Stem Cells Cure Blindness

My dad has suffered from glaucoma many years ago and now his eyes are blind. I would like to know if this will help.

Thanks.

Hi. My son was born with bilateral coloboma, and the gaps in his eyes affect a large portion of the macula and optic nerve. They cannot see any macula in either eye, but he can see about 20/200 at best (he is only 2, so they it is an estimate using teller cards), so the doctors think that he must have some macula on the fringes of the colobomas. Is there any chance that stem cell therapy would help to improve his acuity?

A few months ago, in a matter of about 2 weeks, I nearly lost all of my vision while I and several doctors thought I was having a migraine resulting from a miscarriage. I was diagnosed with a disease called ideopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), sometimes known as pseudotumor cerebri (PTC), a disease in which too much cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is created and builds up in the nervous system, putting pressure on the brain, spine, optic nerve, etc.--essentially, any part of the nervous system that is surrounded by and "protected" by CSF. Finally, I was diagnosed with IIH/PTC, and I had to undergo optic nerve sheath fenestration (ONSF) on both eyes to relieve the excess pressure. As a result of getting the disease under control and having the ONSF done, my visual acuity is nearly as good as it was before, but I have lost basically all of my peripheral vision and have what are called transient visual obscurations--basically, "clouds" in my vision.

Is this loss of peripheral vision and this presence of "obscurations" something that could be treated by this research?

I would be incredibly grateful for any information you could provide, including contact information for researchers. I am currently writing a book about my experience and doing research into "treatment" options available for people.

Thank you very much.

Hello Roaini and thank you for your mail.
I do not have a son, but I am a doctor and I am familiar with the pvocedure.
Please be careful about spending money for stem cell until you see people who were patients and can see completely. Email me at and I will look for hospitals that perform donor transplants, which are more successful for certain types of eye conditions.
regards,
Dr Ken James

Please let me know if there is any treatment out there for homonymous hemianopsia. My brother got into accident 6 years ago, is now 42 and hoping that one day he will wake up with full vision, most of all, he could start his life again by being able to drive and go to work.

My mother who has gone through Cataract operation way back in 1977 has developed blurr vision in recent past then doctors adviced to go for Cornea transplantation and the same has been carried out at a renowed eye hospital at Madurai in India. But unfortunately vision has not been restored and when again we took our mother for follow check she has been told that her Optic nerve has gone dried and she will not get vision.
She is also a patient of Diabetes. I don't want my mother to remain blind for her rest of her life. Please anyone let me know the treatment and I'll make ensure that my mother should go through that treatment. I want my mothers vision back.

Regards,

Manoj Kumar Ojha, UAE/INDIA

I have an aunt who turned blind during the age of 11. She is now 48 years old. She was slowly losing visibility in one eye and then the other, and when her parents finally took her to get checked up, the doctors said it was too late and she would become blind completely. My aunt isn't so sure but she said her condition is due to disconnected optic nerves, though I'm not sure if they are disconnected from her eyeballs or the nervous system. Can stem cells help her condition?

Love all the comments on this board I thought I was the only one sometimes life is lonely when you can't relate to anyone. The research that has been acknowledged in this site is amazing I just hope this treatment is given a change and I would love to be in the clinical group.

My name is Casey 23 years onld, I have disappointed myself many times because I can't drive, read, or study like most people out there without some magnification.

I have alway wanted to know what is wrong with me no doctors in Melbourne or Perth can figure out what my Diagnoses is so they have called it C&R Dystrophy. I have 6/60 vison. I would love to have my vison back, I feel like I have been robbed and left behind feeling lonely.

I hope in my lifetime there is a cure or a doctor can Diagnose my vison so I have a chance to regain some vison that I miss the most.Good luck to the Doctors who have wrote this work it is advertising that this condition is common to many people out there.

To Whom It May Concern,
My name is Jessica, my father was in an accident about 8 months ago, resulting in severe rupture of the globes, and retinal tears. Will stem cells be able to repair the damage? If you have any information please contact me at the above e-mail address

My uncle who is 48yrs having blur & less vision in both the eyes since last 1 year doctors say it is due to dryness of optic nerve. Is there any cure through stem cell therapy? Kindly please let me know.

Dear Sir
I am writing you asking advice and help for my daughter " MASARRAH ".
To be brief, below is the outline of her complain:
1. Date of birth : November 23, 2007 durig car bombing in Baghdad.
2. Pregnancy age: 26 weeks
3. Body weight at birth : 1250 grams
4. Hospitalized in an incubator under oxygen for 55 days
5. During May, 2008, an eye specialist in Baghdad diagnosed the case of PREMATURITY RETINOPATHY with undetermined stage. He recommended immediate operations outside Iraq.
6. The difficulties in obtaining visa was behind the delay until August 15, 2008, when the first operation – left eye - was carried out in Damascus, Syria.
7. The 22nd of August, 2008, was the date of the second operation – right eye.
8. On the 17th of September, 2008, an ophthalmologist in Amman, Jordan, was consulted. His diagnosis was RETINAL DETACHMENT and FIBROSIS. The extent of the pathological changes were more in the left eye than in the right eye.
9. She still, as before operations, responds to intense light. She can recognize light and dark.
10. She is physically active and enjoys companion of the family members.

I do hope that you can help my daughter to see her dad and mom and find her way in life. Doctors in Austeria told me we can help your daughter but the coast very high.

With my best wishes and regards.

I've had my left optic nerve severed since the age of 3 due to a tumor on the left optic nerve, and have limited sight in my right eye. Is there a way that this treatment can help? If so, how, and where can I go to get the help I need? Thanks.

I had a craniotomy for optic aneurysms to my right eye back in Jul 09. The surgery left me with limnited vision in my right eye. Is ther any treatment or surgery that can or restore some omy vision??

Hi,

My son aged 9 and a half years has retinal dystrophy. He complains of going completely blind in areas that are poorly lit at night. I believe this condition is also called "dark blindness". Can anyone please tell if regenerative medicine (stem cell treatment) can cure retinal dytrophy?
Thanks.

Regards,
Shan

Hi,

My cousi lossed his visibility after he met an accident. Accident was not a big..but after one month from that accident..slowly..he lossed his visibility. Is there any chance to get his visibility. Please let me know, if any one have information on this type of diseases.

Thanks,
Bart.