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RE37304 Surgical knife blade  
A surgical knife blade of the type primarily intended for making incisions in the eye, though suitable for incising virtually any spherical surface, is disclosed. The blade is uniquely...
6264668 Ophthalmologic instrument for producing a fistula in the sclera  
An instrument for producing a fistula through a tissue wall of an eye of a patient. The instrument has a housing with a flat blade supported in the housing for penetrating through the tissue wall...
6254619 Microkeratome  
A microkeratome for use with a handpiece and a microkeratome blade, the microkeratome having a positioning assembly and a head portion with a base portion and an insert portion. The positioning...
6251118 Radial pocket forming and insert positioning instruments, corneal marker, and method for using same  
Instruments and methods are provided which permit a surgeon to implant multiple radial inserts within a patient's cornea through one or more incisions made into the cornea. Instruments provided by...
6231583 Corneal circular channel dissecting device  
This invention is a surgical device for producing a circular, interlamellar channel within the corneal stroma. An intracorneal ring can be implanted into this channel at the corneal periphery...
6231582 Corneal pocketing tool  
The invention relates to a corneal pocketing tool for separating the lamella of the cornea. The corneal pocketing tool has a dissector portion for insertion into a corneal incision and a reference...
6217596 Corneal surface and pupillary cardinal axes marker  
A corneal surface and pupillary cardinal axes marker instrument and a method of corneal marking are provided for purposes of astigmatic refractive surgery. The instrument comprises a head and a...
6183480 Intraocular device for stabilizing of a lens capsule  
A stabilizer and method of lens capsule retraction. The stabilizer includes a shaft, a stabilizing bend extending from the shaft, and a shank terminating at a termination end. The bend is between...
6183488 Vacuum ring with linear bearings for an automated corneal shaper  
A medical device that can be used to cut a cornea. The device may include a head that houses a blade. The head and blade can be moved across a ring by a drive assembly. The drive assembly may also...
6176853 Foot switch to proportionally control a medical cutting device  
A medical system that includes a foot pedal which can be used to actuate a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument may be coupled to an actuator assembly and inserted into a cornea. The...
6171324 Marker for corneal incision  
A corneal marker and a method of using a corneal marker are disclosed. The corneal marker includes a handle having a head coupled thereto. The inferior surface of the head includes a set of...
6165190 Capsulectomy device and method therefore  
A surgical instrument for ophthalmic surgery, allowing the user to form a uniform circular incision of the anterior lens capsule of an eyeball, as part of an anterior capsulotomy. The capsulectomy...
6165189 Microkeratome for performing lasik surgery  
The microkeratome comprises a holder (1) with a suction ring (11) for attachment to the sclera of a patient's eye and having means (23) for connection to a suction source. A slide (2) is...
6149661 Step knife  
A step knife for use in eye surgery has a blade which extends a predetermined length beyond a footplate. The blade has a sharpened lower edge and each of the sides have a sharpened portion near the...
6149609 Method and apparatus for improving vision  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for causing the optical center of the eye to align "HIGH point" of the anterior surface of the cornea. In accordance with one aspect of the invention relating to...
6143010 Corneal vacuum centering device  
This invention is a vacuum centering device which may be used in conjunction with other surgical instruments in opthomological surgery. The device provides an improved interface with the eye by way...
6143011 Hydrokeratome for refractive surgery  
An apparatus for guiding a high speed liquid jet used in forming ophthalmic incisions includes an instrument body having an elongated rectangular portion and a tapered end portion. A cylindrical...
6139559 Surgical blade  
A surgical blade for use in ophthalmic surgery has distal cutting edges formed by a pair of anterior-to-posterior bevels which meet at an angle greater than 90° and preferably 140°, resulting in...
6139560 Cutting device and method for making controlled surgical incisions  
A surgical cutting device for making incisions in tissue has a holder with a distal end, an applanation plate extending from said distal end for contacting and altering the contour of tissue to be...
6136012 Apparatus for operation on a cornea  
An apparatus for operation on a cornea by ablating with a laser beam for correcting ametropia; the apparatus comprising an input device utilized for inputting each data necessary for correction, a...
6126668 Microkeratome  
A microkeratome is provided for use in lamellar surgery on the cornea of the eye. The microkeratome includes a base carrying a camshaft for rotation by a cable connected to the shaft. The base also...
6117149 Rotary device and method for removing ophthalmic lens  
A system and method for reducing and removing and ophthalmic lens of a mammalian eye. The system includes a rotary lens-reducing probe device of either straight or curved configuration, the probe...
6113606 Incision guide for intra-ocular surgery  
An incision guide for ocular surgery is provided. The guide includes a housing, a slidable inner sleeve disposed within the housing, and a housing stabilizer pivotally mounted on the housing. In...
6086602 Apparatus and method for astigmatically-neutral wound closure  
Astigmatically-neutral wound closure is achieved by creation of a precisely-sized keratotomy anterior to a wound. Through the posterior wall of the keratotomy is passed a radial suture element....
6083236 Keratome method and apparatus  
A keratome for performing corneal resectioning. The keratome has a positioning ring to position an eyeball with the cornea protruding through the ring to be restrained by an applanation shoe...
6080172 Device for stabbing a corneum layer  
A corneum layer stabbing device of the present invention frees a patient or subject from physical and psychological pains and realizes rapid curing. After a casing has been positioned on a skin, an...
