Efficacy and Safety of Ranibizumab in Patients With Visual Impairment Due to Choroidal Neovascularization Secondary to Pathologic Myopia

Summary

This study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of two different dosing regimens of 0.5 mg ranibizumab given as intravitreal injection in comparison to verteporfin PDT in patients with visual impairment due to choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to pathologic myopia (PM).

Timeline

Start

2010-10

Primary completion

2012-08

Completion

2012-08

Publications

• Ceklic L, Wolf-Schnurrbusch U, Gekkieva M, Wolf S. Visual acuity outcome in RADIANCE study patients with dome-shaped macular features. Ophthalmology. 2014 Nov;121(11):2288-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.06.012. Epub 2014 Aug 8. No abstract available.
• Wolf S, Balciuniene VJ, Laganovska G, Menchini U, Ohno-Matsui K, Sharma T, Wong TY, Silva R, Pilz S, Gekkieva M; RADIANCE Study Group. RADIANCE: a randomized controlled study of ranibizumab in patients with choroidal neovascularization secondary to pathologic myopia. Ophthalmology. 2014 Mar;121(3):682-92.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.10.023. Epub 2013 Dec 8.

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