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Dr. Mark Humayun, who joined the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 2001, [16] was a co-inventor of a retinal prosthesis [17] that became the basis for the formation of the company, Second Sight, in 1998.
When the Argus II launched in the United States in February 2013, Second Sight announced that it would be priced at around $150,000, excluding the cost of surgery and usage training. [16] In August 2013, Second Sight announced that reimbursement payments had been approved for the Argus II for blind Medicare recipients in the United States. [17]
The Argus II retinal implant, manufactured by Second Sight Medical Products received market approval in the US in Feb 2013 and in Europe in Feb 2011, becoming the first approved implant. [6] The device may help adults with RP who have lost the ability to perceive shapes and movement to be more mobile and to perform day-to-day activities.
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Argus II, co-developed at the University of Southern California (USC) Eye Institute [6] and manufactured by Second Sight Medical Products Inc., was the first device to have received marketing approval (CE Mark in Europe in 2011). Most other efforts remain investigational; the Retina Implant AG's Alpha IMS won a CE Mark July 2013 and is a ...
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