Patent ID: 11903876
Assignee: ELIOS VISION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of treating a patient having an eye condition, the method comprising:
determining, during a pre-operative analysis of a patient, that an intra-ocular pressure (TOP) of an eye of the patient is at a normal pressure;
determining, during the pre-operative analysis of the patient, that the patient has a risk of developing glaucoma, wherein the risk of developing glaucoma is at least one of:
a congenital risk,
a presence of a comorbidity, or
an age-related risk; and

treating, based on the pre-operative analysis determination that the patient has the risk of developing glaucoma, the patient with an excimer laser to prophylactically treat glaucoma by:
delivering shots of energy from the excimer laser to create perforations in a trabecular meshwork of the eye of the patient.