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US 9,168,172 B1Granted
Process for treating glaucoma
AssigneeDr. John Berdahl
InventorJohn P. Berdahl
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AssigneeDr. John Berdahl
InventorJohn P. Berdahl
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A process for treating glaucoma whereby the treatment can be accomplished by the use of medication or by surgery, or both, in order to control or prevent the occurrence of glaucoma. The optic nerve is aligned within and between two distinct pressurized spaces and within the dural sheath, the intraocular space and the intracranial space having an intraocular pressure (IOP) and an intracranial pressure (ICP), respectively. Medicine can be administered to raise the intracranial pressure in order to reach a desirable lower translaminar pressure difference across these two pressurized spaces which are separated by the lamina cribrosa in order to treat glaucoma. An alternate closely related mode of the treatment process is the implanting of a shunt substantially between the intraocular space and the intracranial space in order to beneficially equalize pressure differentials across the intraocular space and the intracranial space.
A process for treating glaucoma of a human eye, the eye having a sclera with an exterior surface and a lamina cribrosa that separates an intraocular portion of the eye from a subarachnoid space, an anterior chamber defined within the intraocular portion of the eye and the subarachnoid space fluidically connected to an intracranial portion of a head, comprising the steps of:
A process for preventing glaucoma of a human eye, the eye having a sclera with an exterior surface and a lamina cribrosa that separates an intraocular portion of the eye from a subarachnoid space, an anterior chamber defined within the intraocular portion of the eye and the subarachnoid space fluidically connected to an intracranial portion of a head, comprising the steps of:
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