SMALL GAUGE ABLATION PROBE FOR GLAUCOMA SURGERY

摘要

An ablation probe for use in glaucoma surgery has a shaft, a heating element, and a pair of electrical connectors located on a distal end of the shaft. The pair of electrical connectors holds the heating element to the shaft. The heating element is sized and shaped to ablate a trabecular meshwork in a human eye. The ablation probe is advanced through a corneal incision until the heating element contacts the trabecular meshwork. An electrical current is passed through the heating element to ablate the trabecular meshwork.