The present disclosure relates generally to devices, systems, and methods for treating an ocular condition. More particularly, the present disclosure relates generally to implantable ocular devices configured to use acoustic streaming to treat an ocular condition.
Glaucoma, a group of eye diseases affecting the retina and optic nerve, is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Most forms of glaucoma result when the intraocular pressure (IOP) increases to pressures above normal for prolonged periods of time. IOP can increase due to high resistance to the drainage of the aqueous humor relative to its production. Left untreated, an elevated IOP causes irreversible damage to the optic nerve and retinal fibers resulting in a progressive, permanent loss of vision.
The eye's ciliary body continuously produces aqueous humor, the clear fluid that fills the anterior segment of the eye (the space between the cornea and lens). The aqueous humor flows out of the anterior chamber (the space between the cornea and iris) through the trabecular meshwork and the uveoscleral pathways, both of which contribute to the aqueous humor drainage system. The delicate balance between the production and drainage of aqueous humor determines the eye's IOP.
In an exemplary aspect, the present disclosure is directed to an acoustic streaming valve arrangement for inducing flow in a glaucoma drainage device. The arrangement may include a selectively vibrating flow generator having a sharp edge; and a driving device configured to selectively vibrate the flow generator to create a streaming fluid flow in a direction away from the sharp edge.
In an aspect, the flow generator comprises two nonparallel surfaces forming an angle. In an aspect, the two nonparallel surfaces converge to form the sharp edge. In an aspect, the sharp edge has an angle of 90 degrees or less. In an aspect, the driving device is configured to vibrate the flow generator at the resonance frequency of the flow generator. In an aspect, the arrangement further comprises a flexible portion deflectable by streaming fluid flow to open a valve.
In an exemplary aspect, the present disclosure is directed to an implantable glaucoma drainage system that comprises an inlet passageway and an outlet passageway and a valve portion disposed between the inlet and outlet passageways to regulate the passageway of fluid from the inlet passageway to the outlet passageway. The valve portion may comprise an acoustic streaming valve arrangement configured to open or close the valve portion, as well as actively pump the fluid through the valve.
In an aspect, the acoustic streaming valve arrangement comprises a flow generator and a driving device configured to vibrate the flow generator, the flow generator being disposed in the inlet passageway. In an aspect, the flow generator comprises two nonparallel surfaces forming an angle. In an aspect, the two nonparallel surfaces converge to form a sharp edge, in an aspect, the sharp edge has an angle of 90 degrees or less. In an aspect, the sharp edge is an extending edge. In an aspect, the valve portion comprises a flexible portion deflectable from a neutral condition to a displaced condition, the valve portion inhibiting passage of fluid when the flexible point is a neutral condition and allowing passage of fluid when the flexible portion is in a deflected condition. In an aspect, the flexible portion is a membrane. In an aspect, the acoustic streaming valve arrangement comprises a flow generator and a driving device configured to vibrate the flow generator, the flow generator being disposed in a chamber adjacent the inlet passageway. In an aspect, the driving device is implantable with the flow generator.
In an exemplary aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a method comprising implanting a flow system in an eye of a patient and activating an acoustic streaming valve arrangement forming a part of the flow system to inhibit or allow drainage fluid to flow through the flow system.
In an aspect, activating an acoustic streaming valve arrangement comprises placing a driving device in the proximity of the flow system to induce vibration in a flow generator of the acoustic streaming valve arrangement. In an aspect, activating an acoustic streaming valve arrangement comprises placing the driving device in contact with the flow system to induce vibration in the flow generator. In an aspect, deflecting a flexible portion of the flow system with the acoustic streaming valve arrangement to inhibit or allow drainage fluid to flow through the flow system.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory in nature and are intended to provide an understanding of the present disclosure without limiting the scope of the present disclosure. In that regard, additional aspects, features, and advantages of the present disclosure will be apparent to one skilled in the art from the following detailed description.
The accompanying drawings illustrate embodiments of the devices and methods disclosed herein and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure.
