Rollable and implantable intraocular pressure sensor for the continuous adaptive management of glaucoma

Piffaretti, Filippo and Barrettino, Diego and Orsatti, Paolo and Leoni, Lorenzo and Stegmaier, Peter (2013) Rollable and implantable intraocular pressure sensor for the continuous adaptive management of glaucoma. In: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. (In Press)

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Abstract

We designed and tested a new rollable and implantable medical device to directly and continuously measure intraocular pressure. Since high intraocular pressure is a leading risk factor for glaucoma, such a system could solve the difficulties encountered in the management of this condition. In fact, glaucoma is one among those pathologies that could most benefit of an adaptive patient-specific medicine device. The presented prototype was realized with standard industrial microelectronic technologies (Flip-Chip on Kapton flexible PCB) and off-the-shelf IC components. Detailed system description and measurements, obtained during in-vitro and laboratory characterizations, are reported.

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