Isolated Bowman Layer Graft for Reducing and Stabilizing Advanced Keratoconus

Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advanced Keratoconus

Treatments: Procedure: Bowman layer graft implantation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01686906

NIIOS-BL-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the efficacy of mid-stromal implantation of an isolated Bowman layer graft, to reduce and stabilize ectasia in eyes with advanced keratoconus

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

•Advanced keratoconus

Exclusion criteria

• Further ophthalmic diseases
• History of ocular surgery
• Pregnancy, brest feeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 1 patient group

Bowman layer graft implantation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Bowman layer graft implantation