After 45 years, man managed to see through his damaged blind eye
Expert says, that the eye believed to be lost or even blind eyes can be saved with modern medical techniques, these modern facilities were not exist decades ago.
Modern eye surgery has restored the sight of a 78-year-old former IDF sniper trainer who was blinded in left eye during military action in 1963.
The patient had gone through number of specialists over the years, but without any success, no one was able to restore the vision in the wounded eye.
The patient was suffering from severe eyelid distortion, continual tearing and chronic infection in the left eye.
The lens in the blind eye developed a cataract and moved from its natural location due to a broad cut in many of the "strings" holding it in the center.
In recent years, he suffered from paralysis of half his body and the visual ability of his right eye declined.
Dr. Daniel Brisko's, (head of the ocuplastics service at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba and of the Ein Tal private ophthalmology hospital) consulted this case with Ehud Assia, (head of ophthalmology at Meir and the medical director of Ein Tal, who is a world famous expert in cataract surgery) on whether the left eye could be saved, even though it has been useless for more than four decades.
Dr Brisko able to repair the eyelid through surgery and improved its functionality and esthetics. Then Assia performed another operation to remove the clouded lens, implant an artificial one and repair the contorted pupil. The next day, the patient was able to see things he hadn't seen in 45 years, and a week later, he managed to see with 6/12 vision in the left eye. He can now drive his car with the left eye alone, the ophthalmologists said.
The grateful patient said that he had been sure he would become totally blind.
The eye surgeons said it was not the first time they had restored the sight of people who lost it decades ago. but this treatment is possible only if the internal parts of the eye - the retina and the nerves - are normal.
source: The Jerusalem Post
Filed under Cataract Surgery, Eye Diseases, Eye Surgery, Eye Treatment, Lens Replacement Surgery
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