Glaucoma Biomarkers

Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Aqueous Humor Dynamic Components That Determine Intraocular Pressure Variance

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01677507
• Other study ID #: HUM00052276
• Secondary ID: R01EY022124
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• First received: August 7, 2012
• Last updated: May 2, 2017
• Start date: August 2012
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: University of Michigan
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Glaucoma is a major cause of blindness. The inability to predict a patient's IOP response to medications is a critical barrier for the clinician to consistently provide highly effective IOP-based treatments. Current trial-and error approaches to glaucoma management are inefficient and have not addressed this barrier as there are no predictive factors for drug response. Our long-term goal is to improve outcomes by identifying biomarkers and environmental factors that profile a patient at risk for glaucoma by age-of-onset, rate of disease progression, "poor response" to treatment, and large IOP fluctuation. Our purpose of this research project is to address this critical barrier by focusing on physiological factors that predict IOP response to drugs.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 136
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: August 30, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 40 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Either gender.

• Any self-declared ethnoracial category.

• Greater than or equal to 40 years.

• Healthy eyes with the crystalline lens, without glaucoma (cup:disc ratio < 0.8 both eyes; asymmetry of cup:disc ratio between eyes < 0.2).

• Open angles.

• Ability to cooperate for aqueous humor dynamic studies.

• Nonprescription and prescription topical ophthalmic products and systemic medications other than those mentioned in the exclusion criteria will be allowed during the study.

• Contact lenses removed prior to topical fluorescein instillation, and not used until the end of each fluorophotometry session.

• Able to participate on site over the multi-visit study period.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women who are pregnant due to IOP changes.

• Any form of glaucoma, including extremely narrow angle with complete or partial closure.

• Current use of any glaucoma medication, either topically or orally.

• Chronic or recurrent inflammatory eye disease.

• Ocular trauma within the past 6 months.

• Ocular infection or ocular inflammation in the past 3 months.

• Clinically significant retinal disease.

• Any abnormality preventing reliable fluorophotometry of either eye, such as corneal scarring or severe dry eye that results in punctate fluorescein staining of the cornea.

• Intraocular surgery within 6 months.

• Serious hypersensitivity to any components of the study medications or risk from treatment with glaucoma medications, such as severe asthma or emphysema.

• Subjects must be on a stable regimen for at least 30 days prior to the Visit 1 regarding a chronic systemic medication that may affect IOP (i.e., sympathomimetic agents, beta-blockers, alpha-adrenergic agonists, alpha-adrenergic blockers, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, etc.). Any change of such medication during the study period will result in exclusion.

• Use of any glucocorticoid by any route. Subject must be washed out of the glucocorticoid for at least 2 weeks before study entry.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Glaucoma
• Healthy

Intervention

Drug:
• Variation in eye pressure response to timolol and latanoprost treatment
Arm 1 is to test for variation in eye pressure response to timolol. Arm 2 is to test for variation in eye pressure response to latanoprost.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan
United States	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Omaha	Nebraska
United States	Mayo Clinic	Rochester	Minnesota

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Michigan	Mayo Clinic, National Eye Institute (NEI), University of Nebraska

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Variation in eye pressure between individuals.	Eye pressure is a steady state quantitative trait that is measured in mm Hg. Eye pressure is determined by the following physiological factors (units of measure): eye fluid or aqueous humor production (microliters/minute), aqueous humor outflow (microliters/minute), outflow resistance (microliters/minute/mm Hg) and venous pressure (mm Hg) of the eye. All of these physiological factors will be determined under baseline condition and under glaucoma drug treatment.	12 weeks