Clinical Trial: Automated Lamellar Keratectomy in Symptomatic Patients With Bullous Keratopathy

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Study of Automated Lamellar Keratectomy With a New Option in Treatment in Symptomatic Patients With Bullous Keratopathy.

Brief Summary:

To relieve pain in patients with symptomatic bullous keratopathy (BK) until keratoplasty and in patients without visual prediction.

The automated lamellar keratectomy represents a alternative in treatment of pain in symptomatic patients with BK.

Detailed Summary:

Only patients with BK symptomatic (with pain) were submitted to automated lamellar keratectomy (ALK).

Complete ophthalmological examination including UCVA,BSVA, biomicroscopy, tonometry, esthesiometry, UBM pachymetry, impression cytology and pain questionnaire were performed in preoperative, postoperative of one, seven, 30, 90, 180 days and one year.

Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo

Current Primary Outcome: Pain questionnaire [ Time Frame: preoperative and postoperative 1,7,30,90,180 days and one year ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: biomicroscopy, esthesiometry, UBM pachymetry, impression cytology [ Time Frame: preoperative, postoperative 1,7,30,90,180 days and one year ]

Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: Federal University of São Paulo

Dates:
Date Received: April 3, 2008
Date Started: March 2005
Date Completion:
Last Updated: April 10, 2008
Last Verified: April 2008