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Clinical trialNCT02812004UnknownPhase 4Interventional

New Horizons in the Treatment of Vitreous Floaters

SponsorAugenabteilung Allgemeines Krankenhaus LinzEnrollment30Other Vitreous Opacities, Bilateral
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Summary

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The Ultra Q Reflex® (Ellex) constitutes the only Nd:YAG laser approved for the treatment of vitreous floaters. No randomized controlled clinical trial has been carried out to this day in order to investigate its superiority over sham treatment. In the present study, 60 eyes will be randomized and blinded into 2 groups, one receiving up to two sessions of laser vitreolysis the other scheduled for two sessions of sham treatment. After a maximum of two (sham) treatment sessions (1 per month), patients' utility value score and BCVA will be re-assessed. A follow-up period of 12 months (with visits at month 1, 6 and 12 post-treatment) will ensue the "treatment phase" to register any late adverse events that may be associated with laser vitreolysis. As vitrectomy constitutes a highly invasive procedure, which must therefore be restricted to severe cases only, laser vitreolysis may present a valuable treatment option for patients with moderate vitreous floaters that are not eligible for vitrectomy.
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Investigators

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Sites

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

Austria
  • Akh Linz

    Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

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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 2016
Primary completion
31 Aug 2017
Completion
31 Oct 2017
Last update posted
12 Jul 2016
Registered enrollment
30
Registry id
NCT02812004
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