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Trabeculectomy Versus Canaloplasty to Treat Glaucoma

NCT00854256 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2013-04-15

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Summary

The aim of the study is to investigate pressure lowering effect of two surgical methods canaloplasty and trabeculectomy in patients with open angle glaucoma, in which under local pressure lowering therapy the progression of the disease could not be stopped, and thus a pressure lowering surgical intervention is necessary. The risks in the postoperative course in Canaloplasty in the literature as lower than for the trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C. Conversely, large glaucoma centers questioning the effectiveness of permanent pressure lowering of canaloplasty. Precisely this question is investigated in the study.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Canaloplasty

Canaloplasty surgery

PROCEDURE

Trabeculectomy with mitomycin C

Trabeculectomy with mitomycin C surgery

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • iScience Interventional Corporation

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University of Cologne

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-12-31
Completion
2014-05-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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