Clip for eye muscle surgery

Apparatus for use in correcting strabismus of an eye of a patient, the apparatus comprising:

• an extraocular muscle clip comprising an upper plate and a lower plate, which are distanced from each other when in a delivery state of the extraocular muscle clip, and are couplable together to sandwich and grasp an extraocular muscle when in a grasping state of the extraocular muscle clip;
• an elongate delivery tool configured to deliver the muscle clip when in the delivery state, the elongate delivery tool comprising:
• an elongate shaft;
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• a muscle hook at a distal end of the elongate shaft being slidable underneath the extraocular muscle, the muscle clip being reversibly coupled to the elongate shaft, the lower plate of the muscle clip being reversibly coupled to the muscle hook so as to be slidable underneath the extraocular muscle, the delivery tool being configured to deliver the upper plate above the extraocular muscle such that the upper plate is movable toward an upper surface of the extraocular muscle and couplable together with the lower plate to sandwich and grasp the extraocular muscle;
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• an integrated blade moveable with respect to the elongate shaft so as to cut the extraocular muscle subsequently to grasping of the extraocular muscle by the upper and lower plates of the extraocular muscle clip;
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• one or more sutures coupled to at least one of the upper plate or the lower plate of the muscle clip, the one or more sutures being configured to facilitate recoupling of the extraocular muscle to a globe of the eye of following cutting of the extraocular muscle by the integrated blade.