Here are three takeaways:
1. Ophthalmologist Ethan Payne, MD, performed the procedure.
2. Dr. Payne holds a special interest in cataract surgery, intraocular lenses and glaucoma management.
3. The procedure began to take hold in the 1990s and Dr. Payne notes he is one of the first in the region to perform the procedure.
“The procedure has really started to gain popularity over the last couple of years but I’m told this is the first time we’ve done it here,” said Dr. Ethan Payne. “I think using amniotic membrane transplantation is the least traumatic to the patient’s eye if a graft is needed, particularly after something like pterygium excision [a surgical procedure where the eye is kept open with a clamp, a microscope is placed in position and the growth of abnormal tissue is removed].”
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