Clinical trial NCT02299336: Long-Term Efficacy & Safety of Aflibercept IVT for the Treatment of DME in Subjects Who Completed the VISTA-DME Trial
Official title: Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Intravitreal Aflibercept Injections for the Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema in Subjects Who Completed the Three Year VISTA-DME Trial .
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Diabetic Macular Edema
Lead sponsor: Greater Houston Retina Research
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
First posted: 2014-11-24
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The Endurance Trial is a phase IV open label clinical study to assess the need for ongoing intravitreal aflibercept injections after the 3-year VISTA DME (VGFT-OD-1009; NCT01363440) end-point. Subjects will be treated with intravitreal aflibercept injections pro re nata (PRN) based on the presence of CR-DME (Clinically Relevant-DME). In addition, subjects who meet re-treatment criteria will be eligible for focal laser treatment every 90 days.

Detailed description: The investigational product is aflibercept, which will be supplied by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in sterile vials for intravitreal (IVT) injection. Vials must be used (defined as entered with needle) only once. All drug supplies are to be kept under recommended storage conditions.

The injection volume will be 50μL (0.05 mL) and will be administered to the subjects by IVT injection.

Throughout the trial, subjects will be treated with intravitreal aflibercept injections PRN in the presence of CR-DME; this is defined as DME that the treating investigator believes is limiting visual function.

All subjects will initially be evaluated every 4 weeks (28 days) for CR-DME and treated PRN. If CR-DME is present the subject will receive IVT aflibercept injection. If CR-DME is not present the subject will not receive an IVT aflibercept injection and will be observed.

At any point throughout the study, once a subject has been evaluated and observed (with no IVT aflibercept) for a total of 8 weeks (3 consecutive monthly visits), the interval between visits will be increased to 8 weeks.

After an additional 24 weeks (3 consecutive visits, every 8 weeks) without an IVT aflibercept injection, the interval between visits will be increased to 12 weeks.

If a subject has recurrent CR-DME they will receive an IVT aflibercept injection and the interval between visits will reduce back to 4 weeks. Subjects can again extend the interval between visits to 8 weeks once they have not received an IVT aflibercept injection for a total of 8 weeks (3 consecutive visits) as described above. Extension to 12 weeks is then performed as above.

Starting at week 52, once a subject has extended to a 12 week interval, if CR-DME is not present the subject will not receive an IVT aflibercept injection and will be extended to a 16 week interval. Once at a 16 week interval, if CR-DME is not present the subject will not receive an IVT aflibercept injection and will be extended to a 20 week interval. At any point past a 12 week interval extension, if a subject has recurrent CR-DME they will receive an IVT aflibercept injection and the interval for the next visit will be reduced at investigator discretion to be either 12 or 16 weeks. If the interval is needed to be reduced to below 12 weeks, the subject will return to a 4 or 8 week interval, at investigator discretion and return to the protocol above.

All subjects receiving PRN IVT aflibercept injections will be evaluated for focal laser treatment beginning at week 12 through the end of the study. If the subject meets any of the criteria for focal laser treatment (FLT), fluorescein angiography (FA) will be performed to guide the focal laser treatment. Focal laser treatment and focal laser re-treatment will be administered no more than once every 90 days.

When a subject receives ≥ 2 IVT aflibercept injections in ≤ 24 weeks FLT will be applied. Once the initial session of FLT is applied subjects are eligible for FLT re-treatment after 90 days, when they have received ≥ 2 IVT aflibercept injections within the prior 90 day period.

FLT will be applied to:

1. All leaking microaneurysms.
2. Grid to all areas of diffuse leakage.
3. Grid to all areas of retinal ischemia outside of the FAZ (once ischemic areas are treated once with grid FLT, these same areas should not be treated again).
4. Laser will not be applied within the capillaries of the FAZ.

FLT will not be applied if any of the following apply and are identified:

1. Significant macular ischemia involving the foveal avascular zone (once this has been determine additional fluorescein angiography for FLT planning should not be performed and subjects will not longer be eligible for rescue FLT).
2. Treatment would be too close to the foveal avascular zone.
3. Macular edema is not related to DME (eg: postoperative CME, etc).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* A subject must meet the following criteria to be eligible for inclusion in the study:

  1. Enrolled and Completed VISTA DME (VGFT-OD-1009) clinical trial
  2. Willing and able to comply with clinic visits and study-related procedures
  3. Provide signed informed consent
  4. Enrollment in the trial within 12 weeks of trial activation.

Exclusion Criteria:

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

  1. Prior treatment with anti-VEGF therapy in the study eye within 28 days of baseline
  2. Pregnant or breast-feeding women
  3. Sexually active men\* or women of childbearing potential\*\* who are unwilling to practice adequate contraception during the study (adequate contraceptive measures include stable use of oral contraceptives or other prescription pharmaceutical contraceptives for 2 or more menstrual cycles prior to screening; intrauterine device \[IUD\]; bilateral tubal ligation; vasectomy; condom plus contraceptive sponge, foam, or jelly, or diaphragm plus contraceptive sponge, foam, or jelly).

     * Contraception is not required for men with documented vasectomy. \*\*Postmenopausal women must be amenorrheic for at least 12 months in order not to be considered of child bearing potential. Pregnancy testing and contraception are not required for women with documented hysterectomy or tubal ligation.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mean Number of Intravitreal Aflibercept Injections for Subjects Who Were Enrolled and Completed the 3-year VISTA DME (VGFT-OD-1009) Trial
timeFrame: Week 104
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mean Change in Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Best-corrected Visual Acuity From Baseline to Week 52 and Baseline to Week 104
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Mean Number of Intravitreal Aflibercept Injections Before and After Receiving First Focal Laser Application.
timeFrame: Before First Focal Laser Treatment (FLT) at Week 12 or later; After First FLT at up to 104 weeks
measure: Percentage of Subjects With Gain or Loss of 0 to 5 Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Best-corrected Visual Acuity Letters From Baseline to Week 52 and Baseline to Week 104
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Mean Change in Central Retinal Thickness From Baseline to Week 52 and Baseline to Week 104.
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Number of Subjects With no Clinically-relevant Diabetic Macular Edema (as Defined in the Protocol) on Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography From Baseline to Week 52 and Baseline to Week 104.
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Number of Subjects With Stable, Worsened, or Improved Diabetic Retinopathy
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Number of Subjects That Receive Focal Laser Treatment.
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Mean Change in Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Best-corrected Visual Acuity Before and After Focal Laser Therapy
timeFrame: 104 weeks
measure: Mean Change in Central Retinal Thickness Before and After First Focal Laser Treatment
timeFrame: 104 weeks
measure: Role of (Ultrawide-field, if Available) Fluorescein Angiography-determined Retinal Ischemia in Predicting Past and Future Anti-VEGF Treatment Burden
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Role of (Ultrawide-field, if Available) Fluorescein Angiography-determined Retinal Ischemia in Predicting Visual Outcomes
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
measure: Role of (Ultrawide-field, if Available) Fluorescein Angiography-determined Retinal Ischemia in Predicting Anatomic Outcomes
timeFrame: Week 52, Week 104
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Retina Consultants of Houston/The Medical Center
state: Texas
city: Katy
country: United States
facility: Retina Consultants of Houston/Katy office
state: Texas
city: The Woodlands
country: United States
facility: Retina Consultants of Houston
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Greater Houston Retina Research
name: Charles C Wykoff, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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