A donated placenta has saved the eyes of the acidic attack victim.
Paul Laskey’s face, 43, after his 16-year-old son robbed at Knifepoint.
After the attack, his left eye “melt” and his vision saved his vision through a medical procedure that used the donated placenta to “change life”.
On February 5, 2023, when plumbers and heating engineers arrested their son’s robbers in Newcastle, he was sprayed on his face with corrosive acid.
“I can’t see it, I can’t breathe. How powerful is my breathing? I felt burning on my face. ” he told the British Metropolitan City.
“I’m not in pain because it’s already burning in all the nerves.”
Paul added: “It’s so scary. I got off work in the first six months. That’s all I thought. Too bad.
“I immediately worried that I would lose it completely and it would make my life even more exciting.
“I’m afraid I can’t work like I like, drive, play football or go to the cinema with my kids.”
Paul needed intensive care and over a year he received two corneal transplants from donated eyes, as well as “essential” treatment for the donated placenta.
From the placenta, doctors used an amniotic graft, which comes from the inner wall of the organ.
“Sticky” and almost transparent substances hold themselves against the eyes, which helps heal surface damage and cover nerve endings.
The 43-year-old experienced three times, including the first week after the attack, preventing his vision from deteriorating and stabilizing his eyes.
Due to the success of these amniotic grafts, doctors are now planning further stem cell treatments to give Paul more sight in his left eye.
Professor Francisco Figueiredo, an ophthalmologist consultant at Newcastle Eye Center, treated Paul’s injury:
“It is safe to say that these grafts helped preserve the vision that Paul still has – and allowed us to restore lost sight to further treatment.”
“Incredible that it was incredible that due to the generosity of the mother, she donated the organs she grew up in order to help grow the child. It’s really amazing.
Paul has only recently discovered that his sight measures are made possible by the placenta, adding: ‘
I am so grateful to the amniotic transplant for helping to keep my sight and prepare my eyes so that I hope I can restore my full vision.
“I am very grateful to the mother who chose to donate the placenta to help people like me have a risk of losing sight altogether.
“It’s incredible that new life can help so many people in such a profound way using what is usually thrown away.”
The placenta is an organ that forms in the uterus and provides oxygen and nutrition to the fetus.
