Adam Kitchen - Optic Nerve Atrophy (ONA)

All his life Adam has lived with Optic Nerve Atrophy (ONA). A hereditary condition, ONA leaves Adam looking at the world as if through glasses covered in vaseline. During Adam's adult stem cell treatment in China his wife found him staring at her more and more across the dining table. He realized he was seeing her more clearly than he ever had before.

Improvement statistics

Based on follow-up reports from 168 patients across 395 forms, here is the percentage who self-reported any improvement after treatment.

58%
Light perception
reported improvement · N=134
58%
Ability to see hand movement
reported improvement · N=122
55%
Pain in the eyes
reported improvement · N=60
52%
Visual field
reported improvement · N=140
52%
Blindness
reported improvement · N=125
50%
Vision in left eye
reported improvement · N=141
49%
Vision in right eye
reported improvement · N=137
47%
Nystagmus (uncontrolled eye movement)
reported improvement · N=68
47%
Strabismus (side glances)
reported improvement · N=73
45%
Colour vision
reported improvement · N=130

About this data

Patients self-assess each symptom on a 5-point scale (Worse / No improvement / Small / Moderate / Significant) at follow-up checkpoints after treatment, comparing to their pre-treatment baseline. "Reported improvement" combines the small, moderate and significant buckets. Data is updated daily from our internal patient registry. As with any medical treatment, past results do not guarantee future outcomes — improvements vary from patient to patient.

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