Treatment of Keratoconus With PALK Versus PK

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the visual results of patients with keratoconus treated with one of two techniques: penetrating keratoplasty (PK) vs. pachymetry and Excimer laser assisted lamellar keratoplasty (PALK).

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Instituto de Oftalmología Fundación Conde de Valenciana

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of keratoconus grades III or IV in the Amsler Krumeich classification.

• Need of surgical procedure

• No endothelial scar

• Best corrected visual acuity <20/40

• Contact lens intolerance

• Imagenological map pachymetric acquisition over 90% at 9 mm corneal diameter

Exclusion Criteria:

• Contraindication for any of the techniques evaluated.

• Requiring additional surgical procedures.

• Diagnostic of other ectasia that were not primary keratoconus.