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The worst insult from a complication of any cornea based surgery including Lasik/Contact lens infection/etc is a corneal scar. Corneal scar can blind people. The traditional thinking for a corneal scar has always been to get rid of it and the tissue that contains it ie. Corneal transplant. When looking at a corneal scar, our […]

At the recently concluded Hawaiian Eye Meeting, I shared my work of nearly 3 decades with RK patients of all variety and complexities and called this “New Carpet Over Broken Tiles” History of RK dates back to 1936 when Japanese ophthalmologist Tsutomu Sato applied sharp slits in the cornea. In 1974, Svyatoslav Fyodorov in Russia […]

Keratoconus is a genetically involved condition of the eye where the front clear window of the eye, the Cornea undergoes continued change in shape leading to distorted vision and in many cases can progress to blindness. Keratoconus belongs actually to a spectrum of similar extreme shape disorders like Keratoconus, Keratoglobus, Pellucid Marginal Degenration (PMD). A […]

Patients from Germany, London, Los Angeles, Tennessee and Miami traveled to Dr. Gulani this week to seek his advanced Laser Corneoplastique techniques that can be performed on patients who are told they are “Not Candidates” for Lasik surgery. These patients are seeing better than 20/20 and very thankful for their” Gift of Sight” in the […]

In this Interview with American Academy of Ophthamology, Dr. Gulani discusses his approach to managing corneal scars, incorporating the entire spectrum of vision corrective surgery to deliver customized vision to each patient. Dubbed “corneoplastique,” the technique is based on 5 principles: brief, topical, aesthetically pleasing and visually promising.

Over the past two decades of seeing patients with keratoconus from all over the world, I found many instances in which the referring surgeons have done an excellent job in helping their patients, but the patients were still referred to me since they were dissatisfied with the vision endpoint. In nearly every case, I found […]

Thank you Ocular Surgery News for honoring Dr. Gulani as being a leading innovator in the field of Refractive Cataract Surgery!

Dr. Gulani’s concept of Think Outside the “CONE” where he takes Keratoconus patients straight to excellent vision like in the case of these two physicians (Twins) who had Keratoconus, High Nearsightedness and Astigmatism. </div

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Sultan used to be an accountant in his native Saudi Arabia, but the eye disease Keratoconus forced him to retire. “Also with glasses, I cannot see,” said Sultan. Searching for sight, he sold his suburban and traveled from Saudi Arabia to Jacksonville. Dr. Arun Gulani of the Gulani Eye Institute will perform […]