Surgery – Devices transferring fluids from within one area of body to...
Patent
1982-12-27
1985-06-04
Frinks, Ronald L.
Surgery
Devices transferring fluids from within one area of body to...
3 1, 3 13, A61M 2700, A61B 1700
Patent
active
045212104
ABSTRACT:
An eye implant device for relieving excessive eye pressure due to glaucoma comprises a thin, elongated, resilient, semi-rigid body of biocompatible material such as polymethyl methacrylate, having surface channels extending along its length to provide drainage passages for eye fluids and transverse perforations through it spaced from each other along its length. Preferably the material of the body is wettable by the eye fluids, and the device curved along its length to match the curvature of the interior of the sclera of the eye in the limbal region. The longitudinal channels are preferably provided by corrugating the body of the device longitudinally, and the device is preferably cruciform in shape. It is preferably implanted with its tip in the peripheral angle of the anterior chamber of the eye, with its central portion extending between the sclera and ciliary body to form a cyclodialysis, and through a portion of the sclera, to which it is sutured; the opposite end extends into the suprachoroidal space, wherein eye fluids drained from the anterior chamber are absorbed.
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