Head Positioning After Retina Detachment Repair
Head Positioning Duration After Retinal Detachment Repair With Vitrectomy and Gas
University of Kansas Medical Center
20 participants
Apr 8, 2019
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study aims to determine if one day post-operative prone head positioning can be as good as seven days post-operative prone head positioning in patients with retinal detachments with inferior retinal breaks after pars that pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) using perfluoropropane (C3F8) gas as a tamponade. The investigator will conduct a single arm phase II study using a Simon's two-stage design
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent
- Subjects must be diagnosed with primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with inferior breaks
- Subjects must be 18 years and older.
- Women of child-bearing potential must agree to take rapid urine pregnancy test before surgical procedure and have negative result.
Exclusion Criteria10
- pediatric population
- pregnant women
- a previous retinal detachment repair in the study eye
- history of scleral buckling in the study eye
- trauma as a cause of the retinal detachment
- asymptomatic longstanding retinal detachments
- non-compliance with post-operative treatment
- phakic retinal detachment
- exudative retinal detachment
- retinoschisis related retinal detachment
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Interventions
Assigning a one day post-operative head positioning
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NCT03714503