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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00001153
Other study ID # 760207
Secondary ID 76-EI-0207
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received November 3, 1999
Last updated March 3, 2008
Start date June 1976
Est. completion date May 2000

Study information

Verified date May 1999
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Federal Government
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To study the relationship between visual function and ocular (iris, retina/choroidal) pigmentation in patients with albinism and other hypomelanotic disorders. To identify the carrier state in relatives of patients with ocular albinism.


Description:

Visual function and ocular pigmentation are being studied in patients with albinism and other disorders associated with hypopigmentation. The degree of ocular pigmentation is assessed clinically by estimating the melanin content of the iris, retinal pigment epithelium, and choroid. Visual function is measured in the conventional manner to study central vision, and electrophysiological methods to detect a misrouting of the visual pathways. The purpose of this study is to document the visual deficit and the pigmentary changes of patients with albinism, to observe their natural course, and to determine whether misrouting of the visual pathways is present and is correlated with pigmentation.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 130
Est. completion date May 2000
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group N/A and older
Eligibility Patients have been recruited into the study by referral from an ophthalmologist or pediatrician.

Entrance into the study was dependent upon clinical evidence of decreased or absent pigmentation in skin, hair, and/or eyes.

The definition was purposefully broad to include the broad range of phenotype variations and clinical heterogeneity.

The purpose of the study id to be able to document iris and retina/choroidal pigmentation and correlated these finding with visual function.

Study Design

N/A


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Locations

Country Name City State
United States National Eye Institute (NEI) Bethesda Maryland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
National Eye Institute (NEI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Apkarian P, Shallo-Hoffmann J. VEP projections in congenital nystagmus; VEP asymmetry in albinism: a comparison study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1991 Aug;32(9):2653-61. Erratum in: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1992 Mar;33(3):691-2. — View Citation

Bouzas EA, Caruso RC, Drews-Bankiewicz MA, Kaiser-Kupfer MI. Evoked potential analysis of visual pathways in human albinism. Ophthalmology. 1994 Feb;101(2):309-14. — View Citation

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