Assessment of the Ability to Distinguish Odors in Glaucoma Patients

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
• Main ID: NCT00304824
• Date of registration: 17/03/2006
• Primary sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Public title: Assessment of the Ability to Distinguish Odors in Glaucoma Patients
• Scientific title: Olfactory Function in Glaucoma Patients
• Date of first enrolment: October 2004
• Target sample size: 30
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00304824
• Study type: Observational
• Study design: Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

Contacts

• Name: Selim Orgul
• Affiliation: University Eye Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Chronic open-angle glaucoma with typical glaucomatous disc and visual field damage.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Occludable iridocorneal angles

- History of current, chronic or recurrent inflammatory eye disease

- History of retinal or neuroophthalmologic disease that could result in visual field
defects

- Need for any concomitant medications that may interfere with the evaluation of
olfactory function

- Patients with a significant history and/or active alcohol or drug abuse (significant
is defined as that which in the opinion of the investigator may either put the
patient at risk because of participation in the study or may influence the results of
the study or the patient's ability to participate in the study), smokers

- History of olfactory disturbance related to identifiable local factors and any local
condition that could lead to hyposmia/anosmia or interfere with the olfactory
function, such as polyps, chronic sinus infection, sub(acute) viral or bacterial
infection, history of sinus surgery



Age minimum: 17 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Glaucoma

Secondary ID(s)

009-Guk-2004-002

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors