Cataract Surgery, Hydration
Conditions
Keywords
Cataract, clear corneal incision, wound hydration, posterior flap
Brief summary
Sutureless clear corneal incision (CCI) is the most commonly used technique for creating an entrance wound in cataract surgery. Corneal incision hydration enhances wound tightness and reduces postoperative fluid suction from the ocular surface into the anterior chamber; thereby, loweres the risk of postoperative endophthalmitis. Various hydration methods have been employed to close corneal incisions. Standard CCI hydration may be ineffective in sutureless incisions with central wound gaping. Authors described a new technique of hydration: a posterior flap hydration technique. This study evaluates its effect on corneal wound tightness immediately after hydration, and assess wound architecture on the first postoperative day using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).
Detailed description
The study subjects are patients with uncomplicated cataracts, without other eye diseases and without diseases affecting wound healing (e.g. diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc.), who have a visible central wound gap of the CCI at the end of the surgery.
Interventions
PROCEDUREPatient with visible central wound gap of the CCI
Patient with visible central wound gap of the CCI were treated with posterial flap hydration. Standard hydrodissection and hydrodelineation cannulas are used for hydration. Cannulas with flat ends, including the cortical cleaving hydrodissector 27 G × 7/8 (BVI Visitec) and a hydrodissector 27 G × 7/8 (Sterimedix Ltd.), are employed. The morphology of the central wound before and after hydration is evaluated using video recordings. On the first postoperative day (20-24 hours after surgery), anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) analysis of corneal incisions is performed with a Tomey Casia 2 device using the Post-op Cataract AS Global Scan application.
Sponsors
University Hospital Pilsen
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* cataract * visible central wound gap of CCI at the end of the surgery
Exclusion criteria
* any other ocular pathology * serious systhemic diseases
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| posterior flap hydration | 1 day after surgery | The Primary Outcome Measure is to evaluate the tightness of the corneal wound after the posterior flap hydration peroperatively (at the end fo the surgery) - no leakage of the intraocular fluid schould by observed after the hydration. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Corneal wound morphology on the first postoperative day | 20-24 hours after surgery | The other Outcome Measure is the corneal wound morphology on the first postoperative day (20-24 hours after surgery) using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). The corneal incision pathology (central wound gaping, posterior flap prominence, tongue eversion, tongue retraction and focal Descemet's membrane detachment ) will be serached on OCT pictures and their incidence among study patients will be reported as a percentage (%). |
Countries
Czechia
Outcome results
None listed