A model who was left blind in one eye after acid was thrown in her face has told of her joy after having her sight restored using stem cell treatment.
Katie Piper, of Andover, Hampshire, suffered third degree burns when a former boyfriend arranged for acid to be thrown in her face.
She lost sight in one eye but doctors at the Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead, restored it.
She said prior to her operation her sight was like "being underwater". But doctors held out little hope of her sight being restored after the acid burned into her cornea and left a scar across it.
However, experts took tissue from an anonymous donor, grew it and then stitched it into her damaged eye.
I really feel it's a big step in surgery, is a way of showing the society that almost everything is going to be possible speaking about human surgery thanks to steam cells.
This operation is a call of hope for all those people who lost their eyesight because of an accident thanks to steam cells surgeons will be up to operate on almost any case.
That is the reason why there should be more investigations on stem cells as to get to know more details and uses of this peculiar and important organism.
