A 31-year-old member asked:
Can you take someones eye and replace it with yours if you're blind in one eye?
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Dr. Matthew Gorenanswered
34 years experience
Not really: The only part of the eye that can be transplanted from another person is the cornea. We do 60, 000 of those in the us each year for people who have corneal vision loss. The whole eye cannot be transplanted.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
What could cause someone to be blind in one eye?
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Dr. Tim Conradanswered
Ophthalmology 36 years experience
Many possible causes: There are many possible causes of blindness. Leading causes are diabetic eye disease, glaucoma and macular degeneration.
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Last updated Aug 3, 2013
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