Ocular pressure regulation
AssigneeTranscend Medical, Inc.
InventorMinas Theodore Coroneo
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Abstract
Disclosed are devices and methods of treating an ocular disorder including forming a self-sealing incision in a cornea into an anterior chamber of an eye; introducing through the incision a fluid drainage tube having a distal end, a proximal end and a longitudinal, internal lumen extending through the fluid drainage tube, wherein at least the proximal end passes through the anterior chamber; and implanting the distal end of the fluid drainage tube in fluid communication with the suprachoroidal space such that the proximal end of the fluid drainage tube remains in fluid communication with the anterior chamber.
Claims40
A method of treating an ocular disorder, comprising:
- forming a self-sealing incision in a cornea into the anterior chamber of an eye;
- introducing through the incision an ophthalmic implant having a distal end, a proximal end and a longitudinal, internal lumen extending through the ophthalmic implant, wherein at least the proximal end passes through the anterior chamber;
- surgically creating a previously non-existing space in the eye by separating at least a portion of the ciliary body from at least a portion of the sclera from within the anterior chamber to form the space;
- implanting the distal end of the ophthalmic implant in communication with the space;
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- causing aqueous humour to flow through the internal lumen from the anterior chamber towards the space.
A method of treating an ocular disorder, comprising:
- forming a self-sealing incision in a cornea into the anterior chamber of an eye;
- introducing through the incision an ophthalmic implant having a distal end, a proximal end and a longitudinal, internal lumen extending through the fluid drainage device, wherein at least the proximal end passes through the anterior chamber;
- surgically creating a drainage pathway by separating at least a portion of the ciliary body from at least a portion of the sclera from within the anterior chamber forming a space and implanting the distal end of the ophthalmic implant into the space;
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- controlling drainage of aqueous humour from the anterior chamber towards the space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.