Outcomes of Intraoperative 5-Fluorouracil Versus Mitomycin C

Indiana University School of Medicine

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Glaucoma

Treatments

Drug: Mitomycin C

Drug: 5-fluorouracil

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00346489

0409-60

Details and patient eligibility

About

A clinical trial to establish the long term response of using intraoperative 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) versus mitomycin C (MMC) in trabeculectomy glaucoma surgery. Antiproliferative agents such as 5-fluorouracil and Mitomycin C have been used extensively in trabeculectomy surgery to improve the success of the surgery and prevent further visual loss and blindness in glaucoma patients.

Full description

Glaucoma is a life-long progressive disease, and patients are living longer. Therefore, a long term full evaluation of the efficacy of intraoperative 5-FU and MMC needs to be performed to assess the true efficacy of MMC compared to 5-FU. We, therefore propose, a long-term prospective study of patients previously enrolled in the prospective study involving the evaluation of single intraoperative application of mitomycin C versus 5-fluorouracil in low to moderate risk glaucoma patients.

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Only patients deemed successful as 36 months will be included. These patients will have participated in the randomized prospective study trial comparing intraoperative 5-FU and mitomycin C in primary trabeculectomy.

Exclusion criteria

Only patients deemed successful as 36 months will be included. These patients will have participated in the randomized prospective study trial comparing intraoperative 5-FU and mitomycin C in primary trabeculectomy.