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Dr Agarwal Eye Hospital Develops Treatment of End-stage Cornea Diseases
By Express News Service
Published: 27th September 2015 04:09 AM
CHENNAI: In an innovative technique to treat end- stage cornea diseases like ‘scarred eye’, doctors at the Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital here have discovered a method to use a tiny portion of the cornea instead of the painful and time-consuming cornea grafting that is done now.
PDEK (Pre Descemet’s Endothelial Keratoplasty) is a technique where doctors take the two innermost layers of the donor’s cornea and inject it in the patient’s eye.
Cornea is about 500 to 600 microns thick, of which only 25 microns is taken from the deceased donor for this procedure.
Earlier, the procedure involved taking the cornea from the adult and graft it to adults.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Dr Amar Agarwal, chairman of the hospital, said he had tried this first about six months ago while treating a 65-year-old man from Chennai who had scarred eye.
“I took 25 microns of cornea that was harvested from a nine-month-old baby, and injecting it in to the patient’s eye. After days, much to my surprise, I found that the patient got clear vision. The result was better compared to adult to adult grafting,” he said. Since then, the hospital has treated 12 patients through this procedure, Dr Agarwal said. The study has been published in one of the top journals called Cornea, he added.
The recent beneficiaries, C Parvathi (56) from Vellore and S S Krishnan (63) from Chennai, who underwent the procedure and received cornea from young donors, were present during the press conference.
The existing total cornea transplant procedure, which require sutures and also carries the risk of organ rejection, could be replaced by this technique, said Dr Agarwal. He added that an international conference would be conducted on this procedure at the end of the year where the new findings would be presented.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cit...Cornea-Diseases/2015/09/27/article3049702.ece
Dr Agarwal Eye Hospital Develops Treatment of End-stage Cornea Diseases
By Express News Service
Published: 27th September 2015 04:09 AM
Dr Agarwal with patients, who recently underwent PDEK procedure, on Saturday | D Sampath Kumar | EPS
CHENNAI: In an innovative technique to treat end- stage cornea diseases like ‘scarred eye’, doctors at the Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital here have discovered a method to use a tiny portion of the cornea instead of the painful and time-consuming cornea grafting that is done now.
PDEK (Pre Descemet’s Endothelial Keratoplasty) is a technique where doctors take the two innermost layers of the donor’s cornea and inject it in the patient’s eye.
Cornea is about 500 to 600 microns thick, of which only 25 microns is taken from the deceased donor for this procedure.
Earlier, the procedure involved taking the cornea from the adult and graft it to adults.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Dr Amar Agarwal, chairman of the hospital, said he had tried this first about six months ago while treating a 65-year-old man from Chennai who had scarred eye.
“I took 25 microns of cornea that was harvested from a nine-month-old baby, and injecting it in to the patient’s eye. After days, much to my surprise, I found that the patient got clear vision. The result was better compared to adult to adult grafting,” he said. Since then, the hospital has treated 12 patients through this procedure, Dr Agarwal said. The study has been published in one of the top journals called Cornea, he added.
The recent beneficiaries, C Parvathi (56) from Vellore and S S Krishnan (63) from Chennai, who underwent the procedure and received cornea from young donors, were present during the press conference.
The existing total cornea transplant procedure, which require sutures and also carries the risk of organ rejection, could be replaced by this technique, said Dr Agarwal. He added that an international conference would be conducted on this procedure at the end of the year where the new findings would be presented.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cit...Cornea-Diseases/2015/09/27/article3049702.ece
