Active clinical trials for "Retinal Diseases"

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a single intravitreal injection of virally-carried Multi-Characteristic Opsin I (vMCO-I)

This study is open to adults with diabetic macular ischemia who have received laser treatment. The main purpose of this study is to find out whether people with diabetic macular ischemia can tolerate a medicine called BI 765128. In this study, BI 765128 is given to people for the first time. The study has 2 parts. Part A tests 3 doses of BI 765128. Participants get either a low, medium or high dose of BI 765128 as a single injection into the eye. If participants tolerate it well, the highest dose will be used in part B. In part B, participants are put into 2 groups randomly, which means by chance. 1 group gets BI 765128 as injection into the eye. The other group gets sham injections. A sham injection means that it is not a real injection and contains no medicine. Participants cannot tell whether they get the real injection or a sham injection. In this part, participants receive study treatment once every month for 3 months. Participants in part A are in the study for about 4 months and visit the study site about 8 times. Participants in part B are in the study for about 5 months and visit the study site about 7 times. The doctors regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects.

The primary objective of the study is to assess the efficacy of aflibercept compared to laser in patients diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The secondary objectives of the study are to assess the need for a second treatment modality, to assess the recurrence of ROP in the study and to assess the safety and tolerability of aflibercept.

Objectives of study: To preliminarily evaluate the efficacy and safety of Qideng Mingmu Capsule in the treatment of patients with diabetic retinopathy (deficiency of Qi-Yin syndrome, blood stasis syndrome), to discuss the appropriate dose and period of treatment.

Background: - In the eye disease central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC), fluid collects under the retina at the back of the eye. CSC can resolve on its own, but in some people it lasts for several months or can come back. The fluid buildup during CSC can cause vision loss. The drug interferon gamma-1b can help reduce fluid accumulation in the retina. Researchers want to see if interferon gamma-1b can help treat and prevent vision loss from CSC. Objectives: - To see if interferon gamma-1b eye drops are a safe and effective treatment for CSC. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who have CSC in at least one eye. Design: Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. They will also have an eye exam and blood tests. This study will require at least ten visits to the National Institutes of Health eye clinic over a total of 52 weeks (one year). Most visits will last up to 4 hours. Participants will return to the eye clinic 2 days after the first visit and 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36 and 48 weeks after starting the study eye drops. These visits will involve blood tests and eye exams. Participants will receive the study eye drops at the initial visit. The drops must be used three or four times a day for 2 weeks. They must be stored in a cool place (like a refrigerator). The doses will follow an escalation schedule with the first participant receiving 2 drops three times a day and the last participant receiving 4 drops four times a day. To maximize safety, the most-recently enrolled participant will complete Week 4 before the next participant can enroll (e.g., the second enrolled participant will not be enrolled until the first has completed the Week 4 visit). If the CSC does not improve after the first 2 weeks, participants will receive another 2 weeks of eye drops. This set of drops will start 4 weeks after the initial study visit. If the CSC does not improve after the 8-week study period, participants may receive additional eye drops at the maximum dose of 4 drops four times daily. The study will end for each participant at one year (48 weeks after the initial study visit).

Idiopathic Parafoveal Telangiectasia (IPT) [also known as Idiopathic Perifoveal Telangiectasia, Idiopathic Juxtafoveal Telangiectasia (IJT, JFT) and Macular Telangiectasia (MacTel)] is a disorder of unknown etiology. IPT is classified as Group 2A in the Gass classification of macular telangiectasias (Reference 1,5) - a bilateral, but not always symmetric disorder. It is characterized in its early stages by dilation and loss of parafoveal capillaries accompanied by angiographic leakage, "right angle" venules, central and parafoveal intraretinal cysts.

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of ranibizumab in reducing intraoperative vitreous haemorrhage during pars plana vitrectomy, thus facilitating surgery and improving its anatomical and functional results in patients with advanced proliferative diabetic retinopathy and traction retinal detachment.

Background: Autoimmune retinopathy (AIR) is an inflammatory condition in which the patient s own immune system is attacking his or her eyes and causing vision loss. Patients with AIR are generally treated with immunosuppressive agents to treat the eye inflammation; however, the standard treatment for this disease is still being developed. Rituximab, an immunosuppressive agent, is a monoclonal antibody that is directed against a part of the immune system that may be an important cause of AIR. Rituximab is approved for the treatment of non-Hodgkin s lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis, but is not approved for the treatment of AIR. Researchers are interested in determining whether rituximab may be used to treat AIR. Objectives: - To to investigate the safety, tolerability and possible efficacy of rituximab as a treatment for AIR. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who have been diagnosed with AIR and have visual acuity of 20/200 or better in at least one eye. Design: Before the start of the study, participants will be screened with a medical history, immunization records, a series of eye examinations, a chest X-ray, an electrocardiogram, and blood tests. Participants will receive a maximum of two cycles of rituximab during the 18-month study. Each cycle will involve two separate intravenous infusions of rituximab given 2 weeks apart. Participants will return to the clinic 6 weeks after the first cycle of rituximab for a safety visit, which will include a routine eye and physical examinations. They will also provide blood and other samples for study. After the safety visit, participants will return every 3 months for follow-up visits. At the 6-month visit, participants who have successfully or partially responded to rituximab will receive another cycle of treatment. Those who do not respond will not receive another cycle, but will continue to be monitored until the end of the study.

The purpose of this study is to examine and compare, prospectively, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) outcomes and complications of a cohort of patients with Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Tractional Retinal Detachment not involving macula undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) or conventional management (panretinal photocoagulation).

This study is the first administration of GW824575 in humans. This will be a single centre, masked, placebo-controlled study, to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of GW824575, given as single and repeated oral doses to healthy male subjects. The study will be comprised of 4 parts and enroll approximately 40 subjects: Part A will consist of two cohorts of 8 healthy male subjects to assess the safety, tolerability, PK, and PD of ascending single oral doses of GW824575. All available safety, tolerability, and PK data will be monitored prior to each dose escalation. In order to support the possible indication for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Part B will be one cohort of 12 subjects to examine the safety, tolerability, PK, and PD of a repeated dose of GW824575 over 21 days in healthy male subjects who are greater than or equal to 50 years of age. The total daily dose in this cohort will not exceed the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) from Parts A and D. Subjects in this cohort will undergo ophthalmology assessments before receiving investigational product and after Day 7 of the 21-day in-patient treatment, after steady state has been reached. As part of protocol amendment 2, Part C (Cohort 4) is removed from the protocol. Part D, added under protocol amendment 2, will consist of one cohort of 12 healthy male subjects to assess safety, tolerability, PK, and PD of ascending single doses of GW824575 as well as the effect of food on the PK of GW824575.