The miracle of sight restored

A six year old girl in India received stem cell therapy on an eye blinded by wet lime. A small piece of the border of the cornea from her healthy eye was cultured on an amniotic membrane - a low-tech, innovative approach - and 11 days later was put into her blinded eye. When the patch was removed the girl could once again see!!!
The hospital involved has now performed close to 450 adult limbal stem cell transplants with a success rate of about 72 percent.
Clinical trials continue, along with more trials for heart attacks or myocardial infarction at another Indian hospital. And still the sceptics say that such procedures in non-western countries should be treated with distain as unproven. Who cares? If the girl can see and if heart failure patients can get a longer, pain-free and more active life the most of us would take the chance. After all the odds are heavily in the patient's favor.