Life with two new hands +++ Invisible danger – glaucoma +++ With stem cells against blindness
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Medicine and health from the 28.07.2017
There are tragic accidents in which people lose limbs. But it can also occur due to war injuries or diseases. In most cases, these patients receive prostheses. The first prostheses were rigid and immobile, but it has done a lot. Researchers are developing better and better models that come with the natural function of the limb in more detail. For example, there is a so-called bionic prostheses. Our Reporter Dietrich Karl Mäurer has you can show.
The Boy with the two strangers hands
In some cases, it is also possible for the limbs to be transplanted. In 2008, managed a large team of Doctors for the first time, a patient with both arms to be transplanted. The man had lost it in an accident. It was the first Time that such a major intervention was carried out. The new arms for the then-54-Year-old came from an organ donor. Other limbs to be transplanted, legs, or hands, as in the case of a young in the United States. Claudia Sarre spoke with the young patients.
Interview: silent risk – the glaucoma
The Green Star as glaucoma is an insidious disease and not to be confused with cataracts, which can usually be the elderly and surgery. The Green Star does not cause any pain. Initially, the Patient has no limitations. A sign that something is not right, is merely a raised pressure inside the eye. But one does not notice. The disease can in the worst case lead to complete blindness. We spoke with Professor Markus kohlhaas of the eye clinic in Dortmund, about how Doctors recognize the danger and what you can do.
Stem cell Transplantation: Blind can see again
Some people are blind will be born. Others lose their sight, for example, due to an accident. Such a person could help in a method developed by a doctor from Hyderabad, in southern India. Stem cell transplant victims in many of the accident, the eyesight to recover. How to do this, Silke found Dittrich for us.