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. 2020 Feb 6;2020(2):CD007920. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007920.pub3

NCT02914626.

Trial name or title Intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis®) for neovascular glaucoma – a randomised controlled study
Methods Randomised controlled trial
Number to be randomised: 28 (one study eye per participant)
Follow‐up: 6 months
Participants Country: Brazil
People with neovascular glaucoma, older than 18 years of age
Inclusion criteria:
  • IOP greater than 24 millimeter of mercury

  • Iris or anterior chamber neovascularization

  • At least 120° of opened anterior chamber


Exclusion criteria:
  • Visual acuity worse than counting fingers in the fellow eye

  • No light perception in the treated eye

  • Any ocular infectious disease

  • Use of systemic steroids

  • Lack of media transparency precluding laser photocoagulation

  • Thromboembolic disease

  • Known hypersensitivity to ranibizumab

  • Female participants at childbearing age not using oral contraceptives

  • Use of intravitreal anti‐vascular endothelial growth factor over the last 30 days.

Interventions Experimental group: standard of care therapy (retinal laser photocoagulation) plus two intravitreal ranibizumab injections 30 days apart
Control group: standard of care therapy (retinal laser photocoagulation) plus sham injections
Outcomes Primary outcome: IOP at 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
  1. Anterior segment neovascularization at 6 months

  2. Best corrected visual acuity at 6 months

  3. Number of drugs needed for IOP control at 6 months

  4. Need for IOP control surgery at 6 months

Starting date Study start date: October 2016
Contact information Leandro Cabral Zacharias
 University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
Notes Funded by Novartis
Estimated Primary completion date: October 2017
Estimated study completion date: Ocober 2018
(Last update posted: September 27, 2016)

IOP: intraocular pressure