Active clinical trials for "Myopia, Degenerative"

This study is designed to identify the effect of current vitreous surgery for symptomatic macular tractional maculopathy. Characteristics of this study is as below Multicenter, prospective clinical trial. (early surgical intervention vs.surgical intervention when full-thickness macular hole formation or deterioration of visual acuity occurs) Non-randomized study (decision was made by patients after full explanation) After 1 year follow up, functional change(visual acuity)and anatomical change would be evaluated

This study is design to evaluate the effect of conbercept therapy on visual acuity and anatomic outcomes compared to sham injection and durability of response observed in subjects with choroid neovascularization secondary to pathological myopia.

To evaluate the safety and tolerability of human retinal pigment epithelial (HuRPE) cell injection subretinal transplantation for atrophy of high myopia macular area, and to explore the maximum tolerated dose (MTD).

The myopia prevalence in schoolchildren is high in Taiwan. The myopia progression is fast in children and often associated high myopia in later life. This prospective and randomized study to investigate the effect of myopia control in myopic children with ultra low concentrations of atropine eye drops and/or low concentrations of anti-allergic and inflammatory eye drops.

The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of Natural View Multifocal lenses, a soft multifocal lens, on retardation of myopia in an optometric student population. Close up work (i.e. reading, computer work, etc.) is thought to play a factor in the progression of myopia in young adults. The progression should be slowed if not stopped through the use of peripheral defocus lenses (Natural View Multifocal) to change the optics of the eye in order to focus the image on the peripheral retina as opposed to behind it.

Progressive myopia can lead to severe vision loss and is associated with retinal detachment, glaucoma, and other comorbidities. Several studies have shown that off-label, low-dose atropine eye drops slow the progression of myopia. Many eye care providers are now prescribing off-label atropine eye drops for their myopic patients, with the prescribed concentrations varying amongst providers. The purpose of this study is to determine if low-dose atropine eyedrops used daily, cause adverse effects to the eyes. Patients currently using 0.01%, 0.03%, or 0.05% atropine eye drops obtained from compounding pharmacies will be assessed for associated adverse effects.

Control of myopia progression has become an important goal because of concerns regarding significantly increased risks of retinal degeneration, retinal detachment, glaucoma and cataract associated with high myopia. It is also clear there prevalence of myopia in children and young adults is increasing all over the world. Several methods including use of progressive addition lenses, rigid gas-permeable contact lenses, and life-style modifications (increased outdoor activity) have reported to alter myopia progression with varying efficacy. In general they have yielded clinical results of marginal significance. Atropine sulphate eye drops has consistently been demonstrated to inhibit axial myopia progression in both humans and animal models. Yet it has not found widespread clinical application for myopia control due to ocular side-effects of cycloplegia and pupil dilation. Recently 0.01% atropine has been shown to be effective in arresting myopia progression without side-effects of cycloplegia and near vision impairment and pupil dilatation and increased light sensitivity. Almost all studies on atropine have been carried out on children of Chinese origin. Efficacy (concentration and dosing) and safety need to be established in the population of interest, before routine use can be recommended. We plan to evaluate the efficacy and safety of topical 0.01% atropine eye drops in slowing the progression of myopia and ocular axial elongation in Omani children. A total of 150 children of ages 6-16 years will be randomized to two groups. Intervention group will receive atropine 0.01% once daily in each eye for two years (Phase 1). Control group will not receive any medications. Follow up visits will be scheduled every three months in Phase 1. Subsequently, medication will be stopped and the study patients will be followed up every six months for one year (Phase 2). The progression of myopia (change in refractive error and axial length) will be compared in the two groups by objective methods.

This study aimed to assess the association of refraction and axial length with near-horizontal heterophoria in a large population-based study of school-aged Chinese children. The study makes a significant contribution to better know the etiology of myopia progression and ocular axial length development. Further, this study will be of interest to the readership of your journal because its noteworthy finding and which could contribute to guide recommendations for targeted interventions to slow myopia progression.

Macular neovascular diseases including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), pathological myopia (PM) and etc. can cause severe vision loss. It has become the focus of World Health Organization's blindness- prevention cause. A new anti-VEGF drug conbercept has been approved and showed good efficacy and safety in clinical trials. But the exact therapeutic regimen and the efficacy in the real world still needs to be further studied, the reasons are as follows: The efficacy and safety data of conbercept are collected from rigorous random controlled trials (RCT) , it can not fully reflect the clinical application of conbercept in the real world . Therefore, the knowledge of the therapeutic regimen, safety and efficacy of conbercept is still limited. Conbercept has been approved for wet-AMD only, but in clinical practice, some doctors applied other "off-label use" of conbercept. These "off-label use" has become a common phenomenon all over the world for the instruction book of drugs usually lag behind scientific researches. There is no specific law or regulatory document of drug off-label use in China until now. Anti-VEGF drugs are expensive and often require multiple treatments, and some patients have poor or even no response to the drugs. This resulted enormous waste of medical resources. So, how to accurately find out those patients who have good response, how to develop individualized therapeutic regimen, and the response of patients in the real world need to be urgently investigated in the aspect of pharmacogenomics, and pharmacometabolomics. Therefore, the investigators plan to carry out real-world researches of conbercept on treating macular neovascular diseases has significance and urgency. The investigators intended to conduct a nationwide, non-intrusive, prospective, observational, and multicenter registration study to investigate the efficacy of conbercept in the real-world. And this study will explore the pharmacogenomics and pharmacometabolomics of conbercept, relationships of phenotype and the effectiveness of the drug, optimize the therapeutic regimen, then reduce the financial burden of patients and save the limited medical resources to achieve the purpose of accurate treatment. For three unanswered questions raised in the background, the researchers carried out the following purposes: Investigate the safety and efficacy of conbercept in treating neovascular macular disease in the real world. Find out whether the "off-label use" of conbercept on PCV and PM have good efficacy. Explore the pharmacogenomics and pharmacometabolomics of conbercept through large-sample registration study.

Aim of the work PIC in pathological myopia has not been well documented due to difficult in diagnosis we conducted this retrospective study to characterize the clinical features of PIC in high myopic eye. To show the diagnostic criteria of PIC lesions in high myopic patients. Find out the prevalence of PIC related 'patchy atrophy' To determine risk factor for developed PIC in a series of highly myopic patients. Role of PIC in progression of high myopia. Calculate the progression rate of PIC related lesion, by the size change during follow-up. Search about complication of PIC in myopia. Patient and Methods This retrospective observational case series study included patients with high myopia who had been examined and followed-up in the High Myopia Clinic of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Approval from Ethics Committee of Tokyo Medical and Dental University was obtained, adhering to the tenets of Declaration of Helsinki. Signed informed consent documentation was obtained from all participants. All study participants underwent a detailed ophthalmologic examination at baseline and at each follow-up visit. The examinations included measurements of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) using a Landolt C chart, refraction, slit lamp biomicroscopy, biometry for determination of axial length, (IOL Master; Carl Zeiss Meditec Co, Jena, Germany), fundus examination in medical mydriasis, fluorescein angiography, was performed with and colour fundus photography , and assessment of fundus autofluorescence (TRC-50DX; Topcon, Tokyo, Japan) a or the Heidelberg Spectralis HRA system. Swept source Optical coherence tomography (OCT) used in assessment of the RPE and photoreceptors using a (DRI-OCT;Topcon, Tokyo, Japan). As scanning protocols, 9 mm or 6 mm radial with 12 equal meridian scans were performed. The swept-source OCT device has an A-scan repetition rate of 100 000 Hz, and its light source operates in the wavelength range of 1 μm.