CA3035626C - Injector for ocular implant - Google Patents
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Abstract
An injector (1) for implanting a sensor implant (2) in the human or animal eye, in particular for the suprachoroidal implantation of a pressure sensor for the wireless measurement of the intraocular pressure, is improved in terms of a rapid, complication-free, low-trauma and low-wear suprachoroidal implantation in that, to accommodate the sensor implant (2), the injector (1) has a substantially tubular injection chamber (8), the inner wall surfaces (9, 10) of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross-section, preferably an oval or rectangular cross-section, in that, at a free end, the injection chamber (8) is provided with an injection opening (13) through which, during implantation, the sensor implant (2) can slide out and slide into a sclera incision in the eye, wherein the inner wall surfaces (9, 10) of the injection chamber (8) enclose the likewise non-rotationally symmetrical cross-section of the sensor implant (8) and prevent a rotation of the sensor implant (2) about an axis of rotation extending in the direction of injection (11).
Description
Injector for ocular implant The invention relates to an injector for the implantation of a sensor implant into the human or animal eye, in particular for the suprachoroidal implantation of a pressure sensor for the wireless measurement of the intraocular pressure.
Injectors for lens implants are known in conjunction with cataract operations, in which the artificial lens to be implanted is folded and introduced through a narrow channel into an incision in the eye. I Iowever, these known injectors are not suitable for the suprachoroidal implantation of sensor implants. Such sensor implants are typically inserted by means of tweezers into an incision previously introduced into the eyeball, which is linked to risks for the patient, because the hazard of damage to the choroid with uncontrollable bleeding exists in this case.
Furthermore, the sensor implant has to be introduced in a specific orientation into an artificially provided pocket between the sclera and the choroid, so that the pressure sensor attached on one side of the sensor implant can measure the correct intraocular pressure.
The object of the invention is therefore to specify an injector for the implementation of a sensor implant into the human or animal eye, using which a typical sensor implant is implantable rapidly, with little trauma, and in a manner gentle to the material into a suprachoroidal pocket of the eye.
The solution according to the invention is that the injector has a substantially tubular injection chamber for receiving the sensor implant, the inner wall surfaces of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, preferably an oval or rectangular cross section, the injection chamber is provided at a free end with an injection opening, through which the sensor implant can slide out during the implantation and can slide into an incision in the eye, wherein the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber enclose the cross section of the sensor implant, which is likewise non-rotationally symmetrical, and prevent a rotation of the sensor implant about an axis of rotation lying in the injection direction.
la Some embodiments disclosed herein provide an injector for implantation of a sensor implant into a human or animal eye, wherein, for accommodating the sensor implant, the injector has a substantially tubular injection chamber, the inner wall surfaces of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, wherein the injection chamber is provided at a free end with an injection opening, through which the sensor implant can slide out during the implantation and can slide into a sclera incision in the eye, wherein the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber enclose a likewise non-rotationally symmetrical cross section of the sensor implant and prevent a rotation of the sensor implant about an axis of rotation lying in an injection direction, further comprising a slide, using which the sensor implant can be pressed out of the injection chamber through the injection opening, and wherein a first chamber portion of the injection chamber lying between the injection opening and the sensor implant is filled with a viscoelastic material, and in that the sensor implant, which is initially placed in a second chamber portion of the injection chamber more remote from the injection opening, can be pressed through the filled first chamber portion out of the injection chamber, wherein the slide is provided with a peripheral sealing lip to press the sensor implant hydraulically out of the injection chamber with the aid of the viscoelastic material, wherein the first chamber portion is provided with lateral outflow openings for the viscoelastic material.
Date Recue/Date Received 2021-04-08
Injectors for lens implants are known in conjunction with cataract operations, in which the artificial lens to be implanted is folded and introduced through a narrow channel into an incision in the eye. I Iowever, these known injectors are not suitable for the suprachoroidal implantation of sensor implants. Such sensor implants are typically inserted by means of tweezers into an incision previously introduced into the eyeball, which is linked to risks for the patient, because the hazard of damage to the choroid with uncontrollable bleeding exists in this case.
Furthermore, the sensor implant has to be introduced in a specific orientation into an artificially provided pocket between the sclera and the choroid, so that the pressure sensor attached on one side of the sensor implant can measure the correct intraocular pressure.
