OCT Guided Punctal Stenosis Management

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-09-20
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a clinical trial study that was conducted on patients with punctal stenosis.We studied the diameter of stenosed puncta before and after treatment with preserved free steroid eye drops using AS-OCT.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Tanta University
• Treatments: Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone Acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Ophthalmic Solutions; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients have acquired inflammatory punctum stenosis complaining of epiphora of different etiologies.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous lacrimal surgery.

• Lid margin malposition such as ectropion, entropion or lid retraction.

• Medial lid masses obscuring punctum.

• History of ocular trauma involving lid margin or punctum.