Multicenter Evaluation of Safety and Effectiveness of Presbyopic LASIK for Hyperopes (NCT00910403) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedPhase 3
Multicenter Evaluation of Safety and Effectiveness of Presbyopic LASIK for Hyperopes
France, Spain80 participantsStarted 2009-06
Plain-language summary
The Presbyopia Algorithm subject to this study has been specifically developed to prospectively generate a treatment file for the Technolas 217z100 laser that will provide Presbyopia correction among eyes with primary hyperopia or hyperopic astigmatism (distance correction). The treatment algorithm provides a bilateral, multifocal ablation with a center near addition, thereby allowing good focus over a range of object distances.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Subjects must be at least 18 years old
* Subjects must read, understand, and sign an Informed Consent Form (ICF).
* Subjects must be willing and able to return for scheduled follow up visits.
* Subjects must be willing to have both eyes treated during the same visit.
* Subjects must have up to +4 diopters (D) of absolute spherical hyperopia (not spherical equivalent), with up to +2.5 D of refractive astigmatism (NOT corneal astigmatism) by manifest subjective refraction in both eyes. The spherical equivalent must be no more than +5.25 D.
* Subjects must have presbyopia as determined by an age-related need for optical aid (\> +1.50 D) for reading with their best distance correction.
* Subjects who are contact lens wearers must have gas permeable (GP) lenses discontinued for at least 3 weeks and soft lenses discontinued for at least 1 week prior to the preoperative evaluation in the eye to be treated. Contact lens wearers who wear their contact lenses for any amount of time between the preoperative baseline examination and the operative visit must not be treated.
* Corneal topography should be normal.
* Subjects who are contact lens wearers must have 2 central keratometry readings and 2 manifest subjective refractions taken preoperatively at least one week apart. The refraction values must not differ by more than 0.50D as defined by manifest refraction spherical equivalent (MRSE). The keratometry values must not differ from the previous values by more tha…
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