34 results about "Tarsal Glands" patented technology

An occular image of a region including meibomian glands is processed automatically. The processing may derive a grade indicative of the health of the meibomian glands, by using in the occular image to obtain one or more numerical parameters characterizing the meibomian glands shown in the occular image, and determining the grade using the one or more numerical parameters. The numerical parameters include a parameter characterizing the diversity between scale parameters of significant features of the image obtained by a scale-space transform, and / or parameters obtained by measurement of lines in the occular image representing respective glands. Meibomian glands can be identified on ocular images using Gabor filtering as a local filtering technique. The parametrization in shape, local spatial support, and orientation of Gabor filtering is particularly suitable for detecting meibomian glands.

The invention discloses a meibomian gland massaging tool for treating xerophthalmia. In a traditional method, two cotton swabs are arranged inside and outside of an upper eyelid and a lower eyelid under topical anesthesia, and the meibomian gland is gradually extruded. According to the method, the operation is inconvenient, the elapsed time is long and the sufferer is painful. In order to effectively and efficiently treat in a minimal invasive manner, the invention designs a treatment tool combined with hot compress and meibomian gland massaging at present. The massager is divided into a massaging section and a handling section. The massaging section is composed of a pair of massaging plates, and folded widths of the two plates can be more than 5mm. one plate is a smooth conjunctiva contact plate of which the thickness is 2-4mm and the other plate is a skin contact plate containing a heating resistance wire. The handling section comprises a clamping section, a handheld section, a rivet and an elastic section. A temperature control circuit is arranged inside the skin contact plate with a hollow structure; a control device also comprises a display device for displaying temperature and heating time of the skin contact plate in real time; the temperature control circuit is set by a temperature setting button, and a time control button is used for setting the time of heating the eyelids by the skin contact plate.

Described here are devices, systems, and methods for treating meibomian gland disease and / or blepharitis by providing intranasal stimulation. Generally, the devices may deliver electrical stimulation to the nasal mucosa. Intranasal stimulation may unblock obstructed meibomian glands and increase the lipid content of tears, both acutely during stimulation and subsequent to intranasal stimulation. The methods may include an initial round of stimulation to unblock obstructed meibomian glands, and subsequent shorter rounds of stimulation to cause meibum secretion and maintain the open glands.

The invention discloses a visual meibomian gland massage system. The massage system comprises a massage part and a head mounted display part; the massage part comprises a cavity shell, a protection shell, a small light source device and a small camera shooting device are arranged on the top of the cavity shell, a lower massage piece installation rod is fixedly arranged on the outer side of the protection shell, a lower massage piece is installed at the end of the lower massage piece installation rod, and a pulling rod, a right angle rod, an extension spring and a traction rope are arranged at the upper end inside the cavity shell; the horizontal section of the right angle rod is located on the upper portion of the lower massage piece installation rod and protrudes out of the cavity shell, an upper massage piece is connected to the horizontal section, the meibomian gland is subjected to extrusion massage through the upper massage piece and the lower massage piece, and the driving mode is simple and reliable.

Forceps treatment systems are described in which a forceps apparatus may generally comprise a first handle and a second handle coupled to one another near or at respective proximal ends. A first paddle may be coupled to the first handle and define a first inner surface, a second paddle may be coupled to the second handle and define a second inner surface which is positioned in apposition to the first inner surface. Furthermore, a debriding member may extend proximally from the first and second handles and reduce and curve gently to define a debriding edge for debriding tissue in proximity to one or more meibomian glands. The forceps apparatus may be used in combination with a heat treatment for treating one or more meibomian glands in a subject.

The invention discloses a dot-matrix meibomian gland dysfunction treatment device which comprises a lining plate, an outer extruder and a controller, wherein the lining plate is provided with a connecting plate; the outer extruder is arranged on the connecting plate; a gap is reserved between the outer extruder and the lining plate; the outer extruder comprises multiple extrusion columns; a drive mechanism is arranged behind each extrusion column; and the drive mechanism is connected with the controller and drives the extrusion columns to realize reciprocating motion. The device disclosed by the invention realizes no-leakage point knock on meibomian gland and can comprehensively extrude the eyelid; and moreover, each extrusion column knocks the meibomian gland so that the meibomian gland vibrates and the obstruction of the meibomian gland is dredged.

The invention relates to a meibomian gland heating and fumigating device for xerophthalmias. The meibomian gland heating and fumigating device comprises a wearable assembly, a temperature control assembly and a medicine assembly. The meibomian gland heating and fumigating device is simple in operation, the temperature is controllable in a meibomian gland hot compressing process, and the guarantee of controlling the skin around eyes at a relatively appropriate temperature in a working process is realized, so that the problems that an existing physical hot compressing method is great in temperature fluctuation and the hot compressing time and temperature are difficult to control are avoided, and the hot compressing effect is improved. Heating power generated by infrared rays can permeate through the deep layer of the skin, so that the blood circulation is quickened; the operating temperature of an infrared heating plate is controlled at 38-42 DEG C; the therapy of the infrared heating plate is a non-invasive therapy, safe and convenient, and is free of toxic and side effects; the heating temperature and time can be individually selected according to the conditions of each patient. Meanwhile, the device provided by the invention contains traditional Chinese medicine fumigation; medicine absorption and availability can be promoted while pipes of meibomian glands are open; the device is suitable for different types of xerophthalmias, and the therapeutic safety and effectiveness for the xerophthalmias are improved.