In the UK, an 88-year-old woman returned vision with the eye implant. This is reported by Edition The Guardian.
A resident of the London suburbs Dagenham was the first patient in the country, which was granted an eye chip. A pensioner that suffers from geographic atrophy, lost sight on the left eye. Using the Prima System device, it was helped to see again.
Device, invented jointly by British and French engineers, is chip and special glasses. The implant with a size of two millimeters is installed directly under the patient’s retina, the glasses are put on the head. The chip using the camera captures the image, transmits it to a computer that returns a picture through the retinal cells into the brain. The brain interprets the signal – natural vision works in a similar way.
“This innovative device gives hope for a prosperous outcome of people suffering from loss of vision,” said Mahi Muqit surgeon engaged in operation. According to the physician, the success of this operation and the data collected during the study allows you to return vision to many people.
In November, British experts first conducted an operation to install printed on a 3D printer of the eye. The print of an artificial eye on the printer took about two hours, in the UK about 60 thousand people need to use the eye prosthesis.