A Multi-Center Study of Reading Rehabilitation in Macular Disease

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Age Related Maculopathy, Retinal Degeneration

In brief

The purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of a newly-designed oculomotor training program for patients with macular disease, including age-related macular degeneration.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00746668

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

36

Starts

2008-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-02-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with a diagnosis of macular disease, such as age-related macular degeneration
• An established preferred retinal locus
• Visual acuity of less than or equal to 20/70 and greater than or equal to 20/400 (in the better eye)

You may not qualify if…

• Those with other major ophthalmologic and neurologic disease
• choroidal neovascularization ("wet" AMD)
• moderate to severe media opacities, and cognitive impairment

Where it is running

• Jesse Brown VAMC (WestSide Division) — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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