Silicone oil 2000

sil 2000

Ultra-purified silicone oils for vitreoretinal surgery. Used to displace the aqueous humor from the retinal surface and to maintain the adhesion between retina and retinal pigment epithelium.

High patient and product safety
Validated and controlled multi-step ultra-purification process
Safe, biocompatible, sterile, endotoxin-free products
36 months shelf life

What are silicone oils?

Silicone oils, also called Siloxanes or Polysiloxanes, are Silicone and Oxygen based linear polymers

Their properties are dependent on their chain length and chain length distribution. Longer chains lead to a higher viscosity, while more defined properties are dependent on a narrow distribution.

The use of silicone oils always entails the unwanted risk of emulsification, however, the probability of occurrence of this adverse event can be dramatically lowered by using highly purified silicone oils where all volatile and non-volatile components, so-called oligosiloxanes, are removed.

Multi step purification

The outstanding quality of ophthafutur^® silicone oils is also testified by independent studies.

Usability

ophthafutur^® sil 1000 | sil 2000 | sil 5000 are used as ocular endotamponades in severe cases of retinal detachment with, e.g. solid proliferative vitreoretinopathy, traumatic detachment, giant tears, as well as other detachments of the retina which cannot be treated with other forms of therapy.

The use of silicone oil in cases of central foramina with detachment, or in cases of severe diabetic retinopathies is presently discussed.

The standard glass syringe, widely used in ophthalmology, has a plastic luer lock at the tip. For added protection of the luer lock and safer handling, a supporting tube is shrunk over the tip.