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Cataract Surgery: later-stage trial registry

4 of 8 indexed Cataract Surgery trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #2,176 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

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8 US clinical trials · 4 currently recruiting · #2,176 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Cataract Surgery: 8 US clinical trials tracked, 4 recruiting.

Cataract Surgery is the subject of 8 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 4 of them currently open to new participants. 3 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Silverstein Eye Centers, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition cataract-surgery

OPEN 4 | RECR 50% | LATE 3 | EARLY 1 | RANK #2176 | SPON 1

Volume-matched condition peers

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (50% recruiting · 6 trials)

Activity, Motor75%Achalasia50%Cataract Surgery (this)50%Abdominal Cancer25%Acne Scars - Mixed Atrophic 25%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Cataract Surgery

Cataract Surgery lists 4 open slots (50% of 8 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Cataract Surgery on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Cataract Surgery is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    4 of 8 indexed trials (50%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Cataract Surgery trials is spread across many organizations.

    Silverstein Eye Centers accounts for 1 of 8 trials (12.5%). 8 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Cataract Surgery trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 37 among the 8 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 5 of those (62.5%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Cataract Surgery research is mostly interventional.

    6 interventional and 2 observational studies make up this index (75% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 21Phase 43

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 2 1
Phase 4 3

Top Sponsors

Silverstein Eye Centers 1 trials
Optovue 1 trials
Utah Eye Centers 1 trials
Sharp HealthCare 1 trials
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 1 trials
University of California, Los Angeles 1 trials
University of Chicago 1 trials
University of California, San Francisco 1 trials

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Cataract Surgery records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Midazolam Drug
2 trials
Dexycu, 9% Intraocular Suspension Drug
1 trials
Dextenza (dexamethasone ophthalmic insert) 0.4mg Drug
1 trials
Omidria Drug
1 trials
SOC sterilization Other
1 trials
mupirocin ointment Drug
1 trials
Prednisolone Acetate 1% Drug
1 trials
bromfenac ophthalmic solution Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Cataract Surgery trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 5 trials
Utah 1 trials
New York 1 trials
Missouri 1 trials
Illinois 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

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What to do with this Cataract Surgery page

8 registered trials, 4 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Cataract Surgery condition card totals 8 registered trials; most-linked intervention Midazolam; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.