Iranians Develop Drop for Eye Surgeries

Iranian researchers at Mashhad Medical University have developed a local anesthetic for eye surgery that eliminates pain.

The researchers have produced an eye-drop called “lidocaine–cyclodextrin complexes” for the first time in the country, ISNA reported.

Dr. Omid Rajabi, a member of the university’s Faculty of Pharmacy, and Dr. Ali Akbar Saberi- Moqaddam of the same university have produced the drop.

Dr. Saberi- Moqaddam said the anesthetic eye-drop is one of the most essential things for eye surgery and its production will ease surgeries.

“Local and foreign anesthetic medicine lidocaine, which is used in the country, can now only be used for anesthesia of eye surface and has no application for deeper operation,” he said.

He said the newly-developed eye-drop can be applied in deeper operations, including strabismus and pterygium surgeries, adding that in these surgeries up to now surgeons have to inject anesthetic under the conjunctiva but the new drop will help them operate without an injection.

Saberi- Moqaddam further said the eye-drop has been used on 30 different patients, which gave rise to satisfactory results.