A new and novel method for determining post procedural treatment is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: determining a depth at which a surgical procedure on at least one eye of a patient is to be performed or was performed; providing a first set of instructions for administering a first medication for a first length of time to said at least one eye of said patient, said first length of time based at least in part upon said depth; providing a second set of instructions for administering a second different pressure lowering medication for a second length of time to said at least one eye of said patient, and physically administering the first medication and second different pressure lowering medication based upon the instructions.

An apparatus having an inserter device with a shaft disposed in an interior space and an intraocular implant adapted to self-retain to an inner wall of Schlemm's canal. The intraocular implant has a proximal portion sized and shaped to reside within an anterior chamber of the eye, the proximal portion having a proximal opening; a distal portion sized and shaped to reside within Schlemm's canal of the eye, the distal portion having a distal opening, and a passageway extending in a straight line from the proximal opening to the distal opening to conduct fluid from the anterior chamber to Schlemm's canal. The shaft of the inserter device is adapted to advance the intraocular implant out of the interior space and through an inner wall of Schlemm's canal.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for aiding a surgeon to perform a surgical procedure on an eye. The surgical procedure includes inserting an elongate probe from an opening into the eye across an anterior chamber to a target tissue region comprising a trabecular meshwork and a Schlemm's canal. Exemplary systems include an optical microscope for the surgeon to view the eye with a microscope image during the procedure; an optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus configured to perform an OCT scan of a target location in the target tissue region during the procedure; and an image processing apparatus configured to generate an augmented image by overlaying an OCT image of target location and a graphical visual element identifying the locations, wherein the graphical visual element is registered with the microscope image to aid the surgeon in advancing a distal end of the elongate probe to the target location.

An illustrative method of treating a patient having an eye condition includes determining that the patient has a closed-angle or narrow-angle glaucoma. The method further includes treating the closed-angle or narrow-angle glaucoma during a surgical procedure performed on the patient. The method further includes, during the surgical procedure, treating the patient with an excimer laser to create a plurality of perforations in the trabecular meshwork by applying a plurality of shots to the trabecular meshwork from the excimer laser.

A method of treating a patient having an eye condition includes determining, during a pre-operative analysis of the patient, that the patient has a risk of developing glaucoma. The method further includes treating the patient with an excimer laser to prophylactically treat glaucoma based on the pre-operative analysis determination that the patient has the risk of developing glaucoma.

An illustrative method of treating a patient having an eye condition includes determining that the patient has a closed-angle or narrow-angle glaucoma. The method further includes treating the closed-angle or narrow-angle glaucoma during a surgical procedure performed on the patient. The method further includes, during the surgical procedure, treating the patient with an excimer laser to create a plurality of perforations in the trabecular meshwork by applying a plurality of shots to the trabecular meshwork from the excimer laser.

An apparatus for treating an eye includes a housing, an excimer laser source within the housing, an ultrasound generator within the housing, an irrigation source within the housing, and an aspiration source within the housing.

A method for altering an eye color of a patient with a color alteration procedure is disclosed that may include determining a laser power to deliver to stromal pigment in an iris of the eye of the patient by at least retrieving a set of laser criteria for delivery of an exposure less than 100 times a maximum permissible exposure that causes elimination of at least a portion of the stromal pigment. A laser system may be set to deliver laser light at the laser power which is less than the set of laser criteria and the laser light may be delivered with the laser system.

A method of treating a patient having an eye condition includes determining, during a pre-operative analysis of the patient, that the patient has a risk of developing glaucoma. The method further includes treating the patient with an excimer laser to prophylactically treat glaucoma based on the pre-operative analysis determination that the patient has the risk of developing glaucoma.

Generation of treatment recommendations for topographic-based excimer laser surgical procedures is described that includes generating accurate cylinder compensation and spherical compensation values that are adjusted to compensate for unique characteristics of advanced topographic-based excimer laser surgical systems. Generating treatment recommendations generally includes determining a topographic vector from a topographic corneal map of the eye, determining a posterior astigmatism vector and an anterior astigmatism vector for the eye, and generating an interior astigmatism vector using the topographic vector, the posterior astigmatism vector, the anterior astigmatism vector, and a manifest astigmatism vector. In various embodiments, the cylinder compensation is generated using the interior astigmatism vector and the posterior astigmatism vector, and the spherical compensation is generated using an initial spherical compensation modified by a topographic addback modifier and a cylinder addback modifier.