background different methods for dressing of donor site of skin graft in burn patients have similarly pain, limitation of mobility of donor site and local complications such as infection and scar. amniotic membrane has used for improvement of healing in some wounds. accordingly in this study amnion was used as biologic dressing for donor site of skin graft to evaluate it’s efficacy in improveme...

My guests in this corneal dissection column, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, and Andrew Behesnilian, BS, describe their surgical technique of using amniotic membrane transplantation as a “biologic implant” beneath the normal conjunctiva surrounding the region where the pterygium is excised and replaced with a conjunctival autograft. They said the recurrence rate of 5% after pterygium surgery comb...

Ophthalmol. 1998;116:372-373. 22. Tseng SC, Prabhasawat P, Lee SH. Amniotic membrane transplantation for conjunctival surface reconstruction. Am J Ophthalmol. 1997; 124:765-774. 23. Shields CL, Shields JA, Armstrong T. Management of conjunctival and corneal melanoma with combined surgical excision, amniotic membrane allograft, and topical chemotherapy. Am J Ophthalmol. 2001;132:576-578. 24. Par...

CASE REPORT A 63-year-old man with bilateral conjunctivochalasis presented with tearing, irritation, foreign body sensation and a delayed fluorescein clearance test. After no symptomatic improvement with topical treatment, surgery was carried out, with amniotic membrane transplantation and fibrin sealant. DISCUSSION Conjunctivochalasis is a frequent disorder that shares symptoms with dry eye ...

AIMS To evaluate the efficacy of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for ocular surface reconstruction. METHODS 10 consecutive patients who underwent AMT were included. The indications were: group A, cases with persistent epithelial defect after corneal abscess (n = 1), radiation (n = 1), or chemical burn (n = 3); group B, cases with epithelial defect and severe stromal thinning and impen...

Purpose: We compared the clinical utilities of an amniotic contact lens and temporary membrane transplantation in patients with persistent corneal epithelial defects.Methods: Patients diagnosed defects from November 2019 to July 2022 were randomly assigned either placement for 2 weeks or 1 week, outcomes retrospectively analyzed. The best-corrected visual acuity, sensation, tear film break-up t...

Introduction. Amniotic membrane contains a multipotential stem cell population and is expected to possess the machinery to regulate immunological reactions. We investigated the safety and efficacy of allogeneic amniotic membrane-derived mesenchymal stromal cell (AMSC) transplantation in a porcine model of chronic myocardial ischemia as a preclinical trial. Methods. Porcine AMSCs were isolated f...