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When can I get my eagle eyes and fine print reader? đ
As an aside, in German prima means great!
"... retinal implant, which combines a tiny chip inserted beneath the retina with camera-equipped glasses to restore functional vision"
"“Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost from age-related macular degeneration.
The company said the device, called PRIMA, also received a designation from the US Food and Drug Administration that is the first step toward an expedited regulatory review, which could see the device used to treat two rare kinds of blindness.”"
From the abstract:
"Background
Geographic atrophy (GA) due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects over 5 million people globally. Currently, no therapies exist to restore vision to the affected persons. The PRIMA system combines a subretinal photovoltaic implant and near-infrared light-projecting glasses to restore sight to areas of central retinal atrophy.
Methods
In an open-label, baseline-controlled, multicenter, prospective, single-arm clinical study, the vision of participants with GA and a visual acuity of logMAR ≥1.2 was assessed with and without PRIMA glasses at six and twelve months.
The primary endpoints were the proportion of participants with improvement in visual acuity (VA) of logMAR 0.2 or more and the number and severity of study-related serious adverse events at 12 months.
Results
Thirty-two of thirty-eight enrolled participants reached the 12-month endpoint. Of the six who did not, three died, one withdrew, and two were unavailable for testing. Twenty-six (81.3%; 95% CI: 63.56–92.79%) had an improved prosthetic VA of at least logMAR 0.2 versus baseline (p<0.001) and
in 19 participants, there were 26 serious adverse events. Twenty-one of these events (81%) occurred within the first two months, of which 20 (95%) were resolved within two months of implantation. There was no significant change in peripheral natural VA compared to baseline.
Conclusions
In this study of a limited number of participants, the PRIMA system restored central vision with significant improvements of VA in participants with GA due to AMD. ..."
The glasses
Figure 1. Rendering of the PRIMA system components.
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