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Press
Release 21st May 2009 Bangalore
GENE
THERAPY FOR TREATING BLINDNESS CAUSED BY DIABETIC
RETINOPATHY
At Dr.Agarwal Hospitals and Gene Research Foundation
(Govt of India Income Tax Exemption 80G) research
and development has gone hand in glove along
with education, service and charity for 82 years
and 3 generations. With over 600,000 patients
treated free of cost in villages, slums of India,
along with free surgeries carried out in war
strife zones of Sri Lanka and Kargil, natural
calamities like earth quakes Bhuj, floods of
Tsunami where food and medical supplies are
distributed.
Of greatest importance is the state of the art
facility created for cataract surgery and show
cased at national and international conventions.
From laser cataract to 1 mm cataract to 700
micron cataract extraction to hydrophaco the
cataract procedure has developed over the last
2 decades from in house R&D to the operation
theatre, making it the safest surgery in any
medical field with no injections, no blood,
no sutures, no hospitalization. The patient
can have a cataract surgery just like having
a hair cut within 5 minutes and go back with
vision better than he came to hospital with.
Very often the post operative phase of full
vision takes many weeks to months to come back
due to the corneal edema created through the
surgery, now with the advent of yet another
Lab to Market research carried out by Dr.Agarwal,
this has reduced to few hours to days –
GENE THERAPY.
Diabetic eye includes diseases like diabetic
retinopathy, cataract, and glaucoma, since all
these are degenerative phenomenon their treatment
will rest in some form of anti aging mechanism
that can be Mana – Gene Therapy. Where
the raw material is the patient’s own
blood mixed with Mana (biomaterial) giving the
patient’s own fetal DNA which has the
capacity to create an anti aging mechanism.
In a similar vein it is estimated that patients
with diabetes of over 20 years will 90% develop
diabetic retinopathy and blindness. Once the
patient develops hemohrage with or without treatment
develops retinal detachment and re bleeds into
the eye leading to complete blindness, thus
recalcitrant to treatment. Once again GENE THERAPY
– MANA has some answers when started in
time before retinal detachment sets in. Worldwide
171 million have diabetes in India itself it
we have risen from 31 million in 2000 to 79
million in 2007 of which over 15% have diabetic
retinopathy
With over 40 million blind in this world and
90% in developing countries the need of the
hour is to wake up to realizations of 161 million
cataract 50% of world blindness, diabetes and
Age related macular degeneration carrying a
burden of 13% and Glaucoma 6% and corneal blindness
5%. Diseases of the retina and optic nerve can
never be treated by medical standards however
if we can arrest further detoriation of vision
itself we are looking at treatment.
For further information please contact +919845010510
+919886010510 +919448074429
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