{"id":10454,"date":"2018-04-26T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=10454"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:18:50","slug":"first-time-in-world-dr-agarwals-eye-hospital-performs-a-unique-innovative-surgical-technique-cairs-for-keratoconus-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=10454","title":{"rendered":"FIRST TIME IN WORLD, DR. AGARWAL\u2019S EYE HOSPITAL PERFORMS A UNIQUE INNOVATIVE SURGICAL TECHNIQUE – \u2018CAIRS\u2019 FOR KERATOCONUS DISEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1 Dr. Soosan Jacob, Director\u00a0\u00a0& Chief, Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Refractive and Cornea Foundation,\u00a0<\/span><\/b>
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2. Mr Mohan Kumar, the patient\u00a0<\/span><\/b>
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3. Dr Ashvin Agarwal, Executive Director, Dr Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cost effective CORNEAL ALLOGENIC INTRA-STROMAL RING SEGMENT (CAIRS) procedure is a ray of hope for Keratoconus treatment and other ectatic disorders<\/p>\n

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Chennai, 26th<\/sup>\u00a0April, 2018:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital\u00a0<\/strong>today announced that they had successfully conducted an\u00a0innovative surgical treatment for Keratoconus,\u00a0<\/strong>an eye disease where the cornea becomes thin and gradually develops into a conical shape, thereby creating serious impact to vision. This innovative technique\u00a0and FIRST TIME IN THE WORLD<\/strong>\u00a0procedure, the\u00a0CORNEAL ALLOGENIC INTRA-STROMAL RING SEGMENT (CAIRS)\u00a0<\/strong>was successfully performed on a\u00a025-year-old Interior designer<\/strong>\u00a0who had steep vision loss with discomfort while working.<\/p>\n

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This innovative CAIRS procedure received the\u00a0\u2018Best paper award\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0(for the treatment of Keratoconus and corneal ectasias) from\u00a0American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Los Angeles<\/strong>. It has been extensively featured in the\u00a0American Academy of Ophthalmology<\/strong>\u00a0official website and\u00a0International Society of Refractive Surgery\u00a0<\/strong>website and is to be published in the prestigious\u00a0Journal of Refractive Surgery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The patient came with a severe defect in his cornea leading to poor vision in both his eyes. He had blurry and distorted vision for more than 3 years and had a poor visual acuity of 5\/60. The gradual decrease in vision hampered his routine professional work and regular activities.<\/p>\n

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Demonstrating on the occasion\u00a0Dr. Soosan Jacob, Director\u00a0\u00a0& Chief, Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Refractive and Cornea Foundation<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>and inventor of the technique,\u00a0<\/strong>said, \u201cThe patient was diagnosed with severe Keratoconus in both eyes. Under such a situation, a corneal strengthening procedure would still leave the patient with huge power and an irregular cornea. However, when the strengthening procedure was done in combination with the new innovative procedure, CAIRS, the patient was extremely comfortable with good improvement in visual acuity to 6\/12 improving even further with glasses to 6\/6\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dr Ashvin Agarwal, Executive Director, Dr Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital\u00a0<\/strong>said, \u201cTaking advantage of innovative techniques and implementing new treatments, we bring transformation in the field of Ophthalmology. Such award winning CAIRS procedures have been found to be useful in correcting corneal disorders thus potentially improving the visual acuity. It can also be considered as an effective procedure that can avoid the need for corneal transplantation in these patients\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The new innovated CAIRS procedure is performed for Keratoconus patients by implanting corneal segments in the form of two semi-circular rings which alters the shape of the cornea and gives improvement in vision. It replaces the usual synthetic Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segments (ICRS) surgical therapy, and thus avoids the use of synthetic material within the human body. Although many patients experience notable improvement in vision with ICRS therapy, there are some cases where there is no subjective or objective improvement in vision. Moreover, the artificial synthetic material remains within the eye as a foreign object. In the case of the new innovated CAIRS procedure, eye donor tissue is used instead of synthetic segments and the procedure is much more cost effective.<\/p>\n

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Mr Mohan Kumar, the patient said, \u201cBeing an Interior designer, my work involved a lot of planning sketches. Since 3 years, I felt that my vision was slowly fading which affected my work. I felt difficulty in performing day to day activities. Today, after this surgery, I got back my effortless vision. Moreover, I had a speedy ready recovery within a week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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About Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital a comprehensive eye hospital offering a one-stop solution for eye ailments; was started in the year 1957. Now the hospital is in its 60th<\/sup>\u00a0year of offering quality services in eye care. It has 15 branches in Chennai and a visible footprint in the states of Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andaman, West Bengal, and Rajasthan. A tertiary eye care centre at Mauritius marks its first step towards establishing an international presence extended upto 13 branches covering the Indian Ocean region, African countries and East Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(L to R) \u00a0 1 Dr. Soosan Jacob, Director\u00a0\u00a0& Chief, Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Refractive and Cornea Foundation,\u00a0 2. Mr Mohan Kumar, the patient\u00a0 3. Dr Ashvin Agarwal, Executive Director, Dr Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital\u00a0 Cost effective CORNEAL ALLOGENIC INTRA-STROMAL RING SEGMENT (CAIRS) procedure is a ray of hope for Keratoconus treatment and other ectatic disorders Chennai, 26th\u00a0April, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10459,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions\/10459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}