Nepafenac Compared to Placebo for Ocular Pain and Inflammation

Inclusion criteria

• Adult Chinese subjects, 18 years of age or older, of either sex who have a cataract, and are expected to undergo cataract extraction with the implantation of a posterior chamber intraocular lens;
• Study eye of subjects, who in the opinion of the Investigator, will have improvement in best-corrected visual acuity after surgery;
• Subjects should be able to understand and sign an informed consent that has been approved by an Independent Ethics Committee;
• Other protocol-defined inclusion criteria may apply.

Exclusion criteria

• Use of topical ocular or systemic steroids within 14 days prior to surgery;
• Use of topical ocular or systemic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs within 7 days of surgery, except an allowed daily dose of baby aspirin (81 mg);
• Subjects planning to have cataract surgery in their fellow, non-study eye prior to the 14 day postoperative study visit;
• Any intraocular inflammation or ocular pain greater than Grade 0 in the study eye that is present during the baseline slit-lamp exam;
• Women of childbearing potential (those who are not surgically sterilized or post menopausal) may not participate in the study if any of the following conditions exist:

• they are breast feeding;
• they have a positive urine pregnancy test at baseline;
• they are not willing to undergo a urine pregnancy test upon exiting the study;
• they intend to become pregnant during the duration of the study; or,
• they do not agree to using adequate birth control methods for the duration of the study.
• Any abnormality that prevents reliable tonometry;
• Planned multiple procedures during cataract/IOL implantation surgery;
• Lens pseudoexfoliation syndrome with glaucoma or zonular compromise;
• Previous ocular trauma to the operative eye;
• A history of chronic or recurrent inflammatory eye disease;
• Ocular infection or ocular pain;
• Proliferative diabetic retinopathy;
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus;
• Congenital ocular anomaly;
• Iris atrophy in the operative eye;
• A nonfunctional fellow eye;
• Use of an investigational intraocular lens;
• Participation in any other clinical study within 30 days before surgery;
• Known or suspected allergy or hypersensitivity to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents, or to any component of the study medication;
• Subjects with known bleeding tendencies, or who are receiving medications that may prolong bleeding time, may be enrolled at the physician's discretion; continuation of previous therapy for these subjects will be left to the judgment of the physician;
• The fellow eye of an individual currently or previously enrolled in the study;
• Subjects using a topical ophthalmic prostaglandin;
• Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, might be at increased risk of complications from topical NSAIDs;
• Other protocol-defined exclusion criteria may apply.