500
Participants
Start Date
September 30, 2006
Primary Completion Date
February 28, 2011
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2012
Antibiotics
moxifloxacin 0.5% every one hour for 48 hours while awake and then every 2 hours until re-epithelialization
Topical corticosteroid
prednisolone phosphate 1% with preservative four times a day for 1 week, then twice a day for 1 week, and finally once a day for 1 week
Placebo
0.9% NaCl and preservative (same as in steroid) four times a day for 1 week, then twice a day for 1 week, and finally once a day for 1 week
Proctor Foundation, UCSF, San Francisco
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon
Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore
Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli
Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai
Aravind Eye Hospitals, India
OTHER
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
OTHER
National Eye Institute (NEI)
NIH
Thomas M. Lietman
OTHER