A woman in her 50s underwent simple limbal epithelial transplantation (SLET) in the left eye for chemical injury with total limbal stem cell deficiency. A seroma, a hitherto unreported complication of ...

Once diagnosed, treatment options vary based on the severity of the condition and may include limbal stem cell transplantation or the use of alternative stem cell sources, such as oral or nasal ...

Those with confirmed LSCD may also be candidates for surgical treatments including corneal epithelial removal with or without amniotic membrane transplantation or one of various forms of limbal stem ...

Stem cell transplants aim to help a patient recover from the loss of blood cells they experience while being treated for multiple myeloma. These blood-making cells are removed from the body and stored ...

10 A classic deceased-donor corneal transplant could be performed in an LSC-deficient eye but the prognosis is poor without LSCs. It may not, therefore, be a fair and prudent use of corneal tissue ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — Research has shown that a potential new targeted therapy for childhood brain cancer is effective in infiltrating and killing tumor cells in preclinical models tested in mice.

Patients with limbal deficiency may benefit from limbal stem cell transplantation to alleviate persistent epithelial defects, maintain conjunctivalization regression and corneal avascularity ...

Many of these studies are investigative, with low statistical power, and there are many questions, such as HLA matching, cultivation methods, the pre- and post-transplantation cellular and ...