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.
Claims21
A method of treating disease in an eye, comprising:
- introducing an ophthalmic implant into the anterior chamber of the eye, wherein the ophthalmic implant comprises an internal lumen through which aqueous humor can flow and wherein the ophthalmic implant is introduced into the anterior chamber in its entirety;
- forming a passageway between the anterior chamber of the eye and the suprachoroidal space of the eye;
- positioning the ophthalmic implant in the passageway between the anterior chamber and the suprachoroidal space such that the internal lumen of the ophthalmic implant provides fluid communication between the anterior chamber and the suprachoroidal space;
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- delivering a substance and the ophthalmic implant into the eye.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.