The object of the invention is therefore to specify an injector for the implementation of a sensor implant into the human or animal eye, using which a typical sensor implant is implantable rapidly, with little trauma, and in a manner gentle to the material into a suprachoroidal pocket of the eye.
The solution according to the invention is that the injector has a substantially tubular injection chamber for receiving the sensor implant, the inner wall surfaces of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, preferably an oval or rectangular cross section, the injection chamber is provided at a free end with an injection opening, through which the sensor implant can slide out during the implantation and can slide into an incision in the eye, wherein the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber enclose the cross section of the sensor implant, which is likewise non-rotationally symmetrical, and prevent a rotation of the sensor implant about an axis of rotation lying in the injection direction.
la Some embodiments disclosed herein provide an injector for implantation of a sensor implant into a human or animal eye, wherein, for accommodating the sensor implant, the injector has a substantially tubular injection chamber, the inner wall surfaces of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, wherein the injection chamber is provided at a free end with an injection opening, through which the sensor implant can slide out during the implantation and can slide into a sclera incision in the eye, wherein the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber enclose a likewise non-rotationally symmetrical cross section of the sensor implant and prevent a rotation of the sensor implant about an axis of rotation lying in an injection direction, further comprising a slide, using which the sensor implant can be pressed out of the injection chamber through the injection opening, and wherein a first chamber portion of the injection chamber lying between the injection opening and the sensor implant is filled with a viscoelastic material, and in that the sensor implant, which is initially placed in a second chamber portion of the injection chamber more remote from the injection opening, can be pressed through the filled first chamber portion out of the injection chamber, wherein the slide is provided with a peripheral sealing lip to press the sensor implant hydraulically out of the injection chamber with the aid of the viscoelastic material, wherein the first chamber portion is provided with lateral outflow openings for the viscoelastic material.
Date Recue/Date Received 2021-04-08
2 Typical housings of such sensor implants have a flat oblong shape, for example, an ellipsoid or a cuboid having rounded corners and edges. If such a sensor implant is located in the tubular injection chamber, its longitudinal axis is thus aligned substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the injection chamber and thus to the injection direction. The sensor implant therefore cannot rotate in the injection chamber about an arbitrary axis which is perpendicular to the injection direction. Because of its non-rotationally symmetrical cross section and the likewise non-rotationally symmetrical cross section of the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber, the sensor implant also cannot rotate about an axis lying in the injection direction, because it is "flat"
in cross section, i.e., its width is greater than its thickness.
A suprachoroidal implantation only becomes possible due to this flat shape, because a pocket to be formed between the sclera and the choroid can only have a limited width, because otherwise discomfort would be experienced by the patient. A typical thickness of the sensor implant is 2 mm or less. Its width is preferably less than 3.5 mm and the length is typically 7 mm or less. The pressure sensor is typically housed in one of the two large surfaces of the sensor implant. The surface provided with the pressure sensor has to face toward the center of the eye and thus the choroid when the sensor implant is implanted, so that the pressure sensor can correctly measure the intraocular pressure. If the side of the sensor implant provided with the pressure sensor faced toward the outer side of the eye and thus the sclera, the obtained measured values thus would not be correlated with the intraocular pressure. The correct attitude of the sensor implant in the subchoroidal pocket of the eye is thus decisive for correct measured values.
The injector according to the invention has the advantage that the sensor implant is always implanted in the correct attitude, and the implantation is performed rapidly and with little trauma in comparison to the use of tweezers.
In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the injector has a slide, using which the sensor implant can be pressed out of the injection chamber through the injection opening. Due to the connection of the injector and the slide, it is always available in the correct position.
in cross section, i.e., its width is greater than its thickness.
A suprachoroidal implantation only becomes possible due to this flat shape, because a pocket to be formed between the sclera and the choroid can only have a limited width, because otherwise discomfort would be experienced by the patient. A typical thickness of the sensor implant is 2 mm or less. Its width is preferably less than 3.5 mm and the length is typically 7 mm or less. The pressure sensor is typically housed in one of the two large surfaces of the sensor implant. The surface provided with the pressure sensor has to face toward the center of the eye and thus the choroid when the sensor implant is implanted, so that the pressure sensor can correctly measure the intraocular pressure. If the side of the sensor implant provided with the pressure sensor faced toward the outer side of the eye and thus the sclera, the obtained measured values thus would not be correlated with the intraocular pressure. The correct attitude of the sensor implant in the subchoroidal pocket of the eye is thus decisive for correct measured values.
