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NCT07417046
Amblyopia is described as a limitation of the visual function of one or both eyes with no pathological cause, with a prevalence of about 1-5% of the total world population. This disorder is caused by early abnormal visual experience with a functional imbalance between the two eyes owing to anisometropia, strabismus, congenital cataract and ptosis, resulting in a dramatic loss of visual acuity (VA) in an apparently healthy eye. Clinically, amblyopia can be defined as the presence in one or both eyes of a VA of 6/12 or worse, with one or more lines of difference in VA between eyes in unilateral amblyopia which cannot be improved by refractive correction. This condition is an alteration of the visual cortex function which is due to suppression and deprivation of one eye leading to unilateral visual deterioration. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a noninvasive technique that can reveal morphology of the retinal layers in vivo. OCT determines structural changes in the macula that may be correlated with measures of subjective visual function such as visual acuity and visual field. OCT angiography (OCTA) can provide vascular system visualization of the posterior segment in amblyopic eyes. Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) are a non-invasive technique routinely used in clinical and preclinical practice. VEPs allow to quantify the functional integrity of the visual system from the retina via the optic nerves, optic tracts, to the thalamus, and form projections to the visual cortices. In strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia, VEP responses are reduced. VEP may be used as an alternative objective method for diagnosis and monitoring of amblyopia. Passive treatments such as occlusion, optical and/or pharmacological penalization, and Bangerter foils have been demonstrated to be potentially useful treatments for amblyopia. Researches are being done on new pharmacological options to improve and maintain VA after occlusion treatment in amblyopia. Adults with amblyopia cannot be treated because their brains do not have enough plasticity. However, results obtained both in clinical trials and in animal models have challenged this traditional view, unmasking a previously unsuspected potential for promoting recovery after the end of the critical period for visual cortex plasticity. These studies point toward the intracortical inhibitory transmission as a crucial brake for therapeutic rehabilitation and recovery from amblyopia in the adult brain. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) increase serotonin activity in the brain. While they are mostly known for their antidepressant properties, they have been shown to improve visual functions in amblyopia and impact cognitive functions ranging from attention to motivation and sensitivity to reward.
NCT06380517
In children 4 to 7 years of age, to determine if treatment with 1 hour per day 6 days per week of watching dichoptic movies/shows wearing the Luminopia headset is non-inferior to treatment with 2 hours of patching per day 7 days per week with respect to change in amblyopic eye distance VA from randomization to 26 weeks.
NCT04378790
A randomized trial to determine whether simultaneous treatment with spectacles and patching has an equivalent VA outcome compared with sequential treatment, first with spectacles alone followed by patching (if needed), for previously untreated amblyopia in children 3 to \<13 years of age.
NCT05440448
The purpose of the study is to determine whether a patch-free occlusion therapy leads to better visual outcomes in young children with amblyopia than standard-of-care occlusion therapy with an adhesive patch and whether this is associated with better adherence to the treatment.
NCT07226141
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the efficacy of valproate as an adjunct therapy to treat amblyopia beyond the critical period in children aged 8-17 years who have amblyopia of ≥3 lines of interocular best-corrected (with glasses) visual acuity difference. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does valproate enable clinically meaningful and durable visual recovery from amblyopia? * Do valproate-treated patients show a change in amblyopic eye visual acuity (lines)? Participants will undergo daily patching for 2 hours (standard of care) plus the addition of valproate or placebo for a total of 16 weeks.
NCT06049459
The goal of this study is to compare the change in amblyopic eye acuity between treatment periods in children with amblyopia, aged 5-17 years. The main question it aims to answer is: Is a 16-week course of amblyopia treatment using Vivid Vision Therapeutic (Dichoptic) Virtual Reality Games for approx. 25 min/day, 6 days/week more effective for improvement in amblyopic-eye VA, binocularity (stereoacuity, suppression, alignment), contrast sensitivity, attention, oculomotor function, visual-motor integration, and quality of life than 16 weeks of continued glasses alone? Participants will each serve as their own control and complete: Treatment period 1: Continued optical correction (glasses) alone for 16 weeks; Treatment period 2: Vivid Vision Therapeutic (Dichoptic) Virtual Reality Games for 16 weeks (approx. 25min/day, 6 days/week) plus continued optical correction
NCT06980415
Repeated measures observational study of tablet-based children's visual acuity tests.
