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Air Tamponade in Macular Hole Surgery

NCT01680068 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2013-12-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Macular hole is a hole formation which takes place in the center of the retina. Such a hole needs surgical steps in order to close. Closure of the macular hole will lead to a substantially improvement of vision in most cases. Following macular hole surgery a tamponade of intraocular gas is normally injected in order to keep the macula dry for the postoperative period. Postoperative face down position for a week was earlier standard. Several authors report of good closure rates with both air tamponade or lack of face down positioning. In this study standard pars plana vitrectomy with peeling of the internal limiting membrane (ILM) will be performed. The gas tamponade will be replaced by air. Postoperative face down positioning will not be used.

Conditions

  • Macular Hole

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Pars plana vitrectomy and postoperative air tamponade

Pars plans vitrectomy, ILM peeling and air tamponade. No postoperative face down positioning. All patients need to be pseudophakic prior to intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Haukeland University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Helse Stavanger HF

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Vegard Forsaa, MD · Helse Stavanger HF

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2013-10-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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