Corneal Surgery: From Innovation to Clinical Practice
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Ophthalmology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2026 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine titled “Corneal Surgery: From Innovation to Clinical Practice”.
Corneal surgery—especially lamellar keratoplasty—has become a routine procedure for many ophthalmologists. The growing popularity of these techniques requires comprehensive knowledge not only regarding eye banking and surgical methods but regarding postoperative care as well. Moreover, the recent advances in corneal surgery are genuinely astounding, ranging from novel biomaterials and synthetic materials to advanced laser platforms and innovative ophthalmic surgical techniques. The different subtypes of allogeneic corneal transplants show the ever-increasing use of a single-donor cornea for multiple procedures. The discovery of new biomaterials and the generation of tissues from well-known biologic components have contributed to newer medical and surgical management of corneal diseases. The improvements in laser platforms and their algorithms have led to more accurate and precise surgeries.
While some innovations fail in the clinical setting, there is still successes, as there will always be room for improvement in the preventive or curative aspects of clinical management. We invite cornea specialists, residents, general ophthalmologists, optometrists, clinical scientists in vision research, and those engaged in the biocompatible materials sciences to contribute articles to this Special Issue. We welcome retrospective and prospective studies and reviews on novel corneal surgeries, perioperative care and eye banking.
The quest to maintain and improve eye health as well as prevent eye disease is every eye professional’s goal. We invite you to contribute your studies in order to improve our collective understanding of innovative corneal biomaterials, platforms, and procedures for the benefit of our patients, the general public, medical practitioners, and eye health providers.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Joanna Wasielica-Poslednik
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- keratoplasty
- penetrating keratoplasty
- DMEK
- eye banking
- corneal surgery
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