NCT01243931

Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Transepithelial Phototherapeutic Keratectomy

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) machines are non-contact instruments that can measure the depth of scars and other causes of cloudiness in the front of the cornea. The purpose of this study is to determine whether OCT-guided settings for the lasers used for removal of corneal scars and other partial-thickness corneal defects result in improved vision in patients receiving these procedures.

Detailed description

The long-term goal of this project is to utilize newly available very high-speed OCT technology to guide surgical treatments of corneas with superficial opacities and irregularities. OCT is well known for its exquisite resolution, but until recently it has not had sufficient speed to capture the shape of the cornea because of eye motion during OCT scanning. The development of Fourier-domain OCT (FD-OCT) technology has made the requisite speed possible. Eyes with superficial opacities (corneal scars and stromal dystrophies) can be treated by phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK). Currently, many surgeons rely on subjective slit-lamp impression of opacity depth to guide PTK and repeat slit-lamp examinations during surgery to determine if the opacity has been sufficiently reduced. Unpredictable hyperopic shifts can occur after PTK. The aim of this project is to develop methods for imaging the cornea with an FD-OCT system that will precisely measure corneal shape and use this information to guide surgery. Patients with irregularly shaped corneas could have their vision restored by reshaping the corneas with a procedure that combines the precision of OCT and lasers.

Conditions

• Corneal Opacity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	OCT-guided laser phototherapeutic keratectomy	Preoperative measurements from the OCT are used to assist the calculation in deciding the laser depth settings for removal of anterior corneal opacities and defects in the phototherapeutic PTK procedure. The surgeon uses the OCT data to plan a range of treatment parameters to remove most of the opacity while preserving at least 250 microns of residual corneal stroma.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2026-12-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2010-11-19
• Last updated: 2024-02-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States