NCT06913400
This prospective longitudinal observational study aims to assess stereopsis recovery in strabismic patients at one month and three months post-corrective surgery. The study will be conducted at Mayo Hospital, Lahore, and Sajjad Eye Center, Burewala, with a sample size of 34 using a purposive sampling technique. Eligible participants include patients aged ≥5 years undergoing strabismus surgery for esotropia, exotropia, or vertical deviations, with best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 6/12 in both eyes. Patients with previous strabismus surgery, amblyopia, neurological conditions, or sensory strabismus will be excluded.
NCT02365090
1. To determine whether a binocular iPad game app is effective in improving visual acuity and reducing interocular suppression in amblyopic children 2. To compare the amount of visual acuity improvement achieved with the binocular game app to the amount achieved with patching (standard treatment for amblyopia)
NCT03825107
1. To determine whether watching contrast-rebalanced dichoptic videos is effective in improving visual acuity and reducing interocular suppression in amblyopic children 2. To compare the amount of visual acuity improvement achieved with the videos to tha amount achieved with patching (standard treatment for amblyopia)
NCT06739798
This study will examine on Refractive Amblyopia patients, whose amblyopia started due to longstanding uncorrected refractive errors.
NCT06704737
This is a single-center, non-randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of binocular AR training with patching for the treatment of adults with unilateral amblyopia. Specific Aim 1 (Primary): To compare the improvement of visual acuity in the amblyopic eye between AR training and patching for the treatment of adults with unilateral amblyopia. Specific Aim 2 (Secondary): To compare the changes of visual functions and pathway selective neural activity in the early visual and cortex subcortical nuclei including the lateral geniculate nucleus between AR training and patching for the treatment of adults with unilateral amblyopia.
NCT05620173
The purpose of this clinical study is to validate the effectiveness of the Vedea Amblyopia Therapy (VAT) as a treatment for children with lazy eye. The main question it aims to answer is to prove that the VAT is as effective or more effective than the current gold standard for treating children with lazy eye. This is occlusion therapy by patching the dominant eye. Participants will play VR-games specifically designed for children with lazy eye for 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week for 16 weeks. This group of children will be compared to children that undergo regular occlusion therapy to see how both treatments options compare.
NCT06286410
Anisometropic amblyopia is when one eye has a much stronger glasses prescription than the other, causing poor vision in one eye, even with glasses, because the brain favours the better-seeing eye. With standard care treatment (glasses plus either patching or atropine drops given to the better seeing eye), 35% of children with anisometropic amblyopia do not have any significant visual improvements, and will have reduced vision in one eye for life. There is no consensus for the reasons why some children do not respond as well as others. Recent research using the Plusoptix PowerRefractor (PR3), which quickly measures eye focusing (accommodation), suggested that in children with anisometropic amblyopia, the focusing of the amblyopic eye might influence treatment success. However, such measurements weren't previously common due to equipment limitations in clinics. The investigators aim to use the non-invasive PR3 to assess accommodation in hypermetropic anisometropic amblyopia, at the University of Sheffield. This will be a two-phase study of children aged 4-10 years who have hypermetropic anisometropia. The investigators will recruit participants attending the Ophthalmology Department at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust (SCH). The investigators will take repeated measurements of accommodation at points during standard care treatment (phase 1) and conduct a pilot intervention study (phase 2) to determine whether adjusting glasses prescriptions based on accommodation responses with amblyopia treatment can improve vision in the weaker eye. The goal is to gather evidence to inform a future larger multicentre RCT to improve the visual outcomes for anisometropic amblyopic children in the future.
NCT03655912
Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is best defined by the American Academy of Ophthalmology as a unilateral or bilateral reduction of the best corrected visual acuity that occurs in the setting of an otherwise normal eye, or a structural abnormality involving the eye or visual pathway with reduction in visual acuity that cannot be attributed only to the effect of the structural abnormality. Which causes an abnormal visual experience early in life, with consequences such as deficiencies in the ability to perceive contrast and/or movement, visual acuity, accommodation and stereopsis. The treatment of choice consists in patching of the fellow eye 2 hours per day. The disadvantage of this treatment modality is that patients end up not complying and when treatment is interrupted, lazy eye reappears. Amblyopia was thought to be a monocular disease, now a days there are reports of cortical visual paths changes in both eyes (the fellow and amblyopia eye), believing that it might be a monocular consequence of a binocular disease. Following that statement new treatment studies have arisen, stimulating both eyes not only to improve visual acuity in the lazy eye, but to restore binocular function as well. These treatments use videogames in celular phones, computers, or tablets where the fellow eye is exposed to reduced contrast and the lazy eye is exposed to full-contrast. Although the evidence is promising, more studies are needed to establish effectivity and security of this treatment modality.
