The first patient received an artificial cornea on the NHS in England in February.
A 91-year-old man has made history by becoming the first patient in England to receive an artificial cornea.
Mr Farley, known to his friends as John, said the transplant surgery has enabled him to continue to see his 83-year-old wife Elizabeth. “It makes your life fuller when your eyes work properly – you don’t realise how debilitating it is until it happens to you.” This can prevent light reaching the retina at the back of the eye and causes the image transmitted to the brain to be distorted or unclear.
“There are risks with staying on a waiting list with an unwell eye; there are risks in not doing anything as well, such as picking up an infection.“Looking forward to the future, I think this may end up replacing human corneas for certain types of corneal graft patients. In maybe 10 or 20 years’ time – this may become the norm where we don’t need a human cornea, and we can just take one out of the box.”Mr Poole added: “I’ve just booked three people for this.
“John has had this artificial cornea put it in February and clinically we can already see that his cornea is so much less swollen than it was, it is improving in shape, and improving in clarity. Week by week he has been saying it is getting a little bit better each time.” “It could provide an additional treatment option for those waiting for donated transplants, and it’s heart-warming to hear of patients like Cecil already benefiting from its use.”In 2022/23, the latest figures available, some 4,719 corneas were supplied to NHS Blood and Transplant Eye Banks and there were 3,529 transplants.
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