Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Neuroprotective Drugs Administered Topically to Prevent or Arrest Diabetic Retinopathy

Summary

To assess whether neuroprotective drugs administered topically (somatostatin and brimonidine) are able to prevent or arrest the development and progression of neurodegenerative changes

Timeline

Start

2013-02

Primary completion

2015-11

Completion

2015-11

Publications

• Cunha-Vaz J, Ribeiro L, Costa M, Simo R. Diabetic Retinopathy Phenotypes of Progression to Macular Edema: Pooled Analysis From Independent Longitudinal Studies of up to 2 Years' Duration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017 May 1;58(6):BIO206-BIO210. doi: 10.1167/iovs.17-21780.
• Santos AR, Ribeiro L, Bandello F, Lattanzio R, Egan C, Frydkjaer-Olsen U, Garcia-Arumi J, Gibson J, Grauslund J, Harding SP, Lang GE, Massin P, Midena E, Scanlon P, Aldington SJ, Simao S, Schwartz C, Ponsati B, Porta M, Costa MA, Hernandez C, Cunha-Vaz J, Simo R; European Consortium for the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy (EUROCONDOR). Functional and Structural Findings of Neurodegeneration in Early Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy: Cross-sectional Analyses of Baseline Data of the EUROCONDOR Project. Diabetes. 2017 Sep;66(9):2503-2510. doi: 10.2337/db16-1453. Epub 2017 Jun 29.

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