An unusual way to treat eye cornea diseases was suggested by Japanese scientists from Osaka.

They have developed a technique that allows you to repair a damaged cornea with ... tissue cheeks. In order to make a transplant suitable for transplantation onto the surface of the cornea from the cheek tissues, the doctors divided them into thin sheets of only a few cells thick, and then placed the resulting "patches" in a nutrient medium where their cells began to actively divide. Subsequently, these transplants were placed on the damaged surface of the cornea.

Already two months after the operation, the patients who underwent this procedure completely restored the transparency of the cornea, and 14 months after the second examination they did not notice any serious visual impairment. "Unfortunately, modern ophthalmology does not have effective methods of treating corneal diseases," said Dr. Kodja Nishida, one of the authors of the new methodology, in an interview with "BBC". - If, for one reason or another, it loses transparency, a person will inevitably become blind. But we hope that our development will change the situation for the better.. »Medicus. En.