Eye Banking Community Celebrates 100 Years of Transplants
In collaboration with the Eye Bank Association of America and the rest of the nation's eye banking community, the Heartland Lions Eye Banks will commemorate the centennial of the first corneal transplant.

This momentus medical milestone was performed by Dr. Eduard Zirm in 1905, in what is now known as the Czech Republic. The first cornea transplant recipient, Alois Glogar, had experienced burns in both of his eyes leaving him blind. Dr. Zirm used corneal tissue from an 11 year old boy who had suffered an eye injury that did not affect the cornea. Complications resulted in one of Glogar's eyes, but the other resulted in the first cornea transplant.

To learn more about the centennial celebration of the first cornea transplant, please visit the Eye Bank Association of America's web site.