HOW IT WORKS

It all happens at the tip. The Trabectome handpiece is positioned across the anterior chamber and the tip enters the Schlemm’s canal. At the tip, the Trabectome handpiece incorporates a bipolar micro-electrocautery which ablates and removes a strip of trabecular meshwork. Simultaneous irrigation and aspiration washes away the debris and provides a stable anterior chamber while protecting the adjacent tissues.

Trabectome has an excellent operative and post operative safety profile and has NOT resulted in any of the following postoperative conditions:

• Flat or shallow anterior chamber
• Persisting corneal edema
• Iris injury
• Hypotony or hypotony maculopathy
• Infection
• Cataract progression
• Wound leak
• Bleb formation and infection
• Choroidal effusion; choroidal hemorrhage
• Visual acuity decrease (>2 Lines)

Trabectome Tip is bent to create the triangular Protective Footplate.

The Protective Footplate:

		provides protection from heat injury to adjacent structures.
		is coated with a smooth insulating material.
		easily penetrates the trabecular meshwork.
		acts as a guide and glide inside Schlemm's canal to protect the collector channels, outer wall of Schlemm's canal and adjacent tissues.
		feeds trabecular and juxtacanalicular tissues into the ablative bipolar electrodes as the instrument tip is advanced.