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Med Center is researching eye ailments
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
Preceded only by cancer, Americans fear most losing their eyesight, according to the National Institute of Health.
More than 600,000 people are hospitalized annually for eye ailments and last year more than 500,000 of these people required surgery.
The ophthalmology department at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. is working with doctors to develop access of these operations more common.
"Ophthalmology in the last 10 years has made more gains than in the 50 years before it," Michael Hettinger, assistant professor of ophthalmology and director of corneal disease research said yesterday.
THE DEPARTMENT provides clinical and technical consultation and patient care in nearly all area of eye disease or trauma, he said.
"We treat all of the common ailments, as well as those that could be considered rare."
Eye inflammations, those usually caused by bacteria, viruses or foreign objects, are the most common type of eye aliments. Hettinger said. Besides these common problems, the ophthalmology department deals with glaucoma, a big cause of blindness in children and adults. Pediatric ophthalmology, oculoplastic surgery, inflammatory diseases and external problems.
Technical services include the use of high-powered lasers, photography, vision exams and other electronic testing.
Funded almost entirely through the efforts of the Kansas Lions Club, the Med Center soon will be moving into a newly renovated area that will be more than three times larger than the current area in use.
MORE THAN $500,000 was contributed to the Med Center
The Med Center ophthalmology department stands out among other hospitals because of its tissue typing devices and partners, Dennis Hettner said.
"I recently attended a medical research conference and we were the only center that routinely type the recipients of our transplants," he said.
Ophthalmology department by the Kansas Lions Club.
He said that cornea transplants actually were more successful than kidney transplants because of the acceptability of the tissues involved.
Hettinger compared corneas to the lens of a camera.
“If the lens of a camera is scratched or defective, you're not going to get good pictures.” Hettinger said. “The game is true for the corses of the eye.”
Healthy corneas can be transplanted to people whose corneas have been damaged by accidents, disease or defect, be said.
cent success rate. Hettinger's goal is to eliminate the small percentage of failures.
One of Hettinger's most recent patients, a 1-year-old girl, successfully received a cornea transplant through tissues trying.
CURRENTLY, HETTINGER said, cornea transplants had a 90 to 95 per-
"The parents of the child were able to find some good in the unfortunate accuse.
An eye bank, which receives corneas donated by individuals, is run at the Med Center by the Odd Fellows. This group, a fraternal organization whose mission is to provide the eye bank, helps the Med Center in its search for compatible donors.
The cornea of another child, a 2-year-old boy dying from injuries received in a car crash, was tissue typed as compatible.
ANOTHER AREA of specialization at the Med Center is the insertion of plastic lenses into the eye, replacing eyeglasses and contact lenses.
Used only in severe cases where a patient is unable to wear contact lenses
or glasses after a cataract operation, the procedure places a plastic disc under the cornea.
Not only does this procedure alleviate the problems of inserting a contact lens, it also solves the inherent problem of having it covers over the cortex. Hettinger said.
in the new methods discovered at the Med Center is a primary goal of the element's director, Theodore Lawliw.
CURRENTLY THE Med Center supplies about 50 percent of the Kansas ophthalmologists. Providing area physicians with basic education on the newest advances should be the Med Center's concern, Lawnill said.
"The techniques in visual research are advancing so rapidly that if we can just get what we know now out to ophthalmologists in general practice, we can make immense strides in eye disease treatment," said Lawwill.
Long doubleheaders create problems
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Sid Wilson, KU sports information director, would like KU women's basketball games to start 15 minutes earlier during doubleheader to avoid making the men's basketball games begin late.
"The other night was an embarrassing situation," he said recently.
Because of a Big Eight rule that requires conference basketball courts to be free for 35 minutes prior to games, the KU-Oklahoma men's basketball game started about 10 minutes later than scheduled Saturday night.
THE WOMEN'S game, which began that night's doubleheader, lasted longer than scheduled.
Wilson said that Oklahoma knew of the Big Eight rule and that they should have been able to begin warming up at 7 p.m.
PHYLLIIS HOWLETT, assistant athletic director, said that something obviously needed to be done. She said he was able to identify to look at all sides of the issue yet.
"We had to tell them, 'Sorry, but there's a game still going on,'" he said.
She said it was unrealistic to start the women's games at 7 p.m. followed by the men's games at 9. She said it would have been the basketball to lose its audience.
"We'RE HIGHLY dependent on that for revenue," she said.
She said she never had been a proponent of scheduling a men's and women's doubleheader, although the team didn't expect it. It would help the women's program.
"They attract different audiences," she said. "I would like to see them stand on their own feet without piggy-backing on the men."
Wilson said he was not against the doubleheader games.
"The doubleheaders give the women's basketball team a good chance for a little recognition. If we're ready, we need to start ground 4," he said.
WILSON SAID it was "not the solution to start women's basketball games at seven."
Wilson said the television stations might ask the teams to shorten their warm-up times if the games ran late.
He said that starting the women's games later in the evening and following with the men's would penalize people for coming to the men's games, especially those who came from out of town. He said it also would make it difficult for the media to meet deadlines.
THESE OUTSIDE of KU indicated they were unaware of coverage problems because of late basketball games.
Max Falkenstein, radio announcer at KKKX in Ottawa and WIBW in Topeka, said that games beginning late weren't a big problem.
"We just wing it and addib a little longer. It's not the first time that's happened," he said.
He said that late games weren't the problem with radio, but that they were with television, because advertising time was sponsored differently on
Channel 4 KSHB, Kansas City, Mo. televises the Big Eight conference games.
Su Powell, general sales manager of KSHB, said that a television game had run for 50 minutes.
HE SAID IT would be the school's decision whether to shorten the warm-up time. The station has a contract with the NCAA and the Big Eight that games will start no later than 35 minutes past the hour.
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