For the purposes of promoting an understanding of the principles of the present disclosure, reference will now be made to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings, and specific language will be used to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is intended. Any alterations and further modifications to the described devices, instruments, methods, and any further application of the principles of the present disclosure are fully contemplated as would normally occur to one skilled in the art to which the disclosure relates. In particular, it is fully contemplated that the features, components, and/or steps described with respect to one embodiment may be combined with the features, components, and/or steps described with respect to other embodiments of the present disclosure. For simplicity, in some instances the same reference numbers are used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
The present disclosure relates generally to acoustic streaming of a fluid. More particularly, the disclosure relates to an acoustic streaming valve arrangement forming a part of an implantable glaucoma drainage device (GDD) arranged to treat an ocular condition. The acoustic streaming valve arrangement pertains to the use of anomalous streaming of fluid by a vibrating sharp edge in a GDD. In one aspect, the system is designed to act as a valve portion and a pump portion regulating patient LOP. In some aspects, the valve portion includes a membrane that controls flow through the GDD. The amount of force required to open the valve portion may be tuned to correspond to the pressure created by the acoustic streaming valve arrangement. In some aspects, the vibration of the acoustic streaming valve arrangement is activated by an external device controlled by a doctor or a patient. The acoustic pump arrangement may be particularly suited for the treatment of IOP and use in a GDD as it has few or no movable parts making it highly reliable, and it may be easily integrated with other micro-fluidic circuits. In addition, the acoustic pump arrangement may be relatively easy to manufacture as it may be used/built in conjunction with MEMS (Micro electromechanical systems). It also may be customizable as it may be tunable to a wide range conditions on-the-fly.
In some embodiments, the plate 102 is configured to fit at least partially within the subconjunctival space and is sized, for example, within a range between about 15 mm×112 mm to about 30 mm×15 mm and has a thickness less than about 2 mm thick and preferably less than about 1 mm thick. The plate 102 may be formed to the radius of the eye globe (e.g., about 0.5 inches). In some embodiments, the plate 102 is rigid and preformed with a curvature suitable to substantially conform to the eye globe or it may be flexible to conform to the eye globe. Some embodiments have relatively planar outer surfaces. Some of these are small enough that conforming to the eye globe provides little benefit in comfort or implantation technique. The above dimensions are exemplary only, and other sizes and arrangements are contemplated. When implanted, the plate 102 may be located, for example, in the subconjunctival pocket between the conjunctiva and sclera. It may be generally located on an ocular quadrant commonly used for conventional glaucoma drainage devices with plates; that is, it may be centered such that it is equidistant from the neighboring ocular muscles that define the ocular quadrant chosen for implantation.
The drainage tube 104 is sized to bridge the anterior chamber and the plate 102 in the subconjunctival pocket to provide an auxiliary flow path for aqueous humor, bypassing the flow-resistive conventional pathway through the trabecular meshwork and shunting aqueous humor directly to a drainage site. In the example shown, the drainage tube 104 is a single tube having a single lumen. Other embodiments include a plurality of drainage tubes or a plurality of lumens cooperating together to permit fluid to flow through the implantable system 100. The drainage tube 104 is sized to extend from the plate 102 to the anterior chamber of the eye, as shown in
The vibration-generating driving device 106 is configured to provide an activating force to components carried in the plate 102, and in particular, to the acoustic streaming valve arrangement. In one exemplary embodiment, the driving device is one or more piezoelectric crystals that may form a piezoelectric crystal stack. When alternating current of particular frequency is passed through the piezoelectric crystal stack, the stack vibrates at this frequency that may be used to mechanically drive the acoustic streaming valve arrangement. In other embodiments, the driving device 106 is an inductive device configured to generate a magnetic field that may drive the acoustic streaming valve arrangement. The driving device 106 may be or may form a part of other driving systems. Depending on the driving device 106, the principle of vibration generation can be, for example, piezoelectric or inductive. Other principles of vibration generation are also contemplated.
