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Russia - Doctors polished the cornea transplanted to the patient with a laser

Russia (bbabo.net), - In the Samara region, doctors restored the sight of a patient with a complex pathology by correcting the transplanted cornea using a high-precision laser.

The operation of a 46-year-old Togliatti woman took place recently, the Samara Regional Clinical Ophthalmological Hospital named after Eroshevsky reported. Previously, she had been seen by eye doctors since adolescence, she was diagnosed with congenital corneal dystrophy. With each passing year, visual acuity worsened. By the age of 40, vigilance completely disappeared, the cornea became cloudy, the woman risked losing her sight.

A few years ago, the patient underwent a series of operations, including corneal transplantation, cataract removal and lens replacement. And recently - surgical intervention on a high-precision laser. Ophthalmic surgeons polished the transplanted cornea in less than five minutes. Actually, the effect of the laser was even less - about 50 seconds. At the same time, surgeons do practically nothing with their hands during the operation, the doctors explained. The laser does everything by itself: it evaporates the surface layers of the cornea, leveling it. The new equipment makes it possible to carry out operations not only quickly, but also painlessly.

- We transplant the cornea: imagine, it's like putting someone else's glasses on a person. And excimer laser correction allows you to fine-tune the optics of the eyes of such a patient and improve vision. The operation made it possible to make the shape of the corneal transplant more uniform, accordingly, the optics became more correct, and we get high visual acuity, - said Stepan Turovsky, head of the department of refractive microsurgery at the Eroshevsky hospital.

The operation lasts minutes, but ophthalmologists spend several hours planning and precise calculations. The head physician of the hospital, Andrey Zolotarev, emphasized that the patient's vision returned absolutely painlessly thanks to the "tandem": the wonderful hands of doctors and outstanding technology. The latest modification of the excimer laser, by the way, this is one of four devices of this class in the country, allows both to eliminate optical defects of the eye, comparable to correction with glasses or contact lenses, and the slightest local irregularities in the shape of the cornea, he stressed.

After the operation, the Togliatti woman's vision improves every day: she can already read. For the patient, laser correction was free. Samara ophthalmologists made it as part of high-tech medical care for CHI. By the way, according to this program, more than a hundred patients have already "seen the light" in the Samara eye clinic since the beginning of 2022.

Russia - Doctors polished the cornea transplanted to the patient with a laser