Tag: cornea
Kidney, intestine, cornea, bone, brain… Who is in high demand? Or impossible to transplant?
Saving lives with one’s own is also a matter of numbers. First, the number of people a donor can help – between 5 and 7 – several organs being most…
Background to the Zurich “Tatort: Schattenkinder”
Updated on 03/13/2022 21:59 An unusually prepared corpse leads the Zurich investigators Grandjean and Ott to the artist Kyomi in their third case, “Schattenkinder”. She tattoos the cornea of the…
European first for placing a synthetic cornea on a blind patient
A 38-year-old patient received an artificial cornea transplant at the Montpellier University Hospital. This first clinical trial in humans is the subject of a study on 45 patients around the…