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Status unknownNCT06165705ABCDCSUpdated Aug 26, 2024

Treating Amblyopia With CureSight

An interventional study of CureSight in Amblyopia, sponsored by Alaska Blind Child Discovery. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 20 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-26.

Sponsored by Alaska Blind Child Discovery · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jan 2024), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 9 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Mar 2023, registered Dec 2023).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
2 Years to 20 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Patients with visual acuity and ocular characteristics outside the Novasight FDA multi-center study are to perform the same Curesight procedures- including M\&S EVA or eETDRS patched acuity, stereo and then utilize the Curesight device 1.5 hours per day, 6 days per week over 3-6 months to determine treatment efficacy.

An Eye-Tracking-Based Dichoptic Home Treatment for Amblyopia: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial T. Wygnanski-Jaffe, B. J. Kushner, A. Moshkovitz, M. Belkin, O. Yehezkel and G. CureSight Pivotal Trial Ophthalmology 2023 Vol. 130 Issue 3 Pages 274-285

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Patients with visual acuity worse than 20/30 due to amblyopia will be offered therapy with Curesight. The Curesight-component of amblyopia therapy will be offered no-charge for up to 4 months. The Curesight device must then be returned to Alaska Blind Child Discovery.

The Curesight device will be administered in a similar, safe manner as the previous multi-centered trial that was performed in Israel and the US.

Patient Selection Inclusion criteria: patients aged 3 to less than 19 years. Amblyopia may be due to refractive error, strabismus and/or deprivation.

Exclusion criteria: Inability to participate with any form of monocular visual acuity testing and stereopsis testing. Light-induced seizures. Lack of any internet at home. Pregnancy.

Recruitment: Patients will be recruited from within Alaska Children's EYE \& Strabismus clinical practice. Patients will not be paid for recruitment. Patients will have opportunity to review the publication regarding the study1.

Protocol (from Curesight Pivotal Trial NS-00706-R01) Binocular CureSight Treatment CureSight™ is an eye-tracking-based, dichoptic system aimed for the treatment of amblyopia under dichoptic conditions. The technology is based on real-time eye tracking and separation of the visual stimuli presented on a monitor into two separate digital channels, one for each eye. Using this dichoptic method, any online content can be tailored individually per eye and then presented simultaneously to each eye. During the treatment, dichoptic anaglyph glasses that are part of the CureSight™ system have to be worn over the habitual spectacle correction. In short, the technology has 2 main components: 1. Eye-tracker and anaglyph glasses that allow continuous gaze position tracking for each eye and image presentation in the optimum position to each eye, including cases of eye deviation and 2. Software that blurs the non-amblyopic eye's central image area (i.e., the fovea), thereby forcing the visual system to use the information from the amblyopic eye's fovea. The expected treatment outcome is significant improvement in the amblyopic eye's visual acuity and in stereo vision (stereopsis).

Subjects assigned to the binocular treatment group will be prescribed the CureSight treatment to watch for ≥90 minutes per day, 5 days a week for 16 weeks for the total of \<120 hours. Parents of subjects will be instructed that the 90 minutes of daily treatment should be completed in a single 90- minute session, but if this is not possible for whatever reason, the treatment may be divided into two shorter sessions totaling 90 minutes per day Subjects in the treatment group will be asked to watch digital content presented on CureSight system while wearing red/blue (anaglyph) glasses over current spectacle correction, if applicable. The subject should be instructed to sit in front of the system at the distance of \~60 cm. Positioning algorithm will automatically guide the subject to the optimal position.

Each subject will be supplied a pair of anaglyph glasses according to his/her amblyopic eye, red filter should be positioned in front of the non-amblyopic eye and the blue in front of the amblyopic eye.

In addition to the blur effect, the amblyopic eye image seen by the blue filter will have a higher intensity compared to the dominant eye red image due to the nature of the channel separation. The diameter and magnitude of the blur are adjusted during the treatment according to the VA improvement of the amblyopic eye.

In addition to the blur effect, the amblyopic eye image seen by the blue filter will have a higher intensity compared to the dominant eye red image due to the nature of the channel separation. The diameter and magnitude of the blur are adjusted during the treatment according to the VA improvement of the amblyopic eye.

