Glaucoma treatment device

• US 20040254519A1
• Filed: 04/14/2004
• Published: 12/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hosheng Tu, Morteza Gharib, Olav R. Berheim
• Original Assignee: Hosheng Tu, Morteza Gharib, Olav R. Berheim
• Inventors: Berheim, Olav R., Gharib, Morteza, Tu, Hosheng
• Application Number:
  US10/824,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20040254519A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/8
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2009/00891 Glaucoma
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0067 Means for introducing or releasing pharmaceutical products into the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/0017 implantable in, or in contact with, the eye, e.g. ocular inserts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/007 Methods or devices for eye surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00781 Apparatus for modifying intraocular pressure, e.g. for glaucoma treatment drainage implants in general A61M27/002
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/0051 Ocular inserts, ocular implants
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2210/0612 Eyes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 27/002 Implant devices for drainage of body fluids from one part of the body to another intraocular A61F9/00781; middle ear A61F11/202
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 27/06 Antiglaucoma agents or miotics
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 623/905 Eye

Abstract

A glaucoma treatment device for directing the flow of aqueous humor and bypassing trabecular meshwork is disclosed. The device comprises an inlet section, an outlet section, a middle section, and at least one lumen for transmitting aqueous humor within the glaucoma device. The lumen extends through at least one of the sections, and the outlet section is substantially perpendicular to the middle section and fits within a conduit of aqueous humor outflow in the eye.

Claims

1. A glaucoma treatment device for directing the flow of aqueous humor and bypassing trabecular meshwork in an eye, the device comprising:

an inlet section;

an outlet section;

a middle section located between the inlet section and the outlet section; and

at least two lumens for transmitting aqueous humor within the glaucoma device, said lumen extending through at least one of said sections;

wherein the outlet section is substantially perpendicular to the middle section and fits within a conduit of aqueous humor outflow in the eye.