Blephacura Versus Baby Shampoo to Treat Blepharitis

University of Cologne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blepharitis

Treatments: Procedure: Group A; Procedure: Group B

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01115192

OptimaCologne

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness in treatment of chronic blepharitis either with a phospholipid liposome suspension compared to a conventional therapy recommendation using diluted baby shampoo.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with blepharitis
• 100 eyes of 100 patients (50 patients treated with Blephacura, 50 patients treated with diluted baby shampoo) The ratio of female / male is not involved.

Exclusion criteria

• all patients that are not included in the group of inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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144 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with chronic blepharitis, that will be treated with blephacura

Treatment:

Procedure: Group A

Group B

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with chronic blepharitis that will be treated with diluted baby shampoo

Treatment:

Procedure: Group B