‘Bionic eye treatment’ allows patient to see

A patient with dry age related macular degeneration (AMD) has regained some of his vision after being successfully implanted with a device billed as a bionic eye.

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and Second Sight Medical Products said early stage tests showed the patient had perception in his central vision for the first time in many years.

An event was held to present the results of an ongoing trial at Manchester Royal Infirmary last week.

Eighty year old Ray Flynn, from Audenshaw in Manchester, was said to be the world’s first ever dry AMD patient to receive the Argus II ‘bionic eye’.