Corneal Elastography and Patient Specific Modeling
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Optical coherence tomography.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cornea; Ectasia, Refractive Errors, Keratoconus. Basic parameters: 16 years — 80 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
The goal of this research is to develop measurement tools and simulation technology for characterizing and predicting individual responses to corneal treatments and for advancing understanding of corneal ectasia risk factors. Patients who either 1) have keratoconus and are being evaluated for corneal crosslinking or 2) have refractive error and are being evaluated for refractive surgery procedures such as LASIK will have their eyes imaged to assess their mechanical properties and will have computational simulations performed to predict the response to treatment. One aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that computational models can predict the cornea's shape changes within clinically acceptable limits of error.
Detailed description
The mechanical condition of the cornea is an important but elusive property of the eye to characterize. Weakness in the cornea is thought to be one of the primary causes of corneal ectasia, a major cause of visual impairment worldwide. Corneal weakness is also important to identify in refractive surgery candidates since such surgeries often involve tissue removal that could lead to corneal instability in certain predisposed patients.
In this study, subjects will undergo imaging with an optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based system to characterize corneal biomechanical properties. In addition, computational representations of the eye will be built from images and interventions will be simulated and compared to actual treatment outcomes. No investigational procedures or study-specific interventions other than imaging are involved.
Interventions
- Other Optical coherence tomography
Primary outcome measures
- Predictive accuracy of computational models in corneal surgery [Time frame: 3 month]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Any patient with keratoconus diagnosed by standard criteria, including topographic steepness, irregular astigmatism with a pattern consistent with keratoconus.
- Any patient deemed a candidate for LASIK (laser vision correction) and scheduled for surgery.
Exclusion criteria
- Inability to provide informed consent, including non-English speaking (if interpreter not available) and cognitively/mentally impaired (if legal guardian not available).
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cole Eye Institute — Cleveland
Publications
- Ford MR, Dupps WJ Jr, Rollins AM, Sinha RA, Hu Z. Method for optical coherence elastography of the cornea. J Biomed Opt. 2011 Jan-Feb;16(1):016005. doi: 10.1117/1.3526701. PMID 21280911
- Sinha Roy A, Dupps WJ Jr. Patient-specific computational modeling of keratoconus progression and differential responses to collagen cross-linking. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Nov 25;52(12):9174-87. doi: 10.1167/iovs.11-7395. PMID 22039252
Identifiers
NCT: NCT03030755 · 13-213