New Vision Saving Glaucoma Surgery


A British woman has become the first to benefit from a new surgical treatment designed to stop the potentially blinding eye disease glaucoma in its tracks. Mary McCall, a 66 year old woman from Belfast, had been gradually losing her sight to the progressive eye problem but is now able to see clearly after surgeons inserted a small titanium chip into her eye.

The iStent implant is the size of a single grain of rice and is the smallest medical device to be implanted in the human body. The technology halts the progression of glaucoma by allowing excess water to drain from the eye, which left untreated, would build up and apply significant amounts of pressure on the optic nerve, causing vision to deteriorate over time.

Mrs McCall is now expected to undergo surgery in her other eye, at Belfast's Cathedral Eye Clinic,following the success of her first treatment. Eye experts hope that the same revolutionary surgery could be used to safeguard the vision of millions of other glaucoma sufferers. The progressive eye disease is though to have caused blindness in 67 million people worldwide.

8th June 2010

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