Our Mission is to increase public awareness of corneal dystrophy.

The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) Public Benefit Charity.

The Foundation provides financing for several Corneal Dystrophy support groups on the Internet: Fuchs’ Friends and the Cornea Transplant group.

The Cornea is the “window to the eye”. It is the crystal clear, slightly domed part of the eye through which you see your iris and pupil.

Corneal Dystrophy is an eye condition in which the cornea thickness increases due to elevated pressure within the cornea.  Normally corneal dystrophy is a slowly progressing disease.  For more explicit detail click the following phrase -  Corneal Dystrophy - in the left margin.

Over 4000 people have been members of our support group in the past decade.  Membership is worldwide. We are currently represented in 65 countries, with a discussion board where more than 80,000 messages provide sharing of experiences, information and emotional support.  Members discuss all aspects of corneal dystrophy, including symptoms, coping, treatment, transplants, recovery progress, insurance and research.

Volunteer Moderators within the support group maintain more than 300 pages of information for members, including:

• The latest information on advanced transplant procedures.
• Research on and access to important information about corneal dystrophy and related vision issues covered in web sites, print media articles, and research papers. 
• Tips for coping with the visual impairments of corneal dystrophy.
• A list of doctors recommended by member/patients.
• Tips for use of special accessibility features in computer operating systems.
• Sources for special sunglasses and helpful visual equipment.
• Videos, pictures and speakers’ content from our events.

Every Other year we host an educational symposium and conference in a major US cityfor the purpose of meeting and hearing top corneal specialists, researchers, and other eye care professionals. 

We shall continue to present and expand our educational symposiums and conferences, online information, and corneal dystrophy publications.  We stand ready to offer our support to eye care professionals in matters of information, training, advances in treatment, and corneal dystrophy research.

Navigation:
To make navigation simple, the buttons in the left margin will take you around the site.

Site Sections:

• Contribute! provides instructions for providing us with your tax deductible financial help.
• Corneal Dystrophy provides an exact description of the problem.
• Meetings & Events lists upcoming events sponsored by the Corneal Dystrophy Foundation.
• Links provides other informative web locations to view
• Literature is a link to the order page for our publications
• Press is our press release archive.
• Acknowledgements Display the organizations who support us with resources.
• NIH Corneal Study provides information about a National Institute Health Study of the genetics of Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy
• About the CDF takes you to pages that describe the foundation, the Board of Directors, staff and other officers.
• Transplant Stories Contains personal progress stories contributed by eye transplantees as encouragement to others facing transplant surgery
• Copyright Defines the full extent of our material copyright

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