USC Eye Institute ophthalmologists implant first FDA-approved Argus II retinal prosthesis
A Peoria, Ariz. resident who has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that progressively robs its victims of sight has become the first person west of the Mississippi to receive the FDA-approved Argus II retinal prosthesis, innovative wireless technology co-invented at Keck Medicine of USC. August 27, 2014