Device, system and method for treating a corneal tissue
AssigneeVision Engineering Italy Srl
InventorsGiuseppe Lombardo, Marco Lombardo
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Abstract
A device for delivering a drug into a cornea is provided. The device includes a body having an internal cavity and a first aperture communicating with the internal cavity, wherein the first aperture is conformed to hermetically adhere to a periphery of a surface of the cornea; a second aperture to introduce the drug in the internal cavity, the device further includes a mask, supported by the body in correspondence of the first aperture, wherein, in operative condition, the first aperture adheres to a portion of the surface of the cornea, and the mask includes a plurality of through openings of opportunely variable size to achieve a corresponding variable spatial concentration of the drug across the cornea.
Claims4
A device for delivering a drug into a cornea, comprising a body, wherein the body comprises
- an internal cavity and a first aperture communicating with the internal cavity, wherein the first aperture is conformed or conformable to hermetically adhere to a perimeter of a corneal surface;
- a second aperture to introduce the drug in the internal cavity,
- the device comprises a mask supported by the body at the first aperture and the mask is adapted, under operative conditions, to adhere to a portion of the corneal surface, preserving predetermined areas of the portion from a contact with the drug, wherein the mask comprises a biocompatible material disk comprising a plurality of through openings having opportunely variable size across the biocompatible material disk to achieve a corresponding variable spatial concentration of the drug across a corneal tissue;
- wherein the body further comprises:
- an upper side opposite the first aperture;
- an internal annular abutment disposed within the internal cavity at the upper side;
- and a removable cover couplable to the upper side;
- wherein a planar electrode grid is supported on the annular abutment when the cover is coupled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.