This technique developed by Sheraz Daya while director of both the Corneoplastic Unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital and Centre for Sight. The technique involves cultivating stem cells in the laboratory and then transferring them to the eye surfaces of patients with limbal stem cell deficiency. The procedure hit the international press in 2006 following a breakthrough paper published in the peer reviewed journal Ophthalmology. Katie Piper has been one of the most high profile patients to have undergone this procedure. Read more here…
CFS Innovations
CFS Innovations
Centre for Sight has always strived to set the standard for patient care, and part of that standard setting culture is innovation of technology and instrumentation.
We have been involved in numerous developments and influenced changes to equipment and procedures many of which have become popular world-wide. Some have become the gold standard, for care used by other eye-care providers in the UK and beyond.
Our highly acclaimed innovations are used by surgeons worldwide.
Daya Translenticular Hydro Dissection Cannula
One of our most recent contributions is in conjunction with Laser Lens and Laser Cataract surgery is the development of an instrument to help remove the centre of the lens. Femtosecond Lasers like Victus, have automated complex components of the cataract and lens extraction process. The Daya Trans-lens Hydrodissection cannula was developed for specific use in Laser cataract / Lens exchange when by chance one of our surgeons noticed the effect injection of fluid had on the lens when injected into one of the lasered openings. An instrument was designed by Mr. Daya and Bausch and Lomb to take advantage of this and the result is a device that reproducibly loosens and breaks up the lens case after case.
The instrument was featured in a peer reviewed publication, international presentation and in an award winning video at the meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons in San Francisco in April 2013. Another great first at Centre for Sight!
