From Midland Eye, Solihull, United Kingdom (SS); Fisabio Oftalmología Médica, Valencia, Spain (CP-M); Eye Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (TR); and Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Humanitas Eye Center, Milan, Italy (PV).
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Participating Investigators: Antione Brezin (Hôpital Cochin), Maxence Bonne (Cabinet d’Ophthalmologie des Flandres), Beatrice Cochener (Hôpital Morvan), Manfred Tetz (Augentagesklinik Spreebogen Berlin), Thomas Reinhard (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg), Albert Augustin (Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe), Helmut G. Sachs (Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Städtisches Klinikum), Sunil Shah (Midland Eye Institute), Paolo Vinciguerra (Instituto Clinico Humanitas, Humanitas Cancer Center), Leonardo Mastropasqua (Ospedale Clinicizzato SS. Annunziata), Ugo Menchini (Azienda Osperdaliera Universitaria Careggi), K. F. Tjia (Isala Klinieken), A. A. Rulo (Oogziekenhuis Zonnestraal), B. L. Zijlmans (Stichting Oogziekenhuis), A. J. Van Hogerwou (Gelre Ziekenhuizen), Alfonso Arias-Puente (Fundacion Hospital, Alcorcon), Cristina Peris-Martinez, (Fundación Oftalmológica Mediterráneo), Javier Mendicute (Hospital Donostia), José Angel Cristóbal (Hospital Universitario), and Isabel Jordi Solsona (Hospital Universitari del Sagrat Cor).
Supported by Alcon Research, Ltd. The study sponsor participated in study design and data analysis and agreed with the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.
Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT01290068; registered February 2011
The authors thank Heather D. Starkey, PhD, of Complete Healthcare Communications, Inc., Chadds Ford, PA, for medical writing assistance; Dr. Fabrizio I. Camesasca for his thorough review of the manuscript; and Dr. Manoj Venkiteshwar for his contributions to manuscript preparation.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Data collection (CP-M, TR, SS, PV); analysis and interpretation of data (CP-M, SS, PV); writing the manuscript (SS); critical revision of the manuscript (CP-M, TR, SS, PV); supervision (CP-M, TR)
Correspondence: Sunil Shah, MD, Midland Eye, 50 Lode Lane, B91 2AW, Solihull, United Kingdom. E-mail: sunilshah@doctors.net.uk