Postoperative Positioning After Surgery for Macular Holes
- Conditions
- Macular Holes
- Registration Number
- NCT01974310
- Lead Sponsor
- Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen
- Brief Summary
Idiopathic macular holes are an important cause of visual loss. Macular holes can be treated by surgically removing the vitreous gel and injecting intraocular gas. Following macular hole surgery, face-down positioning is often advised with the aim of improving the likelihood of macular hole closure. The current evidence of postoperative positioning protocols is insufficient to draw firm conclusions and guide practice. The investigators wish to compare non-face-down positioning and face-down positioning after surgery for macular holes in a randomized trial.
Hypothesis: Non-face-down positioning is equivalent to face-down positioning after surgery for macular holes.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 68
- Idiopathic macular hole stage II-IV
- Informed consent
- Duration of symptoms ≤ 24 months
- Previous vitreomacular surgery
- Myopia ≥ 8 diopters
- Ocular trauma
- Disease affecting visual function (proliferative diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, exudative macular degeneration)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Macular hole closure rate 3 months Macular hole closure rate assessed by optical coherence tomography
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ETDRS Visual Acuity Gain 3 months Degree of postoperative head incline 3 days Position Sensor
Degree of ocular gas fill 4 days
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen
🇩🇰Copenhagen, Denmark
Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen🇩🇰Copenhagen, Denmark