Gene therapy for glaucoma : Effective & Procedure - Dr. Sunita Rana Agarwal

Gene therapy has come a very long way. At Agarawal’s eye hospital we do autologous fetal DNA therapy. That means we take one drop of blood, from the patients finger take the patient’s own healthy fetal DNA. Fetal healthy stem cells and given them back as injections to the patient this we started in 2004. Each patient getting atleast 10 injections, with your blood going back for you is hardly any complications or side effects. What I noticed about glaucoma is 15 years ago, per day 1 to 2 glaucoma surgeries were done and then started using autologous fetal DNA an stem cells and there he realisation come that here w s no need for glaucoma surgery. Not only were we able to bring down the pressure of the eye with only genetic engineering and gene therapy, we were able to improve the patients vision. One of the youngest patients was 25 year and the only symptom was headache. Without any surgery, laser sclerotomy itself. Also if the patient has some amount of vision, we can make the vision after better with autologous fetal DNA therapy.