Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02866968
Clinical Outcomes of Femtosecond Laser-assisted Pterygium Surgery (FLAPS)
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Singapore Eye Research Institute · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 21 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The study will be a pilot interventional case series aiming to treat 30 patients with Femtosecond Laser-assisted Pterygium Surgery (FLAPS). All patients included will undergo FLAPS in one eye. All procedures will be performed in SNEC by fully qualified surgeons. The doctor is informed of the procedure on the day of.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | FLAPS | Surgical procedures will involve 1) excision of pterygium tissue from cornea and conjunctiva, 2) resection of residual Tenon and coagulation to stop any bleeding 3) preparation of a 8x8 mm conjunctiva autograft in the superior bulbar conjunctiva with the femtosecond laser (12 o´clock position) and 4) fixation of the graft with fibrin glue to the resection site. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-07-06
- Primary completion
- 2017-06-01
- Completion
- 2017-06-01
- First posted
- 2016-08-15
- Last updated
- 2017-11-21
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Singapore
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02866968. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.