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. 2015 Oct 19;3:162. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00162

Table 1.

Clinical trials using placenta-derived cells, fetal membranes, or derivatives in ophthalmic disorders.

Condition Clinical trial ID Phase Materials used Status Sponsor Results/status or remarks
Scleral thinning NCT00801073 II/III AM graft Enrolling Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil Primary Completion Date: February 2005, last verified December 2008 (de Farias et al., 2014)
Bullous keratopathy NCT01926535 II AM graft Completed Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile None available, Study Completion Date: June 2012
NCT00659308 ns AM Completed Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil Study Completion Date: June 2007, last verified January 2008 (Paris Fdos et al., 2013)
Pterygium or ocular surface cicatrizing diseases or keratitis NCT02102776 ns AM Not yet recruiting Shiyou Zhou, Sun Yat-sen University, China Estimated Study Completion Date: September 2016
NCT01319721 ns AM graft Completed Shiyou Zhou, Sun Yat-sen University, China Results available online (https://clinicaltrials.gov), Study Completion Date: June 2014
NCT00457223 II/III AM Completed Chulalongkorn University, Thailand None available, study completed in 2007
NCT00802620 I AM Enrolling Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil None available, Primary Completion Date: June 2005, last verified December 2008
NCT02015000 ns AM Recruiting National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan Estimated Study Completion Date: November 2014, last verified December 2013
NCT00383825 ns AM Completed Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey None available, Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2004, last verified October 2006
NCT00344201 I AM Completed Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore None available, Study Completion Date: January 2008
NCT02116062 ns AM Recruiting University Hospital, Strasbourg, France Estimated Study Completion Date: March 2016
Corneal wounds or ulcers or epithelial defects NCT00915759 ns ProKera® Active Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2014, last verified July 2014
NCT02168790 0 Amnioclip ring system Completed Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Germany None available, Study Completion Date: August 2013
NCT00238862 ns AM Completed King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia None available, study completed in 2007
NCT02395952 ns ProKera®, Ambiodisk Not yet recruiting Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA, USA Estimated Primary Completion Date: February 2018
NCT02148016 I/II AM Recruiting Sun Yat-sen University, China Estimated Study Completion Date: September 2014, last verified May 2014
Limbal stem cell deficiency NCT01377311 I AM Terminated National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan Study terminated since technique not used in patients, last verified June 2011
NCT00736307 I/II AM Completed Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran None available, Study Completion Date: October 2009, last verified April 2010
NCT01562002 I/II AM Completed Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada, Spain None available, Study Completion Date: December 2014, last verified January 2015
NCT01619189 II AM Ongoing Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, France Primary Completion Date: December 2014, last verified February 2015
NCT00491959 I AM Terminated National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan Study terminated due to unstable cell sheet quality, thus this technique was not used on patients
Ocular surface disease and reconstruction NCT00348114 II AM Completed Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore This study has suspended participant recruitment since 2006
NCT01341223 ns AM Recruiting National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan Estimated Primary Completion Date: March 2016, last verified March 2012
Dry eye syndrome NCT02369861 I ACCS Recruiting Stemnion, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2015
Glaucoma NCT01551550 II/III AM graft Recruiting Tissue Tech™ Inc., Miami, FL, USA Estimated Study Completion Date: August 2015

The search status as of June 2015 registered on the ClinicalTrials.gov site of U.S. National Institutes of Health (https://clinicaltrials.gov).

ns, not specified; AM, amniotic membrane; ACCS, amnion-derived Cellular Cytokine Solution (Stemnion, Inc.); ProKera® (Tissue Tech™ Inc.) is a device made by a piece of amniotic membrane tissue in between two rings made out of flexible material.