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Veterinarian Saves the Eye of a Tiger With an Operation Thatâs Never Been Done on a Big Cat
May 18, 2021
In a âworld firstâ, a veterinarian performed surgery to heal an ulcerated cornea on the eye of a tiger.
Shepreth Wildlife Park
If one can withstand the insufferable puns, they might be pleased to note that 17-year-old Sumatran tiger Ratna at Shepreth Wildlife Park in England made a full recovery after the surgery that successfully restored her eyesight.
Having had a cataract removed from her left eye in 2017, Ratna developed another problem in her conjunctiva, the pink part of the eyeball. Staff noticed her eyeball deteriorating, eventually turning bright red as if containing a fractured blood vessel.
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Ratna had a cataract removed from her left eye years before she and her daughter were moved to the wildlife park in 2019.
Staff had been keeping a close watch on the tiger’s eye, as she needed daily eye drops, and noticed the condition of Ratna’s eye was deteriorating as she developed a problem in her conjunctiva, the pink part of the eyeball.
It was discovered she had a corneal ulcer.
“I think perhaps she’d managed to jab her eye on a stick of bamboo in her enclosure,” David Williams, a surgeon from the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital at the University of Cambridge, told the BBC.
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