Surgery To Help The Blind See

Just one month after the surgery patients vision improved to an average of 20 40 from an average of 20 1290.

Surgery to help the blind see.

With nearly 40 million people suffering from blindness worldwide and another 124 million affected by low vision it s no surprise that researchers are intent on developing novel ways to restore sight one such effort is the development of a so called bionic eye or bionic eye implants. It helps improve vision in the weaker eye. A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain. Sight restoring surgery is one of the most cost effective of all medical interventions.

We ve had completely blind patients who were able to see things again but the technology is. Each patient spent up to 10 hours in surgery to have the 3mm by 3mm chip implanted in one eye. The argus ii system which is already in use in europe is designed to help patients with retinitis pigmentosa a rare genetic disorder that damages and kills light processing cells in the retina and affects around 100 000 americans writes the wsj. Wearing an eyepatch is a simple cost effective treatment for lazy eye.

The technology is the result of 15 years work by. We teach our volunteers to use effective techniques to restore sight in rural and underdeveloped environments. That s all it takes to dramatically improve the life of a blind person. Within a few months almost all patients had 20 20 vision normal visual acuity.

A sight restoring surgery costs an average of 50. You should wear the eyepatch over the eye that has better vision for around 2 to. I don t see things the way other people do. The implant surgery took place in baltimore at the johns hopkins hospital.

London england cnn second phase trials have started across europe into pioneering eye surgery that allows some blind people to see. Helpmesee is a non profit dedicated to eliminating cataract blindness by training ophthalmologists in manual small incision cataract surgery.