Eye Surgery To Cure Blindness

Many people wonder if laser eye surgery is an effective treatment for color blindness but it is unfortunately not an effective intervention for the condition.

Eye surgery to cure blindness.

One month after the surgery patients vision. A patient recently had it done at the casey eye institute at oregon health science university in portland for an inherited form of blindness the companies that make the treatment announced wednesday. Recent research from ucl and moorfields eye hospital revealed that the risk of acanthamoeba keratitis from contact lenses has increased significantly since 2011. Learn more laser eye surgery is able to make physical changes to the cornea a part of the eye that is not related to color vision deficiencies.

The breakthrough comes from the london project to cure blindness a collaboration between prof pete coffey of university college london and prof lyndon da cruz a retinal surgeon at moorfields eye. Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging the nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve. Unfortunately your chances of going blind as a result of wearing contact lenses are far higher than the risk of blindness from laser eye surgery. Researchers removed the jellylike tissue behind the lens of the eye and replaced it with a saline solution in 20 patients who had terson syndrome.

It may take up to a month to see if it worked to restore vision. A 25 donation can restore sight.