In Italy, a Woman Who Has Been Blind for Five Years Has Recovered Her Sight Thanks to a New Transplant
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Blind woman sees again after groundbreaking eye surgery: "I felt like a newborn." Watch the video on VRT NWS: news.
Sentenced to blindness after a road accident, a 67-year-old patient benefited from an unprecedented operation: the transplant of the central part of the retina of an eye, the macula
Medical intervention of more than six hours recovered Elena's vision. For the first time in the world, the central part of the retina was transferred to reconstruct one eye with vision from two affected.
Liberation
INTELLINEWSAfter an unprecedented six-hour operation at Turin Hospital, Elena, who had been out of sight for five years, covered the sight. In a statement released this Monday, the doctors explained that she had reconstructed an eye seeing from both eyes affected.
La Nación, Grupo Nación
Italian doctors performed an unprecedented transplant of the central part of the retina and returned sight to a woman who had been blind for five years.
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Noticias ao MinutoElena, 67, "had completely lost her vision following a serious road accident, which caused her an irreversible injury to the optic nerve of the left eye.
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