Viewing his wife for the first time in ten years – ABC News

Blind Allen Zderad (68) gets sight back partly using advanced technology. When he sees his wife again, it becomes tearful.

Allen Zderad crying. His wife Carmen crying. They hug each other. The American man has just gotten his first glimpse of her in ten years.

Zderad comes from Minnesota and have a disease that makes him gradually lost his vision over the past 20 years. There is no treatment for the disease Zderad have, and it has led to that he had put his career as a chemist on the shelf.

The last ten years he has been totally blind, according to a press release from the Mayo Clinic.

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– It’s unpolished, but it will work

It’s clinic that has helped the American to get vision back partly thanks to an implant.

The implant that helps Zderad to see again called Argus II. The system has been under development for 25 years, according Teknofil.

Allen Zderad is the first man in Minnesota who get such implants, and the 15th in the United States after the technology was approved by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) two years ago.

The technology enables Minnesota man for the first time in ten years manage to distinguish human forms, outlines of objects, doorframes, chairs and tables.

– It’s unpolished, but meaningful. It will work, says Zderad even video from the Mayo Clinic.

He adds that it probably will require some training to master.

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60 electrodes on the eye

Raymond Iezzi Jr., who works as a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, has installed 60 electrodes Zderads eyes, working together with a camera in his glasses and a small portable computer that man is wearing, according to NBC News.

Although the technology can not help him see details like facial features and the like, he manages to separate his wife from other people.

– It is simple. She is the most beautiful, says Zderad press release.

He also rejoices to see his ten grandchildren.

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