Impact of Cataract Surgery to Socioeconomic Status in Rural Area

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-06-29
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial to investigate the effect of cataract surgery on the socioeconomic status of cataract patients in rural area of Southern China.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University; Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yet-san University
• Treatments: Antioxidants; Ophthalmic Solutions; Tetrahydrozoline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age-related cataract patients aged over 50 with best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) less than 0.3 in the better eye.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of other eye disease that contributes to visual impairment, including keratopathy, uveitis, glaucoma, retinopathy, ocular trauma, or intraocular surgery.

• Cases in need of expedited surgery, including shallow anterior chamber (central anterior chamber depth less than 2 mm and/or peripheral anterior chamber depth less than 1/4 corneal thickness), blindness of grade IV and V (BCVA less than 0.02 in the better eye), and intumescent or hypermature stage of cortical cataract.

• Systemic disease dampening activity, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hemiplegia, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

• Patients not willing to participate in the study.