To restore sight
In Ufa research Institute of eye diseases began to carry out a new operation. Patients facing blindness, sewed bilingu. It is made from non-frozen donor cornea. Unlike similar operations, epikeratophakia allows you to remove the cornea entirely. The eye heals faster, there is a much less instances body's rejection of donor material.
No pain, no inflammation of the eye, Elena Gracheva never noticed. Disease – keratoconus – and dangerous. Invisible illness can lead to blindness. Begins as an ordinary myopia, but rapidly thins the cornea. The disease affects both eyes, first of all, people in young working age. Now Helen had nothing to fear, after surgery vision slowly returned.
The same operations did before. Only this opened up the eye cavity with the removal of the cornea. There was more risk of infection and inflammation. In addition, added the doctors, the donor cornea does not always take root and had to suppress the immune system of the patient strong drugs to keep the organism rejecting the foreign tissue. Now surgeons perform the incision with a depth of 250 µm (4 times less than a millimeter) and sew biolyse on the cornea of the patient. Whatimportantly, the native cornea of the patient is maintained.
According to experts, in Russia such operations do only in Ufa research Institute of eye diseases. The rest of the clinic while the more conservative and prefer abdominal surgery when cut the whole cornea. Maybe that's why among patients Institute not only the inhabitants of the Republic and Tatarstan, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous district and other regions. Per month, doctors make about 10 such operations.
Thanks to a new method already on the fifth day after surgery, the patients removed the bandage and return the ability to live without drugs and points.