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Filter by:Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is routinely used in ophthalmic clinical practice. It uses infrared light to image patient's eyes. Some patients, such as those with an inflammatory disease called uveitis or those who have just undergone cataract surgery, have intraocular inflammation. This intraocular inflammation commonly manifests as cells that can be seen on routine microscopic clinical examination. However, the only currently available method to quantify this intraocular inflammation is by manually counting on the microscopic clinical examination. The investigators plan to use the OCT machine to image patient's eyes. The investigators will then use the images obtained from the OCT to objectively quantify the degree of intraocular inflammation.
Uveitis is an acute or chronic inflammatory condition of unknown etiology. Although uveitis often responds adequately to topical corticosteroids, there are many patients for which this treatment is either inadequate or not tolerated. A patient with inadequate response to treatment would manifest uveitis activity by slit lamp examination determination of anterior chamber cellularity. Lack of tolerance of therapy commonly manifests as ocular hypertension (greater than 21 mmHg measured by tonometry)complicating chronic topical corticosteroid administration, leading to glaucoma and permanent visual loss. Moreover, systemic corticosteroids may be required at a dose unsafe for chronic administration. In these situations, an immunosuppressive medication is often added as a "steroid-sparing" agent. If and when there is clinical response to the added immunosuppressive, the oral and/or topical corticosteroid dose can be reduced or eliminated to avoid toxicity. There are several reasons for believing that Acthar might be beneficial in the treatment of uveitis patients. In addition to increasing adrenal production or cortisol, Acthar has another important mechanisms of action mediated by its binding of melanocortin receptors. Melanocortin down-regulates activity of B and T lymphocytes, monocytes and macrophages. In animal studies, melanocortin peptides down-regulate T helper cells, up-regulate T Regulatory cells, and decrease B lymphocyte production of B Lymphocyte Stimulator. In macrophages, there is down-regulation of IL-1, IL-2, INF gamma, TNF alpha, nitric oxide and adhesion molecules. In other cells, in addition to IL-10 upregulation (monocytes), there is down-regulation of VACM and ECAM (endothelial cells), prostaglandins (fibroblasts) and MCP-1 and RANTES (renal tubules).CNS mediation of systemic inflammation may also be down-regulated by melanocortin receptor binding by Acthar.
The objective of this study is to evaluate long-term safety of gevokizumab in patient with chronic non-infectious uveitis who previously well tolerated the study drug and may benefit from longterm treatment with gevokizumab.
The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of gevokizumab in treating Behcet's disease uveitis (BDU).
The purpose of this study is to provide continued dosing of gevokizumab in order to obtain and assess long-term gevokizumab safety data.
Intraocular delivery of celecoxib will be an effective means to treat inflammation and macular edema and prevent structural complications and vision loss in patients with chronic inflammation or macular edema who are unable to tolerate corticosteroids due to their side effects.
This study is intended to evaluate the safety of V404 PDS in patients with chronic non-infectious uveitis. Secondarily, the study will evaluate whether V404 PDS can provide clinically measurable benefit over an extended period of time in patients with chronic non-infectious uveitis.
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the superiority of gevokizumab as compared to placebo on top of current standard of care in reducing the risk of Behçet's disease uveitis exacerbations
Macular edema is a condition in which there is swelling in the macula, the part of the retina that gives you your best vision. This swelling can cause your vision to decline. When diagnosed early and treated, you vision usually can be preserved. However, if the swelling goes untreated for a long time, it can cause permanent vision loss. We think that the three eye drop regimens in this study, difluprednate, difluprednate plus nepafenac, and prednisolone acetate plus nepafenac, might be effective in treating uveitic macular edema. Patients who enter this study are randomized to one of the three regimens and followed for 24 weeks.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of gevokizumab in reducing the risk of recurrent uveitic disease in subjects with non-infectious uveitis whose disease is currently controlled with systemic treatment.