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Intra Ocular Pressure During Robotic Prostatectomy
NCT00369057 · Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Updated 8 March 2012
- What is being tested
- Not stated
- For
- Visual Acuity; Visual Disturbance; Intraocular Pressure
- Kind of study
- Watches patients without assigning a treatment. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years and older. About 15 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- United States
- When
- Starts or started Feb 2006, ends Feb 2008. Registered 29 Aug 2006.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Our goal is to study the relationship between intraocular pressure during robotic prostatectomy surgery and visual deficiencies/vision loss after surgery. We believe the risk of vision loss from this surgery to be due to positioning during the operation, as well as abdominal carbon dioxide insufflation. As robotic procedures are gaining in popularity, we should determine whether they are subjecting this patient population, and perhaps more likely the patient with a preoperative diagnosis of glaucoma, to an increased likelihood of postoperative visual disturbance.If our hypothesis that intraocular pressure is increased in these patients is confirmed, future studies will assess therapeutic modalities to maintain the IOP near baseline.
Sites
- Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, New York, United States