Surgeons Use Robot To Operate Inside Eye In World First

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2016-09-12 | 04:14
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Surgeons Use Robot To Operate Inside Eye In World First

British surgeons have performed the first successful robotic operation inside the eye of a patient with distorted vision in John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford. The patient had a membrane growing on the surface of his retina, which had contracted and pulled it into an uneven shape.

                                                       

The membrane needed a surgery to be taken off of the retina without damaging the latter. Surgeons could perform the operation by slowing their pulse and timing movements between heart beats, however the robot could make it much easier with the doctors using only a joystick and a touchscreen.

 

This is the first time a device achieves the three-dimensional precision required to operate inside the human eye. Experts said the robot could enable high-precision procedures that are beyond human abilities, explaining that this could lead to use of the robot in other surgical treatments such as retinal gene therapy which is a new treatment for blindness.

 

 

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