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Dr. Xenia Petrova
Ophthalmologist, Physician, Doctor of Medical Science
«We are now ready to suggest a treatment for cataracts without surgical intervention. It’s no exaggeration to say that history is being written before our eyes. As a student, I and many of my colleagues only heard one phrase, the much repeated, ‘Cataracts can only be treated surgically.’
Thanks to modern technology and the discovery of the induction factor for angiogenesis (stimulating the growth of new blood vessels) in the clinic here we are now able to help any person suffering from cataracts. This includes patients who for various reasons do not wish to go through a surgical operation and those who prefer to get rid of their problem in a progressive, gentle manner, without an operation and thereby retaining their own original lens».
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Video and Audio Material on the Theme of
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The Greek origin of the word, ‘cataract’ means ‘waterfall.’ It is likely that the word was applied to this particular illness thanks to its most common symptom of blurred vision, unclear, indistinct and dim sight. To put it another way, a person with cataracts looks at the world as if through flowing water.
The word cataract is taken to mean a clouding of internal tissue of the lens or its capsule. The clouding may be partial or complete.
Onset of the illness
and possible complications
A partial clouding of the lens of the eye is the most widespread symptom of eye disease and the most common reason for blindness. According to the WHO, some 17 million people suffer from cataracts. They are mainly aged 60 and over. Between the ages of 70 to 80, cataracts are found in 260 men and 460 women out of every thousand, and over the age of 80, nearly everyone has them.
Statistics show that some 20 million people in the world are blind as a result of cataracts.
There are many reasons for the clouding over of the lens of the eye; a dysfunction of the metabolism in the tissues of the lens (a slowing down of the metabolic processes and a subsequent reduction of the supply of oxygen into the tissues of the lens), a reduction in the number of protein connections in the lens tissues as tends to happen throughout the body with advancing years. The cataract can take up as much as 25% of the structure of the diseased eye.
Treatment
БThanks to an effective course of systematic treatment we have been able to achieve a removal of the clouding of the lens without surgery for many patients. Even after the first day of treatment patients have reported a ‘lightness’ when reading and a reduction in the feeling of tension in the eyes. Clarity and contrast improve as does the ability to distinguish colour. After 2-3 days sharpness of vision gradually improves and medical examination reveals an improvement in image resolution at the back of the eye. They also have seen a significant change: the calibre of the blood vessels of the eye return to normal, the microcirculation in the retina improves. The smallest and finest arterioles which before treatment were narrowed like threads, are now carrying a normal volume of arterial blood to the whole area of the retinal. Even if an unexpected break in treatment occurs, this improvement will be maintained.
The non-surgical treatment of cataracts has a very positive future and the results to date are most encouraging.
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| Photographs of the back of the eye of a patient with cataracts |
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| At the time of entry to the clinic (clouded lens) |
After 10 days of therapy |
Notes
At present, eye sight is tested by the use of a special table comprised of 12 rows of letters. Vision sharpness is assessed according to Snellen’s formula*:
V = d/D,
where V (Visus) = sharpness of vision, d = distance; from where the patient should be able to see, with a normal sharp perception, the letters on any given row in the table.
If the sharpness of vision is below O.1, i.e. the patient cannot see the first line on the table, then he can be brought closer to the table until he is able to focus on the first line and from then on, define his clarity of sight with the help of the Snellen table.
* Herman Snellen (The Netherlands, 1835–1908) — Professor of Ophthalmology, the first to develop special tables for assessment of sharpness of vision.
For more detailed information on the non-surgical treatment of cataracts, please contact our medical team via our call centre on telephone +7 495 921-40-50.
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Thanks to modern technology and the discovery of the induction factor for angiogenesis (stimulating the growth of new blood vessels) in the clinic here we are now able to help any person suffering from cataracts. This includes patients who for various reasons do not wish to go through a surgical operation and those who prefer to get rid of their problem in a progressive, gentle manner, without an operation and thereby retaining their own original lens».