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CompletedNCT03971162Updated Mar 30, 2023

Intravitreal Conbercept Injection in Patients With Myopic Choroidal Neovascularization

An interventional study of 3+PRN and 6+PRN in Myopic Choroidal Neovascularisation, sponsored by Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-03-30.

Sponsored by Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to pathologic myopia (PM-CNV) is a common vision-threatening complication and often affects adults of working age. Intravitreal injection of any anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drugs would significantly suppress the activity of the CNV and finally improve the visual acuity. However, more than half of the patients would need one or more further injection for the recurrence or uncontrolled with 1+pro re nata (PRN) treatment within one year, and whether increasing the initial loading of intravitreal injection of anti-VEGF would be more efficacy for the controlling the PM-CNV remained unknown.

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Conditions studied

  • Myopic Choroidal Neovascularisation

Keywords

  • Choroidal Neovascularisation
  • Pathologic myopia
  • anti-VEGF
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In context

Choroidal Neovascularization

214 studies on the registry are indexed under Choroidal Neovascularization; 12 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 50 is below the median of 56 across 160 interventional studies indexed under Choroidal Neovascularization.

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Lead sponsor

Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University is the lead sponsor of 164 studies on the registry; 80 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients who are aged ≥18 years, male or female
  2. Active choroidal neovascularization secondary to pathologic myopia

    1. high myopia (defined as spherical equivalent ≤-6.0 diopter, AL≥26mm)
    2. presence of posterior changes compatible with pathologic myopia
    3. presence of active leakage from CNV, and presence of intra-retinal or subretinal fluid or increase of central retinal thickness
  3. Presence of at least 1 of the following lesion types:

    1. subfoveal
    2. juxtafoveal with involvement of the central macular area
    3. extrafoveal with involvement of the central macular area
    4. margin of the optic disk with involvement of the central macular area
  4. 24≤BCVA≤78, at a starting distance of 4 meters using Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) like VA chart ( 20/32-20/320 Snellen equivalent)
  5. Visual loss only due to the presence of any eligible types of CNV related to pathologic myopia, based on clinical ocular findings, fluorescein angiography (FA), and optical coherence tomography (OCT) data.
  6. Patients who are willing to participant in this study and sign the

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pan-retinal or focal/grid laser photocoagulation with involvement of the macular area in the study eye at any time
  • Intraocular treatment with or intraocular surgery within 3 months prior to randomization and treatment with anti-VEGF or verteporfin photodynamic therapy at any time in the study eye.
  • Presence of CNV secondary to any cause other than pathologic myopia.
  • Presence of active infectious disease or intraocular inflammation, active or suspected periocular infection or iris neovascularization in either eye at the time of enrollment.
  • Pregnant or nursing women.
  • Patients with other coexisting ocular diseases, such as an abnormal cornea or a corneal infection, iridocorneal endothelial syndrome, anterior segment dysgenesis, nanophthalmos, chronic or recurrent uveitis, ocular cancer, trauma, central retinal vein occlusion, central retinal artery occlusion, and retinal detachment).
  • Patients with severe systemic disease and high risk when receiving intravitreous injection of anti-VEGF, such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, end-stage cardiac disease, nephropathy, respiratory disease, cancer and .
  • Patients had stroke, , myocardial infarction, acute congestive heart failure within 6 months prior to randomization
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TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
50 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Group A

    patients were given intravitreal injection of Conbercept 0.5mg every month repeated for 3 months. Thereafter, intravitreal Conbercept 0.5mg injections should be administered in case CNV persisted or recurred (based on the assessment of defined criteria for retreatment) at a maximum frequency of once every 4 weeks through 12 months

    Drug: 3+PRN

  • Experimental
    Group B

    patients were given intravitreal injection of Conbercept 0.5mg every month repeated for 6 months.Thereafter, intravitreal Conbercept 0.5mg injections should be administered in case CNV persisted or recurred (based on the assessment of defined criteria for retreatment) at a maximum frequency of once every 4 weeks through 12 months

    Drug: 6+PRN

Interventions

  • Drug3+PRN

    intravitreal injection of Conbercept 0.5mg every month repeated for 3 months,

  • Drug6+PRN

    intravitreal injection of Conbercept 0.5mg every month repeated for 6 months

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. BCVA change

    the mean change in BCVA from the baseline to month 12 in patients with PM-CNV receiving Conbercept 0.5mg 3+PRN or 6+PRN

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Recurrence rate of PM-CNV

    the number of recurrence of choroidal neovascularization secondary to pathologic myopia

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. BCVA at 3 years

    the change of best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at 3 years

    Time frame: 36 months

  3. The change of CNV size

    the size of choroidal neovascularization as measured by OCT

    Time frame: 12 months

  4. The treatment exposure

    the number of total injection within 1 year and 3 years

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510060, China
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 30, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03971162
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 3, 2019
Start date
Jun 13, 2019
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2022
Completion
Jan 1, 2023
Last update
Mar 30, 2023

Study contacts

lin lu
principal investigator · Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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