Overview

Noctura400 Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy (CANDLE)

Status:
Active, not recruiting

Trial end date:
2020-07-01

Target enrollment:
0

Participant gender:
All

Summary

In this study, the investigators aim to use light masks (Noctura 400) to test the hypothesis that preventing the dark adaptation and associated hypoxia of the rods in the eye could in turn prevent or halt the progression of centre-involving Diabetic Macular Oedema (DMO). DMO is a devastating disease that is the most common cause of registerable blindness in the working age-group in the United Kingdom (UK) This is a multi-centred randomised controlled trial involving 240 patients. Post randomization, participants in the intervention arm will wear the Noctura 400 Light Mask at night for 48 weeks in conjunction with their routine, prescribed treatment of intravitreal (eye) ranibizumab. Those in the standard arm will receive their routine, prescribed ranibizumab treatment only. The primary objective is to determine whether utilizing the Noctura 400 Light Mask at night reduces the number of intravitreal injections of ranibizumab required by patients undergoing such a course for the treatment of DMO.

Phase:

N/A

Accepts Healthy Volunteers?

Details

Lead Sponsor:

PolyPhotonix Medical

Treatments:

Ranibizumab

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

i. Subjects of either sex aged 18 years or over. ii. Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (type 1
or type 2). iii. Presence of clinically significant centre-involving macular oedema
resultant from DR of ≥400µm (CST/CMT as measured by OCT, and is listed for ranibizumab
therapy in the study eye.

Exclusion Criteria:

Any potential participant will be excluded if they have:

i. Received any previous anti-VEGF/steroid intravitreal injections in the study eye in the
last 6 months.

ii. Presence of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) at screening.

iii. Significant systemic diseases know to affect visual function, other than diabetes
(e.g. Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease).

iv. History of relevant sleeping disorders/insomnia .

v. A condition that would preclude participation in the study.