Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Intrastromal Implantation of CorVision® Bioengineered Corneal Inlay for Correction of Presbyopia.

Sponsor

LinkoCare Life Sciences AB (Industry)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT04465409

Collaborator

(none)

110

Enrollment

Location

Arm

33.2

Anticipated Duration (Months)

3.3

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This clinical investigation is a prospective, multicentre, non-comparative case series to assess safety and efficacy of CorVision® bioengineered corneal inlay for improving uncorrected near vision in presbyopic subjects.

In this study a sterile medical grade collagen-based bioengineered corneal inlay (CorVision®), which closely mimics the human corneal tissue, will be tested as a natural microlens for correction of near vision in presbyopic patients. The primary endpoint for this study is to further determine the safety of the inlay and the secondary endpoint is to determine the efficacy of the inlay to improve uncorrected near vision.

CorVision® implantation will be done via a minimally invasive laser-assisted intra-stromal surgery. Besides important information concerning details of the surgical method and postoperative care, tolerance of the device and possible adverse events will be reported along with several clinical parameters to be measured preoperatively and postoperatively. The study will consist of 110 subjects receiving the inlay to be included within a recruitment period of 18 months at multiple clinical sites. All subjects will be followed for minimum 12-months postoperatively. Postoperative evaluations are scheduled at 1 week, 1, 3, 6, and 12 months.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Presbyopia	Device: Intrastromal implantation of CorVision bioengineered corneal inlay for correction of presbyopia.	N/A

Detailed Description

Upon signing of informed consent and study inclusion, both eyes will be screened to determine which eye is dominant and to ensure that the non-dominant eye meets the visual acuity, refraction, and other inclusion criteria. In this investigation, the monovision concept will be utilized, e.g. CorVision® will be implanted in the non-dominant eye to improve near vision and the dominant eye is left intact or corrected by a standard refractive surgery to emmetropia. In brief, subjects will undergo laser corneal surgery on their non-dominant eye to create an anterior stromal pocket into which the investigational device will be implanted. Combined antibiotic - steroid eye drops will be instilled for 4 weeks post-implantation.

The investigational treatment does not introduce foreign cells into the patient, requires only a short course of local immunosuppression (4 weeks compared to 12 months or longer for some other treatment options), and is reversible as the investigational device can be removed later if required. Moreover, should serious intra-operative or post-operative complications arise during or following implantation of the investigational device that cannot be treated with medications (for example thinning or clouding of the cornea), the CorVision® device can be removed and the patient can undergo standard-of-care for complications after laser surgery.

Following implantation of the CorVision®, postoperative eye examinations will be conducted at 1 week, 1 month, then at month 3, 6, and 12 and outside of these standard examination times on an as-needed basis at any time. Examinations will include corneal tomography, central corneal thickness, slit lamp corneal transparency, keratometry, anterior segment optical coherence tomography, and general ophthalmic examination including tear break up time, refraction, uncorrected and corrected distance, intermediate and near visual acuity, and in some eyes aberrometer measurements, defocus curve or contrast sensitivity.

The proof-of-concept and feasibility to implant CorVision® by standard surgical methods such as a femto-second assisted pocket surgery and postoperative treatment and assessment protocol for this new medical device have already been developed via prior pre-clinical evaluations and some pilot clinical studies.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

110 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Treatment

Official Title:

Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Intrastromal Implantation of CorVision® Bioengineered Corneal Inlay for Correction of Presbyopia.

Actual Study Start Date :

Mar 25, 2020

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Sep 25, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Dec 31, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Presbyopic adults Presbyopic adults, male or female between 40-65 years of age who need from +1.25 D to +3.50 D of reading addition in the non-dominant eye to improve near visual acuity by at least one line or more. In this investigation, CorVision® will be implanted in the non-dominant eye to improve near vision and the dominant eye is left intact or corrected by a standard refractive surgery to emmetropia. In brief, subjects will undergo laser corneal surgery on their non-dominant eye to create an anterior stromal pocket into which the investigational device will be implanted.	Device: Intrastromal implantation of CorVision bioengineered corneal inlay for correction of presbyopia. Presbyopia is an age-related progressive loss of crystalline lens accommodation power resulting in the decreased ability to see near objects. CorVision® is a tissue-mimetic device primarily intended to be used as a corneal inlay in the management of presbyopia and low hypermetropia. The inlay is inserted into the patient's cornea via a minimally invasive laser pocket procedure to modify corneal surface topography and corneal optical performance.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: Presbyopic adults

Presbyopic adults, male or female between 40-65 years of age who need from +1.25 D to +3.50 D of reading addition in the non-dominant eye to improve near visual acuity by at least one line or more. In this investigation, CorVision® will be implanted in the non-dominant eye to improve near vision and the dominant eye is left intact or corrected by a standard refractive surgery to emmetropia. In brief, subjects will undergo laser corneal surgery on their non-dominant eye to create an anterior stromal pocket into which the investigational device will be implanted.

Device: Intrastromal implantation of CorVision bioengineered corneal inlay for correction of presbyopia.

Presbyopia is an age-related progressive loss of crystalline lens accommodation power resulting in the decreased ability to see near objects. CorVision® is a tissue-mimetic device primarily intended to be used as a corneal inlay in the management of presbyopia and low hypermetropia. The inlay is inserted into the patient's cornea via a minimally invasive laser pocket procedure to modify corneal surface topography and corneal optical performance.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Safety outcome [6 months]
The primary safety endpoint is defined such that a rejection leading to implant removal should occur in no more than 3% of implanted eyes. The implant rejection is defined as a clinical situation when the implanted eye has decreased central corneal clarity and decreased implant clarity, corneal vascularization inside of laser created pocket and inflammation.
Efficacy outcome [6 months]
The primary efficacy endpoint is that more than 65% of the eyes should have an uncorrected near visual acuity (UNVA) of 0.3 logMAR or better at 6 months postoperatively.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

40 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

Signed and dated informed consent
Presbyopic adults, Male or female between 40-65 years of age who need from +1.25 D to +3.50 D of reading addition in the non- dominant eye to improve near visual acuity by at least one line or more.
Manifest refraction spherical equivalent (MRSE) between -0.75 and +1.50 D with ≤1.5 D of refractive cylinder in the non-dominant eye.
Stable refraction, i.e. MSRE within 0.50 D over prior 12 months in the non-dominant eye.
Corrected distance visual acuity CDVA ≥ 0.7 in the dominant and non-dominant eye

Exclusion Criteria:

Anterior segment pathology in the non-dominant eye.
Signs or symptoms of clinically significant cataracts in the non-dominant eye.
Residual, recurrent, active ocular or uncontrolled eyelid disease, or any corneal abnormality (including endothelial dystrophy, recurrent corneal erosion, etc.) in the nondominant eye.
Visually significant macular pathology
Central corneal thickness <470 microns in either eye and corneal curvature ≥ 50D
Corneal ectasia, keratoconus or form frust keratoconus
Clinically significant dry eye disease
Any prior ocular surgery in the non-dominant eye.
History of herpes zoster or herpes simplex keratitis in the non-dominant eye.
Inability of patient to understand the study procedures and thus inability to give informed consent.
Participation in another clinical study within the last 3 months
Already included once in this study (can only be included for one treated eye).
General history judged by the investigator to be incompatible with the study (e.g., life-
threatening patient condition, other condition where postoperative follow-up may be difficult).
known uncontrolled diabetes or other neuro-degenerative disorder (as corneal nerves can be affected leading to impaired wound healing)