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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2002
Gholam A. Peyman, New Orleans, LA (US);
Gholam A. Peyman, New Orleans, LA (US);
Minu, L.L.C., Pittsboro, NC (US);
Abstract
A process for inhibiting vascular proliferation separately introduces components into the eye to generate plasmin in the eye in amounts to induce complete posterior vitreous detachment where the vitreoretinal interface is devoid of cortical vitreous remnants. The process administers a combination of lysine-plasminogen, at least one recombinant plasminogen activator selected from the group consisting of urokinase, streptokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, chondroitinase, pro-urokinase, retavase, metaloproteinase, and thermolysin and a gaseous adjuvant to form a cavity in the vitreous. The composition is introduced into the vitreous in an amount effective to induce crosslinking of the vitreous and to induce substantially complete posterior vitreous detachment from the retina without causing inflammation of the retina. The gaseous adjuvant material is introduced into the vitreous simultaneously with or after the lysine-plasminogen and recombinant plasminogen activator such as recombinant urokinase to compress the vitreous against the retina while the composition induces the complete posterior vitreous detachment.