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NCT ID: NCT01396967 Enrolling by invitation - Cataract Clinical Trials

Trying a New Device for Performing Capsulorhexis in Cataract Surgery Surgery

Start date: July 2011
Phase: Phase 1
Study type: Interventional

During cataract operations a capsulorhexis is being performed. This is done in order to enable the removal of lens material while keeping the capsule intact in order to put inside the lens capsule an artificial intra ocular lens. The capsulorhexis must be round and with regular edge and no tears. While performing a cataract surgery we use phako emulsification machine that sends an ultrasonic wave that creaks the lens nucleus and at the same time irrigates the anterior chamber of the eye and sucks the fluid and the lens material of the creaked lens. The round shape and the regularity of the capsulorhexis are a must in these surgeries since the lens capsule must stay intact and stable in order to enable the phacoemulsification and the implant of the artificial lens. Today capsulorhexis are done with a bent needle or with special forceps; the act of capsulorhexis is delicate, sometime un predicted and difficult to teach. The learning curve is relatively long and difficult. The proposed device enables a capsulorhexis which is round and has regular edges, done almost automatically and is predicted. The learning curve is short and easy. The capsulorhexis is done through the original operating wound with no need to widen it.