The injector according to the invention has the advantage that the sensor implant is always implanted in the correct attitude, and the implantation is performed rapidly and with little trauma in comparison to the use of tweezers.
In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the injector has a slide, using which the sensor implant can be pressed out of the injection chamber through the injection opening. Due to the connection of the injector and the slide, it is always available in the correct position.
3 In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the cavities between the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber and the sensor implant are filled with a viscoelastic material, preferably with hyaluronic acid. The viscoelastic material is used in this case as a lubricant to reduce the friction between the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber and the sensor implant.
Moreover, parts of the viscoelastic material remain adhering to the sensor implant when it leaves the injection opening and slides into the incision in the eye, wherein the friction is also reduced and the sliding is facilitated in the eye.
In an alternative embodiment, a first chamber portion of the injection chamber located between the injection opening and the sensor implant is filled with the viscoelastic material, preferably with hyaluronic acid, and the sensor implant, which is initially placed into a second chamber portion of the injection chamber more remote from the injection opening, can be pressed through the filled first chamber portion out of the injection chamber. At the same time, the sensor implant is immersed in the viscoelastic material and is completely wetted thereby before it leaves the injection opening.
In an advantageous refinement of the invention, it is provided that the second chamber portion is designed as a loading chamber having a lateral loading opening for inserting the sensor implant.
The "dry" loading chamber can be opened by means of the loading opening without the risk of escape of viscoelastic material existing. After the insertion of the sensor implant into the loading chamber and the closing of the loading opening, the sensor implant is then pushed by means of the slide into the second chamber portion filled with viscoelastic material and wetted by the viscoelastic material at the same time, before it is pressed out through the injection opening.
The invention can also be improved by the measure that the slide is provided with a peripheral sealing lip in order to press the sensor implant hydraulically out of the injection chamber with the aid of the viscoelastic material. In the ideal case, the slide therefore does not even have to touch the sensor implant, because it presses the viscoelastic material, which is used here as a hydraulic fluid, in the direction of the injection opening and out of this opening, wherein the viscoelastic material carries along the sensor implant. In this embodiment, it is also possible to firstly press a certain volume of the viscoelastic material into the sclera incision in the eye, in order to first
Moreover, parts of the viscoelastic material remain adhering to the sensor implant when it leaves the injection opening and slides into the incision in the eye, wherein the friction is also reduced and the sliding is facilitated in the eye.
In an alternative embodiment, a first chamber portion of the injection chamber located between the injection opening and the sensor implant is filled with the viscoelastic material, preferably with hyaluronic acid, and the sensor implant, which is initially placed into a second chamber portion of the injection chamber more remote from the injection opening, can be pressed through the filled first chamber portion out of the injection chamber. At the same time, the sensor implant is immersed in the viscoelastic material and is completely wetted thereby before it leaves the injection opening.
In an advantageous refinement of the invention, it is provided that the second chamber portion is designed as a loading chamber having a lateral loading opening for inserting the sensor implant.
The "dry" loading chamber can be opened by means of the loading opening without the risk of escape of viscoelastic material existing. After the insertion of the sensor implant into the loading chamber and the closing of the loading opening, the sensor implant is then pushed by means of the slide into the second chamber portion filled with viscoelastic material and wetted by the viscoelastic material at the same time, before it is pressed out through the injection opening.
The invention can also be improved by the measure that the slide is provided with a peripheral sealing lip in order to press the sensor implant hydraulically out of the injection chamber with the aid of the viscoelastic material. In the ideal case, the slide therefore does not even have to touch the sensor implant, because it presses the viscoelastic material, which is used here as a hydraulic fluid, in the direction of the injection opening and out of this opening, wherein the viscoelastic material carries along the sensor implant. In this embodiment, it is also possible to firstly press a certain volume of the viscoelastic material into the sclera incision in the eye, in order to first
4 provide a subchoroidal pocket between the sclera and the choroid in this manner, in which the sensor implant is then received.
In order to avoid rising or slipping of the implant inserted in the loading chamber during actuation of the slide, it is recommended that the slide be provided with a stopper protruding in the injection direction in the region of the sealing lip.
To avoid the occurrence of an excessively strong overpressure in the suprachoroidal cavity during the implantation, an embodiment of the invention is recommended in which the injection chamber is provided with lateral outflow openings for the viscoelastic material. At a given advance speed of the slide, the maximum generated pressure in the suprachoroidal cavity is substantially dependent on the cross section and the number of the outflow openings and can thus be limited in the upper direction by selection of the parameters.
