A patient with severe non-healing microscopically proven Nocardia keratitis was treated with maximal topical amikacin followed by amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) 2 months later (single-layer epithelial side-down). Epithelial healing was achieved, but neovascularization continued. This case report indicates that AMT combined with topical antibiotic provides pain relief and allows epithel...

Efficacy of AutologousMelanocyte Transplantation onAmnioticMembrane in PatientsWith Stable Leukoderma: A Randomized Clinical Trial Vitiligo is adisfiguringdiseasewithnodefinitive treatmentoptions that significantlyaffectspatients’qualityof life.Weaimed to compare, forwhatwebelieve to be the first time, the repigmentationefficacyof culturedepidermal cell suspension (CES) and amniotic membrane (A...

BACKGROUND Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are ideal candidates for treatment of diseases. Amniotic membranes are an inexpensive source of MSCs (AM-MSC) without any donor site morbidity in cell therapy. Adipose tissue derived stem cells (ASCs) are also suitable cells for cell therapy. There is discrepancy in CD271 expression among MSCs from different sources. In this study, the characteristics...

I read with interest the two case reports by Kwon et al. on ‘‘New Treatment for Band Keratopathy: Superficial lamellar Keratectomy, EDTA Chelation and Amniotic Membrane Transplantation’’ (1). In their article, they describe two cases of calcific band keratopathy (CBK) that were treated with a combination of EDTA chelation, superficial keratectomy and amniotic membrane transplantation. The autho...