A (Prospective/Pilot) Study Evaluating the Effect of Cataract Surgery on the Daily Activity Levels of Elderly Patients

Withdrawn before enrolling

Conditions studied: Cataract, Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity, Vision Disability

In brief

To evaluate the effect of bilateral cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation on the daily activity levels of elderly patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04074954

Run by

University of Pikeville

People needed

0

Starts

2023-03-23

Expected to finish

2023-07-31

Last updated by the study team

2023-12-06

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients undergoing bilateral cataract extraction by phacoemulisficatin with intraocular lens implantation and a planned bilateral distance vision target or patients with bilateral cataracts who are not having cataract surgery
• Patients aged 60 years old or older
• Best corrected visual acuity worse than 20/20 in each eye (meaning 20/25 or worse)
• Non-comanged patients

You may not qualify if…

• Greater than 0.76 D pre-operative corneal cylinder, if having cataract surgery without a planned astigmatism correction (I.e Limbal relaxing incision or Toric intraocular lens)
• Planned implantation of a multifocal intraocular lens
• Visual field defect which may reduce mobility
• Wheel chair bound patients
• Reduced vision from an ocular disease other than cataracts
• Patients with significant dementia who are not able to fully comprehend the informed consent

Where it is running

• Bennett and Bloom Eye Centers — Louisville, Kentucky, United States

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