An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Postoperative face-down posturing and Postoperative non-posturing group in Full Thickness Macular Hole, sponsored by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 16 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2010-10-22.
Sponsored by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) to investigate the effect of postoperative face-down positioning on the outcome of macular hole surgery.
156 studies on the registry are indexed under Retinal Perforations; 21 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 30 is below the median of 44 across 104 interventional studies indexed under Retinal Perforations.
Browse Retinal Perforations studies →Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the lead sponsor of 48 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Postoperative face-down positioning for 10 days after surgery.
Procedure: Postoperative face-down posturing
avoid a face-up position for 10 days after surgery
Procedure: Postoperative non-posturing group
Postoperative face-down posturing for 10 days after surgery.
avoid a face-up position only for 10 days after surgery
Anatomical closure of the macula hole assessed 6 weeks following surgery by ocular coherence tomography.
Time frame: 6 weeks
Visual acuity assessed 6 weeks following surgery by Snellen charts.
Time frame: 6 weeks
This study is completed, as verified in Aug 2006. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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