NCT04412525

Comparative Study 27G Vitrectomy vs Larger Gauge Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Two-arm, mono-center, prospective, interventional comparative case study to compare postoperative recovery between the 27G and larger gauge surgical approach.

Detailed description

A prospective randomized comparison of postoperative recovery between 27-gauge and larger gauge surgical approaches to evaluate efficiencies and postoperative outcomes of the surgical gauges. Fifty patients who were scheduled to undergo pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for floaters or macular surgery were treated with either 27-gauge or 23-gauge techniques and assessed for efficiency of the procedures as well as a variety of postop indicators of pain and inflammation.

Conditions

• Vitreoretinal Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	vitrectomy (27G gauge or larger needle)	vitrectomy surgery for either floater removal or macular surgery, with or without combined cataract (phaco) surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-05
• Primary completion: 2021-01-23
• Completion: 2021-01-23
• First posted: 2020-06-02
• Last updated: 2022-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium