They would not give details on the patient or when the surgery occurred.
Eye surgery to cure blindness.
Recent research from ucl and moorfields eye hospital revealed that the risk of acanthamoeba keratitis from contact lenses has increased significantly since 2011.
It may take up to a month to see if it worked to restore vision.
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.
Learn more about glaucoma if glaucoma medicines and laser treatment haven t helped to treat your glaucoma your doctor may recommend surgery.
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.
The himalayan cataract project works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the developing world.
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.
A 25 donation can restore sight.