OPERATION ON EYE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29427, 1 February 1961, Page 18

OPERATION ON EYE

N.Z. Girl Makes Good Progress (From the London Correspondent of "The Press") LONDON, January 6. Vivienne Brown, the 13-year-old girl from Manawaru, near Te Aroha, is making good progress after the eye operation for which she came to Southend-on-Sea, Essex, in December. ■ Southend Hospital's eye r surgeon, Mr D. P. Choyce, in- • serted a plastic implant into 1 her right eye just before ■, Christmas to replace the lens . she lost through cataract after a car accident five years ago. Vivienne is now out of hos- < pital and will soon be having < a brief look at some of Britain | with her father, Mr F. V. J. Brown, before they return to , New Zealand next month. The tiny plastic implant has i a lens in it which will restore t much of the vision to her eye. , Vivienne finds the implant ( comfortable, feels no pain and can expect her vision to cen- < tinue to improve for about a J year. t “At present she can see the s top two rows on the test chart: the target is four.” t said Mr Choyce. “That was i what she could read before 1 with the appropiate lenses.” t She will probably wear glasses for reading, and when r she returns to New Zealand Mr Choyce will refer her to t a New Zealand colleague for I observation. He is Dr Lindo 1 Ferguson of Auckland, who trained with Mr Choyce at 1 Moorflelds, the London eye 1 hospital. J On Thursday (January 12) ; Vivienne will be among 14 of Mr Choyce’s patients to be ’ presented to the ophthalmic ! section of the Royal Society of 1 Medicine which has invited 1 him to read a paper on implant surgery and show some c of his cases. 5