A donated placenta has been used to help save a man’s eye after an acid attack.
Acid was squirted into Paul Laskey’s face causing severe chemical burns to his eye, “melting” both the inner and outer layers of his cornea.
He had two emergency corneal transplants and three amnion grafts, where tissue from the inner lining of a donated placenta was used to save his eye.
Mr Laskey, from Newcastle, said: “I’m so thankful to the mother who donated her placenta to help people like me who are at risk of losing their sight completely.”
Cyynric on
The optometrist that I used to work with would keep special contacts that were made from placental tissue. They were fantastic for healing ulcers and scratches in the cornea.
AppropriateScience71 on
Placentas are often used as skin graphs for wound healing is also quite common. (Umbilical cord is better, but far less of it).
As a side note, 1 placenta can produce 100-200 1” skin graphs.
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A donated placenta has been used to help save a man’s eye after an acid attack.
Acid was squirted into Paul Laskey’s face causing severe chemical burns to his eye, “melting” both the inner and outer layers of his cornea.
He had two emergency corneal transplants and three amnion grafts, where tissue from the inner lining of a donated placenta was used to save his eye.
Mr Laskey, from Newcastle, said: “I’m so thankful to the mother who donated her placenta to help people like me who are at risk of losing their sight completely.”
The optometrist that I used to work with would keep special contacts that were made from placental tissue. They were fantastic for healing ulcers and scratches in the cornea.
Placentas are often used as skin graphs for wound healing is also quite common. (Umbilical cord is better, but far less of it).
As a side note, 1 placenta can produce 100-200 1” skin graphs.