METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF ADULT GLAUCOMA

• US 20080243247A1
• Filed: 04/24/2008
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Glaucoma, LLC
• Original Assignee: Glaucoma, LLC
• Inventors: Lindstrom, Richard L., Poley, Brooks J.
• Application Number:
  US12/108,712
• Publication Number:
  US 20080243247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/6.27
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/1613 having special lens configurations, e.g. multipart lenses; having particular optical properties, e.g. pseudo-accommodative lenses, lenses having aberration corrections, diffractive lenses, lenses for variably absorbing electromagnetic radiation, lenses having variable focus
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/1694 Capsular bag spreaders therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00781 Apparatus for modifying intraocular pressure, e.g. for glaucoma treatment drainage implants in general A61M27/002

Abstract

An apparatus and method for reducing intraocular pressure in a patient'"'"'s eye is provided. A deformable intraocular member having a relaxed state with a relaxed profile having a first width, a first energized state with a first profile having a second width, and a second energized state with a second profile having a third width is provided. The deformable intraocular member relaxed state width is greater than the width of a lens capsule which surrounds a lens of the patient'"'"'s eye prior to cataract surgery. The second energized state width is greater than the patient'"'"'s lens capsule width after cataract surgery and smaller than the width in the relaxed state. The deformable intraocular member in the second energized state is configured to urge deformation of the lens capsule to thereby promote opening of a trabecular meshwork and canal of Schlemm of the patient'"'"'s eye to promote drainage of aqueous humor from an anterior chamber and reduce intraocular pressure in the patient'"'"'s eye.

Claims