Trials / Unknown
UnknownNCT01022177
Influence of Acupuncture to Ocular Microcirculation in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Technische Universität Dresden · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of specific eye acupuncture to the ocular microcirculation in diabetic and healthy subjects.
Detailed description
Diabetes is combined with severe vascular damage at the different stages of the disease, causing reduction in retinal perfusion. Acupuncture is supposed to regulate the perfusion. We propose a study to evaluate the effect of acupuncture to the vascular auto regulation in patient with Diabetes, compared to healthy people without vascular or retinal diseases. The perfusion of the retinal vessel will be examined by Retinal vessel analyzer (RVA), Heidelberg retinal Flowmeter (HRF) and the Ocular blood Flowmeter (OBF) before, during and after standardized specific acupuncture at healthy volunteers and patients with diabetes.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | acupuncture | acupuncture of the eye in traditional chinese schematics |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-10-01
- Completion
- 2012-05-01
- First posted
- 2009-12-01
- Last updated
- 2011-12-02
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01022177. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.