Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00821223
Outcome Following Phacoemulsification Versus Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS)
Comparison of Phacoemulsification Versus Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) : A Randomized Control Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 420 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Center · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 50 Years – 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Hypothesis : Phacoemulsification is superior to SICS with regards to: * Immediate unaided high and low contrast visual performance * Its impact on quality of life.
Detailed description
Phacoemulsification procedure * Infiniti Vision System with Software 2.03 or higher, OZil handpiece (HP) * Anaesthesia: topical * Incision: temporal clear corneal 2.2 mm single plane * CCC and hydrodissection, sculpting and division using step by step chop in situ and lateral separation, I/A. * Single-piece AcrySof IOL (SN60WF) in the bag SICS procedure * Anaesthesia: peribulbar * Incision: superior scleral tunnel 6.5 to 7 mm * CCC and hydrodissection * Nuclear expression: blumenthal technique using anterior chamber maintainer, manual cortical clean-up * Single-piece PMMA (MZ60BD) in the bag
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | phacoemulsification and SICS | SICS with rigid IOL implantation Phaco with foldable IOL implantation |
| PROCEDURE | manual small incision surgery | |
| PROCEDURE | phacoemulsification | cataract surgery |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-05-01
- Completion
- 2010-05-01
- First posted
- 2009-01-13
- Last updated
- 2010-05-19
Locations
1 site across 1 country: India
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00821223. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.