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This excess aqueous humor enters the venous blood stream from Schlemm's canal and is carried along with the venous blood leaving the eye. "In some embodiments, the system also has a conduit slidably disposed within the cannula passageway, the conduit including a viscoelastic delivery port, at least a distal portion of the conduit being sized and configured to be advanced from the cannula into Schlemm's canal, and a reservoir adapted to deliver viscoelastic material into the conduit. A continuous flow of aqueous humor through the eye provides nutrition to portions of the eye (e.g., the cornea and the lens) that have no blood vessels. "An illustrative method for reducing intraocular pressure in a patient may comprise administering a viscoelastic material into Schlemm's canal of an eye to open aqueous humor outflow pathways. [Extracted from the article] |
