Cord Blood Accelerates Eye Treatments
Related News: Cord Blood Stem Cells, Stem Cells and BlindnessScientists in New Delhi, India have used a component of umbilical cord blood to treat eye defects related to cornea damage and are claiming that it speeds up healing.
"Use of serum, obtained from umbilical cord blood, was found to accelerate healing (cornea-related eye defects) to two-three weeks. Normal time for healing using other interventions is six-seven weeks," Dr R B Vajpayee from the R P Centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, whose team carried out the study, told PTI....
The umbilical cord serum was delivered in form of eye drops, Vajpayee said adding it was first tested for diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B and C.
The recurrence of corneal defects in patients is known after healing, the team claimed that none of the patients treated with cord blood serum who were followed up showed recurrence even after three months of follow up.
Eye defects that are related to the cornea are more common in india due to chemical burns, accidents, viral infections and inflammation...
Posted on April 11, 2005 01:36 PM