Electric Stimulation of the Eye to Improve Vision After Trauma
Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Non-arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION), Trauma, Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
In brief
Transcorneal Electrical Stimulation (TES) using the "OkuStim®" device delivers electrical impulses to damaged and/or diseased photoreceptor cells. This electric stimulation of the retina may help to preserve visual acuity and/or the visual field.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02019927
- Run by
- Wills Eye
- People needed
- 97
- Starts
- 2013-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-01-18
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- You are 18 years or older.
- You have sustained trauma (more than 3 months before this study) OR been diagnosed with Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION) (more than 6 months before this study) OR been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and suffered visual loss (more than 3 months before this study).
- You are willing and able to give written informed consent.
- You are able to commit to enrolling in the study during the full time period of up to 6 months.
You may not qualify if…
- You have any other significant ophthalmologic disease or condition (such as glaucoma, retinal degeneration, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, +/- six diopters of myopia, retinal detachment, exudative age-related macular degeneration).
- You have amblyopia (lazy eye) in affected eye, previously diagnosed.
- You are participating in any other interventional clinical trial.
- If you are pregnant OR a woman with childbearing potential who is unwilling to use medically acceptable means of birth control for study duration OR woman unwilling to perform a pregnancy test at study entry/screening.
- You are unable to give signed consent due to memory, medical, communication, language, or mental health problems.
- You are less than 18 years old.
- You are unable or unwilling to complete the evaluation or questionnaire.
- Visual acuity better than 20/40
- Inability to detect phosphenes during threshold detection
- You are on seizure medications, or have a history of epilepsy.
Where it is running
- Wills Eye Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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