View clinical trials related to Central Serous Chorioretinopathy.
Filter by:Objectives: 1. To conduct a Natural History Observation Study to characterize the clinical features and progression of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (CSCR) from the earliest to the vision-threatening stages. 2. Collect genetic samples of affected individuals and their families to establish whether there is a genetic basis for the disease. 3. To create a Registry of patients affected by CSCR who may agree to be contacted for inclusion in future clinical trials. 4. To determine the incidence and risk factors for progression of pachychoroid phenotypes identified from the unaffected fellow eyes of CSCR patients. Design and subjects: Observation, non-interventional study with prospective follow-up for 2 years. The study aims to enroll 350 patients with CSCR (100 from Hong Kong Eye Hospital, 80 from Prince of Wales Hospital and Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, and 170 from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Eye Centre at Hong Kong Eye Hospital). Study instruments: Functional tests include visual acuity and microperimetry. Retinal imaging with non-invasive ultra-widefield colour fundus camera, fundus autofluorescence (FAF) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Questionnaires for risk factor profiling and quality of life assessment. Blood specimen will be collected for genetic testing if found to have a clinical diagnosis of CSCR as determined at CUHK Eye Centre at Hong Kong Eye Hospital. Main outcome measures: The primary outcome will be longitudinal alteration of retinal pigment epithelium defects on FAF, spectral domain (SD) OCT and infrared imaging. The secondary outcomes are: 1) progressive attenuation of outer nuclear layer (ONL), external limiting membrane (ELM) and ellipsoid zone (EZ) on SD OCT, 2) longitudinal changes of subfoveal choroidal thickness on swept source (SS) OCT, 3) incidence and onset of intraretinal cysts, 4) incidence and onset of type 1 choroidal neovascularization, 5) rate of choriocapillaris non- perfusion on SS OCT angiography (OCTA), 6) rate of loss of retinal sensitivity using microperimetry tests, 7) rate of visual acuity loss, 8) epidemiology of risk factors associated with CSCR, 9) identification of genes and the genetic variants that are associated with susceptibility to CSCR and 10) documentation of the clinical course of serous retinal detachment recurrence(s), persistence and resolution.
The hypothesis of this study is to determine if there is a benefit afforded by the use of systemic Sildenafil to patients with choroidal and retinal degenerations and dystrophies, such as vitelliform degeneration, dry and reticular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) as well as patients with hereditary and acquired retinal dystrophies such as retinitis pigmentosa and central serous retinopathy.
This phase I trial will assess primarily the safety and secondarily the anti-inflammatory and anti-neovascular effect of Episcleral Celecoxib in patients suffering from macular edema and other inflammatory disorders of the retina, choroid and vitreous.
This phase I trial will assess primarily the safety and secondarily anti-inflammatory effect of Episcleral Dexamethasone in patients suffering from macular edema and other disorders of the retina, choroid and vitreous.
Chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (cCSC) is a relatively frequently occurring eye disease that is often diagnosed in patients in the professionally active age range. In this disease, a subretinal fluid accumulation occurs, due to abnormalities in both the choroid and the retinal pigment epithelium. This specific form of macular degeneration can cause permanent vision loss, image distortion, and loss of color and contrast vision. An early diagnosis and treatment may improve the visual outcome and quality of life. To date there is no international consensus on the optimal treatment of cCSC. Many retrospective studies suggest that treatment with photodynamic therapy (PDT) is effective in chronic CSC. Treatment with oral eplerenone may also be effective in this disease. In this proposed prospective randomized controlled trial, cCSC patients will be randomized into one of both treatment groups: either half-dose PDT or oral eplerenone treatment. The trial is a superiority study, because retrospective studies suggest that PDT treatment may be more effective than eplerenone treatment. The null hypothesis of the study is that PDT treatment is more effective than eplerenone treatment in patients with active cCSC. The alternative hypothesis is that PDT treatment is not superior to eplerenone treatment. Treatment success will not only be based on characteristics on ophthalmological imaging, but also on functional endpoints (both on the outcome of questionnaires, best-corrected visual acuity, and microperimetry), which are most important from a patient's perspective. The study will take place in 3 large tertiary referral university hospitals in The Netherlands that have extensive experience with conducting clinical trials (Academic Medical Center (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Radboud University Medical Center (Nijmegen, the Netherlands), and Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden, the Netherlands). Both the Radboud University Medical Center and the Leiden University Medical Center have been involved in the first prospective randomized controlled trial that is currently conducted in cCSC. This study will last 2 years per participant. Each participant will visit the outpatient clinic for a maximum number of 6 visits. A total number of 107 patients will be included in the trial. Depending on the speed of inclusion of patients in this trial, the total duration of this study can be determined.
A preliminary study to determine the safety and efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept injection in patients with persistent central serous chorioretinopathy.
In this prospective clinical study SRT is performed with various pulse durations at 1.7µs and additionally 200ns to evaluate the different clinical effects of both laser regimens. The macular diseases to be treated are drusen maculopathy and geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration as well as diabetic macular edema and central serous chorioretinopathy. The beneficial effect in laser treatment is thought to be associated with the restoration of a new barrier of retinal pigment epithelium cells. If this theory is true, the destruction of the photoreceptors causing visual field defects would be only an unwanted and unnecessary side effect. Thus, SRT is able to avoid these unintentional side effects and to achieve the benefit by just treating the RPE. In this study the clinical effect of SRT for these diseases is evaluated on a long-term basis.