Adverse Event Monitoring All adverse events which occur during the study will be reported, regardless of whether or not they are considered to be related to treatment. The following anticipated adverse events will be specifically monitored in both the therapeutic

  1. Risks relating to amblyopia treatment

    • Diplopia
    • New/worsening heterotropia of greater than 10 prism diopters
    • Worsening of BCVA in either eye of 2 logMAR lines or greater from baseline
  2. Risks relating to technological usage

    • Headaches
    • Eye strain
    • Skin irritation

Device deficiency Inadequacy of a medical device with respect to its identity, quality, durability, reliability, safety or performance. Including: device malfunctions, use errors, inadequate labelling of the device.

Potential device deficiencies may include:

  • wrong blur position due to of eye tracker or calibration failure
  • software failure
  • Hardware failure; anaglyph glasses, eye tracker, computer.
  • Use error such as wrong lens position, dirty lens. Risks/ Benefit discussion Standard of care treatment for amblyopia comes with the accepted risks of developing a new/worsening heterotropia or diplopia. However, the risk of developing new/worsening heterotropias or developing diplopia from the CureSight therapeutic is expected to be no greater than it would be with standard of care. In a 2016 study comparing binocular treatment to patching, the rate of new heterotropias was 8.8% in the binocular group and 5.9% in the patching group, a statistically and clinically insignificant difference. The same study showed that diplopia was rare after both treatments The procedures to be conducted in the study during visits are part of daily eye-care practice and pose no known risks. As part of a routine eye-care exam, the participant may receive cycloplegic eye drops.

The participants in both groups will be unable to perform any amblyopia treatment other than the intervention they are prescribed for the duration the study.

The diagnosis and management of reverse amblyopia is left to the investigator's judgment. Given the relatively short study duration of 16 weeks, it is believed that the risk of delaying standard of care treatment is minimal and justified.

acuity in any previous study of 2 hours of daily patching. This current proposed study is not a randomized clinical trial.

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Conditions studied

  • Amblyopia

Keywords

  • refractive amblyopia, strabismic amblyopia, anisometropia
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In context

Amblyopia

186 studies on the registry are indexed under Amblyopia; 42 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 60 across 136 interventional studies indexed under Amblyopia.

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Lead sponsor

Alaska Blind Child Discovery is the lead sponsor of 11 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
2 Years to 20 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • amblyopia

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • lack of brain and eye capacity for improved vision lack of home WiFi
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
20 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Amblyopia therapy with Curesight outside FDA limited ranges

    Severity of amblyopia and age range outside FDA study

    Device: CureSight

Interventions

  • DeviceCureSight

    dichoptic therapy with anaglyph goggles and eye tracking

    Also known as: dichoptic therapy with anaglyph goggles and eye tracking

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Visual acuity

    Amblyopic eye best corrected visual acuity

    Time frame: 2-6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. stereopsis

    depth perception- Titmus and PDI Check

    Time frame: 2-6 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Wygnanski-Jaffe T, Kushner BJ, Moshkovitz A, Belkin M, Yehezkel O; CureSight Pivotal Trial Group. An Eye-Tracking-Based Dichoptic Home Treatment for Amblyopia: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial. Ophthalmology. 2023 Mar;130(3):274-285. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2022.10.020. Epub 2022 Oct 26. PubMed 36306974 ↗
  • Arnold RW. Dichoptic Rescue for Spectacle-Flip Sabotage of Anisometropic Amblyopia Therapy. Clin Optom (Auckl). 2024 Mar 5;16:83-87. doi: 10.2147/OPTO.S454342. eCollection 2024. PubMed 38476961 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Mar 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2025, 33 months after the start.

Of 59 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Amblyopia, half reached primary completion within 34 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 21 and three quarters within 84. This study's planned 33 months is close to that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 72 studies reached it within 33 months; a quarter within 17 and three quarters within 72.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Dec 4, 2023
First posted
Dec 11, 2023
StartActual
Mar 1, 2023
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2025
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2025
Last update
Aug 26, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 26, 2024, 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
NCT06165705
Lead sponsor
Alaska Blind Child Discovery
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 11, 2023
Start date
Mar 1, 2023
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 26, 2024

Study contacts

Robert W Arnold, MD
Contact
eyedoc@alaska.net
9075611917
Jennifer Plachinski
Contact
jplachinski@alaskachildrenseye.com
9075611917
Robert W Arnold, MD
principal investigator · Alaska Blind Child Discovery

Oversight

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