Comparison of Conventional and Custom Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK)

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Myopia

Treatments: Procedure: Conventional PRK; Procedure: Custom PRK with iris registration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00713856

25339

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study objective is to compare the clinical outcomes using wavefront guided PRK with iris registration and conventional laser PRK using FDA-approved laser technology on the same patient.

Full description

Patients undergoing bilateral PRK on the same day will have one eye randomly assigned to custom wavefront guided PRK and the fellow eye treated with conventional PRK.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients deemed to be suitable candidates for bilateral PRK

Exclusion criteria

• Patients desiring monovision correction rather than bilateral distance correction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Custom PRK with iris registration

2

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional PRK