LENS CAPSULAR EXPANDER Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61F2/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine. A solid elastic intracapsular device supports configuration and volume of a lens capsular sac (LCS) and represents an elastic optically transparent plate a length of which exceeds the size of the posterior leaf of the lens capsule generated to provide a tight contact therewith in the centre. Structural elements are presented in the form of at least two petals arranged in the opposite segments of the plate and in the same plane, and have a low-elasticity flexion range, which is symmetrically removed from its centre and provided to stretch the LCS uniformly in an equatorial area and in the anterior-posterior direction.

EFFECT: using the given invention enables preserving the LCS shape after cataract removal, prevents its fibrotic changes and reduces a probability of remote secondary cataract.

2 cl, 2 dwg