A further preferred design feature of the invention is that a trocar protruding in the injection direction having trocar edges tapering obliquely toward one another toward its free end is arranged in the region of the injection opening. During the implantation, the trocar is inserted as a guide tip into the prepared sclera incision. The injection opening of the injector is thus correctly positioned in relation to the sclera incision.
The trocar can be embodied as atraumatic having rounded trocar edges. In this case, the sclera has to be opened to the required width before the implantation.
However, the trocar can also be provided with sharp trocar edges, by means of which an initially small sclera incision can be widened to the required width. In this case, however, the trocar tip would be embodied as rounded to avoid undesired injuries to the eye.
The trocar tip could also be embodied as bent toward the sclera inner surface in order to avoid unintentional puncture of the choroid.
All mentioned embodiments of the trocar are associated with the present invention.
An embodiment of the invention is also advantageous in which the injector is designed as a sterile disposable device having a preloaded sensor implant. In this embodiment, there can be no error with respect to the attitude of the sensor implant during the insertion into the injector.
Furthermore, this embodiment has the advantage that the unintentional introduction of bacteria into the injector is precluded.
Embodiments of the invention will be explained in greater detail hereafter on the basis of the drawings. In the specific drawings:
Fig. 1: is a perspective view of an injector according to the invention having a sensor implant before the insertion into the injector;
Fig. 2: is as in Fig. I, but with the sensor implant inserted into the injector;
Fig. 3: shows an enlarged detail of the injector from Fig. 1;
Fig. 4: shows a slide of the injector from Fig. 1 without a sealing lip;
Fig. 5: shows an enlarged detail of a slide having a sealing lip;
Fig. 6: shows an enlarged detail of a slide having a sealing lip and a stopper.
An injector 1 for the implantation of a sensor implant 2 into a suprachoroidal pocket of the eye can be seen in Fig. I. The sensor implant 2 is used for measuring the intraocular pressure. It has the form of a cuboid having a relatively low thickness 3, which is preferably less than 2 mm, and a width 4 which is approximately 3.5 mm or less, and a length 5 which is to be less than 7 mm. On one of its large lateral surfaces 6, the sensor implant 2 has a pressure sensor 7, which has to bear on the choroid after the implantation into a suprachoroidal pocket of the eye, in order to measure the intraocular pressure correctly.
The injector 1 has a tubular injection chamber 8, the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, namely a rectangular cross section having two opposing wide wall surfaces 9 and two opposing narrow wall surfaces 10. The injection chamber 8 is used to receive the sensor implant 2, which also has a rectangular cross section having a greater width 4 and a lesser thickness 3. The width 4 of the sensor implant is somewhat less than the dimension of the wide wall surface 9 and the thickness 3 of the sensor implant is somewhat less than the dimension of the narrow wall surface 10, so that the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injection chamber 8 enclose the sensor implant 2 with play. The sensor implant 2 is thus slightly displaceable inside the tubular injection chamber 8 in the injection direction 11. On the other hand, the non-rotationally symmetrical cross sections of the injection chamber 8, on the one hand, and of the sensor implant 2, on the other hand, prevent a rotation of the sensor implant 2 about an axis lying in the injection direction 11. Since the sensor implant 2 has a length 5 which is greater than the wide wall surfaces 9 of the injection chamber 8, the sensor implant inside the injection chamber 8 also cannot rotate about an axis of rotation 12 pointing perpendicularly to the injection direction 11 or about any arbitrary other axis of rotation.
The injection chamber 8 has an injection opening 13 at its free end, through which the sensor implant 2 passes in the injection direction 11 during the implantation and can be pressed out of the injection chamber 8 into the sclera incision (not shown) in the eye. A slide 14, which is mounted in a sliding manner on the injector 1 like an injection syringe, is used for pressing the sensor implant 2 out of the injection chamber 8. During the implantation, the slide 14 is pressed into the injection chamber 8, wherein it pushes the sensor implant 2 out of the injection opening 3. The slide 14 can be actuated manually, by a suitable mechanism, or by a motor.
In the enlarged view in Fig. 4, the cuboid formation of the slide can be seen having a narrow end face 15, the rectangular cross section of which is adapted to the dimensions of the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injection chamber 8. In a first embodiment, the narrow end face 15 is also used as the contact surface in relation to the sensor implant 2, in order to press it through the injection chamber 8 out of the injection opening 13. The other end of the cuboid slide 14 is provided with a widening 16, which facilitates the manual actuation of the slide 14.
