Artificial retina: New hope for blind patients

For the first time in the world, a device capable of bringing light to blind people has been licensed for circulation throughout Europe.

The artificial retina will provide opportunities for blind patients.

With the name Argus II , this device has proven to be a good operation, a high level of safety and the ability to return some of the light to blind patients as a result of sagging. Perineal pigment caused.

The device has been tested by scientists at Second Sight Medical Products (California) with about 30 patients at many health centers in the US, Mexico and Europe.

In the process of testing Argus II at the French National Center for Ophthalmology (CNHO) at the Quinze-Vingts Institute (Paris), some patients who participated in the test could even read large scripts.

Currently, to be able to transplant this artificial retina, patients can go to hospitals at universities in Geneva (Switzerland), UK hospitals like Royal Eye (Manchester) or Moorfields Eye (London). ) or National Ophthalmology Center in France.

Currently, in Germany, the payment for equipment of this type has been licensed with an amount of over 85,000 euros (about 2.5 billion).

Argus II's operating method consists of 3 separate stages : collecting images with a micro camera installed on two glasses; handle those images with a small computer the size of a phone installed on the waist and the senses of these signals are transmitted to the retina via a chip attached above.

Argus II retina is wirelessly connected to a computer and is designed to be permanent in the body. After months of testing, blind patients saw images made up of signals sent by the camera to the retinal ganglion cells.