Pterygium Symptoms And Treatment - Assil Eye Institute Los Angeles

Описание: Dr. Kerry Assil: Pterygium is when there's a little growth that grows from usually the side of the nose out over the whites of the eye and the cornea. People refer to it as surfer eye sometimes cause it's people who are out in the sun all the time, and the reason sun is the number one risk factor for this growth over the surface of the eye that leaves the eyes feeling red and irritated all the time, and you talk to your friends sometimes and you always wonder why the inner corner's a little bit red or they seem to be self conscious a little bit about it, the reason it grows in that particular place is because over there not only do you get the direct UV but also the UV that bounces off the side of the nose, so that area gets a double dose or a little more than one times dose anyway and that's why it tends to grow over there.

It's very irritating, initially it starts out as a cosmetic blemish, but later it can become devastating to the point of blindness actually because it can grow all the way over the surface of the eye, and historically the treatment for it was to just pick it up and cut it and to just kind of put some drops on the eye and it would almost always inevitably grow back. We've gotten a lot more sophisticated with it now.

We lift it up and get underneath the surface and take the scar tissue out from underneath and leaving the normal surface tissue alone and allowing it to retract back to where it belongs and then on the bare area we put amniotic membrane with tissue glue, so no stitches and it now will heal up nicely and you don't get a regrowth of the Pterygium so it's quite a exciting advance in the field of Pterygium therapy that we've been deploying for about five years now and works quite nicely.