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Outcomes in a Comparison of Manual Penetrating Keratoplasty and the IntraLase® Enabled Keratoplasty

NCT00566605 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2007-12-03

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Summary

To compare the early visual results and postoperative recovery between two groups of keratoconic patients - one group having undergone a traditional, mechanical vacuum trephine procedure while the second group underwent femtosecond-enabled penetrating keratoplasty.

Conditions

  • Keratoconus

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Penetrating keratoplasty with IntraLase

penetrating keratoplasty with femtosecond laser shaped incisions- IntraLase TM (IntraLase Enabled Keratoplasty \[IEK\])

PROCEDURE

Penetrating keratoplasty with vacuum trephine

Group 2 - penetrating keratoplasty with vacuum trephine

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Oftalmologico de Sorocaba

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elissandro M Silva, Lindoso · Hospital Oftalmologico de Sorocaba

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Completion
2008-08-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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