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Doris Ekblad-Olson, 82, of Colorado is the first person to receive CentraSight, an experimental optical implant:
Ekblad-Olson suffers from wet macular degeneration, an end-stage form of the common, chronic disease, where blood vessels are leaking and destroying central vision.
I cant see the faces of the people across the table from me, she said. I cant see the food on my plate.
She wants to finish a memoir of teaching seminary in Hong Kong, and being limited to a sliver of peripheral vision makes writing a challenge.
The device, called CentraSight, is placed behind the iris. It projects and enlarges central images onto the still-healthy peripheral portions of the retina.
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