Thursday, January 21, 2021

Blind Man Regains Sight After 1st Synthetic Cornea Implantation By CorNeat

Amazing stuff! Great news! The gift of vision restored! The headline sounds almost to good to be true! For decades, the constant emergence of scientific and medical breakthroughs coming out of Israel are truly dazzling!

"... The patient, Jamal Furani, a resident of Haifa, began suffering some vision loss 10 years ago due to edema and other background diseases that damaged his corneas, and became bilaterally blind. This month, the 78-year-old became the first person in the world to be successfully implanted with CorNeat’s synthetic cornea, the CorNeat KPro, after the startup received the go-ahead last summer for human implantation. ...
CorNeat said that the patient was able to immediately read a text and see family members after the bandages were removed. ...
The Israeli patient was one of 10 people approved for a trial with CorNeat’s implants at the Rabin Medical Center, with two additional sites planned to open this month in Canada and six others at different stages in the approval process in France, the US, and the Netherlands ...
This first trial includes blind patients who are not suitable candidates for – or have failed – one or more corneal transplantations. ...
According to the World Health Organization, approximately two million new cases of corneal blindness are reported each year, and 30 million people worldwide are legally blind in one or both eyes from corneal injury and disease."

Blind Man Regains Sight After 1st Synthetic Cornea Implantation By CorNeat An Israeli man regained his sight after a decade of blindness following the first artificial cornea implantation developed by Israeli medical tech company CorNeat Vision, the company announced this month.

The CorNeat Vision team


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