To reduce the friction between the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injector, on the one hand, and the outer surfaces of the sensor implant 2, on the other hand, the injection chamber 8 is provided with a viscoelastic material, in the present case with hyaluronic acid, which fills up the cavities between the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 and the outer surfaces of the sensor implant 2 and is used as a lubricant.
In a second embodiment of the invention, a first chamber portion 17 of the injection chamber 8 located between the injection opening 13 and the sensor implant 2 is filled with hyaluronic acid.
An adjacent second chamber portion is designed as a loading chamber 18. See Fig. 2 in particular in this regard. The loading chamber 18 has a loading opening 19, through which the sensor implant 2 can be inserted into the loading chamber 18. The sensor implant 2 can then be pushed by the slide 14 out of the loading chamber 18 into the first chamber portion 17, where it is immersed in the hyaluronic acid and is wetted thereby, before it exits through the injection opening 13.
In a second embodiment shown in Fig. 5, the slide 14 is provided with a peripheral scaling lip 20, which seals the slide 14 in relation to the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injection chamber 8 upon entry of the sealing lip 20 into the first chamber portion 17, so that the sensor implant 2 can be hydraulically pressed out of the injection chamber 8 with the aid of the hyaluronic acid.
In a further embodiment shown in Fig. 6, the slide 14 is additionally provided in the region of the sealing lip 20 with a stopper 21 protruding in the injection direction 11, which stopper prevents rising or slipping of the sensor implant inserted into the loading chamber 18 during actuation of the slide 14.
As can be seen in Fig. 3, the injection chamber 8 is provided with two lateral outflow openings 22, from which excess hyaluronic acid can escape during the actuation of the slide 14 in the course of the implantation, so that the pressure of the hyaluronic acid in the suprachoroidal pocket of the eye does not become excessively large.
The injector 1 is provided with a trocar 23 in the region of the injection chamber 13. As can be seen best in Fig. 3, the trocar 23 has a trocar tip 24, the lateral edges 25 of which are formed rounded, to avoid undesired injuries to the eye during the implantation. The trocar tip 24 can also be bent upward, i.e., toward the sclera inner surface, to avoid unintentional puncture of the choroid.
Furthermore, the trocar 23 has trocar edges 26 tapering toward one another obliquely, which can be formed rounded in an atraumatic manner to avoid undesired cuts during the implantation. In a modified embodiment, the trocar edges 26 can also be embodied as sharp-edged, however, to optionally widen a relatively small sclera incision during the implantation so that the sensor implant 2 passes through it.
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1 injector 2 sensor implant 3 thickness 4 width length 6 lateral surface 7 pressure sensor 8 injection chamber 9 wide wall surface narrow wall surface 11 injection direction 12 axis of rotation 13 injection opening 14 slide narrow end face 16 widening 17 first chamber portion 18 second chamber portion. / loading chamber 19 loading opening sealing lip 21 stopper 22 outlet openings 23 trocar 24 trocar tip edges 26 trocar edges
In order to avoid rising or slipping of the implant inserted in the loading chamber during actuation of the slide, it is recommended that the slide be provided with a stopper protruding in the injection direction in the region of the sealing lip.
To avoid the occurrence of an excessively strong overpressure in the suprachoroidal cavity during the implantation, an embodiment of the invention is recommended in which the injection chamber is provided with lateral outflow openings for the viscoelastic material. At a given advance speed of the slide, the maximum generated pressure in the suprachoroidal cavity is substantially dependent on the cross section and the number of the outflow openings and can thus be limited in the upper direction by selection of the parameters.
A further preferred design feature of the invention is that a trocar protruding in the injection direction having trocar edges tapering obliquely toward one another toward its free end is arranged in the region of the injection opening. During the implantation, the trocar is inserted as a guide tip into the prepared sclera incision. The injection opening of the injector is thus correctly positioned in relation to the sclera incision.
The trocar can be embodied as atraumatic having rounded trocar edges. In this case, the sclera has to be opened to the required width before the implantation.
However, the trocar can also be provided with sharp trocar edges, by means of which an initially small sclera incision can be widened to the required width. In this case, however, the trocar tip would be embodied as rounded to avoid undesired injuries to the eye.
