Seeing is Believing
Mary Schulte has always loved the arts, especially painting and jewelry design. So when she began to lose her sight due to macular degeneration, she was devastated.
Her doctor said nothing could be done, but she suggested she join a clinical research project at the UM Miller School of Medicine, the home of the nation’s top eye hospital, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. The experimental drug Visudyne, injected into the arm and then laser activated, stabilized her vision (the drug has since been approved for treatment).
When Mary’s right eye began to fail, injections of another drug, Lucentis, improved and stabilized her vision. Mary also had cataract surgery at UM’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. “I would have gone anywhere to save my sight,” she says. “But it was all right here. If these treatments worked for me, just think how many other millions they could help. I’m so grateful to my doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.”
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