The Argus II retinal prosthesis: 12-month outcomes from a single-study center

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1282-1290

  Rizzo, Stanislao ^a,b   Belting, Claudia ^a   Cinelli, Laura ^a   Allegrini, Luca ^a   Genovesi Ebert, Federica ^a   Barca, Francesco ^a   Di Bartolo, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE SAFETY; DIRECTION OF MOTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIMETRY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINAL IMPLANT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCLEROTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITREORETINOPATHY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84901805485     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: 18791891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2014.02.039     Document Type: Article

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