Comparison of Manual Super Small Incision Cataract Surgery and Phacoemulsification
Overview
The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of manual super small incision cataract surgery (MSSICS) and Phacoemulsification.
Study Type
- Study Type: Interventional
- Study Design
- Allocation: Randomized
- Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
- Study Primary Completion Date: June 2011
Interventions
- Procedure: MSSICS
- Manual super small incision cataract surgery
- Procedure: Phacoemulsification
- cataract surgery with Phacoemulsification
Arms, Groups and Cohorts
- Experimental: Phacoemulsification, Safety, Efficacy
- Experimental: MSSICS, Safety, Efficacy
Clinical Trial Outcome Measures
Primary Measures
- Corneal endothelial cell loss
- Time Frame: 3 months postoperatively
Secondary Measures
- postoperative astigmatism
- Time Frame: 3 months postoperatively
- visual acuity
- Time Frame: 3 month postoperatively
Participating in This Clinical Trial
Inclusion Criteria
- Age related cataract patients – Cataract density grade II-III according to the Emery-Little system classification system Exclusion Criteria:
- Legal guardian(s) is/are not present for permission – Other eye diseases impairing visual acuity (ie. glaucoma) – patients with severe systemic diseases not good for ocular surgery
Gender Eligibility: All
Minimum Age: 50 Years
Maximum Age: N/A
Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No
Investigator Details
- Lead Sponsor
- Wenzhou Medical University
- Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
- Principal Investigator: Xiangtian Zhou, MD – Wenzhou Medical University
- Overall Official(s)
- Wei Chen, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, China
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