Center for Sight performs rare cornea transplant on 43 year old woman
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NEW DELHI: A 43-year-old woman, Upasna Batra, who had lost vision in her left eye, has successfully undergone cornea transplant at a city hospital here, doctors said on Saturday.
According to doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, cornea transplants are very rare as less then one percent of total organ transplants are of the cornea.
Batra lost the vision of her left eye due to corneal decompensation after a cataract surgery went wrong at a nursing home.
Hailing from a small town in Haryana, she was not willing to undergo a cornea transplant, which was suggested by most doctors.
After a lot of persuasion, she agreed to undergo the transplant but the long waiting list worried her family.
They then turned up at the city-based Center for Sight, where the opthalmologists agreed to perform the surgery immediately at half the cost, keeping in mind the financial condition of the patient's family and the critical nature of her condition.
According to doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, cornea transplants are very rare as less then one percent of total organ transplants are of the cornea.
Batra lost the vision of her left eye due to corneal decompensation after a cataract surgery went wrong at a nursing home.
Hailing from a small town in Haryana, she was not willing to undergo a cornea transplant, which was suggested by most doctors.
After a lot of persuasion, she agreed to undergo the transplant but the long waiting list worried her family.
They then turned up at the city-based Center for Sight, where the opthalmologists agreed to perform the surgery immediately at half the cost, keeping in mind the financial condition of the patient's family and the critical nature of her condition.
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