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Will brain tissue grafts become an important therapy to restore visual function in cerebrally blind patients?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Reinhard Werth
Affiliation:
Institute for Social Pediatrics and Youth Medicine, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany

Abstract

Grafting embryonic brain tissue into the brain of patients with visual field loss due to cerebral lesions may become a method to restore visual function. This method is not without risk, however, and will only be considered in cases of complete blindness after bilateral occipital lesions, when other, risk-free neuropsychological methods fail.

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