CorNeat Vision Partners with LiveU and Alcon for Remote Surgeon Virtual Presence
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RA ANANA, Israel, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ CorNeat Vision, a clinical-stage, biomimetic implant and technology company, and LiveU, a company offering high quality live video streaming and remote production solutions, announced today that they have partnered and successfully implemented an on-demand
Remote Surgeon Virtual Presence (RSVP) solution. The companies cooperated with Alcon to leverage its NGENUITY® 3D Visualization System to successfully perform remote supervised hands-on training of Canadian cornea experts located at the Kensington Eye Institute in Toronto, without leaving Israel. The solution, which was engineered to address COVID-19 travel restrictions, enabled initiation of the Canadian clinical site toward first implantations of the CorNeat KPro artificial cornea.
Reversing blindness now easier
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Killiad Sinide | February 1st 2021 at 11:00:00 GMT +0300
It is the window of your eye; a very important part of your peepers. Should you scratch or injure it, it will do its best to self-repair. But woe unto you if the damage to the cornea is severe.
Corneal diseases are the second leading cause of blindness in most developing countries after uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts. The World Health Organisation estimates that about 2 million people suffer from corneal blindness every year.
The only way to restore vision to a person with a damaged cornea is through a cornea transplant. A cornea transplant is a surgical procedure to replace part of your cornea with corneal tissue from a dead donor. The cornea is the transparent part of the eye that covers the front portion.
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A recent article from
NoCamels discussed a surgical procedure that restored a blind man’s eyesight. The operation was the first artificial cornea implantation performed by CorNeat Vision, an Israeli medtech company. The patient became bilaterally blind 10 years ago due to damage caused by edema, and is now the world’s first successful recipient of CorNeat’s synthetic cornea. The director of the Ophthalmology Department at Rabin Medical Center performed the procedure, which allowed the patient to see family and read text immediately after the bandages were removed.
“The surgical procedure was straightforward and the result exceeded all of our expectations,” Professor Bahar said in a statement. “The moment we took off the bandages was an emotional and significant moment. Moments like these are the fulfillment of our calling as doctors. We are proud of being at the forefront of this exciting and meaningful project which will undoubtedly impact the lives of millions.”