The Kannada film star gave four young people a second life Puneeth Rajkumar, whose eyes were donated after his death on October 29th. The recipients, three men and one woman, had an eye transplant at Narayana Nethralaya in the past two days.
Puneeth Rajkumar was named after his father Dr. Rajkumar in 2006 and his mother Parvathamma in 2017 became the third member of his family to donate his eyes.
Puneeth, son of matinee idol Dr. Rajkumar, died of cardiac arrest on Friday at the age of 46.
After he was pronounced dead, Puneeth Rajkumar’s brother Raghavendra called the Dr. Rajkumar Eye Bank operated by Narayana Nethralaya to collect the actor’s eyes.
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According to sources at the hospital, each eye of the deceased actor was used to treat two patients. The upper and lower corneal layers were separated. The top layer was transplanted to two patients with superficial corneal disease, and only the deeper layer was transplanted to patients with endothelial or deep corneal layer disease.
Dr. Bhujang Shetty, chairman of Narayana Nethralaya, said all four patients are between 20 and 30 years old. The transplant was performed by a team of five doctors.
“Usually two corneas are transplanted from a deceased person into two corneal-blind patients. But we used Puneeth’s corneal tissue to restore vision in four different patients, ”he said.
The four young people were on the waiting list for over six months because the eye donations had been completely stopped due to Covid-19. The hospital could only perform 200 transplant operations per month.
Two different lamellar keratoplasty techniques have been used. The first is Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK) – in which the outer or superficial part of the cornea was transplanted in two young patients with corneal dystrophy and keratoconus. The second technique is Descemet’s Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSEK), in which the inner or deeper corneal layer is transplanted into two patients with corneal endothelial decompensation affecting the innermost corneal layer.
Additionally, the limbal margin (white part of the eye near the circumference of the cornea) that wasn’t used for the transplants was sent to the lab to create “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells” for potential use in patients with limbal stem cell deficiency, chemical Injuries, burns and other serious illnesses.
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