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.
Claims17
A method of treating disease in an eye, comprising:
- introducing an ophthalmic implant positioned on a delivery instrument into the anterior chamber of the eye, the ophthalmic implant having an internal lumen through which aqueous humor can flow, a proximal end and a distal end;
- penetrating eye tissue at a location proximate the scleral spur of the eye;
- bluntly dissecting between a portion of the ciliary body and a portion of the sclera toward the suprachoroidal space;
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- positioning the ophthalmic implant from within the anterior chamber until the distal end of the implant is positioned within the suprachoroidal space such that the internal lumen of the ophthalmic implant provides fluid communication between the anterior chamber and the suprachoroidal space.
A method of treating disease in an eye, comprising:
- introducing an ophthalmic implant positioned on a delivery instrument into the anterior chamber of the eye, the ophthalmic implant having an internal lumen through which aqueous humor can flow, a proximal end and a distal end;
- delivering a substance through the delivery instrument into a portion of the suprachoroidal space;
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- forming a passageway between the anterior chamber of the eye and the suprachoroidal space of the eye by hydraulically creating a dissection plane between a portion of the ciliary body and a portion of the sclera into suprachoroidal space with the substance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.