The Homburg Keratoconus Center (HKC)

Universität des Saarlandes

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Keratoconus

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Topographic, tomographic and biomechanical analysis.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03923101

HKC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of this study is to conduct longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses about the corneal ectatic disease Keratoconus based on data obtained from Keratoconus patients in the Homburg Keratoconus Center (HKC).

The Homburg Keratoconus Center (HKC) was founded in 2010 and, up to now, comprises more than 3,000 Keratoconus patients. Topographic, tomographic and biomechanic characteristics of the disease are being analyzed with the intention to elucidate how the disease begins and develops during lifetime.

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All Keratoconus patients presenting in the department of ophthalmology, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saarland, Germany.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients without Keratoconus.

Trial design

5,000 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with Keratoconus

Description:

Aim is to include as many Keratoconus patients as possible with the intention to elucidate how the disease begins and develops during lifetime.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Topographic, tomographic and biomechanical analysis.