Clinical trial NCT03688243: Non Exudative AMD Imaged With SS-OCT
Official title: Non Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration Imaged With Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Dry Macular Degeneration
Keywords: AMD
early AMD
intermediate AMD
Geographic Atrophy
nascent GA
Lead sponsor: Boston Image Reading Center
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2018-09-28
Enrollment: 225
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Subjects with intermediate AMD, Geographic Atrophy and nascent Geographic Atrophy.

Brief summary: The investigators wish to better understand the role of the choriocapillaris (CC) in the formation and progression of non-exudative in age related macular degeneration (armd) by imaging the retinal pigment epithelium (rpe) and the choroidal microvasculature and by studying their inter-dependence to determine if the loss of the CC could prove useful as an anatomic clinical trial endpoint in future drug trials.

Detailed description: This is a longitudinal observational study where the investigators will look at 450 subjects, 200 with intermediate AMD in at least one eye, or with AMD in one eye, either early or intermediate, and with late AMD (exudative) in the other eye, and 250 subjects with nGA or GA in at least one eye.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged 50 and over
2. Clinic diagnosis of non-exudative iAMD in at least one eye with a drusen volume in the central 3 mm circle centered on the fovea of at least 0.02 mm3 in the absence of GA or nGA as diagnosed with OCT en face imaging OR Clinical diagnosis of early or early/intermediate stage AMD in one eye in the absence of nGA or GA and exudative AMD in the other eye OR clinical diagnosis of GA or nGA secondary to AMD that is at least the size of a large druse (125 microns in diameter; 0.05 mm2) and no greater than 7 disc areas (17 mm2) in at least one eye which has never been treated with anti-VEGF agents
3. Willing and able to comply with clinic visits and study-related procedures
4. Provide signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

A subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from the study:

1. Below the age of 50
2. Subjects with exudative AMD in both eyes
3. Eyes with evidence of non-proliferative and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
4. Presence of confounding ocular diagnosis such as myopia \>6D, or other ocular conditions that may cause retinal pigment epithelium atrophy or exudative MNV
5. Subjects unable to give informed consent.
6. Subjects who are unable to comply with imaging guidelines

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Choroidal Perfusion Deficits at 1 year compared to Baseline
timeFrame: 1 year time point
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Pre-existing sub-clinical Macular Neovascularization (MNV)
timeFrame: 1 year and 2-year time points
measure: Automated Drusen Volume measurements
timeFrame: 1 year and 2-year time points
measure: Automated GA measurements
timeFrame: 1 year and 2-year time points
measure: Structural OCT markers and Genetic Markers
timeFrame: 1 year and 2-year time points
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Los Angeles
country: United States
facility: University of California Los Angeles Doheny Eye Institute
state: California
city: Miami
country: United States
facility: Bascom Palmer Eye Institue
state: Florida
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: New England Eye Center/Tufts Medical Center
state: Massachusetts
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Vitreous Retina Macular Consultants of NY
state: New York
city: East Melbourne
country: Australia
facility: Melbourne University CERA
state: Victoria
Study officials:
affiliation: Boston Image Reading Center/Tufts Medical Center
name: Nadia Waheed, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
name: Philip Rosenfield, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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