Doctors have restored sight with stem cells ...

Doctors have restored to the inhabitant of the Great Britain sight with the help stem cells, informs The Daily Telegraph. The report on the spent treatment is published in magazine Stem Cells.

38-year-old Russell Turnbull has lost sight on one eye when tried to separate fight. One of the fighting has sprinkled in the right eye to the man with an ammonia solution. As a result of Turnbull has received a cornea combustion after which on it cicatrixes were formed.
During treatment surgeons have removed from the left (healthy) eye of the patient a site of a cornea the area of one square millimetre containing stem cells. Then a tissue slice grew up in laboratory, having enlarged its size in 400 times.
After that the damaged cornea of right Turnbull's eye has been replaced by a site of a healthy tissue. According to the patient, operation has passed successfully and has returned it sight.
In total given method developed by experts of Institute on studying of stem cells of the Northeast of England (North East England Stem Cell Institute, NESCI), has been used for treatment of eight patients, including Turnbull. After operation visual acuity at five patients has improved.
According to surgeon NESCI Francisco Figueiredo, cornea turbidity annually becomes the reason of a loss of sight at eight millions persons in the world. He has added, that advantage of treatment stem cells consists in absence of necessity of a long drug intake and the accelerated social adaptation of patients

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