The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it has approved the first gel sealant that can be used for preventing leakage of fluid through the incision in a patient's cornea after cataract surgery with intraocular lens placement in adults.
The ReSure Sealant kit comes as a two liquid solutions that the surgeon mixes together just prior to sealing the incision. Prior to the approval of the gel sealant, stitches were the only option for closing a leaking corneal incision.
"The FDA has approved gels like ReSure for sealing small incisions in other parts of the body, such as the lungs, but this is a first-of-its-kind for the eye," said Christy Foreman, director of the Office of Device Evaluation in the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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