An artificial nano-drainage implant (ANDI) for glaucoma treatment

Tingrui Pan; J. David Brown; Babak Ziaie

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260147

An artificial nano-drainage implant (ANDI) for glaucoma treatment

Tingrui Pan, J. David Brown, Babak Ziaie

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Abstract

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness. The loss of sight in glaucoma is due to the permanent optic nerve damage which is the result of a chronic elevated intraocular pressure. In this paper, we report a completely new concept to treat glaucoma using a nano-drainage device fabricated through MEMS and nanofabrication technologies. This involves replacing the functionality of diseased drainage pathway for aqueous humor outflow (i.e., trabecular meshwork). By enhancing aqueous humor outflow, the artificial drainage implant will lead to a decrease in the intraocular pressure and a halt in the progression of glaucoma.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Pages	3174-3177
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260147
State	Published - Dec 1 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06 - New York, NY, United States Duration: Aug 30 2006 → Sep 3 2006

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Other	28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York, NY
Period	8/30/06 → 9/3/06

Keywords

Aqueous humor
Artificial drainage
Biofluidics
Glaucoma
MEMS
Nanofabrication

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Informatics

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Pan, T, Brown, JD & Ziaie, B 2006, An artificial nano-drainage implant (ANDI) for glaucoma treatment. in 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06., 4029571, pp. 3174-3177, 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06, New York, NY, United States, 8/30/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260147

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