Eye Implant, Smart Phone Monitoring for Glaucoma
November 25, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
The eye’s internal pressure has some of the same characteristics as blood pressure. Many things influence both pressures, thus making it difficult to get a full 24-hour or longer evaluation of pathology and its remediation. To address this, Stanford engineers have designed an eye implant consisting of a tube with an open end that collects fluid when pressure rises and a closed end holding a gas filled bulb that measures the pressure resulting from glaucoma. A smartphone camera can detect changes in the bulb as often as needed (hourly or daily) and guide the therapy. MORE
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