Status:

COMPLETED

The Baerveldt Versus ClearPath Comparison Study

Lead Sponsor:

Duke University

Conditions:

Glaucoma

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-90 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This is a randomized prospective study of post-operative surgical outcomes and complication rates in patients with a Baerveldt 350 implant vs the Ahmed ClearPath implant. Each subject will be randomiz...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Men or women with age at screening ≥ 18 years and ≤ 90 years
  • Inadequately controlled glaucoma
  • Valve-less aqueous shunt as the planned surgical procedure
  • Patients with primary glaucomas or pseudoexfoliation, pigmentary and traumatic glaucoma with a previous failed trabeculectomy or other intraocular surgery included.
  • Primary tubes included
  • Investigators to recruit consecutively all eligible patients from their clinics.
  • Superotemporal or inferonasal placement of the tube
  • Capable and willing to provide consent

Exclusion

  • NLP
  • Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent
  • Unavailable for regular follow up
  • Previous cyclodestructive procedure
  • Prior scleral buckling procedure or other external impediment to supratemporal drainage device implantation
  • Presence of silicone oil
  • Vitreous in the anterior chamber sufficient to require a vitrectomy
  • Uveitic glaucoma
  • Neovascular glaucoma
  • Nanophthalmos
  • Sturge-Weber syndrome or other conditions associated with elevated episcleral venous pressure
  • Procedure combined with other surgery
  • Any abnormality other than glaucoma in the study eye that could affect tonometry.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 17 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 29 2023

Estimated Enrollment :

76 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04468633

Start Date

December 17 2020

End Date

June 29 2023

Last Update

September 5 2024

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Duke Eye Center

Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705