Intense Pulsed Light Therapy in Meibomian Gland Dysfunction

Dar Al Shifa Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Meibomian Gland Dysfunction

Treatments: Device: intense pulsed light

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04904874

02282021065726

Details and patient eligibility

About

to evaluate the effect of intense pulsed light on resistant patients with Meibomian gland dysfunction

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age of at least 20 years.
• The diagnosis of obstructive MGD based on ocular symptoms, plugged gland orifices, vascularity and irregularity of lid margins, and reduced meibum expression (meibum grade of .1, where grade 0 = clear meibum easily expressed, grade 1 = cloudy meibum expressed with mild pressure, grade 2 = cloudy meibum expressed with more than moderate pressure, and grade 3 = meibum could not be expressed even with strong pressure).
• failure of at least 3 types of conventional MGD therapy to improve symptoms or objective findings for at least 1 year before study treatment

Exclusion criteria

• the presence of active skin lesions, skin cancer, or other specific skin pathology.
• active ocular infection or ocular inflammatory disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

flourescein staining, miboscore

Other group

Treatment:

Device: intense pulsed light