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Suggest Treatment For Retinal Detachment
my daughter is two years old.she fell down with a pen,it stuck into her right eye and it causes retinal detachment.she underwent scleral buckling in the right eye and vitrectomy.but there was no result. her left eye is normal.i heard about stem cell treatment for retinal detachments.is it effective?
Sat, 17 May 2014
Hi !
I feel sorry that a two year girl has got such a irrepairable damage.
Stem cell treatment in RD is being applied in some tertiary eye centre. It can not give you 100% any how.But in this case even if she gets workable vision by any means, we should be happy.
all the best
I feel sorry that a two year girl has got such a irrepairable damage.
Stem cell treatment in RD is being applied in some tertiary eye centre. It can not give you 100% any how.But in this case even if she gets workable vision by any means, we should be happy.
all the best
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