Intravitreal medicine delivery

A device for delivering medicine into the vitreous cavity of an eye including an eyelid and an eyeball, said eye also having conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule covering the eyeball, comprising a housing having a reservoir for holding a supply of medicine, a tube having one end connected to the housing in communication with the reservoir and an opposite end, and attachment members on the housing adapted to be attached to an eyeball so that the housing and both ends of the tube are under the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule whereby the housing and the tube are covered by the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule, said opposite end of the tube being adapted to project through the eyeball into the vitreous cavity, the housing having wall portions surrounding the reservoir, one of said wall portions including a reservoir refiner which faces anteriorly of the eye when the housing is attached to the eyeball and which is then accessible to a refilling instrument, said refiller allowing a refilling instrument to introduce medicine through the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule into the reservoir but preventing medicine from escaping from the reservoir.

A method of delivering medicine to the vitreous cavity of the eye comprising:

• establishing a reservoir of medicine on the eyewall and under the conjunctiva, and
• providing a passageway joining the reservoir and the vitreous cavity and under the conjunctiva and through which medicine can move from the reservoir to the cavity, the entire reservoir and passageway being thereby under the conjunctiva.