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People’s Republic of China conducted the first of its kind ophthalmic surgery the lens. Using stem cells, specialists have restored vision cataract sick child.
It is reported that the procedure was successful, and the eleven-year-old the patient for the first time in many years looked at the world with both healthy eyes. Doctors believe that their innovation will allow in the future return good vision to millions of earthlings, especially the mature age.
Recall that clouding of the lens of the eye causes an upset vision of varying degrees up to complete blindness. According to the data World Health Organization, half the people over sixty years suffering from cataracts to one degree or another, and people over the age of eighty this indicator is almost one hundred percent. Currently living in the world eighteen to nineteen million people completely lost vision due to clouding of the lenses of the eyes.
Cataract Treatment: Today and Tomorrow
Today there is a common invasive treatment cataracts. To do this, doctors open the patient’s eye and remove from there a clouded lens, implanting an artificial a lens. Nevertheless, despite the fact that such an operation is often allows you to restore a person’s vision, it is fraught with many complications, so immediately after the discovery of such treatment, doctors immediately began to look for an alternative to him. And perhaps it’s specialists from China managed to create a fundamentally new method, which will soon become popular all over the world.
Technique developed and effectively tested by Chinese doctors, implies the use of stem cells of the patient for growing a new lens directly in his eye. Undifferentiated cells transform into clean and healthy, like a baby’s lens. One of the undoubted advantages of this procedures, compared with the above and is already widely used on practice, is that the shell of the lens in this case saved.
Researchers note that it’s too early to send to the past implantation of artificial transparent bodies in the eyes of patients, however the fact that the new method helped restore vision to a boy whose parents agreed to go on such an experiment, inspires undoubted optimism.
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