In St. Petersburg, surgeons from the National Medical Research Center named after SN Fedorov helped restore the sight of a 15-year-old girl from Kazakhstan. TV channel “360” about how doctors achieve this said Head of the surgical department of the IRTC “Eye Microsurgery”, ophthalmologist-surgeon Yaroslav Baiborodov, who performed the operation.
According to the news of the TV channel, doctors found a glassy object in the teenager’s retina, while the tissue was crumpled and fused. He was diagnosed with a pathology called “familial exudative vitreoretinopathy”. It was at a stage that was previously considered “inoperable.” The successful operation was a first in world practice. Bayborodov clarified that the girl’s visual acuity was extremely low, followed by its absence.
“This is also a very serious pathology. The surgeon causes retinal rupture when membranes form in the vitreous body, the retina peels off, shrinks and becomes a lump, and the eye dies.
According to him, the teenager had two unsuccessful surgeries, which made the new operation difficult. Also, the girl had only one eye, the second went blind a year ago. The third operation took four hours.
“This is a very meticulous, delicate procedure because the retina is a living tissue, it cannot tolerate extreme violence. If you squeeze it tightly with tweezers or a tool, it will simply tear, life will come out of it, ”said Bayborodov.
A month has passed since the operation, the vision returned to the girl by 20%. However, the surgeon admitted that he could recover 30-40%.
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