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World's first entire front portion eye transplant in Chennai.

Its indeed a proud moment for us Indian doctors.

This was a 4 month old baby girl . A 'conventional eye transplant' which involves only the cornea of the eye from a donor would not have helped this baby girl of farm hands Kala and Govindarajan, from Mambakkam village in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai district

But in an "out-of-the-box" surgery, the Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital declared that for the "first time in the world" their specialists' team has "successfully performed an "Anterior Segment eye (full front portion of the eye) transplantation".

"It has restored both the normal appearance and vision in the baby's right eye," an excited Prof. Amar Agarwal, heading the team and the Hospital's Joint Managing Director, disclosed at a press conference

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  1. AnnieJune 8, 2009 at 12:12 AM

    My son was born with glaucoma in 1994, he is now 14 1/2 and his physician is going to put implants in both of his eyes. His pressures were 50 when he was diagnosed with glaucoma at 2 months old. His first 4 surgeries were just slits in the eye to relieve the pressure and then the last 2 surgeries were the trabeculectomy. According to his physician his optic nerve remains pink. His pressures are now staying at 30 even with eye drops (Azopt, Timolol, Alphagan, Xalatan). Do you think that there will be an option of an eye transplant to help my son in the future?

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