Technique And Results In Endothelial Keratoplasty (TREK)

EDUARD PEDEMONTE-SARRIAS

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fuchs' Endothelial Dystrophy; Corneal Endothelial Cell Loss

Treatments: Procedure: Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty; Procedure: Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02470793

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Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess and compare the complications and results of different lamellar endothelial keratoplasty techniques and its variations.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Diagnosis with corneal endothelial dysfunction requiring lamellar endothelial corneal transplantation.
2. Free acceptance to be enrolled in the trial, and signature of the informed consent by the subject and/or its legal representatives.

Exclusion criteria

N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

DSAEK group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects operated of Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty.

Treatment:

Procedure: Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty

DMEK group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects operated of Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty.

Treatment:

Procedure: Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty