Implantation and explantation of a wireless epiretinal retina implant device: Observations during the EPIRET3 prospective clinical trial

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3003-3008

  Roessler, Gernot ^a   Laube, Thomas ^b   Brockmann, Claudia ^b   Kirschkamp, Thomas ^a   Mazinani, Babac ^a   Goertz, Michael ^c   Koch, Christian ^a   Krisch, Ingo ^c   Sellhaus, Bernd ^a   Trieu, Hoc Khiem ^c   Weis, Joachim ^a   Bornfeld, Norbert ^b   Röthgen, Harald ^d   Messner, Arthur ^d   Mokwa, Wilfried ^a   Walter, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d Dr Schmidt Intraokularlinsen ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SILICONE OIL; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPLANT; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; INCISION; LENS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE STIMULATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA TEAR; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SAFETY; SCLERA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRECTOMY; VOLUNTEER; WIRELESS INTRAOCULAR RETINA IMPLANT; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTRODE; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; TELECOMMUNICATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

BLINDNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; PERIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 66849137925     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2752     Document Type: Article

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