CALEC Surgery: New Hope for Corneal Damage Treatment
CALEC surgery, or cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell surgery, marks a groundbreaking advance in treating corneal damage that was previously deemed untreatable.This innovative procedure, pioneered by Ula Jurkunas at Mass Eye and Ear, employs cutting-edge stem cell therapy to repair the cornea’s surface by utilizing the patient’s own ocular stem cells.