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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.
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