Two patients receiving embryonic stem cells for their blinding retinal diseases reported improvement in their vision. The results were released just last week online in the medical journal Lancet. Each patient received retinal epithelial pigment cells (aka RPE cells) grown from human embryonic stem cells. RPE cells are the faulty cells in macular diseases such as ARMD … [Read more...]
Retinal Detachment Surgery
January 19, 2012 By 30 Comments
This is my latest recording of surgery for a retinal detachment. This is the second of (what I hope) to be a series of "videos" on the surgical aspects of retinal eye disease. This is a recording of two procedures often combined to repair, or fix, a retinal detachment. Anesthesia Now, this video is quite graphic. Believe it or not, however, the patient … [Read more...]