As can be seen in
The valve portion 166 includes a boss portion 180 and a flexible portion 186 that spans the opening of the inlet passageway 174 on the upper side 168. The boss portion 180, in this embodiment, is formed of a portion of the valve chip 162 and includes a seat 189 facing the flexible portion 186 and configured to be selectively and sealingly engaged by the flexible portion 186. Since the seat 189 surrounds the opening of the inlet passageway 174, engagement of the flexible portion with the seat can selectively prevent or inhibit and selectively allow the passage of fluid out the inlet passageway 174 to the outlet passageways 176.
The flexible portion 186 may be a membrane formed of an elastically deformable material including without limitation, materials such as a silicone, silicon nitride, silicone elastomer, polyimide, parylene, and others. In the example shown, the flexible portion 186 is a circular material secured at its periphery to the valve chip 162. In other embodiments, the valve chip 162 and the flexible portion 186 are formed so that the membrane has a non-circular shape, including oval, substantially rectangular, or square, for example. Other shapes are also contemplated.
In the embodiment shown, the flexible portion 186 is configured to be seated against the seat 189 and to prevent fluid passage through the inlet passageway 174 when the flexible portion 186 is in its neutral condition or its natural state. That is, the valve portion 166 is biased to the closed position. When force against the flexible portion 186 exceeds a cracking pressure, i.e., a pressure at which the flexible portion 186 deflects to provide communication between the inlet passageway 174 and the outlet passageways 176 (or exceeds the pressure on the opposing side of the flexible portion), the flexible portion 186 may deflect to permit the passage of fluid through the inlet passageway 174 and over the seat 189.
The acoustic streaming valve arrangement 164 includes a flow generator 188 and the driving device 106 (
The flow generator 188 is shown in greater detail in
Depending on the embodiment and the amount of fluid to be driven by the pump, the flow generator 188 may have a lateral length L in the range of about 50 microns to 5 cm. In other embodiments, the lateral length L is in the range of about 100 microns to 2 cm. While the flow generator 188 may be formed of any material, in one embodiment, it is formed of a steel blade with a 20° sharp edge. In some exemplary embodiments, the flow generator 188 includes two rounded edges so that only the edge 194 is sharp. In one example, the flow generator 188 may form a tear-drop shape in cross-section. The acoustic streaming valve arrangement's role is described below.
Acoustic streaming is a steady streaming flow that is generated due to oscillatory motion of a sharp-edged body in a fluid. The steady streaming flow is represented in the drawing of
The anomalous streaming occurs at the sharp edge 194 of the wedge-shaped flow generator 188. The blade forming the flow generator 188 vibrates perpendicular to its sharp edge 194 and generates a strong microscopic current in the direction of the sharp edge 194 shown in the
To induce the streaming, the flow generator 188 may be vibrated at its resonance frequency, and in some embodiments may be vibrated at its resonance frequency within a range of about 100 Hz to 10 MHz, for example. In this embodiment, the vibration-generating driving device 106 is driven at the resonance frequency of blade vibrations which is 461 Hz in water. For explanatory purposes, the acoustic motion introduces a boundary layer along the walls of the blade. The boundary layer is a low pressure acoustic force area, and it creates a path for fluid to enter. The fluid enters the acoustic force area along the sides of the wedge and is ejected at the tip driven by the centrifugal force. This results in the streaming pattern from the sharp edge.
In
In the embodiment shown, the driving device 106 is arranged to vibrate at the resonance frequency of the flow generator 188. Vibration at the flow generator's resonance frequency causes the flow generator 188 to vibrate more than the surrounding structure of the flow system 160 (or the plate 102 carrying the flow system 160) since the flow system 160 (or plate 102) has a different resonance frequency.