NCT05714449
The objectives of this proposal are to characterize the relationship between OCT eccentric fixation (OCT-EF), fixation eye movement (FEM), macular sensitivity in children with amblyopia.
NCT04785690
Screening A child is considered for the study after undergoing a standard of care and study specific eye examinations (by a study investigator as part of standard of care) that identifies amblyopia appearing to meet the eligibility criteria. The study will be discussed with the child's parent(s) or guardian(s) (referred to subsequently as parent(s)). Parent(s) who express an interest in the study will be given a copy of the informed consent form to read. Written informed consent / assent must be obtained from a parent and child prior to performing any study-specific procedures that are not part of the child's routine care. On screening visit, eligibility assessment, medical history,Demographic data, Refraction and Cycloplegia, Demonstration suitability using the CureSight, ATS Diplopia Questionnaire, Symptom Survey Distance VA Testing , Ocular Alignment Testing, Near VA Testing, Stereoacuity Testing-Randot, Stereoacuity Testing- Titmus Fly, Eye movement exams (optional), Contrast sensitivity (optional), Reading rest (optional) Randomization The EDC and data management will construct a Master Randomization List using a permutated block design stratified by initial visual acuity in the amblyopic eye and age which will specify the order of treatment group assignments. Randomization will be managed directly by the eCRF platform. All eligible subjects enrolled in the study will be followed for 16 weeks. Subjects will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 allocation to one of the following treatment groups for 16 weeks: 1. Binocular treatment 90 minutes per day, 5 days per week 2. Patching group: Patching 2 hours per day, 7 days per week. Follow up visits * 1-week phone call (4 to 8 days from randomization) to inquire about issues with the CureSight system (if applicable) and to encourage compliance with treatment for all groups (to be completed by site personnel) * Visit 2: 4 weeks ± 1 week * Visit 3: 8 weeks ± 1 week * Visit 4: 12 weeks ± 1 week * Visit 5: 16 weeks ± 1 week (primary endpoint) * Unmasking of primary outcome results * For each individual subject, clinician's decision regarding: Treatment or control cessation and follow-up; or, Control (patching) continuation with same modality (more improvement desired); or, Cross-over to a different treatment (avoid missing the optimal window of opportunity in young age) •Optional Visit 6: 28 weeks ± 1 week (exploratory outcome, including retainment of improvement; and additional exploratory outcomes
NCT05957458
Photobiomodulation therapy, that is, Low-level red-light technology provides a new and innovative myopia control approach. This strategy enables relatively high energies of light to be delivered at much shorter durations of exposure to induce the myopia control effect. The efficacy of the low-level red-light technology has been proven in a Chinese populationb for the recent 3 years with evidence based papers and amazing results. However, there's not yet evidence to demonstrate the relationship between the dose response effect of photobiomodulation therapy on myopia control at the different age lever.
NCT02555384
Amblyopia, affects 4% of the population. In the presence of a normal retina and optic nerve, the visual cortex does not develop normally secondary to the amblyopic eye being at a disadvantage in the sensitive period such as in strabismus. Amblyopia is associated with visuospatial disorders, and poor to absent stereopsis. Amblyopia is treated by occlusion of the non- amblyopic eye in childhood. The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of perceptual learning (PL), that is a training of visual drawing tasks (12 sessions of 30 Minutes duration) with crowding (c) for children with amblyopia compared to an amblyopic control group with a placebo drawing task. Arm 1: Crowded (PLc)- Training with small spacing Arm 2: Uncrowded (PLu)- Training with large spacing Prior to this, a small group will help optimize parameters such as contrast and distance of visual objects presented
NCT04784390
The purpose of this PoC study was to evaluate the potential therapeutic efficacy of binocular video games played on a tablet and to compare the efficacy of binocular video games versus patching in amblyopic patients 4 to 7 years old (Part A) as well as to gain experience with binocular video games in older children population of 8 to12 years old (Part B). Part A and Part B was designed to provide long term data on durability of binocular video games treatment. The study consisted of two parts, Part A: randomized, single masked PoC study in children 4 to 7 years old at Screening, and Part B: open-label substudy in children 8 to 12 year old at Screening.