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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by bsder on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:37AM (#13883222)
In addition you can get operations where doctors do things like rotate your eye 90 degrees so that the main focal point no longer sits in the spot with macular degeneration.

Sure, it only lasts a couple of years. But, when you are 80+ years old, that may be all you need.

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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by AstralStorm on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:35AM (#13883443)
There are further treatments such as complex lens focal point changes to achieve a similar result.
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Re:Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments by rb2k_ on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:16PM (#13886241)
Oh, super interesting.

My mother has macular degeneration and the only thing they even said was possible so far is injections with Eylea, Lucentis or Macugen.

I guess she manages currently, but it's interesting to see that there are other options

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