A nurse prepares a cataract patient for an operation on the Lifeline Express in Chuxiong, Yunnan province. [Photo:Xinhua]
Chinese doctors are touting a new medical procedure which can treat a form of macular degeneration.
Doctors with the Third Military Medical University have developed a new procedure which can transplant stem-cells to treat hemorrhagic senile macular degeneration.
It's a condition which can lead to blindness.
Professor Yin Zhengqin with the University says the procedure involves a form of minor surgery.
"We're using a new technique, which involves removing the patient's damaged blood vessel in their eye. Then, we put in a retinal epithelial cell developed from the stem cell to the area of the eye where the blood vessel was removed. The procedure has found that after a few months of recovery, a patient's vision can recover to 0.15."
The new procedure has been conducted on 8 people so-far, with all of them able to maintain their eye sight.
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