As indicated above,
Because of the forced fluid flow from the sharp edge 194 of the flow generator 188, the fluid acts as a pressure force on the flexible portion 186. When the pressure force exceeds the cracking pressure, the flexible portion 186 deflects as shown in
In use, the flow system 160 may be opened or closed to regulate IOP in a patient. The plate 102 and drainage tube 104 may be implanted in a patient's eye. The flow system 160 carried on the plate 102 may be controlled manually by placing the driving device 106 either directly against or in the area of the plate 102. In the embodiment shown, the valve portion 166 is closed when the device is in its neutral or closed condition. If the doctor or the patient desires to alleviate IOP or induce flow from the anterior chamber of the eye, the driving device 106 may be activated to vibrate at the resonance frequency of the flow generator 188. In some embodiments, the driving device is placed in contact with the plate 102. This will induce the vibration in the flow generator 188 to generate acoustic streaming toward the flexible portion 186. When the streaming fluid force exceeds the cracking force, the flexible portion 186 deflects, permitting fluid to flow through the flow system 160 and to a drainage site outside the implantable device 100.
When inductive coupling is used to generate vibration, the driving device 106 may not need to contact the implantable device to drive the flow generator 188. Accordingly, the driving device 106 may be placed in the immediate proximity of the flow generator 188, and the flow generator may be vibrated at its resonance frequency.
The flow system 300 includes a valve chip 302, an acoustic streaming valve arrangement 304, and a valve portion 306. The valve chip 302 includes the inlet passageway 174 and the outlet passageway 176. The valve portion 306 includes the boss portion 180, the flexible portion 186, the seat 189, and an actuation chamber 310.
The actuation chamber 310 is a fluid filled chamber and in this embodiment, includes the acoustic streaming valve arrangement 304. Since the acoustic streaming valve arrangement is isolated from the drainage flow through the GDD, the acoustic streaming valve arrangement 304 does not pump fluid through the system. However, it is arranged to open and close the valve portion 306.
The acoustic streaming valve arrangement 304 includes the flow generator 188, and an onboard vibration-inducing driving device 312. The driving device 312 may be configured as discussed above, but may be mechanically connected to the actuation chamber 310, and therefore may take the place of the external driving device 106 shown in
In this embodiment, the flexible portion 186 is still arranged to seat on the boss portion 180 in a neutral or closed condition. Accordingly, until power is applied, the valve portion 306 is still closed since the flexible portion 186 is weighed down by the mass of the fluid in the actuation chamber 310, preventing or inhibiting fluid flow through the flow system 300. However, when the driving device 312 is on or is actuated, the flexible portion 186 may deflect permitting the flow of fluid. A power supply may be on onboard or off-board the system.
While the embodiments shown disclose systems where the valve portion is biased to the closed condition, other embodiments are contemplated where the valve portion is biased to the open position. In these embodiments, activating the acoustic streaming valve arrangement would close the valve portion and prevent or inhibit fluid flow through the system.
While the embodiments shown include a flow generator that directs the acoustic stream in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surfaces of the flexible portions 186, some embodiments may be customized to orient the acoustic stream in a direction and position such that the overall energy usage is optimized. In addition, this customization may be performed patient to patient, providing a customized treatment to most effectively treat a patient's condition or relieve symptoms of a condition.
The acoustic streaming arrangement disclosure herein creates new opportunities for creating flow systems, such as a fluid valve or a pump system, in an implantable device. This may result in smaller valve-type implants since the acoustic streaming arrangement may be used to open and close the valve. In addition, since the acoustic streaming arrangement has few movable parts, it may be highly reliable. It may be easily integrated with other micro-fluidic circuits, may be relatively easy to manufacture, and may be customizable as it may be tunable to wide range conditions.
Persons of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the embodiments encompassed by the present disclosure are not limited to the particular exemplary embodiments described above. In that regard, although illustrative embodiments have been shown and described, a wide range of modification, change, and substitution is contemplated in the foregoing disclosure. It is understood that such variations may be made to the foregoing without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Accordingly, it is appropriate that the appended claims be construed broadly and in a manner consistent with the present disclosure
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/792,435, filed Mar. 15, 2013 the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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