Neurotomy of Optic Nerve in Non-Arthritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Non Arthritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

Treatments: Procedure: optic nerve neurotomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00372021

8136

Details and patient eligibility

About

Non-arthritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is the most common cause of sudden visual loss due to optic nerve involvement in patients above 50 years old. As this problem can be considered as a sclera out let syndrome an there is no effective and successful treatment for it, we decided to do a neurotomy procedure and relax the involved optic nerve in order to achieve acceptable treating outcome.

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with non-arthritic anterior ischemic optic nerve

Exclusion criteria

• Visual acuity more than 20/200
• Other intra occular operations
• Passing more than 4 weeks of the problem
• Arthritic anterior ischemic optic nerve
• Age under 50 years
• Consumption of previous pharmaceutical treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind