Evaluation of optic nerve head cupping in dense cataracts and its correlation postoperatively with clinical and optical coherence tomography examination
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: H250- Age-related incipient cataract
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/09/045746
- Lead Sponsor
- Avaneet Kumar
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
All patients of dense cataracts whose fundus examination cannot be done and who will be operated with no other condition that will obscure the examination post operatively
Exclusion Criteria
1.Uncooperative attitude i.e., unable to follow verbal commands properly
2.Patients not giving consent for the study
3.Patients who are known cases of glaucoma with already established cupping of optic nerve head
Patients with conditions which cannot be cured with cataract surgery and can cause difficulty in clinical examination and OCT analysis
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate the reliability of using ultrasound for evaluating optic nerve head cupping in dense cataracts when the fundus cannot be seen completelyTimepoint: On baseline
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare it with evaluation done on optical coherence tomography post operativelyTimepoint: 1st post op day and at 1 week post op