Safety evaluation of “retina implant alpha IMS”—a prospective clinical trial

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 381-387

  Kitiratschky, Veronique B D ^a   Stingl, Katarina ^a   Wilhelm, Barbara ^a   Peters, Tobias ^a   Besch, Dorothea ^a   Sachs, Helmut ^b   Gekeler, Florian ^a,c   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

^c KATHARINENHOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial vision; Prospective clinical trial; Retina implant Alpha IMS; Retinal degeneration; Retintis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL RETINAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVAL EROSION; DEVICE SAFETY; EROSION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERFORATING EYE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINAL IMPLANT; RETINAL THICKNESS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISION; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84928786064     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-014-2797-x     Document Type: Article

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