A multicenter, parallel, open, non-inferior randomized controlled trial was conducted to compare the effectiveness and safety of phacotrabeculectomy and phacogoniotomy in the treatment of advanced primary angle closure glaucoma, so as to provide a better surgical alternative.
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, and primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) accounted for the majority particularly in Asia and China. The preferred treatment method is anti-glaucoma surgery-trabeculectomy (Trab) combined with lens extraction. Phacotrabeculectomy has become the first-line choice of anti-glaucoma suregery in the treatment of advanced PACG. However, it was not an ideal method due to the bleb-related complications and troublesome postoperative nursing, as well as the difficulty for surgeons, caused by trabeculectomy. However, recent studies revealed that the phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation (PEI) combined with goniosynechialysis (GSL) has achieved efficacy in the treatment of PACG. With the advent of minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS), there is an increasing number studies indicating the MIGS performed great efficacy in the treatment of primary open angle glaucoma. While,there were a few small-sampled retrospective studies which showed therapeutic effects in PACG. The GSL plus goniotomy (GT) could achieve great efficacy in lowering the intraocular pressure of PACG patients. However, there is still a lack of high quality and high-level randomized controlled trials. Therefore, this study intends to conduct a multicenter, parallel, open, non-inferior randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness and safety of PEI+ Trab and PEI+GSL+GT in the treatment of advanced PACG, so as to provide a better surgical treatment for PACG.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
124
The patients enrolled underwent phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation combined with goniosynechialysis and goniotomy.
The patients enrolled underwent phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation combined with trabeculectomy.
Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center
Guangdong, China
Mean change of intraocular pressure
Change from baseline IOP after surgery using Goldmann or non-contact tonometer.
Time frame: Postoperative 12, 24, 36 months.
Cumulative success rate of surgery
(i) Complete success is defined as the postoperative IOP between 5 and 18 mmHg, and 20% reduction from baseline with no need for IOP-lowering medication. (ii) Qualified success is defined as the postoperative IOP between 5 and 18 mmHg, and 20% reduction from baseline with or without IOP-lowering medication.
Time frame: 12, 24, 36 months
Intraoperative and postoperative complications
For example, shallow anterior chamber, hyphema, persistent hypotony, corneal endothelium decompensation, endophthalmitis, and other filtering bleb-related complications.
Time frame: 0, 1, 7 day. 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 months
Anti-glaucomatous medications
Numbers and types of anti-glaucomatous medications
Time frame: 0, 1, 7 day. 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 months
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