The trocar tip could also be embodied as bent toward the sclera inner surface in order to avoid unintentional puncture of the choroid.
All mentioned embodiments of the trocar are associated with the present invention.
An embodiment of the invention is also advantageous in which the injector is designed as a sterile disposable device having a preloaded sensor implant. In this embodiment, there can be no error with respect to the attitude of the sensor implant during the insertion into the injector.
Furthermore, this embodiment has the advantage that the unintentional introduction of bacteria into the injector is precluded.
Embodiments of the invention will be explained in greater detail hereafter on the basis of the drawings. In the specific drawings:
Fig. 1: is a perspective view of an injector according to the invention having a sensor implant before the insertion into the injector;
Fig. 2: is as in Fig. I, but with the sensor implant inserted into the injector;
Fig. 3: shows an enlarged detail of the injector from Fig. 1;
Fig. 4: shows a slide of the injector from Fig. 1 without a sealing lip;
Fig. 5: shows an enlarged detail of a slide having a sealing lip;
Fig. 6: shows an enlarged detail of a slide having a sealing lip and a stopper.
An injector 1 for the implantation of a sensor implant 2 into a suprachoroidal pocket of the eye can be seen in Fig. I. The sensor implant 2 is used for measuring the intraocular pressure. It has the form of a cuboid having a relatively low thickness 3, which is preferably less than 2 mm, and a width 4 which is approximately 3.5 mm or less, and a length 5 which is to be less than 7 mm. On one of its large lateral surfaces 6, the sensor implant 2 has a pressure sensor 7, which has to bear on the choroid after the implantation into a suprachoroidal pocket of the eye, in order to measure the intraocular pressure correctly.
The injector 1 has a tubular injection chamber 8, the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, namely a rectangular cross section having two opposing wide wall surfaces 9 and two opposing narrow wall surfaces 10. The injection chamber 8 is used to receive the sensor implant 2, which also has a rectangular cross section having a greater width 4 and a lesser thickness 3. The width 4 of the sensor implant is somewhat less than the dimension of the wide wall surface 9 and the thickness 3 of the sensor implant is somewhat less than the dimension of the narrow wall surface 10, so that the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injection chamber 8 enclose the sensor implant 2 with play. The sensor implant 2 is thus slightly displaceable inside the tubular injection chamber 8 in the injection direction 11. On the other hand, the non-rotationally symmetrical cross sections of the injection chamber 8, on the one hand, and of the sensor implant 2, on the other hand, prevent a rotation of the sensor implant 2 about an axis lying in the injection direction 11. Since the sensor implant 2 has a length 5 which is greater than the wide wall surfaces 9 of the injection chamber 8, the sensor implant inside the injection chamber 8 also cannot rotate about an axis of rotation 12 pointing perpendicularly to the injection direction 11 or about any arbitrary other axis of rotation.
The injection chamber 8 has an injection opening 13 at its free end, through which the sensor implant 2 passes in the injection direction 11 during the implantation and can be pressed out of the injection chamber 8 into the sclera incision (not shown) in the eye. A slide 14, which is mounted in a sliding manner on the injector 1 like an injection syringe, is used for pressing the sensor implant 2 out of the injection chamber 8. During the implantation, the slide 14 is pressed into the injection chamber 8, wherein it pushes the sensor implant 2 out of the injection opening 3. The slide 14 can be actuated manually, by a suitable mechanism, or by a motor.
In the enlarged view in Fig. 4, the cuboid formation of the slide can be seen having a narrow end face 15, the rectangular cross section of which is adapted to the dimensions of the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injection chamber 8. In a first embodiment, the narrow end face 15 is also used as the contact surface in relation to the sensor implant 2, in order to press it through the injection chamber 8 out of the injection opening 13. The other end of the cuboid slide 14 is provided with a widening 16, which facilitates the manual actuation of the slide 14.
To reduce the friction between the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injector, on the one hand, and the outer surfaces of the sensor implant 2, on the other hand, the injection chamber 8 is provided with a viscoelastic material, in the present case with hyaluronic acid, which fills up the cavities between the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 and the outer surfaces of the sensor implant 2 and is used as a lubricant.
In a second embodiment of the invention, a first chamber portion 17 of the injection chamber 8 located between the injection opening 13 and the sensor implant 2 is filled with hyaluronic acid.
