CentraSight  is a revolutionary new treatment program using a tiny telescope that is implanted inside the eye to improve vision and quality of life for patients with end-stage macular degeneration (CentraSight.com). The program is designed to help patients see the things that are important to them, regain independence, and re-engage in everyday activities. The program utilizes a multispecialty provider team approach to help patients follow the necessary steps for proper diagnosis, surgical evaluation, and postoperative care.
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About End-Stage Macular Degeneration AMD is a disorder of the central retina, or macula, which is responsible for detailed vision that controls important functional visual activities like recognizing faces and watching television. The National Eye Institute estimates that over 1.7 million Americans over age 50 suffer vision loss from advanced AMD, which frequently culminates as end-stage AMD (visual impairment due to untreatable advanced AMD in both eyes). These patients often experience a loss of independence and social isolation, and have difficulty with activities of daily living. Approximately half of the individuals living with advanced AMD are affected in both eyes.
Step 1) Diagnosis Step 2) Candidate Evaluation Step 3) Implementation  Step 4) Learning to Use Your New Vision
Patients Benefits Patients with end-stage AMD have a central blind spot or missing area in their vision. This vision loss makes it difficult or impossible to see faces, read, and perform everyday activities such as watching TV, preparing meals, and self-care. In general, patients in the FDA clinical trial were are able to see 3 to 4 lines better on the eye test chart and demonstrate improved quality of life, including:
The ability to complete daily tasks such as: • Reading (e.g., newspaper, recipes, street signs, shopping) • Leisure activities (e.g., watching TV, plays, sporting events) • Everyday essentials (e.g., self-care, cooking, paying bills)     Regain independence and re-engage in social activities: • Recognizing people's faces (e.g., family members, friends) • Returning to favorite hobbies (e.g., playing bingo, card games) • Confidence going to and from unfamiliar and even familiar places
The telescope implant is the first medical device to be implanted inside the eye for patients missing their central vision due to end-stage AMD.
Smaller than a pea, the telescope implant functions like a telephoto lens of a camera. It magnifies images so patients can see them better. The images are projected onto the healthy area of the retina not affected by AMD. The telescope implant allows patients to use natural eye movements to see things that are close and far, such as read the newspaper or watch TV.
The telescope implant is not a cure that "sees" for you. For the telescope implant to work for you, you will need to work with low vision professionals as well as practice on your own at home.
Realistic Goals: • Recognizing faces of family and friends • Watching television • Reading • DVarious hobbies like painting, knitting or gardening    Unrealistic Goals: • Driving • Seeing a golf ball in flight • Playing tennis • Never having to use a magnifying glass again
End-Stage Age-Related Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of blindness. The disease creates a permanent central vision blind spot making it difficult or impossible to recognize even close family or friends.          Smaller than a pea, the telescope implant uses wide-angle micro-optics to improve vision for patients with End-Stage AMD, the most advanced form of macular degeneration.          The tiny telescope is implanted in the place of the eye's lens to help improve vision in patients with End-Stage AMD, the leading cause of blindness.           CentraSight's implantable telescope technology reduces the impact of the central vision blind spot due to End-Stage AMD. The telescope implant projects the objects the patient is looking at onto the healthy area of the light-sensing retina not degenerated by the disease.          CentraSight's implantable telescope technology helps improve vision in patients with the most advanced form of macular degeneration, End-Stage AMD, while being virtually unnoticeable in the eye.
Living with Your New Vision Sight is a gift that should not be taken for granted. The CentraSight treatment program attempts to restore that gift using a tiny telescope implant, for eligible people who have lost their sight as a result of End-Stage AMD, the most advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The potential benefits of the telescope implant are improved vision and improved quality of life. Realizing these benefits will require some effort on your part as it requires a new way of seeing. You will need to work with an optometrist and occupational therapist. They will guide your rehabilitation by instructing you to practice visual techniques and exercises which will help you use your new vision to perform everyday stationary and ambulatory activities such as pouring a cup of coffee, reading large print, cooking, and shopping. The telescope implant is not a cure for End-Stage AMD. It will not restore your vision to the level it was before you had AMD, and it will not completely correct your vision loss. The goal of the CentraSight treatment program is to help you see more with your central vision and reconnect you with things in life you love to see and do. Your ophthalmologist will describe the risks and benefits of the telescope implant to you, including the short-term and long-term risks of surgery. To get the most from your new vision after the telescope implantation surgical procedure, it is important that you work closely with the CentraSight low vision team.