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CEUTA: STEM CELL TRANSPLANT FOR AMD. EYE OPHTHALMOLOGY

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We get questions about the story recently published in many media on Degeneration Treatment MACULAR STEM CELLS.

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British scientists from University College London (UCL) have developed a treatment study (clinical trial) for Macular Degeneration (AMD) - from the use of stem cells, which could begin to implement by 2015.

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The study of treatment is to replace the layer of eye cells that have undergone a degenerative process because of the age by new cells derived from embryonic stem cell manipulation.

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This is a new phase of clinical trial initiated in 2007 (v http://www.fundacion-vision.org.py/docs_v2020/tema227.pdf er). According to Professor Peter Coffey, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, the tests performed so far in the laboratory have yielded a satisfactory result.

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The procedure is to generate in the laboratory of RPE cells qa replacement from stem cells. These new cells are then injected into the affected area (macular region).

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already before the scientists themselves have made cell autotransplantation in patients with good prospects, but it is a complicated intervention they manage a few cells (autologous), which limits its use.

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aim is to establish a protocol that intervention can be reduced to a 45-minute procedure under local anesthesia.

* Scientists from UCL and Moorfields Hospital, working now to produce cells that can be used clinically with the announced financial support of Pfizer, await first test starting in 2011, once receive authorization medical authorities in the UK.

* Once established steps and protocols is expected that intervention can be reduced to a 45-minute procedure under local anesthesia.

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Being a trial still in development, is not expected its application to clinical practice until 2015.

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Basic information and guidance. For personalized information consult your ophthalmologist.

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