
Mohamed with eye disease
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OVERVIEW
Name: Mohamed Abdullah
Diagnosis: Hereditary Retinal Dystrophy
D.O.B: 27 October 2007
Gender: Male
Country: United Arab Emirates
Treatment: Stem cell transplantation via retrobulbar injection, lumbar puncture, and IV injection, daily mouse nerve growth factor, TCM
Medical History:
Mohamed was admitted Beijing Puhua International Hospital due to progressive visual impairment for 11years.
The patient was discovered by his family that he likes strong light when he was 1 month old, then local hospital found his vision was low. His two brothers have similar medical history but the cause was unknown. He was diagnosed with Hereditary Retinal Dystrophy at London’s hospital in Sep 2015. His two brothers(one younger brother and one older brother) and 1 younger sister were diagnosed with same diseases. His parents are consanguineous.
Symptomatic Treatment for Eye Disease:
He was first admitted to Beijing Puhua International Hospital on August 12th 2017 and received 3 weeks treatment. The treatment plan was: 2 times Retrobulbar Injection therapy + 1 time lumbar puncture injection+ 1 time IV injection; mouse growth factor injections;Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments; and other supporting treatment.
The patient gained significant improvement after the first treatment.
Vision examination of August 15th 2017: Right eye: not cooperate Left eye: 0.15
Vision examination of March 20th 2018: Right eye: not cooperate Left eye: 0.3
The comparison of examination results is as following:
Examinations on August 15th 2017 in each image, the upper part is for right eye and lower part is for left eye.
Examinations on August 15th 2017
Examinations on April 12th 2018
His vision improved a lot compared with last admission. Before the first treatment, he could only see 1.5 ms. Currently he can see about 3ms.
From Mar 19th 2018 to Apr 13th 2018, Mohamed has received the second cycle of treatment at BPIH. We are looking forward to see his more improvements in the future.