NCT04383431

Cross-linking as Treatment in Infectious Keratitis

Standard Cross-linking Versus Accelerated Photoactivated Chromophore Cross-linking (PACK-CXL) for Treatment of Infectious Keratitis: A Comparative Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sohag University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To compare between SCXL and ACXL for treatment of infectious keratitis

Detailed description

Standard epithelium-off CXL, 30 minutes soaking time with riboflavin, 30 minutes UVA corneal irradiation continuous mode (Group A). Accelerated CXL 11 minutes soaking time with riboflavin, 8 minutes UVA corneal irradiation pulsed mode (Group B).

Conditions

• Infectious Keratitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	PACK-CXL	Standard epithelium-off CXL, 12 minutes soaking time with riboflavin, 8 minutes UVA corneal irradiation pulsed mode.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-02
• Primary completion: 2023-01-01
• Completion: 2023-01-15
• First posted: 2020-05-12
• Last updated: 2023-01-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt