Visual Rehabilitation of Patients With Myopic Maculopathy

University of Roma La Sapienza

Status: Completed

Conditions: Myopic Maculopathy

Treatments: Behavioral: biofeedback training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01244074

BIO0210

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Visual Pathfinder (LACE inc.) offers a non- invasive, patient- centered visual rehabilitation system based on an acoustic biofeedback. The investigators wanted to evaluate its usefulness in the improvement of visual function in visually impaired patients with high myopia.

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 57 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• high myopia (range 9-15 D) visited at the Outpatient Medical Retina's Hospital A. Fiorini Terracina (LT), University of Rome "La Sapienza", Polo Pontino. The diagnosis of myopic maculopathy was made on the basis of a comprehensive ophthalmological evaluation which included: biomicroscopic examination of anterior and posterior segment, fluorescein angiography (FAG) (Heidelberg HRA-2, FA module Heidelberg, Germany), optical coherence tomography (OCT), Spectral Domain (Heidelberg HRA-2, OCT module Heidelberg, Germany) and microperimetry with microperimeter MP-1 (Nidek Technologies, Padova, Italy).

Exclusion criteria

• The investigators have excluded patients with other eye diseases (glaucoma, AMD, retinal detachment, etc.), uncooperative patients and persons with opacity of the dioptric media.

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

biofeedback

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: biofeedback training