NCT05371977Recruiting
Deep Sclerectomy Versus Trabeculectomy in Normal Tension Glaucoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 Mar 2024 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to assess whether deep sclerectomy is as effective in lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) as trabeculectomy in patients with normal tension glaucoma.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 2 May 2022
- Start date
- 31 May 2022
- Primary completion date
- May 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Helsinki University Central Hospital
- Diseases
- Glaucoma
- NCT number
- NCT05371977
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 80
- From 31 May 2022 to the primary completion date, May 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Secondary Glaucoma e.g. due to previous injury or uveitis
- Previous transscleral or endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation
- Previous other glaucoma surgery
- Previous retinal detachment
- Previous intraocular surgery like vitrectomy and other retinal surgery
- Previous corneal transplant or previous refractive surgery
Other illness
- Exfoliation syndrome
- Pigment dispersion syndrome
- Dementia
Age
- Wet age-related macular degeneration
Other
- Diabetic retonopathy
- Fuchs' dystrophy and other abnormalities compromising corneal clarity like scars
- The patient does not want to participate in the study
- The patient does not speak Finnish, Swedish or English
- Only eye with vision worse than 20/200 or loss of central visual field
Who the study is looking for
- Signed Informed Consent
- Normal Tension Glaucoma with typical nerve fiber layer defects in red-free photographs and/or optical coherence tomography (OCT) and possible equivalent visual field defects, IOP never more than 21 mmHg, and open anterior chamber angle
- Glaucoma unstable with current medication assessed by a glaucoma specialist
Age in the registry: 55 years to 100 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helsinki University Central Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Helsinki | Finland | Recruiting |
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