Reversing blindness now easier
Health & Science - By
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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Blind manâs sight restored after 10 years A 78-year-old man has become the first successful recipient of an artificial cornea restoring his sight after a decade of living with blindness.
Health by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon 23rd Jan 2021 12:21 PM A 78-year-old legally blind Israeli man has reportedly regained his sight following an artificial cornea transplant - the first time such a procedure has ever been successful. Jamal Furani of Haifa was able to read text and recognise relatives after receiving CorNeat Vision s biomimetic implant during the less than an hour long operation last month, the Unveiling this first implanted eye and being in that room was surreal, the company s co-founder, Dr. Gilad Litvin, told the paper.