Clinical, Meibographic and Interferometric Evaluation of Phlyctenular Keratitis in Children - MEIBO-ROSACEE

Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Status: Completed

Conditions: Meibomian Gland Dysfunction; Ocular Rosacea; Keratoconjunctivitis

Treatments: Procedure: Ophthalmologic examination and meibographic and interferometric evaluation (Lipiview device)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT03479853

SDN_2017_26

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to describe the clinical, meibographic and interferometric manifestations of phlyctenular keratitis in children.

Full description

The investigators are conducting a monocentric, transversal, epidemiologic study. 100 patients should be included: 50 children suffering from ocular rosacea, and 50 children with no palpebral or Meibomian disease. Witnesses will be matched on the age of the cases.

Patient and controls will undergo a classic ophthalmologic examination with visual acuity measurement and slit lamp examination of both eyes and eyelids. Then, the child will go through a meibographic and interferometric evaluation of his two inferior eyelids. This evaluation is made by an optometrist with the Lipiview device, and lasts a few minutes.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Recruited from a specialized ophthalmologic consultation Rothschild Ophthalmologic Foundation, Paris, France.
• Cases : suffering from ocular or oculo-cutaneous rosacea
• Witnesses : without any present or past palpebral or meibomian disease

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to achieve the meibographic and interferometric examination (Lipiview)

Trial design

102 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases : suffering from ocular or oculo-cutaneous rosacea

Description:

Classic ophthalmologic examination with visual acuity measurement and slit lamp examination of both eyes and eyelids. Then, meibographic and interferometric evaluation of his two inferior eyelids with the Lipiview device.

Treatment:

Procedure: Ophthalmologic examination and meibographic and interferometric evaluation (Lipiview device)

Witnesses

Description:

Without any present or past palpebral meibomian Gland Dysfunction Classic ophthalmologic examination with visual acuity measurement and slit lamp examination of both eyes and eyelids. Then, meibographic and interferometric evaluation of his two inferior eyelids with the Lipiview device.

Treatment:

Procedure: Ophthalmologic examination and meibographic and interferometric evaluation (Lipiview device)