(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, DECEMBER 14 - A 76-year-old woman suffering from a serious eye disease that had led her to blindness for 5 years, managed to recover six tenths in one eye thanks to a half-hour operation, never performed before in Italy, the hundredth case in the world.
To operate Luigi Fontana, director of Ophthalmology of the Irccs Policlinico Sant'Orsola, who in August performed a transplant on the patient, with an endothelial prosthesis in polymeric material, similar to plastic.
Not a donor cornea transplant, therefore, but the use of a sort of small contact lens adhered to the inner wall of the cornea.
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