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Subject: Breakthrough
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bozzalad 8.08.16 - 12:30am
New blindness breakthrough: Sight loss reversed with NHS implantAN EYE implant the size of a pea is set to give new hope to people stricken by failing eyesight after it was made available on the NHS. * +

bozzalad 8.08.16 - 12:30am
The tiny telescopic device can correct the effects of a disease which has no cure and causes blind spots and blurred vision that make even simple tasks a daily grind. In 2014 private patient Joan Gill, 87, became the first Briton to have the 12,000 CentraSight implant fitted to combat the effects of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). The device, which can be implanted during surgery lasting just an hour, enabled her to see her great-grandchildren for the first time. * +

bozzalad 8.08.16 - 12:31am
Now it has been made available on the NHS after Manchester Royal Eye Hospital announced yesterday it could offer its patients the lifetransforming implant. It could lead to NHS eye hospitals nationwide offering the procedure which could benefit 600,000 people. For now, the hospital said it was prioritising the treatment to the most extreme sufferers of AMD in Greater Manchester. Only 600 surgical CentraSight implants have been fitted across the world with fewer than 50 in the UK * +

bozzalad 8.08.16 - 12:31am
all to private-paying patients. * +

bozzalad 8.08.16 - 12:32am
The device, which magnifies objects up to 2.7 times, is placed in the pupil. Images are projected on to the healthy part of the retina, allowing patients to use the central vision necessary to recognise faces and objects before them. It is backed up by data showing at least five years of sustained improvement in vision Felipe Dhawahir-Scala Surgeon Felipe Dhawahir-Scala, of the hospitals CentraSight team, hailed the new treatment. He said: The programme is a potentially lifechang * +

bozzalad 8.08.16 - 12:32am
It is backed up by data showing at least five years of sustained improvement in vision. AMD has two main variants, the rarer wet AMD which can be partially treated with laser surgery or medication and the more common but untreatable dry AMD, which CentraSight is targeting. * +

mikeymk 8.08.16 - 12:41am
I see. * +

iilmadme 8.08.16 - 01:40am
great news.manchester leading the way again also * +

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