Status:
UNKNOWN
Effect of Ectoine After Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK).
Lead Sponsor:
Tanta University
Conditions:
Photorefractive Keratectomy
Corneal Haze
Eligibility:
All Genders
19-35 years
Brief Summary
This is a comparative, open label, parallel group, non interventional study aims to assess the effect of Ectoine containing eye drops on stromal haze, pain and epithelial healing after Photorefractive...
Detailed Description
Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) is a commonly used operation for laser vision correction. The main fears of this type of laser vision correction is corneal haze, delayed epithelial healing and posto...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patient undergoing PRK for myopia and myopic astigmatism when astigmatism is 2.5 diopters or less and myopia with spherical equivalent -4 or less.
Exclusion
- patient spherical equivalent more myopic than -4 diopters
- Patients with astigmatism more than 2.5 diopter
- Patients with anisometropia ( difference \> 2 diopters)
- Patient with previous ocular surgery
- Patients with chronic systemic disease that can affect results of laser vision correction (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
- Pregnant and lactating females
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2022
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
October 1 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
15 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05313425
Start Date
January 1 2022
End Date
October 1 2022
Last Update
April 6 2022
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Tanta University
Tanta, El Gharbia, Egypt, 31512