A device for treating an eye affection related to a decrease of ocular
accommodation amplitude resulting from loss of tension of the zonular
fibers caused by increase in the lens diameter. The device is designed to
be surgically implanted in the ciliary sulcus, behind the iris, and
configured to compensate the loss of tension of the zonular fibers by
exerting on the ciliary sulcus a pressure tending to increase its
diameter. The device includes a closed tubular envelope made of an
elastic and fluid-impermeable material, the envelope being shaped like a
ring or a ring portion having a predetermined outer diameter at rest, the
inner ring wall of the envelope delimiting a lumen adapted to be filled
with an incompressible fluid tending to increase the outer diameter up to
a value whereby the loss of tension of the zonular fibers is compensated.