The procedure to help treat end-stage, age-related macular degeneration was performed by surgeons from UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, Calif.
The patient — an eighty-nine-year old artist — is among the first 50 patients in the United States to receive the procedure. The telescope was implanted in her left eye.
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