An adjacent second chamber portion is designed as a loading chamber 18. See Fig. 2 in particular in this regard. The loading chamber 18 has a loading opening 19, through which the sensor implant 2 can be inserted into the loading chamber 18. The sensor implant 2 can then be pushed by the slide 14 out of the loading chamber 18 into the first chamber portion 17, where it is immersed in the hyaluronic acid and is wetted thereby, before it exits through the injection opening 13.
In a second embodiment shown in Fig. 5, the slide 14 is provided with a peripheral scaling lip 20, which seals the slide 14 in relation to the inner wall surfaces 9, 10 of the injection chamber 8 upon entry of the sealing lip 20 into the first chamber portion 17, so that the sensor implant 2 can be hydraulically pressed out of the injection chamber 8 with the aid of the hyaluronic acid.
In a further embodiment shown in Fig. 6, the slide 14 is additionally provided in the region of the sealing lip 20 with a stopper 21 protruding in the injection direction 11, which stopper prevents rising or slipping of the sensor implant inserted into the loading chamber 18 during actuation of the slide 14.
As can be seen in Fig. 3, the injection chamber 8 is provided with two lateral outflow openings 22, from which excess hyaluronic acid can escape during the actuation of the slide 14 in the course of the implantation, so that the pressure of the hyaluronic acid in the suprachoroidal pocket of the eye does not become excessively large.
The injector 1 is provided with a trocar 23 in the region of the injection chamber 13. As can be seen best in Fig. 3, the trocar 23 has a trocar tip 24, the lateral edges 25 of which are formed rounded, to avoid undesired injuries to the eye during the implantation. The trocar tip 24 can also be bent upward, i.e., toward the sclera inner surface, to avoid unintentional puncture of the choroid.
Furthermore, the trocar 23 has trocar edges 26 tapering toward one another obliquely, which can be formed rounded in an atraumatic manner to avoid undesired cuts during the implantation. In a modified embodiment, the trocar edges 26 can also be embodied as sharp-edged, however, to optionally widen a relatively small sclera incision during the implantation so that the sensor implant 2 passes through it.
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1 injector 2 sensor implant 3 thickness 4 width length 6 lateral surface 7 pressure sensor 8 injection chamber 9 wide wall surface narrow wall surface 11 injection direction 12 axis of rotation 13 injection opening 14 slide narrow end face 16 widening 17 first chamber portion 18 second chamber portion. / loading chamber 19 loading opening sealing lip 21 stopper 22 outlet openings 23 trocar 24 trocar tip edges 26 trocar edges
Claims (8)
1. An injector for implantation of a sensor implant into a human or animal eye, wherein, for accommodating the sensor implant, the injector has a substantially tubular injection chamber, the inner wall surfaces of which have a non-rotationally symmetrical cross section, wherein the injection chamber is provided at a free end with an injection opening, through which the sensor implant can slide out during the implantation and can slide into a sclera incision in the eye, wherein the inner wall surfaces of the injection chamber enclose a likewise non-rotationally symmetrical cross section of the sensor implant and prevent a rotation of the sensor implant about an axis of rotation lying in an injection direction, further comprising a slide, using which the sensor implant can be pressed out of the injection chamber through the injection opening, and wherein a first chamber portion of the injection chamber lying between the injection opening and the sensor implant is filled with a viscoelastic material, and in that the sensor implant, which is initially placed in a second chamber portion of the injection chamber more remote from the injection opening, can be pressed through the filled first chamber portion out of the injection chamber, wherein the slide is provided with a peripheral sealing lip to press the sensor implant hydraulically out of the injection chamber with the aid of the viscoelastic material, wherein the first chamber portion is provided with lateral outflow openings for the viscoelastic material.
2. The injector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the injector is for suprachoroidal implantation of a pressure sensor for wireless measurement of intraocular pressure.
3. The injector as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the non-rotationally symmetrical cross section is an oval or rectangular cross section.
4. The injector as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the viscoelastic material, is hyaluronic acid.
Date Recue/Date Received 2021-04-08
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5. The injector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second chamber portion comprises a loading chamber having a lateral loading opening for inserting the sensor implant.
6. The injector as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the slide is provided in a region of the sealing lip with a stopper protruding in the injection direction.
7. The injector as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein a trocar protruding in the injection direction having trocar edges tapering obliquely toward one another toward a free end of the trocar and a trocar tip having rounded edges is arranged in a region of the injection opening.
8. The injector as claimed in any one of claim 1 to 7, wherein the injector comprises a sterile disposable device having a preloaded sensor implant.
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