June 18, 2011

American surgeons restore sight   63-year-old man who was blind in one eye as a child. The blindness was the result of injuries received by a patient in the age of 8, after which the retina is affected eyes start to flake off.

The complexity of the operation was that the longer retina It is in a state detached from the eye, the less chance of recovery. This is also the case, according to doctors, truly unique. After all, from the time of injury, the man took 55 years.

A few days before surgery, the patient went to a clinic in New York complaining of redness and pain in the eyes. Medics was found bleeding and increased pressure in the unseeing eyes. After washing and processing procedures, blindness He retreated, and the man was able to distinguish between light sources. On this basis, it was decided to have surgery to restore vision.

Surgeons believe that the success of the operation due to the relatively small distance from the eye retina exfoliation and no other eye diseases . Due to this, the patient began seeing.