{"id":4105,"date":"2019-04-10T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2021-02-05T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:39:40","slug":"rogovitsa-i-glaznaya-poverhnost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/rogovitsa-i-glaznaya-poverhnost\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornea and eye surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/barraquer-ophtalmology-center\/\">Ophthalmological Center Barraquer<\/a> has a highly specialist cornea and eye surface department.<\/p>\n<p>The eye surface is a series of structures in the eye that work together and provide anatomical, physiological and immunological protection. It\u2019s made up of the tear film, eyelids, conjunctiva and cornea.<\/p>\n<p>The cornea is the fine, transparent layer that closes the eyeball, in front of the iris and the pupil. It has multiple functions: as a transparent window into the eye it allows images to pass through it and acts as a powerful lens to help focus them on retina.<\/p>\n<h2>The main conditions treated in the department are:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"\u00abtrx_addons_list_custom\u00bb\">\n<li>Vernal conjunctivitis<\/li>\n<li>Cornea guttata and Fuchs\u2019 corneal dystrophy<\/li>\n<li>Corneal dystrophy<\/li>\n<li>Acanthamoeba keratitis<\/li>\n<li>Bullous keratitis<\/li>\n<li>Contact lens-related keratitis<\/li>\n<li>Herpetic keratitis<\/li>\n<li>Keratoconus<\/li>\n<li>Dry eyes<\/li>\n<li>Pterygium and pinguecula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Treatment<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"\u00abtrx_addons_list_custom\u00bb\">\n<li>Lamellar and penetrating corneal transplants<\/li>\n<li>Superficial keratectomy with PTK laser<\/li>\n<li>Corneal neovessel photocoagulation<\/li>\n<li>Corneal cross-linking (CXL)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/services\/keratoprotez\/\">Boston keratoprosthesis and osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>No stitch pterygium surgery<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctival tumour surgery<\/li>\n<li>Eye surface reconstruction and limbal transplants<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHaemo-derived\u201d drops for the eye\u2019s surface (autologous serum, growth factor-rich plasma)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The team is made up of expert surgeons who are national and internationally renowned<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"\u00abtrx_addons_list_custom\u00bb\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/team\/professor-rafael-barraker\/\">Rafael I. Barraquer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/team\/dr-juan-p-alvarez-de-toledo-elizalde\/\">Juan \u00c1lvarez de Toledo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/team\/dr-maria-fideliz-de-la-pas\/\">Mar\u00eda de la Paz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Temprano<\/li>\n<li>V\u00edctor Charoenrook<\/li>\n<li>Paola Sauvageot<\/li>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Lamarca<\/li>\n<li>Borja Salvador<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ophthalmological Center Barraquer has a highly specialist cornea and eye surface department. The eye surface is a series of structures in the eye that work together and provide anatomical, physiological and immunological protection. It\u2019s made up of the tear film, eyelids, conjunctiva and cornea. The cornea is the fine, transparent layer that closes the eyeball, in front of the iris&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-oftalmologiya"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9055,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/9055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeniahs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}