The XCell-Center teams up with reputed eye specialist
January 15, 2008
The XCell-Center in Cologne has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Italian physician and ophthalmic microsurgery specialist, Dr. Massimo Lombardi. Lombardi will be treating patients at his clinic in Rome with autologous adult stem cells prepared in a patented process at the XCell-Center's laboratory. He will also be providing stem cell therapy to patients with eye diseases at the XCell-Center. The cooperation between the XCell-Center and Lombardi covers the treatment of degenerative eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy, Leber's optic atrophy and macular degeneration.Dr. Lombardi first performed surgery on keratoconus patients using symmetrical incisions in 1984, and he is the physician who made a breakthrough with this technique in the treatment of keratoconus.