NCT00409955

Lamellar Transplant With Lyophilized Corneas

Randomized Clinical Trial for Lamellar Transplants Using Lyophilized and Optisol Corneas

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (planned)
• Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

\- The goals of this study are to develop a lyophilization method for anterior lamellar transplants in Brasil and to make a comparative analysis among patients transplanted with lyophilized and optisol corneas

Detailed description

* After the development of a techinique to lyophilize corneas, we randomly assingned 20 patients with keratoconus and visual acuity of \< 20/60, who signed the consent term and divided them into 2 groups. One group was transplanted with lyophilized corneas and the other group with optisol corneas. * Patients are being followed for 6 months with visual acuity, refraction, topography, orbscan, pachmetry, ultrasound biomicroscopy and confocal microscopy. * Results are going to be statistically analysed by SPSS program.

Conditions

• Keratoconus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Lamellar transplant with lyophilized corneas

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-12-01
• Completion: 2006-12-01
• First posted: 2006-12-12
• Last updated: 2006-12-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil