An 88-year-old woman has told of her joy at being the first patient in the UK to benefit from a revolutionary eye implant that allowed her to detect signals for the first time since going blind.
The woman is from Dagenham. Millions of people worldwide are affected by the condition, which can cause loss of sight.
The breakthrough involves a revolutionary chip that was implanted behind her blind left eye. She wore glasses this week that captured the scene in front of her and then transmitted the data to her brain, just like natural vision.
The Moorfields eye hospital released a statement saying that the woman had lost the sight in her left eye.
I am thrilled to be the first to have this implant and I hope that many others will benefit from this too.
She received the device at Moorfields in London as part of a Europe-wide clinical trial backed by the National Institute of Health Research.
The implant works by being inserted under the patient's eye. The patient wears special glasses that contain a video camera that is linked to a small computer.
The focus of the glasses are guided by artificial intelligence. Moorfields eye hospital.
The video provided by the glasses is captured by the chip and transmitted to the computer, which uses artificial intelligence to process the data and guide the focus of the glasses.
The glasses project the image back through the eye to the chip, which then sends the signal back into the brain. The brain interprets the signal as if it were natural vision.
The success of this operation and the evidence gathered through this clinical study will provide the evidence to determine the true potential of this treatment.
The hope of restoration of sight to people suffering vision loss due to dry AMD is offered by this device.
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