Implantation and explantation of an active epiretinal visual prosthesis: 2-year follow-up data from the EPIRET3 prospective clinical trial

Eye

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 502-509

  Menzel Severing, J ^a   Laube, T ^b   Brockmann, C ^b   Bornfeld, N ^b   Mokwa, W ^a   Mazinani, B ^a   Walter, P ^a   Roessler, G ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

quality of life; retinal degeneration; retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EPIRETINAL GLIOSIS; EXPLANT; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MONITORING; NEI VFQ 25 QUESTIONNAIE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RETINA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84859776572     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2012.35     Document Type: Article

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