Evaluation of Tear Film Lipid Layer Thickness Change After Cataract Surgery

Yonsei University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cataract Patients

Treatments: Other: LipiView

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02567565

4-2015-0225

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare cataract patients before and after phacoemulsification. Evaluations will be performed before and 1 and 3 months following cataract surgery, including measurement of tear film lipid layer thickness, tear film break up time, Schirmer test, corneal and conjunctival fluorescein staining, examination of lid margins and meibomian glands, and the Ocular Surface Disease Index.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cataract patients with lens opacities classification higher than grade III and desire to be spectacle independence for distance and near vision

Exclusion criteria

• previous ocular surgery or trauma and the presence of corneal opacities, fundus abnormalities, glaucoma, uveitis, amblyopia, systemic disease, and posterior capsule rupture during cataract surgery

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

cataract patients

Description:

cataract patients undergoing phacoemulsification

Treatment:

Other: LipiView