6071293 Automatic microkeratome  
An apparatus for transverse planar cutting of cornea to expose a corneal surface to allow correction of myopia, apparatus including a corneal suction ring including a cornea engaging surface on...
6068640 Removal of corneal epithelium  
A method and device for the clean, non-traumatic removal of a diseased or otherwise eroded, cut, damaged, or dystrophied epithelium layer from the cornea of an eye, for the enhanced regeneration...
6056764 Opthalmic surgical blade having hard single bevel edges  
A blade has a proximal end and a distal end and a central axis of elongation. The proximal end is generally rectangular cubic with a flat profile having top and bottom surfaces and short sidewalls,...
6051023 Corneal curvature adjustment ring and apparatus for making a cornea  
Surgical apparatus for inserting a plastic, split end, adjusting ring into the stroma of the cornea of the eye wherein the adjusting ring includes, as a part thereof, a dissecting head to part the...
6045562 Cornea surgical operation apparatus  
A cornea surgical operation apparatus for incising a cornea of a patient's eye into a layer comprises a fixing device having an opening put into contact with the surface of the cornea and for being...
6045563 Artificial chamber for extracting a corneal graft  
An artificial chamber for a corneo-scleral disk for the purpose of taking a graft therefrom, the chamber comprising a stand, a cornea support carried by the stand, having a vertical axis, and...
6042586 Anti-cornea-collapsing device for ophthalmic surgery using ultra-high vacuum aspiration  
Device for preventing cornea from collapsing including a domed frame with an irrigation duct perforated therein up to the dome of the frame, and elastic latex membrane attached to, and tightly...
6036709 Ophthalmic instrument and method for preparing an eye for LASIK  
An ophthalmic instrument and ophthalmic method for preventing epithelium cells from being deposited at the stroma interface during LASIK. The ophthalmic instrument has a base having a flat abutment...
6033418 Method and device for corneal shaping and refractive correction  
The device for benign, non-surgical external shaping of corneal tissue to compensate, by refractive correction, for deviations from normal focussing. The jet is directed to erode corneal tissue to...
6022365 Microkeratome for ophthalmological surgery  
Microkeratome for surgery of the cornea, comprising a securing ring (1) which includes, on an upper surface, a slide (8), and a blade carriage (10) equipped in the lower part with guide means (13)...
6022364 Disposable surgical safety scalpel  
A disposable surgical safety scalpel (3) with a retractable blade that can be retracted inside a protective shell (5); return of the blade into the shell (5) is operated through an elastic return...
6010496 Vitrectomy timing device with microcontroller with programmable timers  
A system for controlling a plurality of ophthalmic microsurgical instruments connected thereto. The microsurgical instruments are for use by a user such as a surgeon in performing ophthalmic...
5993408 Thin tip phaco needle  
A thin tip phaco needle is provided including a body having a longitudinal bore for enabling passage of debris from a surgical site, a threaded end for engaging an ultrasonic probe handpiece, and a...
5989272 Keratome for performing eye surgery and method for using same  
A keratome (10) and a method for using the keratome (10) for cutting a cornea of an eye (14) are provided which allow an operator to view the cutting operation as it occurs. The keratome (10)...
5980543 Microkeratome and method of performing corneal resections  
A microkeratome and related surgical methods for performing lamellar keratotomies are provided. The microkeratome includes a guide ring assembly for placement on the eyeball, or ocular globe such...
5976163 Apparatus for resecting corneal tissue  
A cutting instrument for severing a thin layer of corneal tissue from the surface of the eye, preferably leaving a flap. The cutting instrument includes a body portion that forces the surface of...
5972011 Multi-plane corneal incision form  
The multi-plane corneal incision form of this invention includes a frame member in the shape of a segment of a hollow sphere that fits over a patient's cornea. The inner surface of the frame member...
5968058 Device for and method of implanting an intraocular implant  
An ophthalmic implant for treatment of glaucoma, a delivery device for implanting such an implant, and a method of implanting such an implant. The implant includes a tube having an inlet end, an...
5964776 Internal keratome apparatus and method for using the same to form a pocket/flap between layers of a live cornea  
An apparatus and method for forming a circularly or substantially circularly shaped pocket between layers of a live cornea, and then, expanding the pocket to form a flap-like layer at the front of...
5951565 Corneal endothelium protective device  
A flexible and transparent corneal endothelium protective device includes a relatively thin protective barrier portion, and a relatively thicker form-providing rim around the barrier portion. An...
5947987 Tissue removal  
A method for improving integrity and accuracy of removal or hinged removal of elevated tissue layers particularly of a cornea. The area of tissue removal is isolated from remaining tissue by a...
5944731 Surgical appliance for slicing a sliver from the cornea  
A surgical appliance for slicing a sliver from the cornea comprises: a base comprising an annular suction chamber shaped to be pressed against the sclera of an eye; a cornea-shaping element...
5938674 Astigmatism reducing cutter  
An astigmatism reducing device includes an alignment tool having a bore, extending through said alignment tool, for enabling centering of said alignment tool by observation of a cornea limbus. A...
5935140 Method for modifying the curvature of the cornea  
This invention is for a surgical method for modifying the curvature of the cornea. The method involves making a semicircular lamellar cut on the cornea to form a superficial layer which remains...
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