Reasons For Eye Removal
- Cancer of the eye (retinoblastoma, melanomas, any other cancers of the eye or orbit)
- Severe injury of the eye when the eye cannot be saved or attempts to save the eye have failed
- End stage glaucoma
- Painful, blind eye
- In cases of sympathetic ophthalmia (inflammation of the eye) to prevent travel to other eye, in which, if untreated can cause blindness
- Congenital cystic eye
- In a deceased person, so the cornea can be used for a living person who needs a corneal transplant by a surgical operation called keratoplasty.
- Constant infection in a blind, or otherwise useless eye.
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