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Levator Resection with3 Point Fixation Versus 2 Point Fixation Tucking for Congenital Ptosis

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Heba Hamdy Ibrahim Mohammed

Status

Completed

Conditions

Congenital Ptosis

Treatments

Procedure: levator resection
Procedure: levator tucking

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03240107
hhim123

Details and patient eligibility

About

to evaluate the surgical effect of levator aponeurosis resection Versus two point fixation levator aponeurosis Tucking for Congenital Ptosis

Full description

Target population for the study is children under twelve years old presenting to ophthalmology clinic at Cairo university specialized pediatric hospital with congenital ptosis.

Patients will be randomly divided into two groups First group (A) will contain 20 patients who will undergo standard levator aponeurosis resection Second group (B) will contain 20 patient who will undergo two point fixation levator tucking

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

2 to 12 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Unilateral or bilateral simple isolated congenital ptosis.
  2. Levator function more than 4mm

Exclusion criteria

  1. Congenital ptosis associated with other ocular syndromes.
  2. Recurrent ptosis following any attempt for repair.
  3. Traumatic ptosis or acquired ptosis
  4. -ve bell's phenomenon.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

40 participants in 2 patient groups

levator resection
Active Comparator group
Description:
20 patients who will undergo levator aponeurosis resection technique
Treatment:
Procedure: levator resection
levator tucking
Active Comparator group
Description:
20 patients who will undergo two point fixation levator tucking technique
Treatment:
Procedure: levator tucking

Trial contacts and locations

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