"Cataract Surgery in Eyes With Epiretinal Membrane"

St John of God Hospital, Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irvine-Gass Syndrome; Cataract; Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema; Epiretinal Membrane

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03404323

15062015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to evaluate retinal thickness change and the occurrence of central structural retinal changes after uneventful small-incision cataract surgery in eyes with asymptomatic early stages of epiretinal membrane.

Full description

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is nowadays used in daily clinical practice and has become a helpful tool for detection of macular changes also in presence of opacification of the lens before cataract surgery. Using recent high-resolution OCT technology, early stages of epiretinal membranes can easily be detected and analysed. Since cataract surgery is one of the most frequently performed operations worldwide, this study was aimed to investigate the influence of uncomplicated cataract surgery on central retinal thickness and the incidence of structural and morphological macular changes after surgery in eyes with asymptomatic epiretinal membrane.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• visually compromising cataract and asymptomatic early stages of epiretinal membrane with no structural changes such as cysts or photoreceptor distribution in optical coherence tomography.

Exclusion criteria

• visual impairment or metamorphopsia due to epiretinal membrane
• history of branch retinal vein occlusion
• central retinal vein occlusion
• wet or dry macular degeneration
• diabetic retinopathy
• uveitis or other inflammatory eye disease.