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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON50349
NL-OMON50349
Recruiting
Not Applicable

Imaging the retina for early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease - I-READ

Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum0 sites40 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Alzheimer's disease
Sponsor
Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum
Enrollment
40
Status
Recruiting
Last Updated
2 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
2 years ago
Study Type
Observational non invasive

Investigators

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • \-Study cases: patients with alzheimer's disease fulfilling the National
  • Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the
  • Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS/ADRDA) criteria.
  • \-Controls: age and gender matched controls with Subjective Memory
  • Complaints(SMC) and/or AMD (Age related Macula Degeneration) and no evidence of
  • amyloid pathology according to CSF or amyloid PET scan analysis.
  • \-Patients need to be fully capacitated and able to give informed consent
  • themselves, with an mini\-mental state examination (MMSE)\-score of at least

Exclusion Criteria

  • \+ Subject with ophthalmological conditions:
  • \- Media opacities interfering with optimal imaging
  • \- Narrow angle (with risk of acute angle close glaucoma)
  • \- History of glaucoma, uveitis, retinal detachment, retinal dystrophy)
  • \- History of chronic illness, with chronic medication, like reuma, sarcoidosis,
  • inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes mellitus
  • \- Recent ocular surgery within 6 months prior to study examinations
  • \- Any ocular surgery of the vitreous / retina (vitrectomy, retinal detachment,
  • macular hole, pucker). Late stages of Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD) or
  • extensive drusen in the retina

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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