The investigators seek to assess the effect of pre-operative and continued post-operative corticosteroid use on pain, patient preference, visual outcomes, and change in objective quantifiable biological parameters in patients undergoing bilateral cataract surgery with premium intraocular lens implantation with or without baseline ocular surface disease. Patient's first eye scheduled for surgery will receive an intracanalicular insertion of DEXTENZA (dexamethasone release profile of QID, TID, BID, QD, over 30 days; study eye). The fellow-eye will receive topical prednisolone acetate 1% (tapering schedule of QID, TID, BID, QD over 30 days). The fellow-eye design in n=30 patients (60 eyes) allows for balance in patient baseline demographic and systemic characteristics.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
13
Treatment of pain and inflammation following ophthalmic surgery
Topical steroid
Eye Associates of Vineland
Vineland, New Jersey, United States
Pain Scale
Proportion of eyes with absence of pain as measured by pain scale (pain score = 0) from Baseline over each time point through Day 30. Subjects will use the Ocular Pain Assessment scale. A 0-10 point scale, where 0 is the least pain and 10 is the greatest pain, subjects will be asked to rank their level of pain.
Time frame: 30 days
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