NCT00566605

Outcomes in a Comparison of Manual Penetrating Keratoplasty and the IntraLase® Enabled Keratoplasty

Visual Outcomes in a Comparison of Manual Penetrating Keratoplasty and the IntraLase® Enabled Keratoplasty

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Oftalmologico de Sorocaba · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To compare the early visual results and postoperative recovery between two groups of keratoconic patients - one group having undergone a traditional, mechanical vacuum trephine procedure while the second group underwent femtosecond-enabled penetrating keratoplasty.

Conditions

• Keratoconus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Penetrating keratoplasty with IntraLase	penetrating keratoplasty with femtosecond laser shaped incisions- IntraLase TM (IntraLase Enabled Keratoplasty \[IEK\])
PROCEDURE	Penetrating keratoplasty with vacuum trephine	Group 2 - penetrating keratoplasty with vacuum trephine

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Completion: 2008-08-01
• First posted: 2007-12-03
• Last updated: 2007-12-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil