Method for treating glaucoma

• US 6,666,213 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2002
• Issued: 12/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aleksandr Igorevich Svadovskiy
• Original Assignee: Aleksandr Igorevich Svadovskiy
• Inventors: Svadovskiy, Aleksandr Igorevich
• Primary Examiner(s): Willse, David H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SWEET, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US10/160,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20030034038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 128/898
• US Class Current: 128/898
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00781 Apparatus for modifying intraocular pressure, e.g. for glaucoma treatment drainage implants in general A61M27/002

Abstract

The method for treating glaucoma, consisting in that an osteoplastic trepanation in the frontal region above the affected eyeball, followed by effecting an extradural approach to the superior orbital wall. Next the aqueous humour is let to flow out by effecting a resection trepanation of the superior orbital wall in order to establish a contact between the edematous perieyeball fat and the dural surface.

Claims

1. A method for treating glaucoma, comprising the consecutive steps of:

a) performing osteoplastic trepanation in the frontal region above the affected eyeball;

b) effecting an extradural approach to the superior orbital wall;

c) effecting an outflow of the aqueous humour by performing resectiontrepanation of said superior orbital wall so as to establish a contact between the edematous perieyeball fat and the dural surface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein after performing said resection trepanation of the superior orbital wall, a biological protector is put in the space confined between said superior orbital wall and the dura mater.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein prior to performing said osteoplastic trepanation in the frontal region over the affected eyeball the condition of the patient is established using magnetic-resonance imaging.