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Study can help determine which diabetic individuals can donate corneas for keratoplasty About a third of the corneal transplant surgeries in the United States involve people with diabetes who donate their corneas after death. The number of corneal transplants has grown over the last decade, but through continuous research, the medical community has learned that not all corneal tissue from diabetics may be suitable for the procedure, known as keratoplasty. In a new study, supported by a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, research...

contributed photo A new $6.4 million NIH grant supports a CWRU-led research team exploring the success of corneal transplants from diabetic donors. A $6.4 million federal grant will support a team of researchers — from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Jaeb Center for Health Research — studying the success of transplants of corneal tissue donated from diabetic individuals after death. The number of corneal transplants has grown over the last decade, and about a third of these surgeries involve people with diabetes who donate their corneas after death, but rese...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--About a third of the corneal transplant surgeries in the United States involve people with diabetes who donate their corneas after death. The number of corneal transplants has grown over the last decade, but through continuous research, the medical community has learned that not all corneal tissue from diabetics may be suitable for the procedure, known as keratoplasty. In a new study, supported by a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, researchers from Case Western Reserve Univer...