Surgical Eye Robot KU Leuven / University Hospitals Leuven (IMAGE)

KU Leuven

Surgical Eye Robot KU Leuven / University Hospitals Leuven

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Surgeons of University Hospitals Leuven have been the first to operate on a patient with retinal vein occlusion using a surgical robot. Operated by an eye surgeon, the robot uses a needle of barely 0.03 millimetre to inject a thrombolytic drug into the retinal vein of the patient. KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) developed the robot and needle specifically for this procedure.

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