NCT02055612

Mobile Clinic - a Cross-sectional Epidemiological Survey

Mobile Clinic- a Cross-sectional Epidemiological Survey to Investigate the Prevalence of Wet Aged-related Macular Degeneration (wAMD) in Elderly Population in Slovak Republic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,278 (actual)
• Sponsor: Novartis Slovakia, s.r.o. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to find out prevalence of aged-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Slovak Republic. The outcome of the project will be epidemiology survey, prevalence of wet form of AMD in relation to demographic data, patient´s anamnesis, nutrition, co-morbidities etc.

Detailed description

It´s cross-sectional epidemiological survey, multi-centric, non-interventional 1. Patients will fill a questionnaire with demography data, anamnesis, risk factors. 2. Patients will be assessed by using Amsler grid. 3. Patient´s back of the eye will be examined with fundus camera (searching for long-term back of the eye changes, retina vessels, macula and surrounding tissues) by retina specialist. 4. Patient undergoes optical coherent tomography (OCT) examination (cross-section of fovea and macula) by retina specialist. The project actively screen patients with wAMD. All patients will sign an informed consent. The process of screening will be held in certain timeframe (cca. 2 months) and selected areas of Slovak Republic.

Conditions

• Age Related Macular Degeneration

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2014-02-05
• Last updated: 2017-03-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Slovakia