Clinical trialNCT01638390CompletedPhase 1Interventional

Use of the VisuMax™ Femtosecond Laser

SponsorCarl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.Enrollment357Myopia

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The objective of this clinical trial is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Carl Zeiss Meditec VisuMax™ Femtosecond Laser lenticule removal procedure for the reduction or elimination of myopia from ≥ -1.00 D to ≤ -8.00 D with ≤ -0.50 D cylinder and MRSE (Manifest Refractive Spherical Equivalent) ≤ -8.25 D.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

John Doane, M.D.
Discover Vision Centers
Principal Investigator
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John Vukich, M.D.
Davis Duehr Dean
Principal Investigator
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Jon Dishler, M.D.
Dishler Laser Institute
Principal Investigator
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Sonia Yoo, M.D.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Principal Investigator
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Vance Thompson, M.D.
Vance Thompson Vision Clinic, Prof., LLC
Principal Investigator
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William Culbertson, M.D.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Principal Investigator
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Sites

5 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Dishler Laser Institute
Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Miami, Florida, United States
Discover Vision Centers
Leawood, Kansas, United States
Vance Thompson Vision
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Davis Duehr Dean
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Jul 2012
Primary completion: 30 Apr 2016
Completion: 30 Apr 2016
Last update posted: 2 Apr 2026
Registered enrollment: 357
Registry id: NCT01638390

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.