Overview
This prospective, open-label, single-center, randomized, investigator-sponsored clinical study seeks to investigate: how will pseudophakic patients respond in terms of objective and subjective outcomes, when treated with Dextenza compared to topical prednisolone acetate following gas bubble repair and laser for RD.
Description
Subjects who have given informed consent and determined to be eligible at screening will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to DEXTENZA (placed once in the lower punctum) or the use of topical Prednisolone acetate 1% drops (four times daily). They will be observed for a period of 3-months for both pain and inflammation of the eye.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pseudophakic
- Retinal Detachment
- Age 18 years and older
- Scheduled for gas bubble repair and laser surgery following retinal detachment
- Willing and able to comply with clinic visits and study related procedures
- Willing and able to sign the informed consent form
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients under the age of 18.
- Pregnancy (must be ruled out in women of child-bearing age with pregnancy test)
- Active infectious systemic disease
- Active infectious ocular or extraocular disease
- Obstructed nasolacrimal duct in the study eye(s)
- Hypersensitivity to dexamethasone
- Patients being treated with immunomodulating agents in the study eye(s)
- Patients being treated with immunosuppressants and/or oral steroids
- Patients with severe disease that warrants critical attention, deemed unsafe for the study by the investigator