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MACUSTAR: Development and Clinical Validation of Functional, Structural, and Patient-Reported Endpoints in Intermediate Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Finger, R. P., Schmitz-Valckenberg, S., Schmidt, M. , Rubin, G. S., Dunbar, H., Tufail, A., Crabb, D. P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8754-3902, Binns, A. M. ORCID: 0000-0001-8621-498X, Sánchez, C. I., Margaron, P., Normand, G., Durbin, M. K., Luhmann, U. F. O., Zamiri, P., Cunha-Vaz, J., Asmus, F. & Holz, F. G. (2018). MACUSTAR: Development and Clinical Validation of Functional, Structural, and Patient-Reported Endpoints in Intermediate Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Ophthalmologica, 241(2), pp. 61-72. doi: 10.1159/000491402

Abstract

Purpose: Currently, no outcome measures are clinically validated and accepted as clinical endpoints by regulatory agencies for drug development in intermediate age-related macular degeneration (iAMD). The MACUSTAR Consortium, a public-private research group funded by the European Innovative Medicines Initiative intends to close this gap.

Procedures: Development of study protocol and statistical analysis plan including predictive modelling of multimodal endpoints based on a review of the literature and expert consensus.

Results: This observational study consists of a cross-sectional and a longitudinal part. Functional outcome measures assessed under low contrast and low luminance have the potential to detect progression of visual deficit within iAMD and to late AMD. Structural outcome measures will be multimodal and investigate topographical relationships with function. Current patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are not acceptable to regulators and may not capture the functional deficit specific to iAMD with needed precision, justifying development of novel PROMs for iAMD. The total sample size will be n = 750, consisting mainly of subjects with iAMD (n = 600).

Conclusions: As clinical endpoints currently accepted by regulators cannot detect functional loss or patient-relevant impact in iAMD, we will clinically validate novel candidate endpoints for iAMD.

Publication Type: Article
Publisher Keywords: Intermediate age-related macular degeneration, Disease progression, Clinical endpoint, Patient-reported outcomes, Structure-function correlation
Subjects: R Medicine > RE Ophthalmology
Departments: School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Optometry & Visual Sciences
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