Medical apparatus, especially for reducing intraocular pressure

Details Medical apparatus, especially for reducing intraocular pressure Medical apparatus, especially for reducing intraocular pressure

1998-02-13

2000-11-07

Dvorak, Linda C. M.

Surgery

Instruments

Light application

606 4, 606 17, 607 89, A61B 1736

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061429902

ABSTRACT:
A medical apparatus especially for lowering intraocular pressure by acting on the Schlemm's canal and on the tissue of the trabecular meshwork directly in contact with the Schlemm's canal, including a probe containing a photoconductor which is curved or elastically or plastically deformable to a curved configuration and which is connected to a laser, the photoconductor having a surface coating having at least one emission window therein facing the inner curvature of the photoconductor, the emission window permitting a laser beam to issue from the photoconductor at an angle of 90.degree. to the curvature of the photoconductor.

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