Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02403206
Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery in Intumescent Cataracts
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 406 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Alcon, a Novartis Company · Industry
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 21 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of the study is to compare femtosecond laser-assisted capsulotomy to manual capsulorhexis in patients with intumescent cataracts. An intumescent cataract is defined as a cataract with a pressurized capsular bag.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | Femtosecond laser | Laser console and a patient interface used to cut tissue during cataract removal of the crystalline lens |
| PROCEDURE | Continuous Curvilinear Capsulorhexis (CCC) | Standard-of care manual procedure (using either needles or forceps) for creating capsulorhexis, ie., opening in capsular bag during anterior segment ophthalmic surgery |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-03-26
- Primary completion
- 2016-07-12
- Completion
- 2016-08-24
- First posted
- 2015-03-31
- Last updated
- 2018-07-02
- Results posted
- 2017-07-25
Regulatory
- FDA-regulated device study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02403206. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.