Two-arm, mono-center, prospective, interventional comparative case study to compare postoperative recovery between the 27G and larger gauge surgical approach.
A prospective randomized comparison of postoperative recovery between 27-gauge and larger gauge surgical approaches to evaluate efficiencies and postoperative outcomes of the surgical gauges. Fifty patients who were scheduled to undergo pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for floaters or macular surgery were treated with either 27-gauge or 23-gauge techniques and assessed for efficiency of the procedures as well as a variety of postop indicators of pain and inflammation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
50
vitrectomy surgery for either floater removal or macular surgery, with or without combined cataract (phaco) surgery.
Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
changes in post-operative outcome of pain
by assessing the amount of pain on a visual analogue scale (score 0-9)
Time frame: day 1 postoperative
changes in post-operative outcome of redness
scoring the amount of redness on a scale 0-4 through eye photos
Time frame: day 1 postoperative
changes in post-operative outcome in grading of anterior chamber cells
clinical assessment by slit lamp examination (Tyndall 0-3 and Cells 0-3)
Time frame: day 1 postoperative
visual acuity
best corrected visual acuity in LogMar will be obtained to report the visual acuity
Time frame: day 1 postoperative
intra-ocular pressure
Millimeter of Mercury pressure (mmHg) will be measured to report the intra-ocular pressure
Time frame: day 1 postoperative
pain-assessment
a questionnaire with visual analogue scale will be used to assess the level of pain up to 1 week after the operation
Time frame: 1 week postoperative
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