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US 8,012,115 B2Granted
Optic nerve implants
AssigneeS.K. Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
InventorHampar L. Karageozian
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Abstract
Methods and devices for delivering therapeutic substances into the eye. An implant containing the therapeutic substance is implanted at least partially within the optic nerve and the therapeutic substance then elutes from the implant. The implant may have a lumen or it may be solid.
Claims12
A method for delivering a therapeutic substance into the eye of a human or animal subject, said method comprising the steps of:
- A) providing an implant that contains a quantity of the substance;
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- B) inserting the implant into the optic nerve such that a therapeutic amount of the substance will elute from the implant;
- wherein the implant has a lumen and additionally functions as a tubular shunt such that fluid from the interior of the eye will enter one end of the shunt and said fluid will exit the other end of the shunt either i) at a location within the optic nerve or ii) at a location within the subarachnoid space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.